September 13, 1986 –
CBS allowed a strange, pale man, in an ill-fitting suit to come into their viewers homes (to scream really loud) when Pee-Wee’s Playhouse premiered on this date.
It is often assumed that the main reason for the cancellation of the series was Paul Reubens indictment for obscenity for an incident in an adult theater in Florida, but in fact Reubens and CBS had mutually agreed to end the show in 1990. CBS did, however, choose not to air the reruns of episodes they had planned for August of the next year, and the final network telecast was November 17, 1990.
The Haus of Dcaligari 