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Peanuts DVDs Reviewed:

Peanuts 1960's Collection • Peanuts 1970's Collection, Vol. 1 • Peanuts 1970's Collection, Vol. 2
Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection (It's the Great Pumpkin / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / A Charlie Brown Christmas)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown • He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown • You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown • You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown • 'The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales • I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown

Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown is the twentieth animated television special based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. It was first broadcast on CBS on October 24, 1980 and won an Emmy for 'Outstanding Animated Program'. 1 Plot 2 Trivia 3 Voice cast 4 Gallery 5 Trailers 6 External links The special opens with Snoopy hearing some music. He follows it and finds a circus unpacking.
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'The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show': The Complete Animated Series DVD Review

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Seasons 1 & 2 (1983-85)
Show & DVD Details
Creator/Writer: Charles M. Schulz / Producers: Lee Mendelson (executive), Bill Melendez
Series Director: Bill Melendez / Episode Directors: Sam Jaimes, Bill Melendez, Dick Horn, Steven C. Melendez, Robert E. Balzer, Phil Roman, Sam Nicholson
Voice Cast: Brad Kesten (Charlie Brown #1), Angela Lee (Lucy van Pelt #1), Jeremy Schoenberg (Linus van Pelt #1), Victoria Vargas (Peppermint Patty #1), Stacy Heather Tolkin (Sally Brown #1), Kevin Brando (Schroeder #1), Michael Dockery (Marcie #1), Bill Melendez (Snoopy, Woodstock), Brett Johnson (Charlie Brown #2), Heather Stoneman (Lucy van Pelt #2), Gini Holtzman (Peppermint Patty #2), Keri Houlihan (Marcie #2), Jeremy Schoenberg (Linus van Pelt #2), Stacy Ferguson (Sally Brown #2, Patty #2), Jason Mendelson (Rerun van Pelt), Mary Tunnell (Frieda), Danny Colby (Schroeder #2), Dana Ferguson (Little Girl), Carl Steven (Franklin)
Running Time: 344 Minutes (18 episodes) / Rating: Not Rated
1.33:1 Fullscreen (Original Broadcast Ratio) / Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (English)
Subtitles: None; Not Closed Captioned
Episodes Originally Aired September 17, 1983 - October 12, 1985
Two single-sided, dual-layered discs (DVD-9s) / Clear Keepcase
Suggested Retail Price: $35.98 / DVD Release Date: November 20, 2012 (WBShop.com)
Episodes also available on Amazon Instant Video and iTunes

Own it today on DVD. Buy The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Amazon.com • WBShop.com

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show: Created by Charles M. With Bill Melendez, Jeremy Schoenberg, Angela Lee Sloan, Brad Kesten. Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from newspaper strips.

It started with comic strips. In October 1950, 27-year-old Charles Schulz, the creator of the St. Paul Pioneer Press comic Li'l Folks, introduced Peanuts to the world as a daily comic in nine major metropolitan newspapers. Fifteen years later, Schulz's characters took to television in the CBS animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas. Claiming half of the televisions across the nation, that beloved special would go on to win Emmy and Peabody awards. The success created obvious demand for more. Schulz, his director/producer Bill Melendez, producer Lee Mendelson, and composer Vince Guaraldi obliged, giving the network a new special just about every year. Some were tied to a holiday or season. Others were not.

In the early 1980s, the output of Peanuts animation increased, with the first half of 1983 seeing a record three new specials, two of them airing in the month of May. But that wasn't enough for CBS. That fall, they unveiled the weekly television series 'The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show' as part of their Saturday morning line-up. Originally introduced in the 10:30 timeslot, between 'The Dukes' (a cartoon 'Dukes of Hazzard' spin-off) and 'Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince' (a live-action show starring the dog of Joe Camp's feature films), 'Charlie Brown and Snoopy' would move to 8 AM in the spring, then spend the remainder of its time in various early afternoon slots. Though it spent three full years in the CBS Saturday schedule, it ran for just two seasons, the second a short stint of only five episodes.

While the most iconic Peanuts holiday specials have been released and rereleased to DVD and even Blu-ray, the full 18-episode run of 'The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show' has only now made its way to DVD in The Complete Animated Series, a two-disc set from the Warner Archive Collection.

'Charlie Brown and Snoopy' is comprised of short vignettes, most of them introduced with an onscreen title. Some run as short as a minute. In that way, it closely reflects the comic strip design. The other way in which it reflects the comics is that it relies heavily on familiar gags. You don't produce a comic strip set in the same universe every day for 50 years (33 by this point) without repeating yourself. These routine character bits feel as if they could very well be recycled from past specials (as the first season's opening titles' moments are). Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown only to pull it away before he can kick it. Charlie Brown manages a hopeless baseball team. Linus clings to his security blanket. Lucy pines for Schroeder as he stays intent on playing the piano. Snoopy and Woodstock get into all kinds of nonverbal adventures.

A noticeable improvement, the short-lived Season 2 opts for longer segments with more to them and less of the standard scenarios. As a result, its episodes are (like its catchy new theme song) easier to distinguish, remember, and appreciate. There is also the fun fact that the brief second season features Stacy Ferguson, a.k.a. Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas, as the voice of Sally Brown. Along with her run on 'Kids Incorporated', this represented one of the ten-year-old's first professional credits.

This 1980s television series is Peanuts at its most basic and ordinary. It's definitely not a low point for the franchise, as there have been worse specials, especially the more recent ones produced after Schulz's 2000 death. But, while it may be the closest the series has ever got to the comic strips, 'Charlie Brown and Snoopy' does run short on invention, originality, and effort. I suppose to someone who doesn't really appreciate Peanuts, this series is what the entire large canon feels like: pleasant enough but not quite funny and rather slight. To a Peanuts animation fan like myself, these episodes are nothing remarkable, but it's always nice to spend time with these lovable characters.

I must admit that the more Peanuts animation one sees, the more you realize how terrific the classic specials like A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving are. It's not just the increased exposure and yearly airings that have made these specials sta

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