A Charlie Brown Celebration

A Charlie Brown Celebration is the 23rd Prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, who introduced the hour-long special. It was originally aired on the CBS network on May 24, 1982, and consists of a number of stories adapted from the comic strip.

Production
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. A compilation of short stories also make up You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (both the stage musical and animated special), ''Snoopy!!! The Musical (both the stage musical and animated special), and Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales''. Schulz first toyed with using vignettes in the 1973 special There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown.

Voice Characterizations

 * Michael Mandy- Charlie Brown
 * Kristen Fullerton- Lucy van Pelt
 * Earl Reily- Linus van Pelt
 * Cindi Reily- Sally Brown
 * Casey Carlson- Eudora/Truffles
 * Shannon Cohn- Marcie
 * Brent Hauer- Peppermint Patty
 * Christopher Donohoe- Schroeder/Franklin
 * Bill Melendez- Snoopy/Woodstock

Stock footage
Scenes from this special recycles footage and ideas from There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown and Play It Again, Charlie Brown.

In The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show episode "Linus' Security Blanket" the footage scene where Charlie Brown and his kite get stuck in a tree is different but in "You Can't Win Charlie Brown" the scene where Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus are caught up with his kite in Snoopy's doghouse is the same thing.