The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show

I’m sitting here in the jury duty waiting room, doing my small part to bring justice to the lawless of Ventura County, and thought I’d catch up on something – particularly since animated Peanuts are on my mind (tonight is the season’s first showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas). And that’s the release of the complete Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show on DVD. Warners have been using episodes of this as second features on various DVD releases, but many of the episodes have never been so released. This release is part of the Warners Archive line, which is material they release not as standard-printed DVDs, but by burning DVD-Rs. This lets them do smaller releases, but it also means that the disks won’t last as long as a standard DVD. At this point, it’s only available direct from Warners themselves, but it’s likely to be available through Amazon at a later date… although if you want to buy it for someone for Christmas,

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We finally know how Charlie Brown did at the Super Bowl!

If you’ve never seen the 1994 Peanuts special You’re in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, well, you’re not alone. It aired only in 1994, linked to that year’s Super Bowl, on NBC, which had never before and has never since aired a Peanuts special. It has never been rerun, never …

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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 …