There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown

There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown is the ninth prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This marks the on-screen debut of Marcie, who first appeared on the comic strip in 1971. The special originally aired on the CBS network on March 11, 1973. The first half of the special is presented as a series of sketches based on various Peanuts strips, while the second half depicts Charlie Brown's erroneous trip to a supermarket, mistaken for an art museum.

The special was released on DVD as a bonus feature (along with another Peanuts special Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown) on January 6, 2004. It was also released in remastered form as part of the DVD box set, Peanuts 1970's Collection, Volume One. It had been previously released on CED in 1981, and on VHS by Kartes Video Communications in 1987, and by Paramount on January 11, 1995. The special occasionally saw airings on the American TV channel Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2000 as part of Nickelodeon's umbrella branding for Peanuts programming, You're on Nickelodeon, Charlie Brown!

Plot
There are three months of school left and all of the Peanuts gang are under pressure from too many tests and homework assignments. They now have to make preparations to write a report on a field trip to an art museum.

Charlie Brown's grades are falling from A to C and he has to receive a big grade on his museum report in order to salvage his grades for the entire term. Simultaneously, he must fight off the distraction of Peppermint Patty and her classmate Marcie (in her animated debut), both of whom have feelings for him. On the way to the art museum, Charlie Brown, his sister Sally, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Snoopy inadvertently arrive at a supermarket and mistake it for the museum. When Linus shows Charlie Brown and Lucy slides that resemble the works he took pictures of, Charlie Brown's hopes of salvaging his grades are shattered. As he waits for his grade, he expects nothing less than expulsion from school. However, everything works out for the best, as his teacher assumes his report is a description of an art museum described through the metaphor of a supermarket and she gives him an A.

Peppermint Patty later apologizes to Charlie Brown for snapping at him, saying that it was not easy for a girl to talk like that to a boy. But Peppermint Patty angrily blows Charlie Brown away after Charlie Brown brings up the Little Red-Haired Girl. Marcie reminds Peppermint Patty that she said the wrong thing again. Peppermint Patty then asks Marcie if she knows how annoying it is being called 'sir' a lot when she tells her not to. Marcie responds, "No, ma'am".

Cast and characters
Violet, Patty, and Frieda made cameo appearances but they are silent.
 * Chad Webber as Charlie Brown
 * Stephen Shea as Linus van Pelt
 * Robin Kohn as Lucy van Pelt
 * Hilary Momberger as Sally Brown
 * James Ahrens as Marcie
 * Todd Barbee as Franklin
 * Christopher DeFaria as Peppermint Patty
 * Bill Melendez as Snoopy

Music score
The music score for  was composed by Vince Guaraldi and conducted and arranged by John Scott Trotter. The score was performed by the Vince Guaraldi Quintet on January 15, February 22 and 26, 1973, at Wally Heider Studios, featuring Tom Harrell (trumpet), Pat O'Hara (flute), Seward McCain (bass) and Glenn Cronkhite (drums).


 * 1) "Early Wake-Up"
 * 2) "" (version 1, opening credits)
 * 3) "Pitkin County Blues"
 * 4) "" (version 2)
 * 5) "Play It Again, Charlie Brown" (aka "Charlie's Blues" and "Charlie Brown Blues")
 * 6) "African Sleigh Ride"
 * 7) "Joe Cool" (Lead vocal: Vince Guaraldi)
 * 8) "Peppermint Patty" (brass version)
 * 9) "Apple Jack" (variation of “Linus and Lucy”)
 * 10) "Bus Me"
 * 11) "" (version 3, electric keyboard version)
 * 12) "Linus and Lucy" (electric guitar version)
 * 13) "Incumbent Waltz" (piano + electric guitar version)
 * 14) "" (version 4, brass)
 * 15) "" (version 5, wah-wah guitar/end credits)

No official soundtrack for  was released. However, recording session master tapes for seven 1970s-era Peanuts television specials scored by Guaraldi were discovered by his son, David, in the mid-2000s. The songs "Pitkin County Blues", "Play It Again, Charlie Brown" (aka "Charlie's Blues" and "Charlie Brown Blues"), "African Sleigh Ride", "Peppermint Patty", "Joe Cool" and "" (version 3, electric keyboard version) were released in 2007 on the compilation album, Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials.

In addition, a live version of "" was also released in 2008 on Live on the Air from a Vince Guaraldi Trio concert originally recorded on February 6, 1974 (exactly two years to the day before Guaraldi's death). The song was also covered by New Age pianist George Winston on Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Volume 2 (2010).

Credits

 * Written and Created by: Charles M. Schulz
 * Directed by: Bill Melendez
 * Produced by: Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez
 * Original Music Composed and Performed by: Vince Guaraldi
 * Music Supervision by: John Scott Trotter
 * Graphic Blandishment: Ed Levitt, Evert Brown, Dean Spille, Frank Smith, Bernard Gruver, Carole Barnes, Ellie Bogardus, Phil Roman, Don Lusk, Bob Carlson, Sam Jaimes, Bill Littlejohn, Al Pabian, Rod Scribner, Hank Smith, Beverly Robbins, Eleanor Warren, Manon Washburn, Faith Kovaleski, Adele Lenart, Joanne Lansing, Dawn Smith, Joice Lee Marshall, Carla Washburn, Debbie Zamora
 * "Joe Cool" Sung by: Vince Guaraldi
 * Editing: Robert T. Gillis, Charles McCann, Rudy Zamora
 * Recording:
 * Voices: Radio Recorders, Coast Recorders
 * Music: Wally Heider Recording
 * Mix: Producers' Sound Service
 * Camera: Dickson-Vasu, Tony Rivetti
 * in cooperation with United Feature Syndicate, Inc. and Charles M. Schulz Creative Development, Corp., Warren Lockhart, President