I love this story in today's AZ Republic.
"Creator Charles "Sparky" Schulz, director-animator Bill Melendez and producer Lee Mendelson decided to choose another holiday for their third special. And the result, "Great Pumpkin," pleased Schulz greatly."
7 things you didn't know:
"1. The director took Snoopy's virgin flight as a personal challenge -- turning the beagle into a silent star.
2. Schulz filled Charlie Brown's Halloween bag with rocks to "spite" his colleagues
3. For years, sympathetic viewers kept sending candy to Schulz's studio.
4. "Charlie Brown" says he knows which child actor deserves the most praise: Christopher Shea -- the voice of Linus Van Pelt.
5. "Sally Brown" nearly had to be replaced at the last minute.
6. Some of the kid actors' lines had to be recorded one syllable at a time, then spliced together.
"My favorite moment," Mendelson says, "is when Sally is yelling at Linus in the pumpkin patch: 'I demand restitution!'"
"My favorite moment," Mendelson says, "is when Sally is yelling at Linus in the pumpkin patch: 'I demand restitution!'"
7. The spark to create the special came from ... the network.
On Oct. 27, 1966, the 25-minute animated special found its way to roughly half the nation's TV screens. The next year, the show would garner three Emmy nods.
And the phrase "I got a rock," entered the national parlance."
2 comments:
Love Charlie Brown
I didn't know...you are right. But I did watch it 5 times this year
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