Directed by:	Bill Melendez
Written by:	Charles M. Schulz
Release date:	May 24, 1982
Running time:	60 minutes
Proceded by:	Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown
Followed by:	Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?

A Charlie Brown Celebration is the twenty-third TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It is the first hour long Peanuts special.

Unlike previous Peanuts specials, this special consists of a number of stories adapted from the comic strip, between August 26, 1956 and August 3, 1979 but has no unifying plot.

StorylinesEdit

There are many storylines throughout the special, such as when Peppermint Patty enrolled in dog school, Peppermint Patty's baseball team wanted hats, Linus meets Truffles on a feild trip, when Lucy throws Schroeder's piano down a sewer, when Charlie Brown runs away and meets the Goose Eggs, when Charlie Brown ends up at the hospital, and a few others.

NotesEdit

• The formula used in this special, several stories with one or two-word titles, was later adapted for the Saturday morning CBS series, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, which started in 1983, and used in another special, It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown.
• Although Lucy taunts Charlie Brown to kick the football in this special, this is the first time she definitely promises never to pull it away again. When Charlie Brown gets ill at a ball game, Lucy promises never to pull the ball away. She does not pull the ball away when Charlie Brown gets better, but he misses and kicks her arm, resulting in her arm being encased in a cast. Charlie Brown is mentioned as kicking it in the It's Magic, Charlie Brown special.
• Despite the special airing in 1982, the copyright date is 1981.

Voice castEdit

• Michael Mandy - Charlie Brown
• Rocky Reilly - Linus van Pelt
• Kristen Fullerton - Lucy van Pelt
• Cindi Reilly - Sally Brown
• Brent Hauer - Peppermint Patty
• Shannon Cohn - Marcie
• Christopher Donohoe - Schroeder
• Casey Carlson - Truffles
• Bill Melendez - Snoopy\Woodstock
• Charles M. Schulz- Himself
• John Hiestand - Announcer

External linksEdit

• A Charlie Brown Celebration on the Internet Movie Database.