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 ).

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.

* December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

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.

Guaraldi went on to compose scores for seventeen Peanuts television specials, plus the feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown as well as the unaired television program of the same name.

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 animated Peanuts film and television specials used a trombone with a plunger mute to stand in for the voices of adults, who were always off-screen when they spoke.

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.

Category: Peanuts television specials

Category: Peanuts television specials

Betty Boop appeared in two television specials, The Romance of Betty Boop in 1985, which was produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez, the same creative team behind the Peanuts specials ; and 1989's The Betty Boop Movie Mystery and both specials are available on DVD as part of the Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack.

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.

Tisquantum appeared in " The Mayflower Voyagers ", a 1988 episode of the Peanuts television miniseries, This Is America, Charlie Brown.

This Abenaki appeared in " The Mayflower Voyagers ", an episode of the Peanuts television miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown.

This Pokanoket chief appeared in " The Mayflower Voyagers ", a 1988 episode of the Peanuts television miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown.

One story about Peppermint Patty has it that Charles Schulz named the character after the York Peppermint Pattie, and in response the makers of the candy, Peter-Paul ( later Peter-Paul Cadbury ) ended up being one of the exclusive sponsors ( along with McDonald's and Dolly Madison ) of the animated Peanuts television specials on CBS in the 1970s.

Violet also appeared in several of the animated Peanuts television specials.

She was a regular in Peanuts throughout the 1960s, but as newer characters were phased in towards the end of the decade, she began appearing less often, and she ceased to be a featured character after 1985, making only cameo appearances since then in various television specials.

" Linus and Lucy " is a popular jazz piano tune written by Vince Guaraldi appearing in many of the Peanuts animated television specials.

Melendez was the only person Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz trusted to turn his popular comic creations into television specials.

Notable exceptions to using women to voice young boys ' roles are the Peanuts animated specials and films, in which boys were actually cast to read the boys ' lines ( e. g., Charlie Brown, Linus, Schroeder ).

The bakery was one of the sponsors of the Peanuts animated specials telecast on CBS during that period.

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.

This is a parody of the " wah wah wah " voice that is used for adults in the various Peanuts specials.

* Ed Bogas composed soundtracks for Peanuts and Garfield TV cartoon specials and for Ralph Bakshi's film Fritz the Cat.

" Peppermint Patty " was also the title of a song by pianist Vince Guaraldi which appeared in Peanuts specials in the 1970s.

Shermy appears in several of the animated Peanuts TV specials, beginning with A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, where he has one line of dialogue.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

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.

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.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

Less than two weeks before the game was aired, NBC had shown a Peanuts special, You're In the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, in which the character Melody-Melody wins the Punt, Pass & Kick contest wearing a Dallas Cowboys uniform.

That move cost UPI the revenues of its previous United Feature Syndicate subsidiary, which in later years made large profits on the syndication of Peanuts and other popular comic strips and columns.

" Many of the openings featured non-celebrities, but some featured stars from TV shows, most of which broadcast over CBS, such as The Bob Newhart Show and One Day at a Time, as well as other characters with a connection to the network, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, dressed as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock ; characters from the Peanuts cartoons ; and Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

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

Holahan came up with the idea after a visit to the grocery store in which he decided to mix Cheerios with bits of Brach's Circus Peanuts.

" 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.

In 1983, Knott's Berry Farm added Camp Snoopy, which began the park's present-day association with the Peanuts characters.

Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing " Van's sister ", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based.

" The tone of the strip is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's final Peanuts strip, from which the Perishers strip took its inspiration.

Among standards written by bebop musicians are Gillespie's " Salt Peanuts " ( 1941 ) and " A Night in Tunisia " ( 1942 ), Parker's " Anthropology " ( 1946 ), " Yardbird Suite " ( 1946 ) and " Scrapple from the Apple " ( 1947 ), and Monk's "' Round Midnight " ( 1944 ), which is currently the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician.

On January 9, 2006, Mall of America management announced that talks between MOA and Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. ( which owns the national rights to amusement-park branding of the Peanuts license ) had broken down, primarily over the mall's rights to effectively market its park within and outside the United States, and effective January 19, the park's Peanuts branding would end, the park being temporarily renamed " The Park at MOA " while new branding was being applied.

The official Peanuts website describes the character of Snoopy as "... an extroverted Beagle with a Walter Mitty complex ", a reference to the many fantasy segments in which Snoopy imagines he is a World War I flying ace battling the Red Baron.

The only references to a Viacom property were the characters and titles used in Nickelodeon Universe ( Kings Island ) and Nickelodeon Central ( Kings Dominion, Carowinds, Great America, and Canada's Wonderland ), all of which were rethemed to the children's area utilized by Cedar Fair's own legacy parks, Peanuts for the 2010 season.

In one strip, he was revealed to be a big fan of Peanuts ( a strip Pastis cites as one of his many influences ), which the crocs attempted to exploit, without success.