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Playhouse Picturephone Booth With Electronics, Light and Camera - PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE (1986 - 1991)

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Television - Props Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD
Playhouse Picturephone Booth With Electronics, Light and Camera - PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE (1986 - 1991)


The Picturephone Booth main cast character from the children’s television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse. The fantasy video phone booth is painted bright orange and features long strands of rope hair, large purple eyes with wood dowel eyelashes and light bulbs for pupils, red lip-shaped swinging doors at front, an interior upholstered with a plush giraffe print, a hand-painted pull-down backdrop featuring smiling fish in an ocean, a sheer pale pink shower curtain, a vintage TV sans screen (that series cameramen shot through), a 1970s-era Panasonic film camera plus vintage lights mounted onto a shelf that drop down into position by way of pulling a floor level (still functional), and a Del Monte Mixed Fruit Cocktail can (with brand name obscured in red paint) that serves as the handset. The booth is in excellent, production-used condition overall, and a plug in control box rings a functioning phone ring bell, etc.

Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), the fun-loving, child-like alter ego of Paul Reubens, uses the booth throughout seasons two through five, including to contact the alien Zyzzybalubah in the episode ‘Playhouse in Outer Space’ (209).

Dimensions: 48” x 64” x 84” (122 cm x 162 ½ cm x 213 ½ cm)

Provenance: Mr. Paul Reubens