Here are a couple more minutes of Charles Schulz from the never-aired 1963 TV special, “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” It picks up from where I left off in a post from one year ago. The video is available from the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. The studio shown in this video clip was destroyed in a 1966 fire.
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Note: the comic strip that Schulz draws is obviously only for show, and not an actual installment. It’s just a series of drawings, as if an introduction for a Sunday strip. Also, at that time Schulz was still locked into the 4-panel format, and would not have used two daily panels for a single drawing.
Ultimately, old gags have to be used over and over, like Lucy and the football. But everybody loves that stuff. “Cathy” is a good example of stuff getting old and tired, like the shopping expeditions. Recently, when there was a pregnancy glut at her office, I was SURE Cathy would announce she was, too, but, no such luck!