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1982 television film

A Charlie Brownish Celebration
Title Card
Genre	Animation Family unit
Written by	Charles Yard. Schulz
Directed by	Bill Melendez
Voices of	Casey Carlson Shannon Cohn Christopher Donohoe Kristen Fullerton Brent Hauer Michael Mandy Bill Melendez Cindi Reily Earl Reily
Composers	Ed Bogas Judy Munsen
Land of origin	United States
Original linguistic communication	English language
Production
Producers	Lee Mendelson Bill Melendez
Editors	Chuck McCann Roger Donley
Running fourth dimension	sixty minutes
Product company	Beak Melendez Productions
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	May 24, 1982 (1982-05-24)
Chronology
Preceded by	Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown (1981)
Followed by	Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brownish? (1983)

A Charlie Brown Celebration is the 23rd prime number-fourth dimension animated television special based upon the pop comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, who introduced the hour-long special.^[1] It was originally aired on the CBS network on May 24, 1982, and consists of a number of stories adapted from the comic strip.^[ii]

Production [edit]

The formula used in this special, several stories with 1 or two-word titles, was subsequently adapted for the Sat morning CBS series, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which started in 1983, and used in another special, It's an Chance, Charlie Chocolate-brown. A compilation of brusque stories also make up Y'all're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (both the stage musical and animated special), Snoopy!!! The Musical (both the phase musical and animated special), and Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales. Schulz first toyed with using vignettes in the 1973 special There's No Time for Dear, Charlie Brown.

There are a number of storylines:

• "School": Charlie Brown, Emerge Brown, Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt, and Schroeder are going to school. The others are going into third grade but Sally is going into commencement course.
• "Kite": Charlie Brown is flying a kite while Snoopy is resting, and Lucy and Linus are talking well-nigh Edgar Allan Poe.
• "Charlie Chocolate-brown's School Days": Charlie Brown, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty, and Franklin are going to school.
• "Sally": Sally, Eudora, and Snoopy are at summer army camp. Eudora teases Snoopy.
• "Linus and Sally": Linus is reading his written report on summer campsite. Miss Othmar is horrified past references to queen snakes. Charlie Brown is worried considering he studied the incorrect affiliate and Emerge is refusing to depict a cow leg.
• "Peppermint Patty": Peppermint Patty is having trouble in school and tries to find a individual one to attend instead. Following Snoopy'southward advice, she goes to the Ace Obedience School and chop-chop graduates from information technology, not realizing that it is a canis familiaris school. The instructor and principal from Peppermint Patty's elementary schoolhouse practice not believe that she has already graduated. When the daughter finds out what has happened, she ends up fighting the vicious true cat adjacent door, mistaking him for Snoopy.
• "Linus": Linus and Emerge are going on a field trip. Linus is reunited with Truffles. Sally and Truffles fight over Linus and he gets stuck on a subcontract roof. It is up to Snoopy and Woodstock to save him.
• "Piano": Lucy annoys Schroeder while he is playing his piano. Lucy throws the piano downwardly the sewer. Schroeder tries to get it dorsum with Charlie Brownish's help. As Schroeder walks away almost crying, Lucy says that if he were to play it at present, he'd strike a "sewer note". She laughs for a while and so explains after he loved her, he'd appreciate the humor. Then Schroeder tries to call the pianoforte company, a voice commands him to accept his time on delivery.
• "Lucy": Lucy is very angry and feels she has nothing for which to be thankful. She wants Linus to get logs for the fireplace, playing jokes on him and talking well-nigh Abraham Lincoln while he fetches them.
• "Peppermint Patty and Marcie": Marcie tries to make some baseball game caps for Peppermint Patty's squad.
• "Charlie Brown": Charlie Brownish gets sick and goes to the hospital. Sally takes the opportunity to movement into his room but Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Lucy are worried near him. Lucy promises that, if Charlie Brown gets better, she volition never pull the football away from him again. Linus tells Charlie Brown's female parent about this. When Charlie Brown recovers, Lucy is forced to become through with her promise. However, Charlie Brownish misses the brawl and kicks Lucy's paw. She says that next time Charlie Dark-brown goes to the infirmary, he should stay there

Phonation bandage [edit]

• Michael Mandy every bit Charlie Brown
• Kristen Fullerton as Lucy van Pelt
• Earl Reily as Linus van Pelt
• Cindi Reily every bit Sally Brown
• Casey Carlson as Eudora/Truffles
• Shannon Cohn as Marcie
• Brent Hauer as Peppermint Patty
• Christopher Donohoe every bit Schroeder/Franklin
• Beak Melendez equally Snoopy/Woodstock

Production notes [edit]

Although Lucy taunts Charlie Brown to kick the football game in this special, this is the first time she promises never to pull it away again. When Charlie Dark-brown gets ill at a ball game, Lucy promises never to pull the ball abroad. She does non pull the ball away when Charlie Brown gets better, only he misses and kicks her arm, resulting in her arm being encased in a cast. Charlie Brown is mentioned as kick information technology in the It'due south Magic, Charlie Brown special.

Information technology was the second (and final) episode for Kristen Fullerton every bit Lucy van Pelt, subsequently when Sydney Penny voiced Lucy in It's Magic, Charlie Dark-brown, Penny decided she would let Fullerton voice Lucy in this episode, she voiced Lucy in Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Celebration, in the next special, Fullerton was replaced by Angela Lee.

This is the first hour-long animated Peanuts special.^[3]

Stock footage [edit]

Scenes from this special recycle footage and ideas from There's No Fourth dimension for Love, Charlie Chocolate-brown (1973) and Play It Once again, Charlie Dark-brown (1971).

In The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show episode "Linus' Security Blanket" the scene where Charlie Brown and his kite get stuck in a tree is different, but in Yous Tin can't Win, Charlie Chocolate-brown the scene where Charlie Dark-brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus are defenseless upwardly with his kite on the doghouse is the aforementioned.

Home media [edit]

A Charlie Brown Celebration did not receive a abode video release until 2016 when it was paired with the 50th anniversary DVD for Charlie Brown's All-Stars.

References [edit]

1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (third ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 275. ISBN978-0-8160-6600-1.
2. ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated Tv Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Printing. pp. 66–67. ISBN0-8108-2198-2 . Retrieved 27 March 2020.
3. ^ Solomon, Charles (2012). The Fine art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Jubilant Fifty Years of Goggle box Specials. Chronicle Books. pp. 137, 148. ISBN978-1452110912.

External links [edit]

• A Charlie Brownish Celebration at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Celebration

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