It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown
Genre	Animation
Created by	Charles M. Schulz
Written by	Charles M. Schulz
Directed by	Bill Meléndez
Voices of	Michael Catalano; Angela Lee; Earl Reilly; Cindi Reilly; Brent Hauer ; Michael Dockery; Kevin Brando; Brian Jackson; Jason Castellano; Gerard Goyette Jr.; Jenny Lewis; Johnny Graves; Joel Graves; Jason Mendelson; John Hiestand; Bill Meléndez
Theme music composer	Ed Bogas; Desiree Goyette
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
First shown in	May 16, 1983
Chronology
Preceded by	Is This Goodbye
Followed by	What Have We Learned

It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown is the 25th Prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on May 16, 1983. It, along with 1982's A Charlie Brown Celebration inspired the Saturday Morning series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show.

Format[]

The special is a compilation consisting of eight individual stories adapted from the stories in the comic strip:

Sack: Charlie Brown is having hallucinations as a result of a rash on the back of his head resembling the stitchings of a baseball, most notably seeing the rising sun as a baseball. He goes to camp to take his mind off of baseball with a paper sack on his head to cover up said rash and is suddenly elected camp president as the other kids find his appearance cool. But then he removes his sack the next morning and becomes uncool again. He watches the sun rise, fearing that it will appear as a rising baseball. Instead, the sun is replaced with MAD Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman.
Caddies: Peppermint Patty and Marcie become golf caddies.
Kite: Charlie Brown bites the Kite-Eating Tree and then goes on the run from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for doing so; he ends up coaching a pee-wee baseball team.
Song: Lucy comes to Schroeder's house, annoying him while he tries to play many pieces.
Sally: Sally tells jokes in class.
Butterfly: Peppermint Patty falls asleep with a butterfly resting on her nose, and Marcie fools her into believing it turned into an angel.
Blanket: Lucy attempts to get rid of Linus's blanket by burying it and later turning it into a kite and letting it go, but Snoopy foils her both times.
Woodstock: Woodstock performs many of his antics in front of Snoopy, who is taking an afternoon nap.

Leland resembles the original version of Schroeder from 1951.
Milo resembles the younger version of Franklin.
The "Sally" and "Woodstock" stories from this special would also turn up on two different episodes of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. Also an unused story from this special titled "Clinging Snoopy" would also turn up on the series as well.