A Charlie Brown Celebration

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Charles M. Schulz: Good evening. I'm Charles Schulz. Welcome to "A Charlie Brown Celebration". Bill Melendez, his animators, and I have put together a cartoon show that is just a little bit different from the ones you usually see. When you draw a comic strip every day, it's important to have a change of pace to keep the reader's interest. I draw a list of daily episodes, then when something strikes me as especially interesting, I do a story that could run for three, four, even five weeks, depending on where the story takes me. This is what we have done for our show tonight. We have four short stories interspersed with several little episodes all involving the complete cast of "Peanuts" characters. Naturally, there will be Snoopy and Woodstock, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Schroeder, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, the whole Peanuts gang. So, welcome to "A Charlie Brown Celebration".