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Peckerhead Returns

For the first time, Drake Bell is now revealing the truth about how he was subjected to pedophilic abuse as a young boy in Hollywood. His story serves as the basis for much of the four-part documentary Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. The doc will air over two nights — beginning Sunday and Monday — on the Investigation Discovery Channel.

Here, Jamie Dlux gives us a sneak preview, focusing less so on the victim, and more so on the alleged perpetrator — Brian Peck. Peck worked on several kids’ TV shows over the years, including  Growing Pains, Boy Meets World and the Suite Life of Zack & Cody. He came into contact with Drake Bell on The Amanda Show, where Peck served as a dialogue coach.

Peck, by the year 2003, was facing 11 different charges filed by the Los Angeles Police Department, involving his abuse of Bell. In 2004, Peck was jailed after pleading no contest to a charge of oral copulation with a minor under 16 as well as a charge of performing a lewd act with a 14- or 15-year-old. Peck spent a little over a year in prison and remains registered as a sex offender.

In addition to Peck, Jamie Dlux takes a look at Leonardo DiCaprio, who had appeared opposite Peck on Growing Pains. Also figuring into this hornet’s next: Dan Schneider, the Nickelodeon producer and creator behind The Amanda Show, as well as such later hits as All That, iCarly, Victorious and Drake & Josh.