Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown is an Emmy-award winning prime-time animated

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 TV special based upon the popular comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 Peanuts

Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

, by Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...

. It was originally aired on the CBS

CBS

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 network in 1979.

This episode celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip (actually 1980), and the 15th anniversary of animated Peanuts specials on CBS. It includes an interview with Charles M. Schulz. Phyllis George

Phyllis George

Phyllis Ann George Brown is an American businesswoman, actress and a former sportscaster. She is a former Miss Texas and Miss America of 1971.- Early life :...

 hosted.

Voice Actors

• Arrin Skelley: Charlie Brown
• Daniel Anderson
  Daniel Anderson
  Daniel Anderson may refer to:* Daniel Anderson , American basketball player* Daniel Anderson , member of the band Idiot Pilot* Daniel Anderson , Australian rugby league coach...
  
  : Linus Van Pelt
• Annalisa Bartolin: Sally Brown
• Bill Melendez
  Bill Melendez
  José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...
  
  : Snoopy & Woodstock
• Michelle Muller: Lucy Van Pelt
• Ronald Hendrix: Franklin
• Laura Planting: Peppermint Patty
• Casey Carlson: Marcie