It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown
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| It's A Mystery, Charlie Brown | |
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| Genre | Animated TV Special |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Directed by | Phil Roman |
| Voices of | Todd Barbee (Charlie Brown) Melanie Kohn (Lucy) Stephen Shea (Linus) Donna Forman (Peppermint Patty) James Ahrens (Marcie) Lynn Mortensen (Sally) Tom Muller (Pig Pen) Bill Melendez (Snoopy) |
| Theme music composer | Vince Guaraldi |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Lee Mendelson |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | CBS |
| First shown in | February 1, 1974 |
It's a Mystery, 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 the CBS network on February 1, 1974.
[edit] Summary
When Woodstock's fancy new nest disappears one night, he turns to Snoopy for help. Adopting the guise of Sherlock Holmes (complete with cloak, deerstalker cap and bubble pipe), Snoopy, with Woodstock in tow, goes on the hunt for the missing nest.
Three of the places they check are:
- Charlie Brown's house, where they wake him up and give him the third degree. He naturally denies anything about taking the nest.
- Lucy and Linus' house, using an excessive amount of dust to check for fingerprints. When Snoopy accuses Lucy of the crime and tries handcuffing her, she throws him out of the house.
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- Throughout this whole scene Linus speaks in rhyme, three times using "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust", and finishing up each with a different line:
- "..Snoopy will find it, and find it he must."
- "..When there's a problem, in Snoopy we trust."
- "..the proof of the pudding is under the crust."
- Throughout this whole scene Linus speaks in rhyme, three times using "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust", and finishing up each with a different line:
- Finally, the home of Peppermint Patty, who thinks Snoopy (still in Holmes' garb) is playing Cops and Robbers, so she dons a burglar mask and chases him through her house. Frightened, Snoopy and Woodstock escape and keep running until exhausted.
Upon stopping back at Woodstock's tree Snoopy notices a set of footprints he had seen before; they lead away from Woodstock's tree, so the two follow them- straight to the elementary school. After making their way inside through an open window, they ultimately find Woodstock's nest-- under glass in a display case. The two grab the nest and run back to Woodstock's tree, whereupon Snoopy reinstalls the domicile for his overjoyed and grateful friend.
The next day, Sally complains to Charlie Brown that her science exhibit has been stolen. When she reveals her exhibit was a so-called "prehistoric birds nest", Charlie Brown puts two and two together and realizes it was Sally who took Woodstock's nest.
Ready to fight, Sally confronts Snoopy and Woodstock demanding her nest back, but Charlie Brown suggests they handle it in a different matter, so they all go to see Lucy in her psychiatric booth, which she temporarily converts to a courtroom (after donning a judge's robe and wig, and enlisting Linus as stenographer, she tacks two cents on to her normal five-cent fee to cover legal expenses).
The two sides present their cases to Judge Lucy:
- Snoopy presents Lucy with a document full of nonsensically-contrived legal jargon.
- Sally's case is "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers".
Lucy rules in favor of Woodstock, saying he built the nest, so he should keep it.
Sally is still frustrated at not having an exhibit for her science class, but Charlie Brown and Snoopy come up with an idea. Snoopy is willing to volunteer to be her exhibit in a re-creation of Pavlov's salivating dog experiment. Although Sally is against it at first, she decides to go along with it, and ultimately gets an "A" on her science project, and all is once again well with the world at the end.
At the end of the end credits, Woodstock, while lounging in it, fell through his nest just like he did at the beginning of the film.
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| Preceded by “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” |
Peanuts television specials | Followed by “It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown” |
