Directed by:	Sam Jaimes
Written by:	Clark Gesner and Charles M. Schulz
Release date:	November 6, 1985
Running time:	30 minutes
Proceded by:	Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown
Followed by:	Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is the twenty-ninth animated television special based on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. It first aired on CBS on November 6, 1985. It is based on the 1967 stage musical of the same name. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is notable for being the first Peanuts animated cartoon in which Snoopy's thoughts are expressed as comprehensible English speech.

Contents of the programEdit

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown takes the form of a series of vignettes, without a unifying plot. The program appears to follow a typical day in the life of Charlie Brown, although the same day includes exchanging Valentine's Day cards and the baseball season.

SongsEdit

• "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - Sung by the other children to Charlie Brown.
• "Schroeder" - Sung by Lucy van Pelt to the tune of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata that Schroeder plays.
• "The Kite" - Sung by Charlie Brown as he flies his kite.
• "Snoopy" - Sung by Snoopy when Lucy van Pelt, Sally Brown, Linus van Pelt, Schroeder, Charles "Charlie" Brown, Woodstock, and Woodstock's bird friends like him.
• "T-E-A-M (the Baseball Game)" - Sung by Charlie Brown and the other children.
• "The Book Report" - Sung by Charlie Brown, Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt and Schroeder.
• "Little Known Facts"- Sung by Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt and Charlie Brown.
• "Glee Club Rehearsal" - Sung by all the children.
• "Suppertime" - Sung by Snoopy.
• "Happiness" - Sung by all the children.

Differences from the stage musicalEdit

The running time of the animated cartoon is shorter than that of the stage musical version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and the number of songs is reduced accordingly.

Patty was one of the featured characters in the original 1967 stage performance of the musical. By the time that the animated cartoon was made in 1985, Patty had stopped appearing in Peanuts and would not have been familiar to many viewers. For that reason, she was replaced by Sally Brown. When the stage musical was revived on Broadway in 1999, Sally Brown replaced Patty yet again.

Voice castEdit

• Brad Kesten - Charlie Brown
• Kevin Brando- Charlie Brown (singing voice)
• David Wagner - Linus van Pelt
• Jessica Lee Smith - Lucy van Pelt
• Tiffany Reinbolt - Sally Brown
• Jeremy Reinbolt - Schroeder
• Michael Dockery - Marcie
• Robert Towers - Snoopy (singing voice)
• Bill Melendez - Snoopy/Woodstock (uncredited)

External linksEdit

• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special) at the Internet Movie Database.