Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 13-15: It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

*Thank you for joining us for another fun season of the podcast! This week we look at the 1983 Peanuts special, It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown! The special is available on Apple Plus.

*The official Peanuts podcast Mike mentions is here. Later in the episode, I mention It's a Podcast, Charlie Brown.

*The motocross special is You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown; and the ice skating special is She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. The one centered on Lucy and Schroeder is Play It Again, Charlie Brown.

The election one is You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown. Snoopy joins the circus in Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown.

*I just got an e-book version of The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials by Charles Solomon. it looks like it focuses on the art, but it does devote space to most of the specials. I say "most" because it does not have a blurb about It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown!

*This Is America, Charlie Brown is an 8-episode series that CBS broadcast in Fall 1988 to Spring 1989.

*Here is the Frank Wing cartoon referenced in the original Peanuts strip and in the special, courtesy of a Reddit user.

*The "What, Me Worry?" gag is in our video playlist this week (See below).

*The Environmental Protection Agency began in 1970.

*Please enjoy this episode's video playlist, with lots of promos, commercials, and more with the Peanuts gang! Click below to go right to it, or you can always visit our official YouTube page for all of our past episodes and similar lists for each one of them! Get happy!

Episode 13-15: It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown

We round out season 13 by taking a look at the Peanuts non-holiday TV specials. Most folks have fond memories of the holiday specials, but do they remember ones about camp, decathalons, school, motocross, and more? We give special attention to It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown, an hour-long special made up of shorter pieces adapted from the comics, including "The Kite-eating Tree" and the classic "Sack." Don't be a blockhead and pass up on this episode.

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YouTube Spotlight: Paddy the Pelican

I had a little fun with Mike's harrowing story of a pelican attack on this week's podcast. At the end of the YT playlist this week is Paddy the Pelican in "Piggy Bank Robbery." You may wonder, what the heck is Paddy the Pelican?

The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican is an animated (and I use the term loosely) series that launched on ABC in 1950 and apparently got some airplay on Chicago stations in 1954 (Maybe other markets as well?). Paddy shows up on many "worst cartoon" lists, and you have to see it to really get it.

Top Ten #395

1) The Partridge Family: This week on the podcast, we get happy. Boy, do we ever get happy!

2) Dave Madden: My favorite performer on The Partridge Family is also my almost-favorite regular at Mel's Diner on Alice (Can't top Henry Beesmeyer): Madden, whose Reuben Kincaid is always interesting to watch. 

3) Dick Clark: I think we undersold his cameo in "Star Quality," the episode we talked about. I mean, sure, it wasn't particularly lengthy or notable, and I can't remember much about it, but--OK, maybe we didn't undersell it. Still, in the dream sequence, Clark's presence provided instant pop idol credibility for Danny as a "single."

4) The kids that played Tracy and Chris: Hey, they tried. I really felt bad for them reading some of the quotes in The Partridge Family Album book by Joey Green.

5) Valerie: The troubled sitcom headlined by Valerie Harper debuted on NBC 40 years ago tonight( The trouble came later).

6) King Kong Bundy: Also 40 years ago tonight, Bundy attacked Hulk Hogan during the Hulkster's world title match against Magnificent Muraco on a taped Saturday Night's Main Event, setting up a main event showdown at Wrestlemania II with Danny Ponce as guest referee (I'm kidding about that last part).

7) The Killing Fields: I can't get away from this night in 1986. This prestigious 1984 film debuted on pay cable March 1, 1986--on both HBO and Showtime. I always thought it was odd when the competitors showed the same movie at the same time.

8) Cartoons: Oodles of Warner Brothers toons from all eras start popping up on Tubi today. A lot of stuff is on the way, but not all of it might be there today. So, folks, be patient; Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels will be there eventually.

9) 227: It's a big week for stars of the Eighties NBC sitcom, which we discuss here. Regina Hall won an AARP Movies for Grownups award, and Marla Gibbs' new memoir, It's Never Too Late, just hit bookstores.

10) R.I.P. Robert Carradine: