A Valentine for Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz

No repeats until next year, no video recording, and certainly no at-will streaming.

Back in my day (get the tranquilizer dart: Gramps got out again), the Peanuts specials were really something to look forward to on TV…and you had one shot a year at catching them. The major holidays-Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter-stuck in my head, but titles like Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown? Nope. Having grown up with the Peanuts strip and the TV specials in the 1970s, there seemed to be a core three or four titles that aired repeatedly on network TV that I paid attention to…and that was it. Your purchase helps pay the bills at this website! Apparently, there are still vintage Peanuts TV specials fans-young and old-out there.Ĭlick to purchase Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown at Amazon. And yet, I saw in the trades that last week, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown delivered yet again in the ratings, 44 years later, matching demos and audience numbers for dreck like Blindspot and Hell’s Kitchen (granted: nothing to brag about). With my subterranean DVD/Blu-ray vault filled to the top of its massive oaken beams with 1000s of hours of kid titles, I don’t pay too much attention to whether or not CBS airs the Charlie Brown TV specials anymore…because once they went to ABC, I quit watching with my kids (anyone else find they literally look different somehow on the Disney Channel ABC?).

It took guts to put something out there that might make little kids sad-as well as giving the adults watching pause for thought. Schulz‘ conflicted feelings about love and romance within the standard Peanuts TV special framework. Not pulling any punches, 1975’s Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown successfully translates cartoonist Charles M.

A Valentine for Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz