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It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is the third Christmas animated production based on the comic strip Peanuts, and the second one produced as a prime-time special. It was originally released on VHS as a promotion at Shell gas stations in September 1992 before airing on CBS on November 27th of the same year.

Synopsis

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"I think they look better when they have a little star or an angel on top."

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The birds as "Santa's helpers".

Peggy Jean show off her gloves

Charlie Brown is dismayed to find that Peggy Jean already has a pair of gloves.

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Marcie as Mary and Peppermint Patty as a sheep.

The special is made up of several Christmas-themed vignettes, all based on storylines from the strip.

  • Linus attempts to sled down a hill in a paper box.
  • Charlie Brown tries to sell Christmas wreaths door-to-door, despite that it isn't even Thanksgiving yet. Sally tries to help by telling his customers the wreaths are made from trees grown in the forests of Lebanon, but this does not help.
  • Peppermint Patty worries about her Christmas book report.
  • Peppermint Patty and Marcie attend a performance of George Friedrich Handel's Messiah.
  • Snoopy works as a street corner Santa Claus, and Lucy and Sally find it questionable.
  • Woodstock and his bird friends play chamber music inside a snowman's hat.
  • Charlie Brown tries to explain the true meaning of Christmas to Sally (who mistakenly thinks that it is about "getting all you can get while the getting is good") when she is writing a report for school, but she will not listen. She later starts writing a letter to Santa, but then tries writing to Mrs. Claus.
  • Snoopy, Woodstock, and his friends dance with the candy canes that were on the Browns' Christmas tree.
  • Sally goes to the van Pelts' house, where Linus tries to read the meaning of Christmas to her, despite her constant interruptions. She hears "The Twelve Days of Christmas" playing on the radio and asks what calling birds are supposed to be. Linus explains what they are, and also tells her about Albert Schweitzer and how he disliked Christmas presents because he "hated having to write thank-you notes".
  • Charlie Brown wants to buy a nice pair of gloves for Peggy Jean, but they cost twenty-five dollars. He sells his entire comic book collection in order to buy them. But as soon as he does so, he runs into Peggy Jean at the store and finds out that her mother has just bought her a pair, so he gives the pair he bought to Snoopy instead.
  • The children participate in a Christmas play, in which Peppermint Patty is forced to play a sheep to Marcie's Mary, and Sally is playing the part of an angel who supposedly has to say the line "Hark!" before "Harold Angel sings". She continually rehearses it, but ultimately ends up saying "Hockey stick!" instead when she finally goes onstage, much to Charlie Brown's embarrassment. Later, a kid named Harold Angel comes by to visit her.
  • In the final scene, Lucy tells Linus to get out of the beanbag he is sitting in, but he refuses, saying that they remembered the time when they opened presents under the Christmas tree, and asking why Lucy can't be nice all the time like she was on Christmas morning. She storms off, telling him that he's driving her crazy. The special ends with him saying, "Joy to the World".

Notes

Availability

After its debut as a direct-to-video release sold exclusively at Shell gas stations, It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown was released on VHS again four years later by Paramount Home Video in 1996. Paramount later included the special on the original DVD release of A Charlie Brown Christmas in 2000. It has since accompanied A Charlie Brown Christmas on all of its subsequent releases, including the "Remastered Deluxe Edition" DVD and Blu-ray released by Warner Home Video in 2008 and the 2017 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release, as well as on iTunes, Google Video, and Amazon Video.

Cast

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Snoopy and the birds.

Voice actor Character
Jamie E. Smith Charlie Brown
Bill Melendez Snoopy
Woodstock
Marnette Patterson Lucy van Pelt
Frieda
John Christian Graas Linus van Pelt
Mindy Ann Martin Sally Brown
Phillip Lucier Peppermint Patty
Lindsay Benesh Marcie
Patty
Sean Mendelson Franklin
Deanna Tello Peggy Jean
Violet Gray
Matthew Slowick Harold Angel

See also

External links

Christmas Specials Based on Comic Strips
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Garfield A Garfield Christmas Special • "Heatwave Holiday" • "Caroling Capers" • "Home for the Holidays"
Popeye Seasin's Greetinks!Mister and Mistletoe • "Spinach Greetings"
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