Charlie Brown's All-Stars
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| Charlie Brown's All-Stars | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated TV Special |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Directed by | Bill Melendez |
| Voices of | Peter Robbins (Charlie Brown) Sally Dryer (Lucy) Christopher Shea (Linus) |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Lee Mendelson & Bill Melendez |
| Editor(s) | Robert T. Gillis & Steven Melendez |
| Running time | 30 minutes (with commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original airing | June 8, 1966 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | A Charlie Brown Christmas (Christmas 1965) |
| Followed by | It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Halloween 1966) |
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 TV special (and the first non-holiday Peanuts special) to be produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez (who also directed), and originally aired on the CBS network on June 8, 1966. It ceased to be aired annually by 1972, and was shown for the last time on CBS in April 1982. On March 2, 2004, it was released to DVD as a bonus special, along with It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown! and Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown's famously successful baseball team suddenly dissolves at loseing when Lucy, Shermy and Snoopy (and eventually the rest of the squad) decide to quit. Frustrated and depressed, Charlie Brown wanders around aimlessly until Linus meets him with good news: Mr. Hennessey, operator of a local hardware store, is offering to sponsor Charlie Brown's team, place them in an organized league, and even buying them new uniforms.
The excitement gets the better of Charlie Brown, so he gets Linus to tell the rest of the team. Later at home, Charlie Brown gets a phone call from Mr. Hennessey, and is told that the league doesn't allow girls or dogs. Charlie Brown tries to reason with Hennessey, but to no avail, but Charlie Brown is given the option of not accepting the uniforms. Unwilling to sacrifice his friends, Charlie Brown reluctantly declines the uniforms.
Moments later, Charlie Brown goes back outside where Linus is standing and tells him the news. To make matters worse, when they go to the ballpark, he finds his team playing baseball like never before, making spectacular plays. Unfortunately, they lose the game in the end when, in the last inning, Charlie Brown's bid to tie the game by stealing home fails.
When Charlie Brown tells the team to forget about the uniforms - then quietly walks away, the team (except Linus) all start yelling insults at him until Linus speaks up telling them the sponsor would only buy them uniforms if Charlie Brown cut the girls and Snoopy from the team. But Lucy comes up with an idea to make up for the insults: making a special uniform for Charlie Brown. And they do just that, using the only fabric available - Linus' beloved security blanket.
The girls present the newly-made uniform (complete with the words "Our Manager" on the front) to Charlie Brown, who is very pleased with it. He is determined that his team will win the next day, but the next day, it rains, so there is no ball game. Charlie Brown just stands in the rain on the pitcher's mound, where Linus finds him and tells him that nobody will come to the field. He then looks nervously at Charlie Brown, and tells him that his uniform was made from his blanket. So Charlie Brown lets his best friend use some of his uniform as his blanket for old time's sake.
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[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 did not even get halfway home, then Linus tells him he missed by 30 feet. In adult baseball, a regulation base path is 90 feet; in Little League, however, the bases are only 60 feet apart, making Linus' estimate more accurate. The sequence is taken from a series of strips first published in 1960, and re-published in May 2007.
- Despite already knowing about it, Linus is shown wailing along with everybody else upon Charlie Brown's announcement that there will be no uniforms.
- When Charlie Brown tells Linus that there will be no uniforms, Linus's baseball hat reappears and disappears.
- When everyone says, "OH YOU BLOCKHEAD!" look at Violet. She has no baseball hat. But when everyone says, "UGH! WE LOST THE GAME BECAUSE OF CHARLIE BROWN!" she suddenly has a hat. Then it disappears.
- Also, when everyone says "Oh you blockhead!" and they look up and yell, Schroeder's shirt turns from purple to red.
[edit] Quotes
- Lucy: I can't look!
- Patty: The score is three to two in the last of the ninth!
- Lucy: But we have two outs!
- Patty: But Charlie Brown is on third and our best hitter is coming up!
- Lucy: Say...you don't think Charlie Brown will try to steal home, do you?
- Patty: NEVER! Not even Charlie Brown would be that stupid!
- Charlie Brown (on third base): I wonder if I should try to steal home...
[edit] Book vs Show
A book about the show came out around the time show premiered. In the book, Charlie Brown, just goes up to the team, and said the whole simple "we don't need them" line, turns and walks away as the whole team heaps abuse after abuse on him, until Linus steps in to stand up for him, but without telling them why.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by “A Charlie Brown Christmas” |
Peanuts television specials | Followed by “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” |
