The Pee-wee Herman Show is a stage show developed by Paul Reubens in 1980. The show is the first significant appearance of Reubens' fictional comic character Pee-wee Herman. The show debuted as a midnight show in February 1981 at the Groundlings theater, and was later moved to the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California, in September of that same year, where the HBO cable network taped one of the shows and aired it as a special. The special was later released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2006. The nightclub show had more adult humor than the later children's television series Pee-wee's Playhouse.
Adaptations (4)
The Pee-wee Herman Show has been adapted 4 times, across film and television series, from 1985 to 2016. The most recent is Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016).
Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985 · film · 91 min · dir. Tim Burton · IMDb ↗The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Big Top Pee-wee1988 · film · 86 min · dir. Randal Kleiser · IMDb ↗Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Pee-wee's Big Holiday2016 · film · 90 min · dir. John Lee · IMDb ↗IMDb6.163MetacriticA fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.
