“Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” The film expressly describes the latter as a “political case” brought by then City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo and built on misconstruing Reubens’ collection of ...

But fame was way more complicated.” In 1986, CBS offered Reubens a Saturday morning kids show — “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” “I never really thought about being a children’s show host ...

The show that followed, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” is among the best all-ages series from that period, with a punk-rock spirit and slyly subversive undercurrents. He was on talk shows (including ...

The second episode picks up with Pee-wee’s Playhouse and many of the show’s key collaborators, including Laurence Fishburne, Lynne Marie Stewart, S. Epatha Merkerson and Natasha Lyonne.