You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special)

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is the 29th prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This adaptation of the 1967 musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown^[1] originally aired on the CBS network on November 6, 1985.

Contents of the program

The program opens with the other Peanuts characters singing the title song to Charlie Brown.

In the next scene, Schroeder plays Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and Lucy sings along. She tries to tell him that they should get married. Schroeder ignores her, then Lucy says, "My Aunt Marian was right, never try to discuss marriage with a musician."

Charlie Brown hopes for the first time to be able to keep a kite but he once again fails. Sally writes a letter to Ann Flanders about the Valentine's Day card she gets. Charlie Brown writes a letter to his pencil pal about his downfall at his baseball game.

Charlie Brown gives Lucy a Valentine's Day card and mistakenly says "This is for you Lucy, Merry Christmas!" Charlie Brown sees Marcie and thinks that she is going to give him a Valentine's Day card but she does not. Lucy comes up to Schroeder again and talks about saucepans, and, again, Schroeder cannot stand it.

Snoopy imagines that he is a wild animal. Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Linus, and Lucy work on their book reports on Peter Rabbit ("Book Report"). Lucy teaches Linus about nature in her own way while Charlie Brown tries to correct her, but to no avail.

Voice cast

• Brad Kesten - Charlie Brown (speaking/singing)
• David T. Wagner - Linus van Pelt (credited as David Wagner)
• Jessica Lee Smith - Lucy van Pelt (credited as Jessie Lee Smith)
• Tiffany Reinbolt - Sally Brown
• Jeremy Reinbolt - Schroeder (credited as Jeremy Scott Reinbolt)
• Michael Dockery - Marcie
• Robert Towers -Snoopy (singing and speaking)
• Bill Melendez - Snoopy (non-speaking) and Woodstock

Production credits

DVD release

Warner Home Video released You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on DVD for the first time on January 26, 2010, as a part of their Charlie Brown "Remastered Deluxe Edition" line. The DVD, for once in the line, did not include a bonus special on the disc. It did, however, include a featurette entitled "Animating a Charlie Brown Musical".

Notes

• The original 1967 musical version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown featured the original Patty (not to be confused with the later character of Peppermint Patty) as part of the Peanuts gang. As characters like Patty, Violet and Shermy gradually faded from the group, Charles Schulz opted to replace the lesser known characters with Sally and Marcie.
• This special also marks the first time Snoopy's thoughts were conveyed in voice over (though his communication through growls or laughs were still voiced by Bill Melendez).

References

External links

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Internet Movie Database
• Review movies.msn.com