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

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) is an American

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television series 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

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on the

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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 José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Melendez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) was an American animator, director, producer, and voice actor. Melendez is known for working on the ''Peanuts'' animated specials, as well as providing the voices of Sno ...

, 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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block on

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and

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from 1986 to 2005.

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 Muller and

to remain. *Brad Kesten (season 1) and Brett Johnson (season 2) as

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*Stacy Heather Tolkin (season 1) and

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(season 2) as

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**Tolkin also voiced Truffles in season 1 **Ferguson also voiced

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in season 2 *Angela Lee (season 1) and Heather Stoneman (season 2) as Lucy van Pelt **Stoneman also voiced Eudora in season 2 *Jeremy Schoenberg as Linus van Pelt **Schoenberg also voiced Floyd in season 1 and Harold Angel in season 2 *Kevin Brando (season 1) and Danny Colby (season 2) as

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**Brando also voiced 5 and Thibault in season 1 *Jason Muller as Rerun van Pelt *

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(season 2) as

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and

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*Victoria Vargas (season 1) and Gini Holtzman (season 2) as

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*Michael Dockery (season 1) and Keri Houlihan (season 2) as

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**Dockery also voiced

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in season 1 *Mary Tunnell as Frieda (season 1) **Tunnell also voiced Eudora in season 1 *Dana Ferguson as Samantha (season 2) *

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and

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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.

Home media

In 1987, Kartes Video Communications released the show on

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in 9 volumes (with titles in the style of normal ''Peanuts'' specials), with two episodes each. From 1994 to 2001,

Paramount Home Video Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly Paramount Home Media Distribution, originally Paramount Home Video, and operating as the namesake film studio since 2022) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures. The division oversees Para ...

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,

Warner Home Video Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment; formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the American home video distribution ...

released the 14th episode of the show on

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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,

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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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and

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across two 2-disc box sets.

References

External links

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