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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

If you love Christmas then why don't you merry it?

1988 · 49 min · ★ 7.2 · Family, Comedy, TV Movie

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, enslaves Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello into making Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?

Directed by Paul Reubens · Written by John Paragon

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