Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown

Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown
DVD cover featuring Snoopy and Linus
Genre	Animation
Created by	Charles M. Schulz
Written by	Charles M. Schulz Craig Schulz Stephan Pastis
Directed by	Andrew Beall Frank Molieri
Voices of	Austin Lux (Linus van Pelt) Amanda Pace (Sally Brown) Trenton Rogers (Charlie Brown, Schroeder) Grace Rolek (Lucy van Pelt) Shane Baumel (Pig-Pen) Blesst Bowden (Violet) Ciara Bravo (Patty) Andy Pessoa (Shermy)
Composer(s)	Mark Mothersbaugh
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Charles M. Schulz
Running time	46 minutes
Production company(s)	Peanuts Worldwide Warner Premiere
Release
Original network	Fox (US) Teletoon (Canada)
Original release	March 29, 2011 (Home video premiere) October 1, 2011 (Television premiere)
Chronology
Preceded by	He's a Bully, Charlie Brown
Followed by	The Peanuts Movie

Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown is a Peanuts television special that was released in 2011. The special is the 45th Peanuts special and the first produced without Bill Melendez on the production team. It is also the first special without the direct involvement of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Lee Mendelson Productions or Bill Melendez Productions (it is unknown, though, if Lee Mendelson also worked on this special). In addition, it is the first Peanuts special produced in part under Warner Bros. Television, which holds the home media distribution rights to the Peanuts specials.

The special was released on DVD on March 29, 2011, and first aired on television on October 1, 2011, on Teletoon in Canada. The special premiered in the United States on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011, at 8:30PM ET/PT on Fox, the first Peanuts special to air on the network; with this airing, Peanuts specials have aired on all four major networks. Coincidentally, the first half of the film's original Fox broadcast in 2011 competed directly with a Peanuts special that aired at the same time on ABC ("The Mayflower Voyagers" from This Is America, Charlie Brown). The special aired again on November 23, 2012 (the day after Thanksgiving, so as not to directly compete with the other Peanuts specials) and December 17, 2013.

The program special is particularly notable in that the characters/animation are drawn in a 1950s/early-1960s style, and uses only characters from that time period (including Violet, Shermy, and Patty), except for the inclusion of one later character, , and intermediate-era characters Frieda, Faron, 5, 4, and 3 appearing briefly as extras; and even pays homage to the very first Peanuts strip, from October 2, 1950 (when Charlie Brown has a flashback sequence).