Charlie Brown & Co.

Charlie Brown & Co. is a British-American animated series featuring characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired on Saturday mornings on the RKO Network from September 6, 1986 to July 22, 1988, and was rerun on in 1991 under the alternate title of The New Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show. The series was produced by in  in association with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The series ran for three seasons of 84 episodes - the first two comprised 65 episodes in total with an additional 20 for the third.

Cast
The child characters were performed by real children, and there was a large cast turnover throughout the show's run due to the child actors maturing out of their roles. Due to union and contract issues, and the voice actors for Charlie Brown were the only actors from the specials to reprise their roles, they recorded in separate sessions in  while the rest of the cast recorded in,.


 * as Charlie Brown (1986-1987)
 * Sean Collins as Charlie Brown (1988)
 * Rebecca Cynthia Gawley as Sally Brown (1986)
 * Eileen Pritchard as Sally Brown (1987-1988)
 * Lucas Pelphrey as Linus van Pelt (1986)
 * Liam Pritchard as Linus van Pelt (1987)
 * Harold Cook as Linus van Pelt (1988)
 * Samantha Phipps as Lucy van Pelt (1986-1988)
 * Kevin MacCruddan as Schroeder (1986)
 * Andrew Maxwell as Schroeder (1987)
 * Shawn Gannis as Schroeder (1988)
 * Serah Leftwich as Peppermint Patty (1986-1988)
 * Colleen Moat as Marcie (1986)
 * Karen Kells as Marcie (1987)
 * Madeline Howfield as Marcie (1988)
 * Shawn Browne as Franklin (1986-1988)
 * as Snoopy/Woodstock

Additional Cast Members

 * as The Narrator ("Great Moments in History" skits)
 * as The Red Baron ("Great Moments in History" skits)
 * as George Washington ("Peanuts History Lesson - America")
 * Norman Gannis as Benjamin Franklin ("Peanuts History Lesson - America")
 * as Thomas Jefferson ("Peanuts History Lesson - America")

Season 1

 * Episode 19 - Back to the 50s / Great Moments In History - The Peanuts Comics / Peanuts History Lesson - From Folks To Peanuts / Do You Feel Older Now, Charlie Brown? (rel. 1/3/1987)
 * Episode 20 - On The Road: Part I / Great Moments In History - Vehicles and Transportation / Peanuts History Lesson - Automobiles / On The Road: Part II (rel. 1/10/1987)
 * Episode 21 - You Are Famous, Charlie Brown / Great Moments In History - Celebrities / Peanuts History Lesson - The First Famous Man / I Am Famous, Charlie Brown (rel. 1/17/1987)
 * Episode 22 - Crabbin' Fever! / Great Moments In History - Lost and Found / Peanuts History Lesson - Cabins / Skiin' Snoopy! (rel. 1/24/1987)
 * Episode 23 - Home Videos / Great Moments In History - The Format Wars / Peanuts History Lesson - Videocassettes / Snoopy Tapes Movies (rel. 5/25/1987 [VHS] & 7/25/1987 [RKO])
 * Episode 24 - Joe Cool Is Hip! / Great Moments In History - Trendy Styles / Peanuts History Lesson - What Was Cool? / Marcie Has Cable, Charlie Brown! (rel. 1/31/1987)
 * Episode 25 - Linus, Thy Name Is Daredevil / Great Moments In History - Evel Knievel / Peanuts History Lesson - Who Was The First Daredevil? / It's A Clip Show, Charlie Brown! (rel. 2/7/1987)

Trivia

 * This series is notable for some of the animators of the show teaming up to form the animation company British Motion Co. after the series ended.
 * This was one of the few series at the time to have very little to no animation produced in Asian countries as a cost-saving measure, thus, the series' budget often skyrocketed (and only saved money by recycled animation and the generally simplistic art style of the Peanuts series) and was one of the main reasons the series ended.
 * The series was behind production schedule and relied on stock footage from earlier Peanuts specials and pencil tests for the episodes in promos, however, the first episode was completed in time for the premiere of the show.
 * Some episodes were not released in production order, either due to production issues, tying in on holidays or anniversaries for the Peanuts franchise or prolonged licensing issues with some of the references in Great Moments in History and/or Peanuts History Lesson.