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It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown is the 25th prime-time animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

TV special based upon the popular comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

Peanuts
Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

, by Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...

. It was originally aired on the CBS

CBS

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network on May 16, 1983

1983 in television

The year 1983 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1983.For the American TV schedule, see: 1983-84 United States network television schedule.-Events:...

. It, along with 1982's A Charlie Brown Celebration
A Charlie Brown Celebration
A Charlie Brown Celebration is the 23rd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, who introduced the hour-long special...

inspired the Saturday Morning series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show is an animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1985. It re-aired on The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon in the 1990s...

.

Format

The special is a compilation consisting of a number of individual stories adapted from stories in the comic strip:

Sack: Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charles "Charlie" Brown is the protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.Charlie Brown and his creator have a common connection in that they are both the sons of barbers, but whereas Schulz's work is described as the "most shining example of the American success story", Charlie...

is having hallucination
Hallucination
A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid,...

s as a result of a rash
Rash
A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked or blistered, swell and may be painful. The causes, and...

on the back of his head resembling the stitch
Stitch (textile arts)
In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread or yarn. Stitches are the fundamental elements of sewing, knitting, embroidery, crochet, and needle lace-making, whether by hand or machine...

ings of a baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, most notably seeing the rising sun as a baseball. He goes to camp to take his mind off of baseball with a paper sack on his head to cover up said rash and is suddenly elected camp president as the other kids find his appearance cool. But then he removes his sack the next morning and becomes uncool again. He watches the sun rise, fearing that it will appear as a rising baseball. Instead, the sun is replaced with MAD Magazine
Mad (magazine)
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...

mascot Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman
Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad magazine. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed and named by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman...

.
Caddies: Peppermint Patty
Peppermint Patty
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. A freckle-faced auburn/brunette, she is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends...

and Marcie
Marcie (Peanuts)
Marcie is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in Charlie Brown, who seems to love...

become golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

caddies.
Kite: Charlie Brown bites the Kite-Eating Tree
Kite-Eating Tree
The Kite-Eating Tree is a fictional tree featured in the comic strip Peanuts created by Charles M. Schulz.A Kite-Eating Tree is a deciduous tree of indeterminate type, once referred to as a "Kiteus Eatemupus". According to Charlie Brown, it is impossible to tell a kite-eating tree from...

and then goes on the run from the United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...

for doing so; he ends up coaching a pee-wee baseball team.
Song: Lucy comes to Schroeder's
Schroeder
- People :* Andreas Schroeder, a German-born Canadian poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer* Barbet Schroeder, a Swiss movie director and producer* Bill Schroeder, an American football player* Bill Schroeder , an American baseball player...

house, annoying him while he tries to play many pieces.
Butterfly: Peppermint Patty falls asleep with a butterfly
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

resting on her nose, and Marcie fools her into believing it turned into an angel
Angel
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.
Blanket: Lucy
Lucy van Pelt
Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a fictional character in the syndicated comic strip :Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the main bully and the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is a crabby and cynical eight-year old girl, and often bullies the other characters in the strip,...

attempts to get rid of Linus
Linus van Pelt
Linus van Pelt is a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. The best friend of Charlie Brown, Linus is also the younger brother of Lucy van Pelt and older brother of Rerun van Pelt. He first appeared on September 19, 1952; however, he was not mentioned by name until three days later....

's blanket by bury
Bury
Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, east of Bolton, west-southwest of Rochdale, and north-northwest of the city of Manchester...

ing it and later turning it into a kite
Kite
A kite is a tethered aircraft. The necessary lift that makes the kite wing fly is generated when air flows over and under the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it. This deflection also generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind...

and letting it go, but Snoopy
Snoopy
Snoopy is an fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly conventional dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character—and among the most recognizable...

foils her both times.
Woodstock: Woodstock performs many of his antics in front of Snoopy.

Voice cast

Michael Catalano - Charlie Brown/Camp Kids
Angela Lee - Lucy van Pelt/Sally Brown
Earl Reilly - Linus van Pelt/The Kite Eating Tree/Camp Kids
Brent Hauer - Peppermint Patty
Brad Schacter - Schroeder/Milo
Michael Dockery - Marcie/Ruby
Johnny Graves - Austin
Joel Graves - Leland
Gerard Goyette Jr.- Caddy master
Jason Castellano- Camp Kids
Brandon Crane- Camp Kids
John Hiestand- Joe Mel
Frank Oz
Frank Oz
Frank Oz is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street, and for directing films, including the 1986 Little Shop of...

- The Kite Eating Tree (Crying Voice)
Bill Meléndez
Bill Melendez
José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...

- Snoopy/Woodstock

Production credits

IT'S AN ADVENTURE, CHARLIE BROWN

Created by

Charles M. Schulz

Produced by

Lee Mendelson

Lee Mendelson is an American television producer. He is best known as the executive producer of the many Peanuts animated specials....

and

Bill Melendez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...

Directed by

Bill Melendez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...

and

Abe Levitow

Abraham "Abe" Levitow was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....

Written by

Charles M. Schulz

Sequence Directors

Phil Roman

Philip Roman , is an animator. He is the founder of animation studios Film Roman and Phil Roman Entertainment. Roman is of Mexican American descent....

Sam Jaimes

Music by

Ed Bogas

Ed Bogas, born Edgar Noel Bogas, and sometimes credited as Edward Bogas, is an American rock musician and composer and whose work has been featured in films, animations, and video games.-Career:...

and

Desirée Goyette

Desirée Goyette is a singer, composer, lyricist and voice-over artist. She has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and has voiced such characters as Betty Boop, Barbie, Nermal, Petunia Pig, Honey Bunny and numerous others for radio, television and toys...

Arranged and Conducted by

Ed Bogas

Ed Bogas, born Edgar Noel Bogas, and sometimes credited as Edward Bogas, is an American rock musician and composer and whose work has been featured in films, animations, and video games.-Career:...

Bernard Gruver

Bernard Gruver was best known as one of the original animators of the Peanuts cartoon series. He also was an animation professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema. He was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles in 1985.-External links:*...

Evert Brown

Dean Spille

Animation by

Sam Jaimes

Bob Carlson

Hank Smith

Hank "Henry" Smith was a cartoon animator, who worked for many Hollywood animation studios during the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. His work includes numerous cartoons for television, including many featuring Mr. Magoo, The Road Runner, Fat Albert, and many of the Peanuts television specials with...

Lloyd Vaughan

Ted Bonnicksen

George Grandpre

Jim Davis

Ed Solomon

Ed Solomon is an American writer, producer and director. After graduating from Saratoga High School and UCLA, Solomon came to fame as one half of the writing duo that created the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel.Solomon was born in Saratoga, California...

Bob Bachman

Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson (animator)

Richard "Dick" Thompson was an American animator who worked at several animated cartoon departments over a career of four decades. His longest association was with Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. Cartoons and M-G-M. He also worked at Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng.-Related link:*]]...

Irv Anderson

Irvin Neil "Irv" Anderson was a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1965–1983, and again from 1991–2007....

Rod Scribner

Roderick H. "Rod" Scribner was an American animator best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.. His animation was one of the wildest things ever seen on screen during The Golden Age of American animation. He started as an animator for Ben...

Jeff Hale

Spencer Peel

Warren Batchelder

Warren Batchelder was an animator on many Warner Bros. and DePatie-Freleng cartoons. He also worked as animation director on the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon show.-Career:Batchelder began his animation career in 1936...

Jeff Hall

Patricia Joy

Don Lusk

Terry Lennon

Manuel Perez

Bob Matz

Robert "Bob" Matz was an American animator. He worked on various animated shorts, films, and television projects, such as Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, The Pink Panther, and The Transformers: The Movie.-1960-1961:...

Joe Roman

Ed Friedman

Gerry Chiniquy

Germain Adolph "Gerry" Chiniquy was an American animator. He is best known for his work with Friz Freleng, at both Warner Bros. and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises....

Norm McCabe

Rudy Zamora

Rudy Zamora was a Mexican American animator and a prolific animation director who was a veteran actor in George of the Jungle.-External links:...

Bill Littlejohn

William Charles Littlejohn was an American animator and union organizer. Littlejohn worked on both animated shorts and features from the 1930s through to the 1990s...

Larry Leichliter

Al Pabian

Utit Choomuang

Checking

Carole Barnes

Eve Fletcher

Jane Gonzales

Cindy Smith

Ink and Paint Supervisor

Joanne Lansing

Ink and Paint

Karin Holmquist

Micky Kreymann

Valerie Green

Emalene Seutter

Karen Webb

Roubina Janian

Adele Lenart

Colene Gonzales

Teale Wang

Patricia Capozzi

Joan Pabian

Ginny Tucker

Lee Hoffman

Lee Hoffman, born Shirley Bell Hoffman, was an American science fiction fan, an editor of early folk music fanzines, and an author of science fiction, Western and romance novels.In 1950-53, she edited and published the highly-regarded science fiction fanzine, Quandry...

Elsa La Baw

Evelyn Hairapetian

Julie Maryon

Olaya Stephenson

Lee Guttman

Editing

Chuck McCann

Chuck McCann is a film actor, television actor, stage actor, and a voice actor from Brooklyn, New York.-Early career:...

Roger Donley

Production Manager

Carole Barnes

Production Assistants

Sandy Claxton Arnold

Carol Neal

Barbara Hiestand

Sheyl Mason

Glenn Mendelson

Lynda Mendelson

Lynda Mendelson is a former child actress noted for providing the voice of "Frieda" in several Peanuts animated films during the early 1970s. Later in life she has worked behind the scenes in various capacities within the film production industry...

Camera: Nick Vasu
Dubbing: Producers' Sound Service
Voice Recording: Gold Star Recording Studios
Music Recording: Russian Hill Recording
Color: Technicolor
Technicolor
Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

A LEE MENDELSON-BILL MELENDEZ PRODUCTION

in association with

CHARLES M. SCHULZ CREATIVE ASSOCIATES

and UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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