Peeping Times

{{Short description|1978 American comedy television special}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Peeping Times.jpg | alt = The words "PEEPING TIMES" in white capital letters against a black background with an outline of a keyhole in place of the second letter "I". | caption = Title card | alt_name = | genre = Comedy special | creator = | developer = | writer = [[Rudy De Luca]] [[Barry Levinson]] [[Bill Richmond (writer)|Bill Richmond]] Gene Perret [[Robert Illes]] James Stein [[Christopher Guest]] | director = Rudy De Luca Barry Levinson | creative_director = | presenter = | starring = [[Alan Oppenheimer]] [[David Letterman]] | judges = | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = [[Joe Raposo]] | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons =  | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | executive_producer = [[David Frost]] [[Marvin Minoff]] | producer = Rudy De Luca Barry Levinson | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = 50 minutes | company = Paradine-DeLuca-Levinson | channel = [[NBC]] | released = {{Start date|1978|01|25}} | related = }} '''''Peeping Times''''' is a 1978 American comedy [[television special]] that aired on [[NBC]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coffey |first1=Jeffrey |title='Peeping Times' surprises |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102451145/ |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=January 25, 1978}}</ref> on January 25, 1978. Co-produced, written and directed by [[Rudy De Luca]] and [[Barry Levinson]], the special featured an early broadcast network appearance of [[David Letterman]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharbutt |first1=Jay |title=Move Over Mike, Morley! 'Peeping Times' wants in |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102451196/ |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=Daily Record |date=January 25, 1978}}</ref> [[David Frost]] was co-executive producer. A spoof of TV news magazine programs,<ref>Nina David, ''TV Season 77-78'', Oryx Press, 1979.</ref> the show was part of Frost's new deal with NBC, which also called for a series of six weekly live interview shows to be done in prime-time beginning in May 1978.<ref name="wfmu">{{cite news |last= |first= |title=The Early David Letterman 1967-1980 |url=https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/the-late-night-hosts-before-they-were-big.html |archivedate=4 January 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104125241/https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/the-late-night-hosts-before-they-were-big.html |url-status=dead |access-date=21 April 2026 |work=WFMU.org |date=7 March 2010}}</ref>

==Cast== *[[Alan Oppenheimer]] as Miles Rathbourne *[[David Letterman]] as Dan Cochran *[[Lee Delano]] as Seedy Man *[[Ron Carey (actor)|Ron Carey]] as Angelo Bertinelli *[[Murphy Dunne]] as Dr. Burnett *[[Michael Fairman]] as Mayor of Ewell *[[Mel Brooks]] as [[Adolf Hitler]] (uncredited) *[[James Cromwell]] as Bernard Mantee (uncredited) *[[Royce D. Applegate]] as Clyde Porter *[[Valerie Curtin]] as Mother Superior *Byron Webster as Mr. Leonard *[[Richard Libertini]] as Salesman *[[Richard Stahl]] as The D.A. *[[Lewis Arquette]] as Deputy *[[Peggy Pope]] as Prisoner *Lew Horn as Prisoner *[[Lee Delano]] as Alien Smuggler *[[Philip Bruns]] as Producer *[[Larry Hankin]] as Nutritionist

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|1521802}}

[[Category:1978 television specials]] [[Category:NBC television specials]] [[Category:Films directed by Barry Levinson]] [[Category:Films scored by Joe Raposo]]