I loved his program. It was one of the few my parents encouraged us to watch. And when Beakman's World came on the air in the early 1990s I remarked to the kids that it was like Mr. Wizard meets PeeWee's Playhouse. It turned out that I wasn't wrong on that guess. The Beakman's crew hired the PeeWee's crew after PeeWee went off the air. From the Wikipedia site: "The penguins were named after Don Herbert, who starred as Mr. Wizard in Watch Mr. Wizard."

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