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Mister Peepers

NBC Ended Comedy

4 Seasons · 117 Episodes · Premiered December 2, 1979 · Ended June 12, 1955

The simple pleasures and trying times of Robinson J. Peepers, timid and mild-mannered Biology instructor at Jefferson Junior High School in Jefferson City.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

28 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Fri, Jul 4 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Robinson Peepers arrives at Jefferson Junior High School to find that he will have to wait a month before construction is finished on the new addition in which he was to teach. He is assigned to work with the current science teacher, Mr. Wadd, but Wadd resents the new addition to the faculty, and forces Peepers to sit on the sidelines. At lunch, Peepers' cafeteria tray inadvertently snags Wadd's toupee, revealing his baldness. When Wadd leaves in shame, Mr. Peepers is assigned to take his place.
E02
Episode 2
Fri, Jul 18 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Convinced that Peepers spends too much time reading and too little time in the gym, Coach Burr starts him on a rigorous exercise regimen. Meanwhile, Mr. Gurney is desperately seeking a competent chess player to represent Jefferson Junior High School in a local match against its arch rival. Thrilled to learn that Mr. Peepers is the Tri-State Chess Champion, Gurney insists that Peepers play in the tournament, despite his previous commitment to deliver a lecture to Mrs. Gurney's Wildflower group. However, his exercise program may prevent Peepers from doing either.
E03
Episode 3
Fri, Aug 1 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers finds himself short of cash and a decent lunch when his first paycheck fails to arrive on time. The home economics teachers, worried about his diet, invite him over to taste their students' cooking projects, and sample some halibut they are about to prepare. The problems begin when Mr. Peepers loses his tie clip inside of the fish. As Mr. Peepers grapples with the halibut, Mr. Feebles attempts to fix the ventilating machine, which proceeds to suck up Mr. Peepers' paycheck, the halibut, and finally, Peepers himself.
E04
Episode 4
Fri, Aug 8 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
When Mr. Feebles is injured, the Jefferson Junior High School faculty draws lots to divvy up his janitorial tasks. Mr. Peepers lands the job of drawing lines on the volleyball court, but discovers the line marking machine has a mind of its own.
E05
Episode 5
Fri, Aug 15 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
In Principal Gurney's absence, the administration of Jefferson Junior High is placed in the hands of the new English teacher and vice-principal Mrs. Clave, an ex-Army officer who fires Mr. Peepers when he stands up for one of his students.
E06
Episode 6
Fri, Aug 22 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Superintendent of Schools Mr. Bascomb, a stickler for cleanliness and efficiency, comes to inspect Jefferson Junior High School on the day that Mister Peepers' students have brought their pets to school. As Mr. Bascomb tours the classrooms, Mr. Peepers looks for a way to hide the largest pet—a cow.
E07
Episode 7
Fri, Aug 29 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers' articles in Petal and Stem magazine impress the president of a seed company, who offers Peepers a twenty thousand dollar per year job. Lunch with company executives at their private business club, however, convinces Mr. Peepers that he would prefer to remain a science teacher at Jefferson Junior High.
E08
Episode 8
Fri, Sep 12 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers asks Nancy to the dance.
E09
Episode 9
Fri, Sep 19 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers goes fishing with one of his students and is caught with undersized fish in his possession.
E10
Episode 10
Fri, Sep 26 1952 1:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
School teacher Peepers' good intentions are misunderstood, getting both him and the principal in trouble.
E11
Episode 11
Mon, Oct 27 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Discharged from the U.S. Army, Mister Peepers returns to Jefferson Junior High, but is unhappy to learn that his return means the layoff of the teacher who replaced him – an older man with a sick wife.
E12
Episode 12
Mon, Nov 3 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Robinson Peepers meets Nancy's parents.
E13
Episode 13
Mon, Nov 10 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Peepers runs into a double-date dilemma.
E14
Episode 14
Mon, Nov 17 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers and Wes recall the panic caused the previous year when the City Council made plans to fix a broken clock whose mechanism had become home to a rare species of bird.
E15
Episode 15
Mon, Nov 24 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Playing the role of a good Samaritan, Mr. Peepers finds himself involved in remodeling a wedding dress.
E16
Episode 16
Mon, Dec 1 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers borrows Mr. Weskit's car to attend a drive-in movie, and inadvertently parks next to Nancy and her date.
E17
Episode 17
Mon, Dec 8 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
One of Mr. Peepers' young students develops a crush on the shy science teacher.
E18
Episode 18
Mon, Dec 15 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Sis Peepers arrives for a visit and appears too intelligent to a young man she meets at Mrs. Gurney's dinner party.
E19
Episode 19
Mon, Dec 22 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mr. Peepers takes the train go Chicago to attend the bachelor party for Wes.
E20
Episode 20
Mon, Dec 29 1952 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Peepers tries to win a contest by guessing the number of beans in a jar, and has to deal with a Hollywood film company that has taken over his classroom.
E21
Episode 21
Mon, Jan 5 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
A surprise birthday party for Nancy doesn't go off as planned when the teachers and students are all snowed in at the school.
E22
Episode 22
Mon, Jan 12 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
A former student returns to Mr. Peepers' classroom to complete the one class he needed to graduate.
E23
Episode 23
Mon, Jan 19 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
E24
Episode 24
Mon, Jan 26 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Everything goes wrong for Wes on the day of his engagement party.
E25
Episode 25
Mon, Feb 2 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mister Peepers' astronomer sister takes over his class when he falls ill.
E26
Episode 26
Mon, Feb 9 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Mister Peepers and Nancy accompany Wes and Marge to the courthouse to get their marriage license, starting a rumor that Nancy and Peepers were about to be married as well.
E27
Episode 27
Mon, Feb 16 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
At the Jefferson Jr. High bazaar, Mrs. Gurney tells fortunes, Wes challenges customers to test their strength, and Nancy sells kisses, while Mr. Peepers worries that Nancy will move to Iowa.
E28
Episode 28
Mon, Feb 23 1953 2:30 AM GMT+0000 30 min
Jefferson Jr. High's most distinguished alumnus, Senator Malcolm H. MacDonald, visits the school, where Mister Peepers is to present him with the students' facsimile of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript.

Season 2

26 episodes

Season 3

33 episodes

Season 4

30 episodes

Cast

Wally Cox
Wally Cox as Robinson Peepers
Tony Randall
Tony Randall as Harvey Weskit
Jack Warden
Jack Warden as Frank Whip
Norma Crane
Norma Crane as Rayola Dean
Marion Lorne
Marion Lorne as Mrs. Gurney
Patricia Benoit
Patricia Benoit as Nancy Remington
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