Peanuts (1965)
The successful comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, was adapted into animated specials since 1965, most of them released on television.
- Lee Mendelson
- Charles M. Schulz
- Bill Melendez
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Episode 1 - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Release Date: 1965-12-09Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
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Episode 2 - Charlie Brown's All Stars!
Release Date: 1966-06-08When his team is offered membership in the Little League, Charlie Brown finds he must make a difficult moral decision.
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Episode 3 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1966-10-27The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween, with Linus hoping that, finally, he will be visited by The Great Pumpkin; while Charlie Brown is invited to a Halloween party.
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Episode 4 - You're in Love, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1967-06-12With the help of Linus and Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown tries to pluck up the courage to talk to his crush, the Little Red-Haired Girl.
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Episode 5 - He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1968-02-14When Snoopy is sent back to the puppy farm for obedience training, he free-loads at Peppermint Patty's instead.
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Episode 6 - It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1969-09-27At summer camp, the boys compete and are seemingly hopelessly outmatched by the female campers.
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Episode 7 - Play It Again, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1971-03-28Lucy tries to get Schroeder's attention while he plays the piano. She arranges for him to play at the PTA program--but they don't want Beethoven.
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Episode 8 - You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1972-10-29Linus runs for election as school body president, and is on his way to victory until he makes a speech about the Great Pumpkin.
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Episode 9 - There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1973-03-11The gang's school plans a field trip to an art museum, and Charlie Brown must get an "A" on his field trip report to pass his class. Unfortunately, he, Peppermint Patty and Marcie mistake a supermarket for the art museum!
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Episode 10 - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Release Date: 1973-11-20The "Peanuts" gather around Charlie's ping-pong table for an unusual feast, even though he's going over to his grandmother's for dinner. But with Snoopy and Linus's help, he decides to cook his own version of a Thanksgiving meal!
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Episode 11 - It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1974-02-01While Sally worries about a science project, Snoopy investigates the disappearance of Woodstock's nest.
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Episode 12 - It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1974-04-09Easter is approaching, and the gang is getting ready. Sally wants new shoes, Peppermint Patty attempts to show Marcie how to color eggs, and Snoopy helps Woodstock with a new house. Linus, however, claims that all the work is unnecessary because the Easter Beagle will come.
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Episode 13 - Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1975-01-28With Valentine's Day approaching, the gang prepares in various ways. Charlie Brown waits at the mailbox, Linus buys a box of candy for his teacher (while Sally thinks it's for herself), Snoopy puts on a dramatic "Pawpet" show, and the school has a Valentine's Day party.
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Episode 14 - You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1975-10-28Peppermint Patty gets "Chuck" to participate in a motocross race which has many challenges, including a mysterious Masked Marvel.
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Episode 15 - It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1976-03-16While researching a report on Arbor Day, Sally enlists the gang to turn Charlie Brown's ball field into a garden and orchard, complete with a tree on the pitcher's mound and scarecrow in the outfield. During the first game of the season against Peppermint Patty's team, the plants turn out to be an unexpected advantage.
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Episode 16 - It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1977-10-24Charlie Brown must escort the Little Red-Haired Girl to the homecoming dance, even though he has trouble kicking the ball during the homecoming football game.
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Episode 17 - What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1978-02-23Having eaten too much, Snoopy dreams he's an Alaskan sled dog.
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Episode 18 - You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1979-03-19Charlie Brown participates in the Junior Olympics Decathlon, competing against several other contestants, including the Masked Marvel.
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Episode 19 - She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1980-02-25Peppermint Patty prepares for a skating competition with Snoopy as her coach.
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Episode 20 - Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1980-10-24The circus comes to town and Snoopy falls for one of the poodles in an acrobatic act. He soon runs away to join it. Snoopy becomes "Hugo the Great" and while Charlie Brown worries about him, Snoopy has to face some realities of the show business himself.
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Episode 21 - It's Magic, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1981-04-28Snoopy puts on a magic act. His tricks are failures, except for one--turning Charlie Brown invisible.
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Episode 22 - Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1981-10-30After Charlie Brown falls in love with a girl briefly shown in a broadcasted football game, he and Linus go across town door-to-door, searching for her.
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Episode 23 - A Charlie Brown Celebration
Release Date: 1982-05-24An one-hour special where Charles Schulz introduces the Peanuts Gang involved in a variety of activities, including dog-training classes, a baseball game, a field trip and more.
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Episode 24 - Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?
Release Date: 1983-02-21Linus and Lucy's dad has a new job, which involves relocating their family far from the rest of the gang. Everyone says goodbye and tries to cope with their friends' departure.
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Episode 25 - It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1983-05-16The second one-hour special, with stories adapted directly from newspaper comic strips. We can see Charlie Brown having strange visions, running from the EPA and being elected president of summer camp, Peppermint Patty and Marcie becoming golf caddies, Lucy determined to get rid from Linus' blanket and more.
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Episode 26 - What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?
Release Date: 1983-05-30As they begin their journey home from their student exchange term in France, the Peanuts gang find themselves sidetracked and with car problems. They then pass by the memorials of some battlesites in both World Wars. Linus talks about their importance and the sacrifices required of the troops who fought them.
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Episode 27 - It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1984-04-16Snoopy becomes Flashbeagle, loving to dance the night away.
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Episode 28 - Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1985-03-20Snoopy runs into a female poodle while guarding Peppermint Patty's house and decides to marry her. The Peanuts gang gets into preparing their wedding with the usual complications and the extra help of Snoopy's cousin, Spike.
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Episode 29 - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1985-10-06A 50 minute special animated version of the classic off-Broadway musical from the 60's. The Peanuts gang perform the various comedy sketches of the play.
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Episode 30 - Happy New Year, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1986-01-01Charlie Brown has to read "War and Peace" over Christmas break, but is obliged to attend Peppermint Patty's New Year's Eve party.
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Episode 31 - Snoopy: The Musical
Release Date: 1988-01-29The 50 minute special adaptation of the second musical (this one from the 70's) based on the Peanuts gang, this time centered on Snoopy.
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Episode 32 - It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1988-09-27A one-hour special which combines live-action with animation. Snoopy's cousin Spike falls for Jenny, a pretty blonde girl in an old red truck. They visit Los Angeles and have lots of fun, but Jenny's boyfriend and Spike being mistaken with a coyote may put their relationship in jeopardy.
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Episode 33 - Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
Release Date: 1990-03-16Linus is smitten by a new girl who comes to the neighbourhood school. But she develops the symptoms of leukemia and must go to the hospital for cancer treatment. Linus and Charlie Brown help her through the traumas of chemotherapy as best as they can while Snoopy plays at being the world's greatest doctor.
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Episode 34 - Snoopy's Reunion
Release Date: 1991-05-01Charlie Brown notices that Snoopy is depressed. He then decides to cheer up Snoopy by hosting a reunion party with his brothers and sisters. The whole gang enthusiastically responds. We learn about their early days at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm and also of what happened to it.
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Episode 35 - It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1992-10-27A collection of stories related to Christmas, where we can see Charlie Brown trying to raise money for his girlfriend or Sally and Peppermint Patty worried about their lines on the Christmas play, among other stories.
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Episode 36 - You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown!
Release Date: 1994-01-18The Peanuts Gang competes in a punt, pass and kick contest. The winner gets a new bicycle and a trip to the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Snoopy coaches a football team of birds to the championships.
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Episode 37 - It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1996-01-09The special follows the spring training of Charlie Brown's baseball team, which is having problems. A child named Leland joins the team. Lucy points out that they are the only team without uniforms, so Charlie Brown and his team train hard for the first game of the season. Thanks to Leland, Charlie Brown's team wins, 27 to 26, therefore getting their uniforms (A recycled plotline is that Leland is so short the other team's pitcher either constantly walks him or beans him in his batting helmet). However, the team loses their next game because Leland has to quit because their new uniforms are too big for him, with Charlie Brown saying at the end, "It's not how you look, it's how you play the game."
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Episode 38 - It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 1997-08-05Linus meets a singer and gardener named Mimi, and invites her to his birthday party. However, there is some speculation about if she'll actually show up.
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Episode 39 - It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 2000-09-12It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown is a retelling of the story how the Pied Piper of Hamelin (portrayed by Snoopy) chased away all the mice from the town of Hamlet. The Peanuts kids substitute some characters, Snoopy being the Pied Piper. Snoopy plays concertina (squeezebox), with presumably David Benoit doing the honors. (Snoopy played accordion too a few times in the comic back in the early comics.)
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Episode 40 - A Charlie Brown Valentine
Release Date: 2002-02-14A special based on Valentine's Day and love themes material from the comic strip. Charlie Brown is jealous of Snoopy's many valentines cards; Charlie Brown tries to impress the little red-haired girl with a sharp pencil and gets caught in the pencil sharpener; and more.
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Episode 41 - Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
Release Date: 2002-12-08A collection of five Christmas-themed animated shorts based directly on stories from the Peanuts comic strips, each focusing on a specific Peanuts character - Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and Sally.
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Episode 42 - Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 2003-08-29Charlie Brown trades Lucy to Peppermint Patty's baseball team in hopes of getting a better player and winning a few baseball games.
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Episode 43 - I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 2003-12-09An hour-long special. It centers on ReRun, Linus and Lucy's younger brother. It's Christmas vacation and, as usual, ReRun's big sister is stressing him out, so he decides to turn to his best friend, Snoopy, for amusement and holiday cheer. However, Snoopy has plans of his own, giving ReRun reason to ask Snoopy to invite his brother Spike for a visit. When Spike shows up, it looks like ReRun will have a dog for Christmas after all... but then the real trouble begins.
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Episode 44 - He's a Bully, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 2006-10-20The Peanuts gang is at summer camp, and Rerun has brought his marbles. Unfortunately, a talented bully takes advantage of Rerun and "teaches" him to play marbles, and takes all of them, including his grandfather's shooter, because he "won" them. Now it's up to Charlie Brown to win back Rerun's marbles.
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Episode 45 - Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown
Release Date: 2011-03-29Linus is pushed to his limits when he learns his Grandma is coming to visit and plans on ridding him of his childish security blanket. As Grandma's arrival looms closer the Peanuts gang tries to help Linus cope without his fuzzy crutch. Lucy is particular eager to help cure Linus' dependency using her own psychiatric techniques, and while Charlie Brown tries to help he doesn't have the heart to see Linus suffer. All the while Snoopy is constantly agitating the matter because he wants the blanket for himself.