You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown, the first 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...

TV special of the 1990s, is one of many 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 specials, based on characters from the 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...

 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...

. It originally aired on the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 network on February 2, 1990

1990 in television

For the American TV schedule, see: 1990-91 United States network television schedule.The year 1990 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1990.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...

. Hosted by Knots Landing

Knots Landing

Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle...

star Michele Lee

Michele Lee

Michele Lee is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s. She is best-known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing...

, this special includes a reunion of actors and actresses who voiced Peanuts characters from 1965 to 1989. Also included are a B.B. King performance of Joe Cool

Joe Cool

Joe Cool may refer to:*Snoopy of Peanuts fame, whose aliases included Joe Cool*Joe Montana, a former NFL quarterback who earned the nickname...

and clips from the seldom-seen 1973 Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...

 live-action production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts...

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Actors and actresses interviewed

• Brad Kesten (Charlie Brown, 1981-1986)
• Chad Allen
  Chad Allen (actor)
  Chad Allen is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, best known for rising to prominence as a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama,...
  
   (Charlie Brown, 1986)
• Stuart Brotman (Peppermint Patty, 1975-1977)
• Erin Chase (first girl to voice Charlie Brown, 1988-1989)
• Sally Dryer
  Sally Dryer
  Sally Dryer is a former child actor best known for her voice-over work in the 1960s.-Career:...
  
   (Lucy van Pelt, 1966-1968)
• Robin Kohn
  Robin Kohn
  Robin Kohn is a former a child actress noted for providing the voice of Lucy van Pelt in various Peanuts animation films during the early 1970s. Later on, her sister Melanie Kohn would inherit the role from her...
  
   (Lucy van Pelt, 1972-1973)
• 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...
  
   (other segments; Snoopy & Woodstock 1965-2006)
• Jeremy Miller
  Jeremy Miller
  Jeremy James Miller is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on Growing Pains and its two reunion movies...
  
   (Linus van Pelt, 1985-1986)
• Geoffrey Ornstein (Pigpen, 1965)
• Peter Robbins
  Peter Robbins (actor)
  Peter Robbins is a former child actor best known for his voice-over work as Charlie Brown in the 1960s.-The original Charlie Brown:...
  
  (original Charlie Brown, 1965-1969)
• Heather Stoneman (Lucy van Pelt, 1984-1985)