In 2007, Warner Bros. added the Peanuts / Charlie Brown library to its collection ( this includes all the television specials and series outside of the theatrical library, which continues to be owned by CBS and Paramount through Peanuts Worldwide, LCC, licensor and owner of the Peanuts material ).

After Guaraldi's death, the music for the Peanuts series was composed first by San Francisco film and television composer Ed Bogas, who scored several Peanuts TV specials and motion pictures up to the early 1990s, along with Bogas ' future wife Desirée Goyette, and occasionally, Judy Munsen.

The title of a book in the fictional series in the comic strip Peanuts, " The Six Bunny Wunnies ," is The Six Bunnie-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana.

The Rankin-Bass studio produced a number of stop-motion specials geared towards popular holidays ( including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus Is Comin ' to Town ); while Bill Melendez's long-running series of Peanuts specials won numerous awards, spawned four feature films, and even launched a Saturday morning series.

Other attempts to bring comic strip characters to TV did not have anywhere near as much success until one of the Peanuts directors, Phil Roman, brought the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield to TV starting in 1982, resulting in 11 specials and a long-running animated series.

It is a parody of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ( and was supposed to be named " It's the Great Pumpkin, Milhouse ", but due to legal reasons, was rejected ) and contains several references to the Peanuts series.

* Pantless Perkins: A very late addition to the strip, Capp introduced Honest Abe's brainy, ragamuffin pal Pantless Perkins in a series of kid-themed stories in the seventies, probably to compete with Peanuts.

He went on to work with Post again in the mid-1980s to record the song " Back to Back " for the television series Hardcastle and McCormick and teamed up with Desiree Goyette to record " Flashbeagle " for the Peanuts special It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown.

A series of May 1962 strips from Charles Schulz's newspaper comic strip Peanuts features Snoopy performing " polkas, schottishes ( sic ) and waltzes " on an accordion.

* Lucy van Pelt, a character from the Peanuts cartoon series

* Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang make an appearance in MAD, having a series of strips called " Final Episode of Peanuts that You Never Saw ".

When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first line of dialogue in the series.

In his 2009 treasury Pearls Blows Up, 2000s cartoonist Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, who cites Schulz as one of his many influences, suggested in relation to a series of strips paying homage to Peanuts with baseball, that Shermy as well as Violet may have died in some way after a game, commenting that " I'm fairly certain the games in Peanuts weren't played to the death ... Shermy and Violet did seem to disappear at some point.

Frieda also continued to make appearances in the animated Peanuts specials and the Saturday morning series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, even being mentioned in the lyrics of the latter's theme song.

During the 1980s, a popular series of Cheerios commercials surfaced featuring the Peanuts gang and a new slogan, " You're on your toes with Cheerios ".

Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Meléndez, and the third in a series of movies based on the Peanuts comic strip.

José Cuauhtémoc " Bill " Meléndez ( November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008 ) was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series.

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show is an animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

Phil Roman, veteran alumus of Chuck Jones Enterprises and Bill Melendez Productions, originally founded Film Roman in 1984 as a means to continue the production of the Garfield series of animated prime time television specials, since Melendez's own studio was unable to work on both the Garfield and Peanuts series of specials.

On December 21, 1999 a short piece, written by Watterson to mark the forthcoming end of the comic strip Peanuts, was published in the Los Angeles Times.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

Charles Schulz, of Peanuts fame, requested that his strip not be continued by another cartoonist after his death.

Schulz's family has honored his wishes and refused numerous proposals by syndicators to continue Peanuts with a new author.

The opening was popularized by the Peanuts comic strip, in which Snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with It was a dark and stormy night.

* 1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

While searching for just the right music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson ( the producer of the special ) heard a single version of " Cast Your Fate to the Wind " by Vince Guaraldi's trio on the radio while traveling in a taxicab on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

Winston performed many Peanuts songs that had not been released by Guaraldi himself.

Peanuts are known by many other local names such as earthnuts, ground nuts, goober peas, monkey nuts, pygmy nuts and pig nuts.

Wilkes-Barre is the birthplace of the Planters Peanuts Company, which was founded in 1906 by Italian immigrant Amedeo Obici and partner Mario Peruzzi.

* Peanuts Around Town is a public art project organized by The Downtown Group, consisting of peanut sculptures decorated in various fashions and displayed around Dothan.

Other companies founded by Italian Americans-such as Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, Progresso, Planters Peanuts, Contadina, Chef Boyardee, Italian Swiss Colony wines and Jacuzzi-became nationally known brand names in time.

Carolina Peanuts was started by locals as a small company but later grew after being acquired by Anheuser-Busch.

Charles " Charlie " Brown is the protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special ( and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas ) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez.

" Parts of the segment had music by Vince Guaraldi ( best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip ), which they had obtained the rights to use.

During this time he discovered comic strips like Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Charles Schulz ' Peanuts which subsequently inspired and influenced his desire to become a professional cartoonist.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

In October 2007, Watterson wrote a review of Schulz and Peanuts, a biography of Charles Schulz, in The Wall Street Journal.

During a 1982 visit to relatives on the West Coast, Holbrook met Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz.

* 2000 – The last original " Peanuts " comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

* 1955: Charles Schulz, Peanuts

* 1964: Charles Schulz, Peanuts ( First Repeat Winner )

Giants fan ( and resident of nearby Santa Rosa ) Charles Schulz made a reference to the real world in one of his Peanuts strips soon afterward.

* February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.

* Obituary, New York Times, February 14, 2000: Charles M. Schulz, ' Peanuts ' Creator, Dies at 77

Dolly Madison snacks are probably best known for their long association with characters from Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip.

* In the comic strip Peanuts, whose creator Charles Schulz lived in Needles as a boy, Snoopy's brother Spike lived in the desert outside Needles.

* Charles Schulz, cartoonist of Peanuts, lived in Needles from 1928 to 1930.

Johnston had a close friendship with Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.

Peanuts creator Charles Schulz praised Mutts, calling it " one of best comic strips of all time.

It's Magic, Charlie Brown is the 21st prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz.

The creator of Peanuts and a World War II veteran himself, Charles M. Schulz, had long described Mauldin as his hero.

From 1969 to 1998, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( himself a veteran of World War II ) regularly paid tribute to Bill Mauldin in his Peanuts comic strip on Veterans Day.

* Charles M. Schulz ( 1922 – 2000 ), American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip

* 1950-The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published