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Upcoming Peanuts DVDs

There’s a couple more Peanuts DVDs on the way as part of the Happiness Is… Peanuts run of not-named-after-a-TV-special DVDs. First up is Snow Days, which includes the special She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown as well as some material from the Saturday morning Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show series. …

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When was Charlie Brown’s All-Stars planned?

I had been laboring under the working assumption that the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas was planned as a one-off, with people willing to do more specials if it was a success, but with that seeming unlikely to most involved. In his book A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of …

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The Latina Peanuts character

I do at times field questions about Dolores, the Latina Peanuts character. And if some of you out there are saying “Who?!?”, believe me, I don’t blame you. Dolores, you see, isn’t in any of the Peanuts strips. And she isn’t in any of the animated specials. Isn’t in the …

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Uninformed musings on Peanuts DVD future

The recent Peanuts animation released, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, seems to have met with general (albeit not universal) approval. And I know there were thoughts about doing more of these releases. But there is something that happened between the time that Happiness was started and when it …

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Straightening out Warm Blanket editions

There is some confusion about what Warm Blanket editions are available out there, perhaps slightly abetted by loose wording on this blog. To the best of my knowledge, there are: A DVD edition, available everywhere, including here. A Blu-ray only edition, which was available at the Schulz Museum for the …

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Warm Blanket review

The folks behind the new DVD Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown had a difficult assignment, and they did a strong job with it – it’s not some sort of out-of-the-ballpark homerun where you’ll forget about the great Peanuts specials of the past… but it’s better than a lot …

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Peanuts DVD bargains

The new special Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown hits stores tomorrow, and Amazon is already shipping some copies (knowing they’ll take more than a day to arrive). But at the moment, they’re also offering some tempting prices on other Peanuts animated disks: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown …

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Warm Blanket graphic novel hardcover now preorderable

The rush-solicited hardcover graphic novel adaptation of Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is now available for preorder from Barnes & Noble, at a nice discount, but not yet available from Amazon. (The original announcement was that the book would be available in March, but Barnes & Noble doesn’t …

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Peanuts movies bargain

Whoops, two DVD posts in a row, but I just noticed that Paramount (who has the DVD rights to the Peanuts theatrical releases) is putting out a nice bargain in a couple weeks – a two disk set with both A Boy Named Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Come Home, now …

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Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show DVD coming

Coming in June is the DVD Snoopy’s Adventures, which includes the “Snoopy and the Giant” episode of the Saturday morning cartoon series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, plus Snoopy’s Getting Married. I’m not sure why Amazon is listing it as being 135 minutes; I can’t find any source suggesting …