Peanuts specials. This came after Coca-Cola asked Mendelson if he had a Christmas special. He said "yes." The next day he called Schulz up and said they were making "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The animated version of "Peanuts" differs in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adult voices are heard, though conversations are usually only depicted from the children's end. To translate this aspect to the animated medium, the sound of a trombone with a solotone mute (created by Vince Guaraldi played by Dean Hubbard) was used to simulate adult "voices." A more significant deviation from the strip was
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special) You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special) You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is the 29th prime-time animated musical TV special based upon the comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. This adaptation of the 1967 musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" originally aired on the CBS network on November 6, 1985. The special was produced by Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. It is the first "Peanuts" special to have input from the Japanese animation studio, Studio Pierrot, and like the other specials, had input from Toei Animation, also from Japan. The program opens with the other "Peanuts"