The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show | |
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Also known as | You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown |
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Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
Based on | Peanuts Peanuts animated specials by Charles M. Schulz |
Written by | Charles M. Schulz |
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Voices of | See below |
Opening theme | "Let's Have a Party" sung by Desirée Goyette (season 2) |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer | Lee Mendelson |
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Production locations | Los Angeles, US |
Editor | Chuck McCann |
Running time | 23 minutes |
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Network | CBS |
Release | September 17, 1983 – October 12, 1985 |
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (known as You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown during reruns on Nickelodeon) is an American animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts as first presented for television in the Peanuts animated specials. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1985. [1]
Due to lower-than-expected ratings, in an attempt to boost viewership, CBS moved the series to 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time early in 1984. It did not help the ratings much, and while the show was not formally cancelled in 1984, further production was on hiatus, and in 1985, CBS ordered five new episodes for what would be a second and final season. Early in 1986, CBS dropped the show after a ratings recession.
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show is one of the few television series produced by Bill Melendez, whose animation studio generally produced specials. [2]
The show reaired on The Disney Channel in 1993 [3] and was aired on YTV in Canada by 1996. It also aired on the CBBC block on BBC One and BBC Two from 1986 to 2005.
Typical for an animated Peanuts production, the characters were performed by real children, and there was a large cast turnover between the first and second season due to many of the child actors maturing out of their roles, leaving only Jeremy Schoenberg, Jason Muller and Bill Melendez to remain. [4]
Note: Violet, Roy, and other characters make cameo appearances but are silent.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Snoopy's Cat Fight – Shorts: Woodstock, Baseball, Sally, Peppermint Patty, Piano, Blanket" | September 17, 1983 | |
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2 | 2 | "Snoopy: Team Manager – Shorts: Shoveling, Rerun, Lost Blanket, The Manager" | September 24, 1983 | |
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3 | 3 | "Linus and Lucy – Shorts: Sally and Snoopy, Football, Beads, Love, Snowballs, Kite Flying, Linus and Lucy, Baseball" | October 1, 1983 | |
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4 | 4 | "Lucy vs. the World – Shorts: Straws, Lucy Baseball, Peppermint Patty, Daisy Hill Puppy Cup, Linus and Lucy" | October 8, 1983 | |
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5 | 5 | "Linus' Security Blanket – Shorts: Snoopy and Woodstock, Sally, Piano, Baseball, Sunsets, Football, Security Blanket, Kite, Woodstock, Clinging Snoopy" | October 15, 1983 | |
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6 | 6 | "Snoopy: Man's Best Friend – Shorts: Kiss, Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown – Lost!, Snoopy" | October 22, 1983 | |
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7 | 7 | "Snoopy the Psychiatrist – Shorts: Charlie Brown & Lucy, Kite, The Dance, Thiebault" | October 29, 1983 | |
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8 | 8 | "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown – Shorts: Shaking, Spaghetti, Football, Baseball, Toast, Snow Sculpture, Sit, School, Kite, The Blanket, Sally" | November 5, 1983 | |
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9 | 9 | "The Lost Ballpark – Shorts: Crawl, Marcie, Truffles, The Lost Ballfield" | November 12, 1983 | |
Note: The Lost Ballpark introduces Snoopy's brother, Spike. | ||||
10 | 10 | "Snoopy's Football Career – Shorts: Gold Stars, Blanket, Piano, Teaching" | November 19, 1983 | |
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11 | 11 | "Chaos in the Classroom – Shorts: Sally at School, Football, School Patrol, Blanket, The Team" | November 26, 1983 | |
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12 | 12 | "It's That Team Spirit, Charlie Brown – Shorts: Vulture, Blanket, Peppermint Patty, Rerun, Rainy Day" | December 3, 1983 | |
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13 | 13 | "Lucy Loves Schroeder – Shorts: Kite-Eating Tree, Sally, Camp, Lucy Loves Schroeder, Scared Snoopy" | December 10, 1983 | |
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "Snoopy and the Giant – Shorts: Snoopy's Foot, Giant, Rerun" | September 14, 1985 | |
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15 | 2 | "Snoopy's Brother Spike – Shorts: The Pelicans, Great Pumpkin, Spike" | September 21, 1985 | |
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16 | 3 | "Snoopy's Robot – Shorts: Snoopy's Robot, Linus and the Blanket, Friends" | September 28, 1985 | |
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17 | 4 | "Peppermint Patty's School Days – Shorts: School Days, Snoopy's Trick, Snoopy's Flight" | October 5, 1985 | |
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18 | 5 | "Sally's Sweet Babboo – Shorts: The Play, Sweet Babboo!, Snoopy's Story" | October 12, 1985 | |
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The first season's theme was a Vince Guaraldi styled piano-based instrumental written and produced for this series, which was composed by Desiree Goyette and Ed Bogas. The song was given lyrics and released in 1984 as "Let's Have a Party with Charlie Brown and Snoopy" on the album Flashbeagle, the soundtrack to the special It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown . On the second season, a shortened version with the lyrics that appeared on the Flashbeagle album was used.
The Chinese-Cantonese version and the Japanese version were written by Seeyan Wong, Charles M. Schulz Hong Kong Fan Club in 2019 and 2020 respectively. [5] [6]
In 1987, Kartes Video Communications released the show on VHS in nine volumes (with titles in the style of normal Peanuts specials), with two episodes each.
From 1994 to 2001, Paramount Home Video released the show on VHS and LaserDisc in the same fashion, but under the actual title of the show.
On June 14, 2011, Warner Home Video released the fourteenth episode of the show on DVD under a single disc called: Happiness Is... Peanuts: Snoopy's Adventures. They also announced that on October 18, 2011, the eighteenth and final episode of the show would come to DVD under a single disc called: Happiness Is... Peanuts: Snow Days, the thirteenth episode of the show came to DVD under a single disc called: Happiness Is... Peanuts: Friends Forever on December 27, 2011, and the fifteenth episode of the show came to DVD under a single disc called: Happiness Is... Peanuts: Team Snoopy on May 1, 2012. On October 9, 2012, Happiness Is... Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go! featured the twelfth episode of the show. Also, the entire series is available through iTunes. On January 21, 2014, the first, fourth and eleventh episodes appeared on a single disc DVD called Touchdown Charlie Brown.
On November 20, 2012, Warner Bros. released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. [7] Nine episodes are on each of the two disc set.
All episodes have previously been released on DVD in Australia and Germany across two 2-disc box sets.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the tenth prime-time animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year. It was the third holiday special after A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in 1966.
It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown is the 27th prime-time animated musical television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on April 16, 1984.
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You're in Love, Charlie Brown is the fourth prime-time animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on June 12, 1967. This was the second non-holiday-oriented Peanuts special, following Charlie Brown's All Stars!.
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It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown is the 25th prime-time animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on May 16, 1983. It, along with 1982's A Charlie Brown Celebration, inspired the Saturday Morning series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show.
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