A Charlie Brown Valentine A Charlie Brown Valentine A Charlie Brown Valentine is an animated television special, based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It features the "Peanuts" characters during the week leading up to Valentine's Day. Initially broadcast February 14, 2002 on ABC, "A Charlie Brown Valentine" was the first new "Peanuts" special to air on television since 1994's "You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown", and the first original special to be televised since Schulz's death in February 2000. "A Charlie Brown Valentine" was the first "Peanuts" special to be produced after the death of "Peanuts" creator Charles
Ellis Valentine during the series' first season (original air date: March 25, 1978). Gary Burghoff plays an accountant with the fantasy of being a Major League Baseball pitcher. Valentine is one of his strikeout victims. After retiring from baseball, Valentine took a job with Avis Rent-a-Car earning $4.25 per hour. In his first baseball-related job since retirement, Valentine managed Antelope Valley in the short-lived Golden State League in . His tenure with the financially doomed league lasted just a week into the season. Valentine fought drug and alcohol addiction throughout his career. In September 1986, a year after retiring, he moved from