''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' (known as You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown during reruns on

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featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz

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'' as first presented for television in the Peanuts animated specials. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1985. Due to lower-than-expected ratings, in an attempt to boost viewership, CBS moved the series to 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time early in 1984. It did not help the ratings much, and while the show was not formally cancelled in 1984, further production was on hiatus, and in 1985, CBS ordered five new episodes for what would be a second and final season. Early in 1986, CBS dropped the show after a ratings recession.'' ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' is one of the few television series produced by Bill Melendez, whose animation studio generally produced specials. The show reaired on

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in 1993 and was aired on YTV in Canada by 1996. It also aired on the

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and

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from 1986 to 2005.

Voice cast

Typical for an animated ''Peanuts'' production, the characters were performed by real children, and there was a large cast turnover between the first and second season due to many of the child actors maturing out of their roles, leaving only Jeremy Schoenberg, Jason Mendelson and Bill Melendez to remain.

Season 1 (1983)

* Brad Kesten as

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*Stacy Heather Tolkin as Sally Brown/Truffles * Cindi Reilly as Sally Brown *Angela Lee Sloan as Lucy van Pelt (Credited As Angela Lee) * Jeremy Schoenberg as Linus van Pelt/Floyd * Rocky Reilly as Linus van Pelt *Kevin Brando as

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/5/Thibault *Jason Mendelson as

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(credited as Jason Muller) *Victoria Vargas as Peppermint Patty *Michael Dockery as Marcie/

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*Mary Tunnell as Frieda/Eudora * Bill Melendez as

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Season 2 (1985)

* Brett Johnson as Charlie Brown * Stacy Ferguson as Sally Brown/ Patty * Heather Stoneman as Lucy van Pelt * Jeremy Schoenberg as Linus Van Pelt/Harold Angel * Danny Colby as Schroeder * Jason Mendelson as

(credited as Jason Muller) *

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as Franklin/ "Pig-Pen" * Gini Holtzman as Peppermint Patty * Keri Houlihan as Marcie * Dana Ferguson as Samantha * Bill Melendez as

Note: Violet, Roy, and other characters make cameo appearances but are silent.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (1983)

Season 2 (1985)

Theme song

The first season's theme was a

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styled piano-based instrumental written and produced for this series, which was composed by Desiree Goyette and Ed Bogas. The song was given lyrics and released in 1984 as "Let's Have a Party with Charlie Brown and Snoopy" on the album ''Flashbeagle'', the soundtrack to the special ''

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''. On the second season, a shortened version with the lyrics that appeared on the ''Flashbeagle'' album was used. The Chinese-Cantonese version and the Japanese version were written by Seeyan Wong, Charles M. Schulz Hong Kong Fan Club in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Home media

In 1987, Kartes Video Communications released the show on VHS in nine volumes (with titles in the style of normal ''Peanuts'' specials), with two episodes each. From 1994 to 2001,

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released the show on VHS and

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in the same fashion, but under the actual title of the show. On June 14, 2011,

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released the fourteenth episode of the show on DVD under a single disc called: ''Happiness Is... Peanuts: Snoopy's Adventures''. They also announced that on October 18, 2011, the eighteenth and final episode of the show would come to DVD under a single disc called: ''Happiness Is... Peanuts: Snow Days'', the thirteenth episode of the show came to DVD under a single disc called: ''Happiness Is... Peanuts: Friends Forever'' on December 27, 2011, and the fifteenth episode of the show came to DVD under a single disc called: ''Happiness Is... Peanuts: Team Snoopy'' on May 1, 2012. On October 9, 2012, ''Happiness Is... Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go!'' featured the twelfth episode of the show. Also, the entire series is available through iTunes. On January 21, 2014, the first, fourth and eleventh episodes appeared on a single disc DVD called ''Touchdown Charlie Brown''. On November 20, 2012, Warner Bros. released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 via their

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. Nine episodes are on each of the two disc set. All episodes have previously been released on DVD in

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across two 2-disc box sets.

References

External links

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