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Peanuts was a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. The strip originally ran from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000. The strip was one of the most popular in the history of the medium, and helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States; reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. front cover, bantam book s3800, the gospel according to peanuts by robert l. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 _ February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. ... October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

History

Peanuts had its origin in Li'l Folks, a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was somewhat similar to the panel comic, but it had a cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's Li'l Abner and a now-forgotten strip entitled Little Folks. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself was not particularly fond of. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity". The strip soon got an obvious main character, which Schulz would rather have named the strip after: "Good Ol' Charlie Brown", a character informed by some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In fact, the periodic collections of the strips in paperback book form typically had either "Charlie Brown" or "Snoopy" in the title, not "Peanuts". Lil Folks, the first comic by Charles M. Schulz, was a weekly panel that appeared mainly in Schulzs hometown paper, the St. ... The St. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Al Capp ( September 28, 1909– November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Lil Abner. ... Lil Abner was a comic strip in United States newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the town of Dogpatch. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Peanuts premiered on October 2, 1950 in seven newspapers nationwide: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, the Denver Post and The Seattle Times. Earlier strips only featured for six days, and the Sunday editions did not appear until January 1952. October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Washington Post logo The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C. It gained worldwide fame in the early 1970s for its Watergate investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which played a major role in the undoing of the Nixon presidency. ... Front page of the Tribune incorrectly reporting that Dewey won the 1948 presidential election The Chicago Tribune, formerly self-styled as the Worlds Greatest Newspaper, remains the leading newspaper of the Midwest of the United States. ... The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-St. ... Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County in eastern Pennsylvania, USA. After Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Allentown is Pennsylvanias third most populous city. ... Bethlehem is a city located in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in eastern Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,329. ... The Denver Post is a daily newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. ... The daily Seattle Times is the leading newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The strip's early years resembled that which it finally developed into, but with significant differences. The art was cleaner and sleeker, though simpler, with thicker lines and short, squat characters; for example, in these early strips, Charlie Brown's famous round head is closer to the shape of an American football. In fact, most of the kids were initially fairly round-headed. Charlie was unique in having virtually no visible hair. United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ...

Peanuts is remarkable for its deft social commentary, especially compared with other strips appearing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Schulz did not explicitly address racial and gender equality issues so much as he assumed them to be self-evident in the first place. Peppermint Patty's athletic skill and self-confidence is simply taken for granted, for example. As illustrated above, Robert L. Short wrote several books in which he claimed he detected theological messages in the strips. Additionally, he used them as illustrations during his lecturing about the gospel. Schulz supported such interpretation but ultimately attempted not to align himself with it. Although he was a Christian who once taught Bible classes, and whose Linus character routinely quoted scripture, Schulz referred to himself more than once as a secular humanist. Social commentary is the act of sharing ones opinion on the nature of a society to another person. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... This article is about race as an intraspecies classification. ... In sociology, gender identity describes the gender with which a person identifies (i. ... Equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect. ... Patricia Peppermint Patty Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Theology is literally reasonable discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... In Christianity, Gospels are a genre of Early Christian literature essentially concerning the message and meaning of Jesus. ... Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ... A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Secular humanism is an active lifestance that holds a naturalisic worldview and advocates the use of reason, compassion, scientific inquiry, ethics, justice and equality. ...

Schulz could throw barbs at any number of topics when he chose, though. Over the years he tackled everything from the Vietnam War to school dress codes to the "new math". One of his most prescient sequences came in 1963 when he added a little boy named "5" to the cast, whose sisters were named "3" and "4", and whose father had changed the family surname to their ZIP Code to protest the way numbers were taking over people's identities. Another sequence lampooned Little Leagues and "organized" play, when all the neighborhood kids join snowman-building leagues and criticize Charlie Brown when he insists on building his own snowmen without leagues or coaches. The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between communist and Vietnamese national forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most importantly the United States. ... New math is a term referring to a brief dramatic change in the way mathematics was taught in American grade schools during the 1960s. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 5 is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Mr. ... Little League is the name of a non-profit organisation in the United States which organizes local childrens leagues of baseball and softball throughout the USA and the rest of the world. ... Snowman Snowman A snowman family A snowman is a man-like figure constructed from compacted snow. ...

The storyline Charles Schulz was most proud of was in the early 1970s, when Charlie Brown came down with a strange ailment that made him see every round and spherical object as a baseball, like the sun and ice cream scoops. This condition soon worsens to the point where he develops a strange rash on his head that precisely resembles the stitching pattern of a baseball. Charlie Brown is sent to summer camp to recuperate, wearing a paper grocery bag on his head at all times. The other kids dub him "Mr. Sack", treat him with unaccustomed respect and even elect him camp president. Eventually, Charlie believes his condition is easing and goes out to see the sunrise hoping not to see it as a baseball. As it turns out, he does not, but what he does see indicates, to his frustration, that his condition has simply become even stranger than before. Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... A sun is the star at the center of a solar system. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of EC Publications Mad magazine. ...

Peanuts probably reached its peak in American pop-culture awareness between 1965 and 1980, during the heyday of the strip, and there was numerous specials and book collections. However, sometime in the mid 1980s, other strips surpassed Peanuts in popularity, most notably Doonesbury, Garfield, The Far Side, Bloom County, and Calvin and Hobbes, and the number of Peanuts books on store shelves dwindled. However, Schulz still had one of the highest circulations in daily newspapers, and because of licensing and marketing, Peanuts brought in large amounts of income for Charles Schulz. Doonesbury was featured on the cover of the Feb. ... The character design sketch of Garfield. ... The Far Side is a popular one-panel comic created by Gary Larson. ... Bloom County was a popular comic strip by Berke Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989. ... Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. ...

The daily Peanuts strips were formatted in a 4-panel "space saving" format since the 1950s, with a few very rare exceptions of 8 panels. In 1975, the panel format was shorted slightly horizontally, and shortly after the lettering became larger to accommodate the shrinking format. In 1998, Schulz abandonded this strict format and started using the entire length of the strip, in part to combat the dwindling size of the comics page, and to experiment.

Schulz continued the strip for 50 years, with no assistants even in the lettering and coloring process. Starting in the 1980s his artistic line started to shake. This became more noticeable in the 1990s, along with his format change--in some ways the art seems to have deteriorated somewhat, especially where character expression was concerned. Nevertheless, he continued the strip until he was unable to due to health reasons, and died the night before the final strip was published in newspapers. The final original Peanuts comic strip was finished on January 3, 2000 and published in newspapers a day after Schulz died on February 12. Following its finish, many newspapers began reprinting older strips under the title Classic Peanuts. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

Cast

Peanuts did not have a lead character from the onset. Its initial cast was small, featuring only Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty (not the later character Peppermint Patty), and a beagle, Snoopy. The strip soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, though. Charlie Brown's main characteristic is his self-defeating stubbornness: he can never win a ballgame, but continues playing baseball; he can never fly a kite successfully, but continues trying to fly his kite. Others see this as the character's admirable determined persistence to try his best against all odds. Though his inferiority complex was evident from the start, in the earliest strips he also got in his own licks when socially sparring with Patty and Shermy. Some early strips also involves romantic attractions between Charlie Brown and Patty or Violet, the next major character added to the strip. Charles Charlie Brown is the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ... Shermy was an early character in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles Schulz. ... Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty, who is a totally different character). ... Country of origin United Kingdom Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC A Beagle is a medium-sized dog breed and a member of the hound group, similar in appearance to a Foxhound but smaller with shorter legs, and with longer, softer ears. ... USPS stamp featuring Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace This article is about a comic strip character. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium in St. ... Yokaichi Giant Kite Festival held on the fourth Sunday every May in Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan. ... In the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, an inferiority complex is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. ... Romance or romantic can refer to several things. ... Violet is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ...

As the years went by, Shermy and Patty appeared less often, while new major characters were introduced. Schroeder, Lucy van Pelt, and her brother Linus debuted as very young children--Schroeder and Linus both in diapers and pre-verbal. Snoopy began as a more or less typical dog; he did not yet have thought balloons. Schroeder is a character in the renowned comic strip Peanuts, authored by Charles Schulz. ... If you really thought I was beautiful, you wouldve spoken right up! Lucy van Pelt is a character in the immensely popular comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. ... Linus van Pelt is Charlie Browns younger best friend in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ...

The Peanuts characters generally do not age, or age very slowly, except in the case of infant characters who catch up to the rest of the cast, then stop. Linus, for example, is born in the first couple of years of the strip's run. He ages from infancy to right around Charlie Brown's age over the course of the first ten years, during which we see him learn to walk and talk with the help of Lucy and Charlie Brown. Linus then stops aging when he is about a year or so younger than Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown himself was four when the strip began, and gradually aged over the next two decades until he settled in as an eight year old (after which he is consistently referred to as eight when any age is given, so we can safely assume that was his "stopping point"). The Peanuts gang as a whole can be roughly broken up into three generations: Walking is the main form of animal locomotion on land, distinguished from running and crawling. ... The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. ...

1. Charlie Brown and his peers (Lucy, Shermy, Violet, Schroeder, and others), who are all in 3rd grade.
2. the younger siblings Linus and Sally, along with Frieda, Eudora, and a few minor characters. They are 1-2 years behind the older generation, about 1st or 2nd grade.
3. Rerun, Linus and Lucy's youngest brother. Another character who joined the strip as an infant, he eventually reached kindergarten age.

In the 1960s, the strip began to focus more on Snoopy. Many of the strips from this point revolve around Snoopy's active fantasy life, in which he imagined himself to be (most famously) a World War I flying ace or an ice hockey star, to the amusement and consternation of the children who wonder what he is doing but also occasionally participate. Snoopy eventually took on more than 150 distinct personas over the course of the series, from "Joe Cool" to Mickey Mouse. Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Frieda is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Eudora is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ... Rerun van Pelt is Lucys and Linus younger brother in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... In the United States and Germany, kindergarten (German for garden of children) refers to the first level of a childs formal education. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Mickeys most recognizable look has him wearing red shorts and yellow shoes. ...

Schulz continued to introduce new characters into the strip, particularly including a girl named Patricia Reichardt, better known as Peppermint Patty. Patty is an assertive, athletic, but rather obtuse girl who shakes up Charlie Brown's world by calling him "Chuck", flirting with him, and giving him compliments he's not so sure he deserves. She also brings in a new group of friends, including the strip's first black character, Franklin, and Peppermint Patty's bookish sidekick Marcie Johnson, who calls Patty "Sir" and Charlie Brown "Charles" (all other characters call him "Charlie Brown" at all times, except for Eudora, who also calls him "Charles", and a minor character named Peggy Jean in the early 1990s who called him "Brownie Charles"). Some have speculated that Peppermint Patty and Marcie are portrayals of lesbians, but this may well be idle fantasy, especially considering both girls' admitted affection for Charlie Brown. Marcie resembles, and acts like, a younger version of Doonesbury's Honey Huan. However, from occasional references within the strip, it's clear she was modeled on Billie Jean King. Patricia Peppermint Patty Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Franklin is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Marcie Johnson is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... A lesbian (lowercase L) is a homosexual woman. ... Doonesbury was featured on the cover of the Feb. ... Billie Jean King is a professional tennis player. ...

Other notable characters include Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who was fixated on Linus; Snoopy's friend Woodstock the bird, who spoke entirely in vertical lines; Pig-Pen, the perpetually dirty boy who could raise a cloud of dust on a clean sidewalk, or in a snowstorm; and Spike, Snoopy's desert-dwelling brother, who was apparently named for Schulz's own childhood dog. Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... This page is about the Peanuts character; for the Grateful Dead member see Ron Pigpen McKernan. ... Spike is the name of the most frequently appearing of Snoopys brothers in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ...

After some early anomalies, adult figures never again appeared in the strip. "Peanuts" had several other recurring characters who were similarly absent from view. Some, such as the Great Pumpkin or the Red Baron, may or may not have been figments of the cast's imaginations. Others, such as the Little Red-Haired Girl (Charlie Brown's perennial dream girl), Joe Shlabotnik (Charlie Brown's baseball hero), or World War II (the vicious cat who lives next door to Snoopy), are real. Schulz added some additional fantastic elements, sometimes imbuing inanimate objects with sparks of life. Charlie Brown's nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree, is one example. Sally Brown's school building, which expressed thoughts and feelings about the students (and the general business of being a brick building), is another. Linus' famous "security blanket" also displayed occasional signs of anthropomorphism. Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular 1966 Peanuts TV special. ... Red Baron may refer to: Manfred von Richthofen, World War I flying ace Red Baron, a popular computer game This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The little red-haired girl is an unseen character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, and serves as the object of Charlie Browns desire. ... Charles Charlie Brown is the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ...

Books

Peanuts strips have been reprinted in many books over the years. Some represented chronological collections of strips, while others were thematic collections, such as Snoopy's Tennis Book. Some single-story books were produced, such as Snoopy and the Red Baron. In addition, most of the Peanuts television animated specials were adapted into book form.

Charles Schulz always resisted publication of early 'Peanuts' strips, as they did not reflect the characters as he eventually developed them. However, in 1997 he began talks with Fantagraphics Books to have all Peanuts strips published, including every strip from the early years. The first volume in the collection, The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952, was published in April 2004. Peanuts is in a unique situation compared to other comics in that archive quality masters of most strips are still owned by the syndicate. The following books publish much of this previously-unreproduced material. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, underground comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, and graphic novels located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ... April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Chip Kidd, ed. (2001) Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0375420975 (hardcover), ISBN 0375714634 (paperback).
• Derrick Bang, ed. (2004) Lil' Beginnings. Santa Rosa, California: Charles M. Schulz Museum. The complete run of Li'l Folks (1947–1950)
• Charles M. Schulz (2004) Who's on First, Charlie Brown?. New York: Ballentine Books. ISBN 0345464125.
• The entire run of Peanuts, covering nearly 50 years of comic strips, will be reprinted in Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts, a 25-volume set to come out over a 12-year period, two volumes per year. The final volume is expected to be published in 2016.
  • (April 2004) The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952. ISBN 156097589X
  • (October 2004) The Complete Peanuts: 1953 to 1954. ISBN 1560976144
  • (April 2005) The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956. ISBN 1560976470
  • (scheduled for October 2005) The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958. ISBN 1560976705
  • (scheduled for April 2006) The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1960. ISBN 1560976713
  • (scheduled for October 2006) The Complete Peanuts: 1961 to 1962. ISBN 1560976721

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Television, film, and theatre

Aside from numerous books of or about the comic strips, the Peanuts characters have appeared in animated form on television many times. This started when the Ford Motor Company licensed the Peanuts characters in 1961 for black and white television advertisements for the Ford Falcon. This commercial was animated by Bill Melendez who worked at Playhouse Pictures, a cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Melendez became friends, and when then documentary producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a 2 minute short film called A Boy Named Charlie Brown in 1963. he brought on Melendez to work on the animated sequences. Before this project was completed, the three of them (with help from their sponsor, the Coca-Cola Company) produced their first television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, first broadcast in 1965 on CBS, which featured the music of Vince Guaraldi. saweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet The Ford Motor Company (often referred to simply as Ford; sometimes nicknamed Fords or FoMoCo, (NYSE: F) is an automobile maker founded by Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan, and incorporated on June 16, 1903. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... General description The Ford Falcon is a car which has been manufactured by Ford since 1960. ... José Cuauhtemoc Melendez, commonly known as Bill Melendez (born November 15, 1916 in Mexico) is an Animator and Producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers and the Charlie Brown series. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... For the album, see A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) is the first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... Vince Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 - February 6, 1976) was a jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. ...

The animated versions of Peanuts characters differ in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adults voices are seldom heard, and conversations are usually only seen from the characters perspectives--in other words, the characters just answer questions or repeat the questions posed to them. To reflect this reality, Melendez used the sound of a modified trombone to simulate this--leading to the legendary "Whaa Whaaaw Whaa" sound attributed to such specials. The most serious deviation from the strip was the treatment of Snoopy. In most specials, Snoopy's thought balloons are ignored and his character's thoughts are not communicated directly, rather only via growls and body language, or other characters vocalizing dialog that Snoopy normally thinks. These treatments have both been abandoned temporarily in the past; they experimented with teacher dialog in She's a Good Skate Charlie Brown, and in the animated adaptations of the plays, Snoopy's thoughts were conveyed by a voice actor. The elimination of Snoopy's thoughts is probably the most controversial aspect of the adaptations, but Schulz apparently wanted or at least suggested this treatment.

The success of A Charlie Brown Christmas was the impetus for CBS to air a long-running, celebrated series of prime-time Peanuts TV specials over the years, including It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, and many others. In total, more than thirty animated specials were produced. These were also memorable for their jazz-inspired and piano-led theme tunes, written by Vince Guaraldi. In particular, the piece "Linus and Lucy" has become popularly known as the signature theme song of the Peanuts franchise. A Television Special is a television program that is essentially a television movie or a short film usually intended to be broadcast sporadically, typically once a year at most. ... Pumpkins A pumpkin is a gourd (Cucurbitaceae), most commonly orange in colour when ripe, that grows from a trailing vine. ... Vince Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 - February 6, 1976) was a jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. ...

Schulz and team later collaborated on other television specials and full-length feature films, the first of which was A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969). Most of these made use of material from Schulz's strips, which were then adapted, although in other cases plots were developed around areas where there were minimal strips to reference. The Peanuts specials were most successful during the 1970s, with an average of 1 new special a year. During the mid 1980s, Peanuts was adapted to a weekly Saturday morning animated series, entitled The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which lasted about 2 seasons. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ...

In the 1980s, their popularity started to wane, and CBS had sometimes rejected a few specials. An 8-episode mini-series called "This is America, Charlie Brown", for instance, was released during a writer's strike. Eventually, the last Peanuts specials were released direct-to-video, and no new ones were created until after the year 2000 when ABC got the rights to the three fall holiday specials.

The Peanuts characters even found their way to the theatre, appearing in the musicals You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!!. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was originally an extremely successful off-Broadway musical that ran for four years (1967-1971) in New York City and on tour, with Gary Burghoff as the original Charlie Brown. An updated revival opened on Broadway in 1999. It was also adapted for television twice, as a live-action NBC special and an animated CBS special. Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a musical comedy based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. ... Off-Broadway refers to plays or musicals performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... City nickname: The Big Apple Location in the state of New York Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - Land  - Water 1,214. ... See also Corporal Walter (Radar) OReilly M*A*S*H (TV series) M*A*S*H (movie) W*A*L*T*E*R External link Gary Burghoff: Legendary actor and intense painter of wildlife Categories: People stubs | 1943 births | Connecticut natives | American actors | United States musicians | Jazz drummers | United... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The Peanuts characters are currently spokespeople in television commercials for the MetLife insurance company. Over the years, they have also appeared in advertisements for Dolly Madison snack cakes, Friendly's restaurants and Cheerios. Pig-Pen appeared in a memorable spot for Regina Vacuum Cleaners. MetLife, Inc. ... This article is about the bakery brand. ... Friendlys logo Friendly Ice Cream Corporation (AMEX:FRN), best known for its Friendlys restaurant chain, was founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by two teen-aged brothers, 18 year-old Curtis and 20 year-old Prestley Blake. ... Cheerios, the first oat-based and ready-to-eat without cooking cereal, is a brand of breakfast cereal created in 1941 and marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota. ...

Filmography

Feature films

• A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
• Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
• Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) (1980)

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Animated TV specials

• A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
• Charlie Brown's All-Stars (1966)
• It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
• You're In Love, Charlie Brown (1967)
• He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (1968)
• Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz (1969)
• It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (1969)
• Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971)
• You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown (1972)
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
• There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown (1973)
• It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown (1974)
• It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974)
• Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975)
• You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (1975)
• It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown (1976)
• What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! (1977)
• It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977)
• Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown (1979)
• You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown (1979)
• Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown (1980)
• It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown (1980)
• She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown (1980)
• It's Magic, Charlie Brown (1981)
• Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown (1981)
• A Charlie Brown Celebration (1982)
• Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? (1983)
• What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? (1983)
• It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown (1984)
• Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! (1985)
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1985)
• Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown (1985)
• It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (1988)
• The This Is America, Charlie Brown miniseries
  • The Mayflower Voyages
  • The Birth of the Constitution
  • The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
  • The NASA Space station
  • The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
  • The Great Inventors
  • The Smithsonian and the Presidency
  • The Music and Heroes of America
• Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990)
• You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown (1990)
• Snoopy's Reunion (1991)
• It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown (1992)
• It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992)
• You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown! (1994)
• It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown! (1997)
• Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz (2000)
• Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years (2000)
• It's The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000)
• A Charlie Brown Valentine, Charlie Brown (2002)
• Charlie Brown Christmas Tales (2002)
• The Making Of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (2002)
• Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown (2003)
• I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003)

For the album, see A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) is the first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. ... Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a critically-acclaimed and very popular 1966 Peanuts TV special. ... A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. ... Its Magic, Charlie Brown is a 1981 Peanuts special directed by Phil Roman and of course, written by Charles M. Schulz, which earned him a nomination for an Emmy award. ... Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a musical comedy based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... The Mayflower was the ship which transported the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth, England to North Virginia (in what was later to become the United States of America) in 1620, leaving Plymouth on September 6 and dropping anchor near Cape Cod on November 11. ... First flight, December 17, 1903. ... SUCK MY WENIS!!! NASA IS A ROCKET SHIP PROGRAM FOR TODDLERS ... A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live on in outer space. ... Poster announcing railroads opening The First Transcontinental Railroad was a transcontinental railroad in North America that was finished in 1869. ... The Smithsonian castle, as seen through the garden gate. ... Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ...

Peanuts characters

The following characters, listed in order of first appearance, would be considered the major and important minor characters in the strip:

• Charlie Brown
• Shermy
• Patty
• Snoopy
• Violet
• Schroeder
• Lucy van Pelt
• Linus van Pelt
• Frieda
• Pig-Pen
• Sally Brown
• 5
• Roy
• Peppermint Patty
• Woodstock
• Marcie Johnson
• Franklin Armstrong
• Thibault
• Rerun van Pelt
• Spike
• Belle
• Eudora

Charles Charlie Brown is the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ... Shermy was an early character in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles Schulz. ... Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty, who is a totally different character). ... USPS stamp featuring Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace This article is about a comic strip character. ... Violet is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ... Schroeder is a character in the renowned comic strip Peanuts, authored by Charles Schulz. ... If you really thought I was beautiful, you wouldve spoken right up! Lucy van Pelt is a character in the immensely popular comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. ... Linus van Pelt is Charlie Browns younger best friend in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Frieda is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... This page is about the Peanuts character; for the Grateful Dead member see Ron Pigpen McKernan. ... Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... 5 is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Roy is a minor character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Patricia Peppermint Patty Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Marcie Johnson is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Franklin is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Thibault (sometimes spelled Thiebault, and pronounced Tee-bo) is a minor character who first appeared in the Peanuts comic strip in 1970. ... Rerun van Pelt is Lucys and Linus younger brother in Charles M. Schulzs comic strip Peanuts. ... Spike is the name of the most frequently appearing of Snoopys brothers in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. ... Belle, is a character in the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. ... Eudora is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. ...

External links

• Peanuts official web site (http://www.snoopy.com/)
• Peanuts Collector Club (http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/)
• Profiles of the strip's characters (http://g2301m.unileoben.ac.at/~nermal/peanuts/peanuts.html)
• AAUGH.com Peanuts Book Collecting Guide (http://www.aaugh.com/guide/)
• Comprehensive FAQ (http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/peantfaq.txt)