| I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown | |
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| Genre | Animated TV special |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Directed by | Bill Melendez Larry Leichliter |
| Voices of | Jimmy Bennett Adam Taylor Gordon Ashley Rose Orr Corey Padnos Hannah Leigh Dworkin Nick Price Jake Miner Kailtyn Maggio Bill Melendez |
| Theme music composer | Vince Guaraldi |
| Opening theme | "Linus and Lucy" |
| Ending theme | "Re-Run's Theme" |
| Composer | David Benoit |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lee Mendelson |
| Producer | Bill Melendez |
| Running time | 49 minutes |
| Production companies | United Feature Syndicate Mendelson-Melendez |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | December 9, 2003 |
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I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown is the 43rd prime-time animated television special based upon the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The special first aired on ABC on December 9, 2003 (A Veteran’s Day Salute).[1] The special is about Linus and Lucy's younger brother, Rerun, wanting a pet dog for Christmas.[2]
It was released to DVD and VHS by Paramount on October 26, 2004, and Warner Home Video released it as a remastered deluxe edition on DVD on October 6, 2009, which also included Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! as a bonus feature. This special was re-released as part of the box set Snoopy's Holiday Collection on October 1, 2013. The special continued to air on ABC until 2019. As of 2020, the special will be among the collection of Peanuts productions available only to Apple TV+ subscribers; it was released on that platform on December 2, 2022.[3]
- ^ Solomon, Charles (2012). The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials. Chronicle Books. pp. 41, 180. ISBN 978-1452110912.
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 145. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ "'Peanuts' holiday specials to air on Apple TV+ this year". WKBW 7 News Buffalo. 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2022-10-17.