Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

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Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on CBS on January 1, 1986. This is a semi-musical program, following the lead of It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown.

[edit] Plot

Over the Christmas holidays, Charlie Brown is assigned a book report that is due on the first day back from the break. The book: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Charlie Brown struggles to find time to read the book but keeps getting distracted, first by dance lessons, then by a New Year's party that all his friends are attending. Things get worse for him when he finds out that the guest list includes the object of his desires, the Little Red-Haired Girl. He leaves the party and sits on the front porch of the host's house to read his book, but falls asleep. He is awakened after midnight by an indignant Peppermint Patty and Sally, Patty because Charlie Brown did not dance with her and Sally because Linus danced not with her, but with the Little Red-Haired Girl.

Charlie Brown eventually finishes his book report - on the last day and night before Christmas break ends. He hands it in to his teacher, and receives a grade of D-minus.

This show contained one of the few appearances of the Little Red-Haired Girl, who does not appear in the comic strip.

[edit] Cast

Chad Allen: Charlie Brown

Jeremy Miller: Linus Van Pelt

Melissa Guzzi: Lucy Van Pelt

Elizabeth Lyn Fraser: Sally Brown

Bill Melendez: Snoopy and Woodstock

Aron Mandelbaum: Schroeder

Jason Mendelson: Marcie

Kristie Baker: Peppermint Patty

Desirée Goyette: Singer ("Slow Slow Quick Quick")

Directed by Sam Jaimes Bill Melendez Writen by Warren Foster Charles M. Schulz Produced by Bill Melendez Lee Mendelson Exective Producer Lee Mendelson Music by Ed Bogas Desirée Goyette Camera by Nick Vasu Dubbing Glen Glenn Sound Color by Technicolor Editing by Julie Maryon Chuck McCann Production Design by Evert Brown Utit Choomuang Leonardo Moran Dean Spille Cornett Wood Production Manager Carole Barnes Animation by Dave Burgess Leslie Gorin Larry Leichliter Bill Littlejohn Bob Matz Al Pabian Emery Hawkins Bill Melendez Charles McKimson Manny Gould Phil De Lara John Carey Assistant Animators Herman Cohen Spencer Peel Manuel Perez Backgrounds Philip De Guard ink and paint supervisor Jane Gonzales segment director Robert McKimson

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