I’m a very big admirer of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz. Someday I’ll visit The Charles M. Schulz Museum. The museum has released a DVD of the long-neglected 1963 TV show, A Boy Named Charlie Brown. How neglected? It was never shown!
I’m providing 2 minutes of footage from the show as an enticement for you to buy it. His ideas were very similar to those of Fred Rogers, don’t you think?
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Order the DVD here. Unfortunately, the museum doesn’t take orders online, and you’ll have to click the “Videos” link to see the ordering information for the DVD.
The show also includes the first Peanuts animation, done a full two years before the ground-breaking special, A Charlie Brown Christimas. For a measly $15, anybody who is interested in the work and life of Schulz must have this unique DVD!
Since writing this post I have read that the first animation of the Peanuts characters was as far back at 1959, for Ford commercials. I was aware of Peanuts being in a Ford campaign, and somewhere in a box I have an original prints ad I hope to post. But if I knew there were TV commercials I didn’t remember it. They’re not on YouTube — yet.
Yep, that’s right; got it reversed. The Jeannie was GOOD! I wonder how she’s doing.
Jeannie was his second wife. They married in ’73. His first wife was Joyce, with whom he had no joy. Joyce got a ton of money in the divorce, remarried immediately to a man named Ed Doty, and has been living the life ever since, as written up here.
Hello, Jeanie! Hello, Dougie! No, no need for selt belts! This is 1963! Why, Amy is your age, Doug and Jean! And my wife’s name is Jeanen, too, but we’ll get divorced one day ;( But I’ll stay the same, simple, swell guy you see before you today, with the best strip out there.
Man, he was was really one of a kind. So self-effacing! He was a genius! And always, ALWAYS pouring generous praise on his colleagues while down-playing the way HE paved for THEM!