This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988)
This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Erin Chase
Charlie Brown (voice)
Erica Gayle
Lucy van Pelt (Voice)
Brittany Thornton
Sally Brown (voice)
Brandon Stewart
Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Jason Mendelson
Peppermint Patty (voice)
Marie Cole
Marcie (voice)
Curtis Andersen
Schroeder (voice)
Hakeem Abdul-Samad
Franklin (voice)
Charles M. Schulz
Creator / Writer
Thomas Baker
Animation
Ed Bogas
Music
Nick Vasu
Director of Photography
Lee Mendelson
Producer / Writer
Gordon D. Brenner
Editor
Chuck McCann
Editor
Nina Skahan
Production Assistant
Kristy Mendelson
Production Assistant
Warren Taylor
Editor
Glenn Mendelson
Production Assistant
Carole Barnes
Production Manager
Joanna Coletta
Production Assistant
Carol Neal
Production Assistant
Sam Jaimes
Director
Evert Brown
Director
Sam Nicholson
Director
Bill Melendez
Snoopy / Woodstock (voice) / Producer / Writer / Snoopy / Woodstock (voice) / Spike (voice) / Director
Christopher Collins
Mayflower Watchman / Samoset (voice)
Tani Taylor Powers
Marcie (voice)
Sean Mendelson
Pilgrim Child (voice)
Ami Foster
Lucy Van Pelt (voice)
Jeremy Miller
Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Jason Riffle
Charlie Brown (voice)
Keri Houlihan
Marcie (voice)
Christina Lange
Sally Brown (voice)
Chuck Olson
Delegate (voice)
Bud Davis
(voice)
Shepard Menken
(voice)
Brandon Horne
Cousin Dolly (voice)
Grant Gelt
Franklin (voice)
Frank Welker
Wilbur Wright (voice) / Squanto / Captain Smith / Pilgrim Explorer #2 (voice) / George Mason / James Wilson / Governor M...
Gregg Berger
Mission Control Speaker (voice) / Schilling (voice) / Orville Wright (voice) / Thomas Watson / John Kruesi (voice) / Sam...
Hal Smith
John Muir (voice) / George Washington (voice)
Ronald Winans
Singer (voice)
Marvin Winans
Singer (voice)
Carvin Winans
Singer (voice)
Michael Winans
Singer (voice)
Alissa King
Marian Edison (voice)
Julie Payne
Mrs. Holiday (voice)
Jailyn Osborne
(voice)
Lou Rawls
Vocalist (voice)
Cameron Clarke
Snoopy (voice)
Desiree Goyette
Vocalist (voice)
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 21, 1988
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes8
Running Time25m
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
This Is America, Charlie Brown is an eight-part animated television miniseries that depicts a series of events in American history featuring characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired from 1988 to 1989 on CBS. The first four episodes aired as a weekly series in October and November 1988; the final four episodes aired monthly from February to May 1989.
Due to the nature of the events portrayed and the historical figures included — such as the Wright Brothers and George Washington — the opposite of most Charlie Brown cartoons, many adults were shown in full view along with the Peanuts gang, something that happened rarely in the animated films and specials and in only one early sequence in the comic strip. These adults were drawn in a style similar to It's Only a Game, another comic strip by Schulz that featured adults, as well other productions that were overseen by Peanuts regular Bill Melendez.
While all eight episodes were subsequently rerun by CBS in the summer of 1990, the series as a whole subsequently aired in the U.S. on Disney Channel between 1993 and 1997, which gave way to Nickelodeon between 1998 and 2003. However, "The Mayflower Voyagers" episode returned to television in 2008 (and aired each year through 2019, after which the Peanuts television specials migrated over to the Apple TV+ streaming platform) as companion material to pad the 1973 special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving to a full one-hour time slot. To accommodate the slot, portions of the episode were abridged.