PEANUTS
70TH
ANNIVERSARY
HOLIDAY
COLLECTION LIMITED EDITION
PEANUTS
70TH
ANNIVERSARY
HOLIDAY
COLLECTION LIMITED EDITION
AVAILABLE
OCTOBER 1, 2019
FROM
WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT
FEATURES
THREE ICONIC HOLIDAY SPECIALS
PLUS
SIX ADDITIONAL SPECIALS
AND
BRAND-NEW BONUS CONTENT ON BLU-RAY™
Four-Disc
Collection Includes Nine Television Specials Packaged in a
Limited
Edition Collectible Snoopy Doghouse Giftset
that
Features Brand-New Bonus Content Plus Collectible Memorabilia
Including
an Exclusive Snoopy Figurine and Charlie Brown Holiday Book!
The
legendary Peanuts comic strip turns 70 and to celebrate the
occasion, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release a gorgeous,
collectible Blu-ray™ giftset comprised of three iconic animated
holiday specials packaged in a limited edition Snoopy doghouse
giftset! Titled Peanuts 70th
Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition, this
collection will be released on October 1, 2019 and will include It’s
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
and A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as six additional
Peanuts specials that are re-mastered/restored, plus brand-new
special features. All nine specials will be released on Blu-ray™
with a digital copy. This must-own box set comes with two additional,
keepsake collectibles, including an exclusive Snoopy figurine and a
Charlie Brown holiday book. This is a numbered, limited edition set
with only 25,000 total sets available. It’s the perfect idea for
seasonal gift-giving! Peanuts 70th
Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition will retail
for $99.99 SRP ($141.00 in Canada).
Celebrate
the holidays with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Sally, Lucy, Linus,
Peppermint Patty and the rest of your favorite Peanuts
characters with this must-own, all-new collectors’ set. For 70
years, Peanuts have entertained fans with their heartwarming
adventures. The first Peanuts holiday special, A Charlie
Brown Christmas, which was produced by Lee Mendelson, directed by
Bill Melendez and featured a catchy jazzy score by pianist Vince
Guaraldi, won an Emmy® Award and served as the springboard for
dozens of enormously successful television specials, which followed
in subsequent years.
Created
by Charles M. Schulz, one of the most influential cartoonists of all
time, Peanuts, which focused on the lives of a group of young
children, premiered in seven newspapers in 1950 and went on to become
one of the most popular and longest running comic strips. At the peak
of its popularity, Peanuts was published in over 75 countries
and was translated into 21 languages. Peanuts became one of
the most powerful brands in entertainment, after taking a leap from
the pages of newspapers onto television, film, books, music,
merchandise, theme parks and much more.
Peanuts
70th Anniversary Holiday
Collection Limited Edition features the acclaimed, legendary
holiday-inspired It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The festivities continue with six additional, delightful seasonal
specials including It’s Magic, Charlie Brown, Charlie
Brown’s All-Stars, The Mayflower Voyagers, Play it
Again, Charlie Brown, It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie
Brown and It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown. This year,
the holidays will be merry and bright with the Peanuts gang
joining in the celebration!
Peanuts 70th
Anniversary Holiday Collection Limited Edition Featured
Specials:
* It’s
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – This
Emmy® Award-nominated special, finds the Peanuts gang
outfitted in costumes, ready for trick or treating and crashing
Violet’s Halloween party. Charlie Brown is in a ghost costume (with
more eyeholes cut out than needed), Lucy dressed as a witch and
Snoopy in a World War I flying ace costume. Linus decides to
steadfastly hold vigil in the pumpkin patch as he awaits the Great
Pumpkin.
* It’s
Magic, Charlie Brown – This special finds Snoopy putting on a
show after he checks out a book on magic tricks from the library.
With Marcie and Sally as his assistants, he performs many tricks
(some that work and some that don’t) before an audience. The grand
finale features the biggest trick of all, making Charlie Brown
disappear. To everyone’s amazement, Snoopy makes him invisible but
doesn’t know how to bring Charlie Brown back. Will Snoopy find a
way to reverse the trick?
* Charlie
Brown’s All-Stars – Nominated for two Prime Time Emmys®,
in this delightful special, Charlie Brown is faced with a difficult
moral dilemma; should he accept brand new uniforms and give the rest
of the gang a chance to be part of an official little league baseball
team even if it means that due to policy, Snoopy, Lucy, Patty, Violet
and Frieda must be kicked off?
* A
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – In this Emmy® Award-winning
special, Peppermint Patty invites herself to Charlie Brown’s house
for Thanksgiving dinner. Marcie and Franklin are soon added as dinner
guests. Charlie Brown admits that his culinary skills are limited to
“cold cereal and maybe toast.” Snoopy and Woodstock transform
the ping-pong table in the backyard into a dinner table. As the
guests arrive, they are each served two slices of buttered toast,
some pretzel sticks, popcorn and jelly beans. Peppermint Patty is
outraged at the meal and berates Charlie Brown until embarrassed and
dejected, he leaves the table and goes back into the house.
* The
Mayflower Voyagers – In this special from the This is
America, Charlie Brown series, the Peanuts kids become
pilgrims sailing to the New World aboard the Mayflower and endure the
first hard winter on Plymouth Plantation.
* Play
It Again, Charlie Brown – Nominated for an Emmy Award ®, this
special focuses on Lucy’s undying and unreciprocated love for the
piano playing child prodigy, Schroeder. In an
effort to win Schroeder’s affection, Lucy, under Peppermint Patty’s
advice, invites him to perform in a concert at an upcoming PTA
meeting. Schroeder accepts and immediately begins rehearsing. Lucy,
delighted with Schroeder’s acceptance, thanks Peppermint Patty.
Peppermint Patty however, mentions she forgot to tell Lucy that only
rock music will be featured in the program and that Schroeder won’t
be able to play Beethoven. Lucy is left in anguish, knowing
Schroeder will refuse to perform anything other than classical music
and tries to find a way to break the news without his dropping out of
the program.
* A
Charlie Brown Christmas – In this Emmy®
and Peabody Award winning classic, Charlie Brown is upset by how
commercial the Christmas holiday has become. To coax him out of his
holiday blues, Lucy suggests he direct the school’s Christmas
pageant and decorate a glorious tree. Charlie Brown concedes. The
tree he finds however, is puny, prompting everyone to ridicule him.
* It’s
Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown – This is the second
Christmas-themed Peanuts special since A Charlie Brown
Christmas. Holiday preparations include Charlie Brown selling
wreaths door-to-door to make extra money, Peppermint Patty sweating
out an important book report and the entire crew appearing in a
Christmas pageant.
* It’s
Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown – Originally broadcast in 1984, this
special is comprised of several clever parodies inspired by popular
early ‘80s dance trends ranging from disco to break dancing as well
as a series of top 40 hit songs from the era. It’s
Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown earned an Emmy® Award
nomination for Outstanding Animated Program.