Charlie Brown's All-Stars (2024)

Charlie Brown's All-Stars is the second TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was the second such TV special to be produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez (who also directed), and originally aired on the CBS network on June 8, 1966.

Contents

  • 1 Plot
  • 2 Voice cast
  • 3 Soundtrack
  • 4 Adapted comic strips
  • 5 Notes
  • 6 Goofs
  • 7 Gallery
  • 8 External links

Plot[]

After Charlie Brown's team lose their first game of the season, all his players throw down their caps in disgust and quit. Charlie Brown is left depressed as he ponders resigning as manager (which, to his annoyance, Snoopy offers him a pen and paper to do so). His hopes are raised when Linus speaks to Mr. Hennesy, the owner of the hardware store, who offers to sponsor Charlie Brown's team, buy them baseball uniforms, and incorporate them into a real league.

Charlie Brown eagerly accepts and shares the news with his team. Lucy is apprehensive, but states that if Charlie Brown can really get the team uniforms, they will give him another chance and return to the team. Later, however, he learns from Mr. Hennessy that the league does not allow girls or dogs, meaning in order to keep his sponsorship and the promised uniforms they will have to drop Lucy, Violet, Patty, Frieda, and Snoopy. Unwilling to sacrifice his friends, Charlie Brown is forced to turn down Mr. Hennessy's offer.

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Linus warns Charlie Brown the team will be furious, but Charlie Brown decides to postpone sharing the news, hoping that their lifted spirits will drive them to win and they will forget all about the uniforms. Despite Linus's warnings, Charlie Brown goes through with this idea. True to his prediction, the team plays well, but they ultimately lose the game when Charlie Brown's bid to tie the game by stealing home fails.

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Having failed to win them the game, Charlie Brown is told by Lucy and several others that if it were not for the uniforms and the league deal, they would quit. Charlie Brown reluctantly reveals that he severed the deal with Mr. Hennessy, garnering his team's fury. However, after he runs off, Linus reveals what really happened with Mr. Hennessy. Schroeder calls out the others for never treating Charlie Brown as a friend, despite his willingness to sacrifice his dignity for the team. The girls and Snoopy feel terrible and decide to make it up for him by making him a uniform. They do so with the only material they have available: Linus' beloved security blanket.

The girls and Snoopy present the newly-made uniform (complete with the words "Our Manager" on the front) to Charlie Brown, who is very pleased with it. He is determined that his team will win the next day, but it rains, so no one on the team or the opposing side come to the baseball field. No one, that is, except Charlie Brown (and Snoopy, who goes surfing in the puddles). Linus arrives as Charlie Brown stubbornly insists people will show up. Linus finally cries out about the fate of his blanket, prompting a dejected Charlie Brown to let him hold the shirt-tail. The two of them stand together in the pouring rain, while the credits roll.

Voice cast[]

  • Peter RobbinsCharlie Brown
  • Sally DryerLucy van Pelt
  • Christopher SheaLinus van Pelt
  • Ann AltieriFrieda
  • Glenn MendelsonSchroeder
  • Kathy SteinbergSally Brown
  • Geoffrey Ornstein"Pig-Pen"
  • Lynn VanderlipPatty
  • Karen MendelsonViolet
  • Gabrielle DeFaria RitterShermy
  • Bill MelendezSnoopy

5 appears but has no dialogue.

Soundtrack[]

  1. "Charlie's Run"
  2. "Charlie Brown's All-Stars"
  3. "Baseball Theme"
  4. "Baseball Theme" (brass version)
  5. "Baseball Theme" (guitar version)
  6. "All-Stars Theme" (a variation of "Oh, Good Grief")
  7. "Surfin' Snoopy"
  8. "Pebble Beach"
  9. "All-Stars Theme" (a variation of "Oh, Good Grief")
  10. "Baseball Theme"
  11. "Surfin' Snoopy"
  12. "Baseball Theme" (brass version)
  13. "Trumpet Fanfare"
  14. "All-Stars Theme" (a variation of "Oh, Good Grief")
  15. "Surfin' Snoopy"
  16. "Baseball Theme" (brass version)
  17. "Rain, Rain, Go Away"
  18. "All-Stars Theme" (a variation of "Oh, Good Grief")

Adapted comic strips[]

Main category: Strips adapted in Charlie Brown's All-Stars

Notes[]

  • Originally this special was to have been called Good Grief, Charlie Brown. A short piece in the December 15, 1965 issue of the New York Times mentions this special as an impending production to air in June of 1966, and refers to it by that title.
  • This special was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program (as was It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown).
  • Mr. Hennessy once again sponsors the team in It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown, but no longer cares if the girls and Snoopy are on the team. This is due to relaxations in baseball player admittance policies by the 1990s.
  • This is the second time Charlie Brown is referred to simply as Charlie, this time by Frieda. This had happened previously in A Charlie Brown Christmas, with Lucy. He would later be referred to as Charlie in the 1969 film A Boy Named Charlie Brown.
  • The final CBS airing of the special was on April 3, 1982 before the premiere of "The Fat Albert Easter Special" and it would not air on American network primetime television again until ABC aired it following a repeat airing of It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown on April 7, 2009. The two specials would later re-air back to back in 2010, 2013 and 2014.
  • According to the closing credits, it was one of two times Ed Love had worked on a Peanuts television special as an animator. He primarily worked for Hanna-Barbera Productions during the late 1950s until the early 1990s. Before that, he previously worked at Disney, MGM and Walter Lantz Productions. Over twenty years later, Love provided animation for the This Is America, Charlie Brown episode The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
  • This is the first special where Charlie Brown is seen shirtless.
  • This is the first Peanuts special of the 1960s to be sponsored by Dolly Madison.
  • This was the second Peanuts special to include credits, but only for a few cast members and not all who provided voices.
  • The original version of this special has integrated Coca-Cola and Dolly Madison sponsor plugs, much like A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
  • First special to depict a character writing with the text of what they're writing seen above them, like in the strip. As Charlie Brown attempts to write a resignation letter, his pen smudges, a carryover of a running gag from the strip of his pen smudging whenever he attempts to write to his pen pals.
  • This special aired four days early in Canada on June 4, 1966, on CBC.

Goofs[]

  • In the opening scene, Patty, Violet and Frieda are shown jumping rope together (an identical shot to the later skateboarding scene) while they are also playing in the baseball game.
  • Charlie Brown mentions that "I've got five boys, three girls and a dog...", but there are actually six boys and four girls on his team.
  • When Charlie Brown and the girls get tangled up in the jump rope, Charlie Brown has no nose.
  • After the rope-jumping pileup, Patty, Violet, and Frieda's skateboards suddenly appear in a subsequent shot.
  • When Charlie Brown and Lucy shout, "You scouted your own team!" Snoopy mouths the words with them making it seem like he is shouting it too. Unusual considering the same problem was edited out of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
  • Schroeder's shirt and socks turn red when he yells, "Aaugh! We lost the game because of Charlie Brown!" and looks up with only his nose and mouth showing, but turn back to purple when he looks forward.
  • Even though Linus already knew why Charlie Brown had to give up the uniforms long before the next game, he is shown wailing along with the rest of the team when Charlie Brown breaks the news to them.
  • When the team chants to Charlie Brown to steal home base, Lucy and Violet suddenly swap their hairstyles.
  • While the special came out in 1966, the credits read that it is from 1968.
  • When Charlie Brown is talking with Linus about how the league won't accept their team with Snoopy and the girls, there's a sudden close-up of Linus speaking where his blanket disappears and a baseball cap appears on his head. In the next shot, his blanket has reappeared and he's no longer wearing a cap.
  • When the girls say "What do you mean our feelings?", the caps on Linus and Lucy appear larger while their heads appear to be smaller.
  • In the pool, only Violet, Patty, Lucy, Linus, Sally and Shermy are initially shown. Later, Schroeder, Frieda and Pig-Pen suddenly appear randomly and disappear later.
  • Frieda was shown walking away to join Lucy, Violet and Patty in making a baseball uniform for Charlie Brown using Linus' blanket but during when making the uniform and giving it to Charlie Brown, she doesn't appear.

Gallery[]

Snoopy running home.

"Slide Charlie Brown Slide!'

Newspaper ad (1982 Re-airing)

TV Guide Ad (Also promoting The Fat Albert Easter Special, 1982)

"What do you mean our feelings?"

"He's been loyal to you because he thinks you're his friends. But do you ever act like friends? No!"

External links[]

Peanuts Animated Features
TV SpecialsReleased1960sA Charlie Brown ChristmasCharlie Brown's All-StarsIt's the Great Pumpkin...You're in Love...He's Your Dog...It Was a Short Summer...
1970sPlay It Again...You're Not Elected...There's No Time for Love...A Charlie Brown ThanksgivingIt's a Mystery...It's the Easter Beagle...Be My Valentine...You're a Good Sport...It's Arbor Day...It's Your First Kiss...What a Nightmare...You're the Greatest...
1980sShe's a Good Skate...Life Is a Circus...It's Magic...Someday You'll Find Her...A Charlie Brown CelebrationIs This Goodbye...?It's an Adventure...What Have We Learned...?It's Flashbeagle...Snoopy's Getting Married...You're a Good Man...Happy New Year...!Snoopy!!! The MusicalIt's the Girl in the Red Truck...
1990sWhy, Charlie Brown, Why?Snoopy's ReunionIt's Spring Training...It's Christmastime Again...You're in the Super Bowl...It Was My Best Birthday Ever...
2000sIt's the Pied Piper...A Charlie Brown ValentineCharlie Brown's Christmas TalesLucy Must Be Traded...I Want a Dog for Christmas...He's a Bully...
2010sHappiness Is a Warm Blanket...
2020sFor Auld Lang SyneIt's The Small Things...To Mom (and Dad), With LoveLucy's SchoolOne-of-a-Kind MarcieWelcome Home, Franklin
MoviesA Boy Named Charlie BrownSnoopy, Come HomeRace for Your Life, Charlie BrownBon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)The Peanuts Movie
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy ShowSeason 1"Snoopy's Cat Fight" • "Snoopy: Team Manager" • "Linus and Lucy" • "Lucy vs. the World" • "Linus' Security Blanket" • "Snoopy: Man's Best Friend" • "Snoopy the Psychiatrist" • "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown" • "The Lost Ballpark" • "Snoopy's Football Career" • "Chaos in the Classroom" • "It's That Team Spirit, Charlie Brown" • "Lucy Loves Schroeder"
Season 2"Snoopy and the Giant" • "Snoopy's Brother Spike" • "Snoopy's Robot" • "Peppermint Patty's School Days" • "Sally's Sweet Babboo"
This Is America, Charlie Brown"The Mayflower Voyagers" • "The Birth of the Constitution" • "The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk" • "The NASA Space Station" • "The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad" • "The Great Inventors" • "The Smithsonian and the Presidency" • "The Music and Heroes of America"
Snoopy in Space"The Application" • "Training" • "The Graduation" • "Welcome to the ISS" • "I Never Promised You a Space Garden" • "Space Sleepwalking" • "The Journey on Orion" • "Crater Crash" • "Searching for Moon Rocks" • "You're a Good Moon, Charlie Brown" • "The Next Mission" • "Mars or Bust"
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