What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!
| What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated TV Special |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Directed by |
Phil Roman Bill Meléndez |
| Voices of | Liam Martin Bill Meléndez |
| Music by | Ed Bogas |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Lee Mendelson |
| Producer(s) | Bill Meléndez |
| Editor(s) | Roger Donley Chuck McCann |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | February 23, 1978 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown |
| Followed by | You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown |
What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! is the 17th primetime animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on Thursday, February 23, 1978, at 8:00 P.M. ET/PT on CBS. The special is unusual in that Snoopy and Charlie Brown are the only members of the Peanuts cast to appear in it. The plot is similar to that of Jack London's Call of the Wild. This was the first special Bill Melendez directed since 1973's A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
In June 2010, the special was released on DVD as part of the Peanuts 1970's Collection, Volume Two set on Warner Home Video.
One winter day, Charlie Brown is trying to pretend to be a musher with Snoopy, but the dog has other ideas and gets Charlie Brown to pull while he has fun riding in the sled. When night comes and they are comfortably indoors, Charlie Brown is indignant that Snoopy is adjusting too well to home life, reminding Snoopy of facts that Arctic dogs are only fed once a day, their meals largely consisting of cold meat and raw fish (to which Snoopy blanches and gives a look of "it's too bad to be them") and coming to the conclusion that Snoopy is "an overly civilized, underly 'dogified' dog". After making a scrumptious dinner of five pizzas and a large milkshake - all of which he eats himself, Snoopy goes to bed on his doghouse and promptly wakes up in a nightmare to find out that he is now a sled dog of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska, presumably during the Klondike Gold Rush or the 1925 serum run to Nome.
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