I Want A Dog airing

This comng Monday, ABC’s primetime lineup will begin wtih this year’s airing of I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, the hour-long 2003 special focusing on Rerun (but with plenty of the rest of the cast.) Of course, this special is available on DVD. (For a moment, I was wondering if it’s the only special to have been released only on DVD, as most others were also released on either VHS or Blu-ray. But then I thought of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales. And then I double-checked, and realized that I Want a Dog was not only released on VHS, you can still get it that way!)

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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New Peanuts feature film on the way

Apple, who have been producing Peanuts series and specials in plentitude, have announced that they, Wildbrain, and Peanuts Worldwide are working together on a new Peanuts feature-length film, the Hollywood Reporter notes. If you liked the last feature film, then this should be very good news. They’re using a story …