He’s Your Dog and Christmas Tales coming to DVD

Despite the talk about the upcoming Happiness is a Blanket, Charlie Brown, that’s not the next DVD up. Here are a couple that will be shipping in the next couple months.

  • He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown offers up one of the early specials… one that’s already on DVD on the Peanuts 1960’s Collection. However, here it’s paired with Life’s a Circus, Charlie Brown, a 1980 special that’s not out on DVD, plus a documentary featurette about the Redwood Ice Arena, the skating center that the Schulzes had built. This hits in September.
  • October brings Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales to market. This is a DVD which was actually available last year, but it was exclusive to the CVS Pharmacy chain. Christmas Tales is a short special, created to round the unedited A Charlie Brown Christmas up to a full TV hour in today’s more-ad-filled TV format. It’s a good special – little short bits about various characters and Chriastmas – but it’s short. It is rounded out with a second special, 1983’s Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown, a rather random pairing. And there’s no documentary featurette to add to the viewing time. So you get a total of 41 minutes of entertainment, but they do price it lower than their other DVDs due to this. And these specials are not on any other currently-available DVD.

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