The rest of the 1970s specials

Shipping in June is Peanuts 1970’s Collection volume 2, a DVD set which includes:

  • Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
  • You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
  • It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown
  • It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown
  • What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown
  • You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown

So that’s all the Peanuts prime-time specials from the second half of the 1970s. There will also be a documentary featurette on the specials of that era.

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Animated Peanuts
A Summer Musical: The Dolores Report

The animated specialĀ Peanuts: A Summer Musical is coming out on Friday, as discussed before. And yet here I am on Thursday, covering it. What sort of secret inside access did I have that let’s me do this? Easy, I live on the West Coast. It’s already Friday on the East …

Upcoming releases
The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …

Upcoming releases
Charlie Brown’s America goes soft

Coming in December is a paperback edition of Blake Scott Bell’sĀ Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts. I reviewed the hardcover when it came out in 2021, and that positive recommendation still stands. Share the news!