I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (2003) (TV)

Directors:

Larry Leichliter
Bill Melendez

Writer:

Charles M. Schulz (characters)

Release Date:

9 December 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family

Plot:

I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown! centers on ReRun, the lovable but ever-skeptical younger brother of Linus and Lucy...

Plot Keywords:

Christmas | Animal In Title | Peanuts | Kids And Family | Character Name In Title

Cast

Jimmy Bennett	...	Rerun Van Pelt (voice)
Adam Taylor Gordon	...	Charlie Brown (voice)
Ashley Rose	...	Lucy Van Pelt (voice) (as Ashley Rose Orr)
Corey Padnos	...	Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Hannah Leigh Dworkin	...	Sally Brown (voice)
Nick Price	...	Schroeder (voice)
Jake Miner	...	Pig Pen / Franklin (voice)
Kaitlyn Maggio	...	Little girl (voice)
Bill Melendez	...	Snoopy (voice)

Directed by
Larry Leichliter
Bill Melendez

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles M. Schulz		characters

Produced by
Bill Melendez	....	producer
Lee Mendelson	....	executive producer
Warren Taylor	....	line producer

Original Music by
David Benoit

Casting by
Sandy Claxton Arnold		(as Sandy Claxton-Arnold)

Production Management
Carole Barnes	....	production manager

Sound Department
Glen Darcey	....	sound effects editor
R.D. Floyd	....	dialogue editor
B. Tennyson Sebastian III	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Tennyson Sebastian)

Animation Department
Carole Barnes	....	checking
Dave Brain	....	animator
Shaun Cashman	....	animator
Craig Clark	....	clean-up artist
Cynthia Goode	....	checking (as Cindy Goode)
Eddy Houchins	....	animator
Andy Kim	....	animation producer
Brian Mark	....	layout artist
Al Pabian	....	clean-up artist
Kathleen Quaife-Hodge	....	clean-up artist (as Kathleen Quaife)
Dave Rodriguez	....	layout artist (as David Rodriguez)
Joe Roman	....	clean-up artist
Dean Spille	....	color stylist
Vicki White	....	checking

Editorial Department
Janet 'Lime' Leimenstoll	....	picture editor
Bruce Ochmanek	....	on-line editor

Music Department
David Benoit	....	music arranger
David Benoit	....	musician: piano and keyboards
Blake Martin Moulin	....	music editor

Other crew
Joanna Coletta	....	production assistant
Jennifer Damiani	....	production assistant
Glenn Mendelson	....	business affairs
Jason Mendelson	....	story developer
Kristy Mendelson	....	business affairs
Carol Neal	....	business affairs
Katie Perkins	....	production assistant
Christine Schultz	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Lee Mendelson Film Productions
• Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates (in association with)
• United Media Productions (in association with)

Distributors

• ABC Television Center (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2003) (USA) (TV)
• Paramount Home Video (2004) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Toon-Us-In Animations  animation
• Cody Art  animation
• Vitello Productions  editing and sound services
• L.A. Studios, The  dialogue recording (as LA Studios)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Lee Mendelson Film Productions

Trivia:

The telescript was transcribed from Schulz's strips.

Quotes:

Rerun Van Pelt: [singing] Over hill, over dale
[stops]
Rerun Van Pelt: ...poor Dale

Still makes me smile...

Peanuts still makes me smile after all these years. This new animated feature was very good. For the big Peanuts aficianados, you'll recognize a lot of the gags are from the weekly strips themselves, some dating back to the 1960s. It was done very well and I very much enjoyed it.