User:JAYFAX/Peanuts animated specials summary (draft)

Peanuts was first adapted into full-format animation with A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), a half-hour Christmas special broadcast to CBS. It was met with extensive critical success. It was the first of the set of television specials that continued to be made thereon, and forms a selection of holiday themed specials which are aired annually in the US to present day, including It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973). The first feature length film came in 1969, and was one of four which were produced during the run of the strip. A Saturday morning television series aired in 1983, each episode consisting of three or four segments dealing with plot lines from the strip. An additional spin-off miniseries aired in 1988, exploring the history of the United States.

Peanuts continues to be adapted into animation after the run of the strip, with the last television special made in 2011. A series of cartoon shorts premiered on iTunes, as Peanuts Motion Comics (2008), which directly lifted themes and plot lines from the strip. In 2014, the French network France 3 debuted the latest Peanuts television series, a series of episodes each consisting of several roughly one minute shorts bundled together. The last feature length film was in 2015.



Television Film
 * Peanuts animated specials'' (1965-2009)
 * The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983-1985)
 * This is America, Charlie Brown (1988-1989)
 * Peanuts (TV series) (2014-present)
 * A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
 * Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
 * Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
 * Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) (1980)
 * The Peanuts Movie (2015)