Here's a special celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip, titled Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown, as aired over WBBM Channel 2. Most commercial breaks (save two of them, described below) and sponsor billboards were edited out at the time of recording, but a few remain intact.
Includes:
'Catch the Brightest Stars' WBBM animated ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
'CBS Special Presentation' animated bumper
Segment 1: Includes opening comments by creator Charles M. Schulz, Carl encapsulates Peanuts' history, and then the opening titles showing the host is Carl Reiner.
Segment 2: Includes Carl asking "Sparky" why he has no one assisting him in doing the strip, about the preponderance of sports themes interspersed with shots of him and second wife Jeannie playing tennis and him on the ice hockey rink; covers with Peanuts characters from magazines such as Saturday Review, Woman's Day, Newsweek, Life, Time and TV Guide; the Apollo 10 crew's Charlie Brown command and Snoopy landing modules; Schulz as Grand Marshall of 85th Tournament of Roses Parade which led to him being incorporated into one strip; and foreign translations.
Segment 3: Schulz speaks of the significances of the characters Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Woodstock (named directly after the 1969 rock festival) and Sally, with clips featuring other characters such as Pigpen
"We Will Return" bumper
Promo for Family Film Special presentation of "Tom Sawyer" (voiceover by Alan Berns) (posted separately here: • CBS Family Film Festiv... )
'Catch the Brightest Stars' animated CBS 'Eye-D' (voiceover by Bill Martin)
Walter Jacobson previews report on CTA train collision at Addison Street station, as promo for Channel 2 News at 10pm (posted separately here: • WBBM Channel 2 - Chann... )
Dominick's Finer Foods sale on golden ripe bananas (good through January 14th) (posted separately here: • Dominick's Finer Foods... )
'Catch the Brightest Stars' WBBM animated ID (voiceover by Jerry Harper)
In Segment 4, a brief look at the contributions of Vince Guaraldi to the Peanuts specials, followed by Schulz on how Snoopy's 'Joe Cool' persona came about, and then explaining his creative process as it evolved from when he started, how a trip on a river raft in Oregon inspired one of the specials.
Commercials for:
$100,000 candy bar with Todd Bridges and Claudia Lamb (posted separately here: • $100,000 Bar by Nestle... )
Chuck Wagon dog food (posted separately here: • Chuck Wagon - "Chase T... )
Segment 5: Schulz imparts to Carl an important lesson for every cartoonist to remember, followed by a look at Schulz' early life and how it inspired the creation of Charlie Brown; his first submitted drawing (to Ripley's Believe It or Not); early drawings for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post; and the evolution of the Peanuts characters' appearances from the start, with displays of early strips; and one iconic Sunday strip with Charlie, Linus and Lucy; Schulz at work sketching things other than the strip while on trips to various places, then a shot of him teaching cartooning at Santa Rosa Junior College; a look at Snoopy's Red Baron adventures and waiting for presents on Halloween
Commercials for:
Tang instant breakfast drink (with Jim Lovell) (posted separately here: • Tang Instant Breakfast... )
Keebler Deluxe Grahams (with archaeologist digging for ancient cookie factory) (posted separately here: • Keebler Cookies - "Sea... )
Clips from summer-themed segments with the gang, followed by Carl's musings on the art of the comic strip and its 80th anniversary, followed by a shot of pages from the book "Peanuts Jubilee" and how the strip's length is almost a third of that; he then asks Schulz about his greatest satisfaction
Ending credits (with voiceover promo for Way Out Games and Entertainer of the Year Awards by Bill Martin)
(C) Copyright 1976 by United Feature Syndicate
Very brief shot of '200 Years Ago Today' bumper before recording ends
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 9th 1976 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.
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