Peanuts (TV series)

Directed by:	Alexis Lavillat
Written by:	Charles M. Schulz (Original strips), various (Alterations)
Release date:	November 9th, 2014 (France/Italy) October 4th, 2015 (Japan) May 9th, 2016 (U.S.) September 1st, 2020 (Germany)
Running time:	6-8 minutes
Preceded by:	Peanuts Motion Comics
Followed by:	Snoopy in Space (The Search for Life)
Availability:	Peanuts by Schulz: Snoopy Tales (2017) Peanuts by Schulz: Go Team Go! (2017) Peanuts by Schulz: School Days (2017) Peanuts by Schulz: It’s Only Love (2019) Peanuts by Schulz: Springtime (2019) Peanuts by Schulz: Lucy and Friends (2019) Peanuts by Schulz: Happy Holidays (2019) Peanuts Die Neue Serie: Volumes 1-10 (2020 German releases)

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Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Peppermint Patty, and Frieda staring at us with nothing in their heads.. (From Normaal’s website)

Joe Cool as he appears in Peanuts

Peanuts by Schulz (or simply Peanuts) is a 2014 French-Italian animated TV programme produced by Normaal Animation Studios in France and Dall'Angelo Pictures in Italy. It is based on the Peanuts strip cartoon and characters by Charles M. Schulz. Its production preceded the Peanuts feature film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios that was released in November 2015. In a way, it supersedes Peanuts Motion Comics.

Directed by Alexis Lavillat, the series consists of 104 6-to-8 minute episodes that contain mashed-up and animated versions of certain strips (Mostly storylines or related events) depending on the episode, with over 500 shorts in total. However, many of the adapted strips have been altered to correspond with the protocol of the show, such as the main cast, which is sternly restricted to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Sally Brown, Peppermint Patty, Woodstock, Marcie, Schroeder, Pig-Pen, Frieda, Franklin, Rerun (whom is never seen outside of when he was a toddler), Eudora, and no one else with the exception of some minor characters who are vital in particular strips, Lydia, and Spike.

Since only characters of particular significance are allowed in the show, this means characters who are not of any discerning importance in the strip (such as Patty, Violet, 5, and Shermy) are fully omitted from the entire series. Due to this, most of the adaptions are invalid to their original strips. On the other hand, some strips have been deliberately conformed to give the show more originalilty.

The show originally first aired in France on France 3, and Italy on Rai Gulp on November 9th, 2014. In the U.S., it aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang on May 9th, 2016. Afterwards, DVDs of the U.S. version began to be fabricated from 2017 to 2019 beginning with Snoopy Tales, and ending with Happy Holidays. In Germany, a series of 10 more DVDs for Blu-ray were produced due to how late Peanuts released there.

Episodes

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Peanuts® series intro

The original translated French/Italian intro

List of episodes

1. Come on, Snoopy!
2. Don't Worry, Charlie Brown
3. The Little Red-Haired Girl
4. Have a Nice Day, Linus
5. Good Sports
6. Sound and Sensibility
7. Frieda
8. The Mysteries of Love
9. Technical Difficulties
10. A Day with Snoopy
11. A Strong Personality
12. The Eye of the Beholder
13. Miss Othmar
14. The School of Hard Knocks
15. My Blanket!
16. Novel Idea
17. No Strings Attached
18. A Friend Indeed
19. Crazy Mutt
20. Doing It Right
21. Like Skates on Ice
22. Tennis
23. A Little Nap
24. Word of Mouth
25. Good Dog
26. Snoopy the Superstar
27. Train Your Dog
28. A Pretty Picture
29. Leave Me in Peace
30. The Last of the Bunch
31. Too Cold
32. It's Raining, It's Pouring!
33. Show Dog
34. Philosophy
35. Woodstock
36. School Chums
37. True or False
38. Nobody Likes Me
39. Even-ing the Score
40. Black and White
41. Beauty Contest
42. A New Best Friend
43. Telling Stories
44. Being Nice
45. School Is Out!
46. Not Your Day
47. A Little Love
48. Love Is in the Air
49. A Clean Sweep
50. Brothers and Sisters
51. Marcie
52. Good for Nothing
53. Man's Best Friend
54. The Great Outdoors
55. Off Key
56. Not My Day
57. It's Only Love
58. Best Friend
59. Strike Out
60. Beware of the Dog
61. Going My Way
62. The Call of the Wild
63. Security
64. It's Just No Good
65. A Bad Mood
66. Back to School
67. Go to School!
68. Go for it, Charlie Brown!
69. Amateurs
70. School Anxiety
71. Autumn Is Here
72. A Fascinating Friend
73. Keep Your Chin Up, Charlie Brown
74. Misunderstanding
75. Too Cute
76. Team Spirit
77. Just for Love
78. That Day
79. Colors
80. Trust Me
81. School Tomorrow
82. Nice Doggy
83. Company
84. Reach for the Stars
85. Creepy Crawlies
86. Kind of Spooky
87. Fly
88. Feeling Insecure
89. Always Right
90. Out of Order
91. Problems
92. Classic
93. Even the Score
94. Birds of a Feather
95. Sally
96. A Hard Winter
97. The Winter Games
98. On the Campaign Trail
99. Christmas is on its Way
100. Winter Wonderland
101. Let it Snow
102. Get Lucky
103. Weird Little Brother
104. Christmas is Coming

Bumpers

Each bumper after an episode is based on a strip cartoon which only features Snoopy and Woodstock.

(1) Snoopy and Woodstock are sleeping. Woodstock is snoring loudly. Snoopy moves the Z speech balloon away from Woodstock over to himself. Snoopy then snores loudly, much to Woodstock's annoyance. (1983-09-03) (Pink) (Come on Snoopy #1)

(2) Woodstock's feathers on his head have been drawn and Woodstock sighs. So Snoopy sprays him and strokes his feathers. (1972-03-09) (Green) (The Mysteries of Love #2)

(3) Woodstock latches onto a branch and begins to sing. Snoopy notices a music note and grumpily walks over to Woodstock and places the note on him. (1978-08-06) (Orange) (Come on Snoopy #2)

(4) Snoopy watches Woodstock flying upside down. Woodstock talks upside down, much to Snoopy's confusion. (1976-09-04) (Orange) (Come on Snoopy #4)

(5) Snoopy and Woodstock are sleeping until Woodstock has a weird dream that he is in a cage and wakes up scared. (1975-06-08) (Pink) (School Chums #1)

(6) Woodstock is drawn and he climbs up onto Snoopy. Woodstock jumps into Snoopy's supper dish. Snoopy peers down and Woodstock gets a funny look. (1972-08-13) (Blue) (Come on Snoopy #3)

(7) Snoopy is sleeping until it starts to rain. He rushes over to Woodstock's nest and puts it upside down. (1976-04-04) (Blue) (Good Sports #2)

(8) A football is drawn and Snoopy kicks it. Woodstock peeks out from Snoopy's feet. (1974-09-28) (Orange) (The Little Red-Haired Girl #3)

(9) Woodstock is drawn sees some paper on the ground. Snoopy is typing and throwing the paper on the ground. Woodstock carries the paper away and makes it into a nest. (1975-04-22) (Orange) (Christmas is on its Way #1)

(10) Woodstock flies upside down over Snoopy and then flies to his nest where he falls asleep. (1975-07-14) (Purple) (The Mysteries of Love #1)

(11) A balloon is drawn and then a breeze blows Woodstock onto it. Woodstock flies upside down on his balloon past Snoopy. (1978-02-23) (Orange) (School Chums #4)

(12) A hat is drawn on Snoopy's head. Snoopy starts to ice skate and does jumps and spins. His hat ends up on his nose. (1975-01-08) (Blue) (School Chums #3)

(13) Woodstock is drawn and he flies onto Snoopy's nose. Then, all of a sudden, Snoopy sneezes. Woodstock is shot into the air and lands on Snoopy's feet. (1970-08-22) (Orange) (The Call of the Wild #4)

(14) Snoopy draws a crossword grid, then he fills some squares to black. Snoopy has a confused look, He tells Woodstock he needs a five-letter word. Woodstock chirps a five-letter word. Snoopy writes the five strokes into the grid. He thanks the bird. (1981-01-29) (Green) (The Eye of the Beholder #2)

(15) Woodstock is drawn and then, starts to gather up sticks. He makes a nest as tall as Snoopy's doghouse. Snoopy and Woodstock both fall asleep. (1986-03-10) (Pink) (Crazy Mutt #3)

(16) A basketball is drawn. Snoopy starts to play with it and then throws it into Woodstock's nest. (1973-09-21) (Orange) (Strike Out #3)

(17) Snoopy is sleeping with Woodstock sleeping on his feet. Snoopy wakes up from Woodstock's snoring and juggles him with his feet. Woodstock continues sleeping, but with the Z in the speech balloon spinning in circles, waking Snoopy a second time. (1975-07-26) (Green) (Christmas is on its Way #3)

(18) Snoopy is playing piano. A musical note with his dog feet appears. (1974-01-12) (Green) (Have a Nice Day Linus #2)

(19) Snoopy is walking to his doghouse, finds out that Woodstock is sleeping at the middle of the doghouse. Snoopy blows Woodstock to the side of the doghouse and he sleeps with Woodstock. (1973-08-27) (Orange) (Frieda #4)

(20) It is raining. Snoopy is walking, with Woodstock sitting at Snoopy's head, and Woodstock is holding an umbrella. The rain stops. Woodstock closes the umbrella and then he hangs the umbrella on Snoopy's nose. (1987-04-13) (Blue) (A Day with Snoopy #4)

(21) Snoopy and Woodstock are watching snow. Woodstock opens its mouth and wants to eat a snowball. The snowball is too heavy and Woodstock is too light. Woodstock falls down. (1971-01-12) (Pink) (Even the Score #1)

(22) Woodstock sings with some musical notes. Snoopy catches Woodstock, reshape him into a handbell, and use it to hit the musical note. (1983-01-29) (Purple) (Birds of a Feather #2)

(23) Snoopy is sleeping on his doghouse covered with snow. Woodstock brings a small tree and put it on Snoopy's nose. (1972-12-22) (Blue) (Christmas is Coming #1)

(24) Snoopy is turning up-side-down on his doghouse when Woodstock is flying upside-down passing his doghouse. (1970-04-11) (Green) (Train Your Dog #2)

(25) Snoopy acts as a helicopter and brings Woodstock for travelling. (1977-02-01) (Purple) (Keep Your Chin Up Charlie Brown #2)

(26) It is windy. Woodstock cannot fly very well. So he uses an anchor to help him to balance, and he flies passing through Snoopy. (1983-03-13) (Orange) (A Fascinating Friend #1)

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Voice actors

French and English-language versions of the series were produced in France. The same voice actors, all of whom are adult women who live in France, voice the characters in both versions. This is the first time that the child Peanuts characters have been voiced by adults in English.

The English-language version produced in France has not been shown on television in the United States. Boomerang had the entire series dubbed again using children's voices. This was done to respect the tradition in which real children have always voiced the child characters in Peanuts animated cartoons made in the United States. The child voice actors for the American version of the Peanuts TV programme are children who auditioned for parts in 2015's The Peanuts Movie, were rated highly but did not quite make the cut for the film. Surprisingly, characters such as Violet, and Shermy do not appear in the segments (presumably due to their minor roles in the Peanuts world).

Voice cast (American English version)

• Charlie Brown: Aiden Lewandowski
• Frieda/Eudora/Lydia: Cassidy May Benullo
• Linus van Pelt: Jude Perry
• Lucy van Pelt: Bella Stine
• Marcie/Sally Brown: Taylor Autumn Bertman
• Franklin: Caleel Harris
• Peppermint Patty/Molly Volley: Lily Zager
• Sally Brown/"Crybaby" Boobie: Emma Yarovinsky
• "Pig-Pen": Sage Correa
• Schroeder/Rerun van Pelt: Finn Carr
• Snoopy/Baby Rerun: Daniel Thornton
• Woodstock: Andy Beall (uncredited)

Floyd also appears in one episode but his voice is provided by an unknown actor.

Voice cast (French English version)

• Charlie Brown/Peppermint Patty/Molly Volley: Barbara Anne Weber Scaff
  • Scaff is also the voice director of this version.
• Lucy van Pelt: Tiffany Hoffstetter
• Linus van Pelt/Sally Brown/Snoopy/Woodstock/"Crybaby" BoobieRerun van Pelt: Kaycie Chase
  • Chase would later voice Charlie Brown in the French dubs of the franchise on Apple TV+ in 2019 to present.
• Marcie/Frieda: Emma Scherer
• Schroeder/Floyd: Sharon Mann
• Franklin/"Pig-Pen": Shola Adisa-Farrar

The French voice cast also consists of unidentified voice actors Mathilde Hennekinne, Nathalie Homs, Caroline Pascal, Dorothee Pousseo, and Magali Rosenzweig.

Credits

Home media cover art

Home media

The first DVD Snoopy Tales containing 32 episodes was released by Warner Home Video on January 24, 2017.

The second DVD Go Team Go containing 19 episodes was released on April 25, 2017.

The third DVD School Days containing 29 episodes was released on August 19, 2017.

The fourth DVD "Peanuts by Schulz: It's Only Love" containing 18 episodes was released on January 8, 2019.

The fifth DVD "Peanuts by Schulz: Springtime" containing 15 episodes was released on February 26, 2019.

The sixth DVD "Peanuts by Schulz: Lucy and Friends" containing 16 episodes was released on June 4, 2019.

The seventh DVD "Peanuts by Schulz: Happy Holidays" containing 26 episodes was released on September 10, 2019.

The art style

Peanuts’ art style is quite unique. The backgrounds now mainly use light or pastel colors, and to really distinguish the ‘comic book’ style the show goes for, halftone is used interchangeably throughout the entire series. Background variety is also high as well, ranging from simplistic to conventionally complex, much like both the original specials and comic strip. The tradition of watercolor is kept in touch as well.

As for the style of the Peanuts gang, it is a conformed version of the 1990s style. Many characters such as Linus and Frieda wear different variants of their usual outfits, and due to the freedom of the show in terms of variety and hierarchy, differences can be blatant at times. To fit in with the bright visuals of the show, they are lighter as well, and they each have their own proprietary ”vibes” to them due to this.

Trivia

• Although the series aired in France in 2014, and in the USA in 2016, every episode is copyrighted 2013, meaning the episodes were produced that year.
• This series revives only almost 3% of the entire Peanuts comic strip.

See also

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• "Misspellings"

External links

• Peanuts on the Internet Movie Database.
• Peanuts on the Big Cartoon Database.