Charlie Brown's All-Stars

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Charlie Brown's All-Stars is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was the second such special to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez, and originally aired on the CBS network on June 8, 1966. It ceased to be aired annually by 1972. On March 2, 2004, it was released to DVD as a bonus special (along with It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown!) with Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown.

Charlie Brown's baseball team is facing a crisis: everybody is quitting because they never win a game. Mr. Hennessey, operator of a local hardware store, offers to sponsor Charlie Brown's team, and he's so excited that he tells everyone, and they play like they've never played before (though they still lose in the end). However, he refuses the offer because they would not allow girls or dogs to play on the team. Everyone leaves the team in disgust when Charlie Brown tells them that he refused the offer, but feel incredibly guilty when they find out his reason from Linus. To make amends for their actions, they make a baseball uniform for Charlie Brown out of the only cloth they have - Linus' blanket.

1 Voice Cast
2 Goofs
3 Book
4 External links

[edit] Voice Cast

Peter Robbins- Charlie Brown
Sally Dryer- Lucy van Pelt
Christopher Shea- Linus Van Pelt
Ann Altieri- Frieda
Glenn Mendelson- Schroeder
Kathy Steinberg- Sally Brown
Geoffrey Ornstein- Pigpen
Lynn Vanderlip- Patty
Karen Mendelson- Violet
Christopher DeFaria- Shermy
Bill Melendez- Snoopy

[edit] Goofs

After Charlie Brown fails to steal home, Lucy tells him he didn't even get halfway home, then Linus tells him he missed by 30 feet. Since a regulation base path is 90 feet, either someone is wrong, or the diamond on which they are playing is smaller than regulation size.
Despite already knowing about it, Linus is shown wailing along with everybody else upon Charlie Brown's announcement that there will be no uniforms.

[edit] Book

A book of this special was made (either before or after), and it unfortunately left out the game and of either Charlie Brown or Linus explaining why the uniforms couldn't be obtained.