CBS Special - Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown - WBBM Channel 2 (1976)
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Here's a special celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip, titled Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown, as aired over WBBM Channel 2. Most commercial breaks (save two of them, described below) and sponsor billboards were edited out at the time of recording, but a few remain intact.
Includes:
'Catch the Brightest Stars' WBBM animated ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
'CBS Special Presentation' animated bumper
Segment 1: Includes opening comments by creator Charles M. Schulz, Carl encapsulates Peanuts' history, and then the opening titles showing the host is Carl Reiner.
Segment 2: Includes Carl asking "Sparky" why he has no one assisting him in doing the strip, about the preponderance of sports themes interspersed with shots of him and second wife Jeannie playing tennis and him on the ice hockey rink; covers with Peanuts characters from magazines such as Saturday Review, Woman's Day, Newsweek, Life, Time and TV Guide; the Apollo 10 crew's Charlie Brown command and Snoopy landing modules; Schulz as Grand Marshall of 85th Tournament of Roses Parade which led to him being incorporated into one strip; and foreign translations.
Segment 3: Schulz speaks of the significances of the characters Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Woodstock (named directly after the 1969 rock festival) and Sally, with clips featuring other characters such as Pigpen
"We Will Return" bumper
Promo for Family Film Special presentation of "Tom Sawyer" (voiceover by Alan Berns) (posted separately here: • CBS Family Film Festiv... )
'Catch the Brightest Stars' animated CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Walter Jacobson previews report on CTA train collision at Addison Street station, as promo for Channel 2 News at 10pm (posted separately here: • WBBM Channel 2 - Chann... )
Dominick's Finer Foods sale on golden ripe bananas (good through January 14th) (posted separately here: • Dominick's Finer Foods... )
'Catch the Brightest Stars' WBBM animated ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
In Segment 4, a brief look at the contributions of Vince Guaraldi to the Peanuts specials, followed by Schulz on how Snoopy's 'Joe Cool' persona came about, and then explaining his creative process as it evolved from when he started, how a trip on a river raft in Oregon inspired one of the specials.
Commercials for:
$100,000 candy bar with Todd Bridges and Claudia Lamb (posted separately here: • $100,000 Bar by Nestle... )
Chuck Wagon dog food (posted separately here: • Chuck Wagon - "Chase T... )
Segment 5: Schulz imparts to Carl an important lesson for every cartoonist to remember, followed by a look at Schulz' early life and how it inspired the creation of Charlie Brown; his first submitted drawing (to Ripley's Believe It or Not); early drawings for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post; and the evolution of the Peanuts characters' appearances from the start, with displays of early strips; and one iconic Sunday strip with Charlie, Linus and Lucy; Schulz at work sketching things other than the strip while on trips to various places, then a shot of him teaching cartooning at Santa Rosa Junior College; a look at Snoopy's Red Baron adventures and waiting for presents on Halloween
Commercials for:
Tang instant breakfast drink (with Jim Lovell) (posted separately here: • Tang Instant Breakfast... )
Keebler Deluxe Grahams (with archaeologist digging for ancient cookie factory) (posted separately here: • Keebler Cookies - "Sea... )
Clips from summer-themed segments with the gang, followed by Carl's musings on the art of the comic strip and its 80th anniversary, followed by a shot of pages from the book "Peanuts Jubilee" and how the strip's length is almost a third of that; he then asks Schulz about his greatest satisfaction
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Way Out Games and Entertainer of the Year Awards by Bill Martin)
(C) Copyright 1976 by United Feature Syndicate
Very brief shot of '200 Years Ago Today' bumper before recording ends
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 9th 1976 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.
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70 years later and we still love The Peanuts!!!♥️
A great era of 📺 and I was a teen in the 70s. 👍 post 😃
RIP Charles M. Shultz.
RIP Peter Robbins, voice of Charlie Brown
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What happened to him?
@@keithwilson6060he committed suicide
One of MANY voices of Charlie Brown. He's my favorite.
Happy anniversary to the ever popular Peanuts comic strips,and to the legendary Charles M. Schulz who created it.
A Wonderfully Rare "Peanuts" Doumentary Special that was celebrating its 25th anniversary (1976) at the time! Thanks!
Very last PEANUTS special to air during Vince’s lifetime. He died on February 6, less than one month after this aired. 😢
He didn't even live to see the last Peanuts special to feature an original score by him - "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" - which aired on March 16 of that year.
@@wmbrown6- very true. His death was sudden and unexpected. It marked the end of Peanuts’ classic TV period (some have argued that ended with BE MY ❤️, CB).
Vince was irreplaceable. His iconic music truly brought Schulz's legendary comic strip to life and gave personality to each character. Try to imagine the Peanuts without his music. Just try it! It's literally impossible.
28:30 This implies that Vince lived to see some of "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown," but sadly he didn't live long enough to score it.
@@wmbrown6 The specials were never the same after his death, his scores had such a great nuance that gave the Peanuts the perfect soundtrack
Love this! Remember seeing the 35th and 40th anniversary Peanuts shows growing up too. Love the way the late Carl Reiner interviews the late Charles Shulz. There's non of the phoniness associated with the 50's and early 60s, or the snide brattiness of the mid 90s to present day. Just a genuine love and dignity from one 20th century American entertainment icon to another. Love this look into Schulz's creative process.
Let me suggest that several of the shots of Carl Reiner asking Charles Schulz questions are in fact ‘re-asks.’ That is, after any actual question from Reiner to Schulz has been asked, the camera is pointed at Reiner, who re-asks the question. This was done because there was only one camera to work with. If there were two cameras, the questions from Reiner would seem more natural.
It's the end of 2022. I've been looking for this documentary for many years. As a kid, I learned how to draw Charlie Brown by watching Charles Schulz do it in the beginning.
I was just 10 years old and in 5th grade when I saw this special. Still watch them even today.
It doesn’t seem this talent is used anymore with everything computerized.
For my friends & me, happiness is Peanuts & the gang....simple, funny, profound, & heartwarming....grew up with Peanuts even before 1976....thanks for this documentary!
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When an hour of programming had about 6 minutes of commercials. Now it's about 15-16 .
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"He never stops trying" 💗💗
♥️
I’m not happy that Apple TV “owns” the Peanuts holiday specials... but if these types of documentaries and films were part of that package, I might do a subscription.
This is a great piece of history in so many ways. Thank you for sharing it!
They're probably not even aware of this. All *THEY'RE* interested in are the specials.
buy the cds, you still can, and tell Apple to stuff it.
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And only the Holliday specials. The rest are basically forgotten.
I have the films, specials on disc. Recommend others do this.
I wish CBS could buy back the broadcast rights to the Peanuts specials.
I remember this special -- I was a month short of 14. Seeing it again, I recall several specific moments, such as the explanation of the origin of Peppermint Patty's name. Thanks very much for making this available to the public. I especially enjoyed the commercials. (By the way, for those younger than me, 1976 was the US Bicentennial and the whole country was afloat in constant hype about it. Hence the "200 Years Ago Today" promo briefly viewed at the end.)
Happy Anniversary Charlie Brown was also on Channel 2 , KNXT , Los Angeles at 8:00 pm. I looked thru Google Newspaper Archives in the Post - Courier (Oxnard , Ca. Oxnard is in Los Angeles County ) I saw this special on TV back in the day! We didn't have Nickelodeon , The Cartoon Network or Disney Channel back in the day. What we had were these TV specials , everyone looked forward to viewing. The Special Presentation pinwheel is a plus too !
That pinwheel meant that a Peanuts special was about to start! Happy times.
It was fitting that the late, great Mr. Carl Reiner--a true showbiz legend--should host this program.
A true Minnesotan thru & thru.
Someone was wearing a Minnesota North Stars jersey at the hockey arena as well.
That's why, in the 1970's and '80s, Snoopy was seen playing ice hockey and driving a Zamboni on occasion. Schulz once said, "If you read my strip often enough, you get to know me."
And have much poorer taste in cartoons, also.
What's amazing is he did it all himself..that's pure dedication
I've always found it funny how when Charles Schultz' draws 'peanuts in his ;water years, the line work looks scribbly, and shaky while Lee Mendelson, and Bill Melendez's animation looks smooth, clean, and sometimes more expressive.
In the 1980s, Schulz complained that "sometimes my hand shakes so much I have to hold my wrist to draw." This led to an erroneous impression that Schulz had Parkinson's disease. According to a letter from his physician, placed in the Archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum by his widow, Schulz had essential tremor, a condition alleviated by beta blockers. Schulz still insisted on writing and drawing the strip by himself, resulting in noticeably shakier lines over time.
Essential tremor runs in my f
Runs in my family and you just keep plugging. I'm glad Schultz stuck with it, perseverance reflected in those shaky lines of later years.
This is great. I remember seeing this on CBS TV. One of my schoolmates told me it would be an hour long. So it was a real treat to see.
The news about the Chicago train wreck back 1976 was of course sad. However, the $ 100K candy bar commercial brought back memories. The girl with pigtails looked like Ernie Douglas's kid sister! And the Chuck Wagon commercial was hysterical!
I liked how Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson handled the animation on these. Vince Guaraldi passed away shortly after this and his last score was It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown. On the Joe Cool songs, Vince ad libs to Snoopy's actions, by telling Joe to "pay attention" or "take those shades off!"
Clara from Snoopy Come Home looks a lot like Patty, Violet's best friend. She's more friendly than the more reserved (& slightly cynical) Patty and more dimwitted and obnoxious than her, too. So they're probably cousins!
Chuck Wagon!! Nestles Hundred Thousand Dollar Bar! Ahhhhhh! I remember this great Peanuts special and the great commercials! 🥰🥰
We had it so good to grow up with Charlie Brown. He lived through failure and kept trying. He taught us that we call can make it through failure. Not everybody gets a trophy.
Lifelong Peanuts fan, something to fall back on during times of stress and upheaval. Also love the Jim Lovell Tang commercial about 49 minutes in.
I've been looking for this Special for a long time!! Thank you!!!
52 years since Snoopy, Come Home 🏡 came to theaters and on METV
What a gifted man.
55 years since A Boy 👦 Named Charlie Brown came to theaters and on METV
Given my childhood and recent adult connection (s) to Chicago this gives an added depth to my appreciation for this special 💛 thank you!
Watching Schulz play hockey is priceless!
RIP Sparky You Are One Of A Kind.
thank you so much for posting
I remember this! I was 11 when this came on. We all loved Charlie Brown and it was a big deal to watch it because you only got one chance. If you missed it you had to wait till next year! Brings back warm memories just seeing this again.
Was very young when I identified with Charlie Brown...
I was always excited when the specials came on when I was a little girl. I watched them into adulthood, and with my children
This was great television. Not like today's tv which is garbage.
Boy, did you get THAT right.
That was an awesome way to start the day watching Charlie Brown n friends throughout the first , were 333
God, does this bring back childhood memories! Thank you so much for posting.
You know you've arrived when Apollo Astronauts carry your drawings and name their spacecraft after your characters. Thanks for all the great memories!
As a kid, my family went camping a lot. My parents read before going to sleep and I was just learning to read so I felt left out. My dad brought me Charlie Brown books for me and I will always have the memory of discovering the written word and a story. My flashlight and a book and the sounds of the forest outside the tent. Priceless!
This was the only “Peanuts” TV special that it was never released on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray, and it’s never available on Apple TV+. I’m not sure if WildBrian would have the rights to this long forgotten TV special along with the other “Peanuts” specials which were now owned by WildBrain with clips from “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” which was made by Cinema Center Films and National General and distributed by Paramount.
This was one of the last “Peanuts” specials to featured music by Vince Guaraldi until he passed away while working on a third “Peanuts” film “Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown” in 1977.
Guaraldi never worked on RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, CB. In fact, he died only several hours after completing work on IT'S ARBOR DAY, CB.
@@VinceGuaraldifans28 Thanks!
28:30 That means Vince Guaraldi lived to see some of "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown," but sadly he didn't live long enough to score it.
Crap. I got this on an AUDIO cassette. I recorded it when I was about 12, with a tape recorder and a mic rested in front of my TV speaker. Listening to this cassette as I type.
How did anyone get video recordings in the mid-70s???
They existed, although rare. This was recorded on the EIAJ open-reel format. Betamax was also out in 1976.
Yes ways to record existed, but weren't easy to find.
I owe everything I know about cartooning to charles shulz, I plan on having my comic strips syndication, when it happens, I give sparky a big thanks
I wish you luck and I hope to see your cartoons someday! I also work on a cartoon strip. My influences were/are Peanuts and Mad Magazine.
I can't think of any other comic strip that creates such a sense of warmth and well being. Reading the Peanuts strip or watching the TV specials is like getting a hug from a loved one. But its real genius lies in letting children express the fears and anxieties that we all struggle with, even when we reach adulthood. I think that's why adults still love reading or watching Peanuts. No matter how old we get, human relationships and the world in general continue to baffle us and we still harbor hopes that we will one day successfully kick that metaphorical football. Thank you dear Charles Schulz. :)
I am 65 years old, and I still love the Peanuts gang! Thank you, Sparky!
I like that this documentary has a mix of scenes from older tv specials and movies and some unreleased animated scenes that wasn’t on any tv specials
28:28 This is a clip is from in the 1977 film, "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown".
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I assume some of the animated scenes here were originally created for the 1969 documentary Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. I haven't seen that one myself (it doesn't seem to be available anywhere online) but there are a few scenes here that don't originate from any of the Peanuts tv specials or films and that include voices of child voice actors who had already retired from Peanuts productions several years before this documentary was made in 1976. For example at 0:15 and 41:58 Lucy is apparently voiced by Pamelyn Ferdin (voice of the character from 1969 to 1971) and at 1:36 and 52:27 Charlie Brown seems to be voiced by Peter Robbins (who stopped voicing the character in 1969). The scene at 0:27 also seems older and has a different Sally voice actor than the others here.
Oh, and I really appreciate everyone who has uploaded these rare old documentaries here in RUclips.
I miss Charlie Brown! I remember the last Charlie Brown strip.
17.37 40.38 Oh boy I've read this story arc the fussbudget makes a mindless thought of getting her ears pierced, she gets excited but in two seconds she's afraid it will hurt and talks Peppermint Patty into getting her ears pierced as well not wanting to do it alone. At first Peppermint Patty's hesitant but does it anyway saying she's game for anything. Instead of getting permission from their parents they schedule an appointment with a not real letter. On the day of the appointment while waiting in the waiting room Lucy quickly changes her mind(comes to her senses) regretting it and when the nurse says that the doctor is ready to pierce Lucy's ears she forces Peppermint Patty to go in first. Eventually Peppermint Patty bravely decides to go in first to show that she's not afraid only for Lucy to hear an ow and chicken out and the next day Lucy gets an angry phone call from Peppermint Patty for running out on her.
I had forgotten this, frankly, so MANY thanks for posting this😊
Amazing job guys!!
"WAY OUT GAMES" {'"W.O.G."}, with Sonny Fox as host, became a regular series on CBS' Saturday schedule in the fall of 1976. It lasted one season.
Wish a full episode of the 1976 Way Out Games game show surfaced.
Hi Barry , I'm glad to see you're still around!
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Thanks!
@@fromthesidelines 👌
That dog killed me so damn funny, WWI flying ace, first prize Christmas house decorating, star baseball hitter, best friend is a bird and finally the best one the great houndini.
Thank you mister, for Charlie Brown 😁
I feel that even at losing I lose... But moving forward 😭👍
I'm glad Sparkie did everything himself . It makes it personal.
Creative artist right up there with Beethoven. They top psychology.
I love Snoopy and Woodstock! A friend made a shirt for my birthday with Snoopy laying on his back and his dog bowl on his head (Woodstock is in the bowl on his back). Underneath it says
NOPE, not today!
I remember these famous characters on television.
It's just not the same anymore without the Peanuts Gang not airing on TV. Now it's on Apple TV+ and I need to avoid the pain of this fellow streaming service.
Great find!!😊
33:09 Oh man! I remember that commercial for the $100,000 bar. I loved eating that product too.
Man, that commercial for Tom Sawyer really got me as I'd been thinking about it that movie lately.
Charlie Brown is sill 1 of the greatest cartoons
Fascinating program and cartoonist.
rather interesting is the inclusion of lucy showing charlie brown the football failure on "instant replay" - this was cut from a boy named charlie brown (1969) upon its wide release, and restored on home video releases beginning in 2005.
I love Peanuts on TV. :)
Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown...sponsored by...McDonalds! For the good time, the great taste, of McDonalds! :D
This is great! 🤠👍
I think 7:33 is the first animated appearance of Rerun Van Pelt, since this documentary apparently aired a couple of months before It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown (which is usually mentioned as his animated debut).
Aww , those were the Days 💖
I ♥️ PEANUTS
41:58 How Lucy feels about Wilkins Coffee
Rip chuck Schultz
5:15 Cue Beethoven’s Requiem
Heeeeeeeeeee-Maaaaaaaan, Stay Back!
Heeeeeeeeeee-Maaaaaaaan Staples!
I remember another retrospective special a few years later, where they introduced all the voice actors. Does anyone remember the name of that special?
RIP Carl Reiner too.
PARABENS a todos , criadores, vozes e. Animação ❤AMO ❤todos os personagens ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉BEIJOS ❤
5:28 when things starts to get ugly
Do you have “The Gumby Special” hosted by Jim J. Bullock from 1986?.
THANK YOU
Oh O certainly do .. Charlie Brown is me .. & those like me .. 2 a tee. Damn-it-ta-heck, long live Charlie Brown, Schroeder (Vince Guaraldi, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Brubeck et al), Snoopy (just like my former pet collie named Sparkie, full of character I always got the sense he was side-eyeing me .. dumb Master). There was always a “Lucy” @ school in the 60s. I miss the comic strip. Could no one resurrect the franchise🙏?
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Just wondering was this was recorded by a VHS or Betamax? Both formats were hot property in 1976.
It was recorded on EIAJ open-reel format.
I think all things considered, it’s a pretty good recording. I’ve never heard of that format. I doubt that it disappeared because it was inferior.
Clara kinda looks like Marcie without the glasses
I guess the reason why they haven't came after this download of Charlie Brown because it's more like the extra footage disc from a DVD set.
Thank you so much
Just so wonderful as in 1976 don’t remember where I was💐
Thanks for this. But I wish your “watermark” wasn’t so big and intrusive.
24:28 Original News dated January 9, 1976
I think Charlie Brown’s team nickname came from Chicago, cubs, losing nickname, lovable, losers
nice! 👍
I can’t believe Peter Robbins commuted suicide 😢
Committed. And yes, it was terribly sad!
A Boy 👦 Named Charlie Brown (1969)
What is this old man talking about 🙄 I’m a winner always gave and always will 🥇
Just to let you I'm from Philly, not Chicago, and I'm only 33. But I keenly appreciate TV programming from history. Also, why were the adults portrayed as gibberish?
Sparky didn't want any adults in any form in the strip or animation. I believe it was Bill Melendez that came up with the trombone to take the place of adults talking.
Because they ARE talking gibberish!
37:26 Clip from what special
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I believe it was made for this only.
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(1976)
I'm here because I cant stand the state of modern television.
I'd rather hear about Carl Reiner.
Not me. I have heard & read enough about Carl Reiner to last two lifetimes.
@@twistoffate4791and his son!!