It’s Christmas in the Playhouse! A blast from the past
One of our favorite TV shows as a kid was “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.” And we remember it was a really big deal when Pee-Wee got a primetime Christmas special in 1986.
There were all sorts of special guests: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Grace Jones, k.d. lang, Dinah Shore, Little Richard, Cher, the Del Rubio Triplets, Magic Johnson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Rivers and Charo. And let’s not forget the other actors who were “Playhouse” regulars: S. Epatha Merkerson, Laurence Fischburne and Phil Hartman.
We have the special on DVD at home, but it’s your lucky day, because the whole shebang is on YouTube (in six parts).
Fun fact: Cyndi Lauper performed the theme song for “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” though she was credited in the closing titles as Ellen Shaw.
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Gabe Hartwig is the creative director for Go! magazine, the Post-Dispatch's weekend entertainment guide, and for the Go! channel of STLtoday.com. 
