It's Magic, Charlie Brown (1981)

When Snoopy turns Charlie Brown invisible in a magic act, he has trouble changing him back.

Director:

Phil Roman

Writers:

Charles M. Schulz (created by), Charles M. Schulz

Stars:

Michael Mandy, Brent Hauer, Cindi Reilly

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Cast overview:
Michael Mandy	...	Charlie Brown (voice)
Brent Hauer	...	Peppermint Patty (voice)
Cindi Reilly	...	Sally Brown (voice)
Rocky Reilly	...	Linus van Pelt (voice)
Sydney Penny	...	Lucy van Pelt (voice)
Casey Carlson	...	Marcie (voice)
Christopher Donohoe	...	Schroeder / Kid / Franklin (voice)
Shannon Cohn	...	Marcie (voice)
Bill Melendez	...	Snoopy / Woodstock (voice)

Storyline

Taking advantage of a newly acquired magic tricks kit, Snoopy decides to put on a magic act. For the finale, he turns Charlie Brown invisible, but he can't change him back right away. While Snoopy searches for the counter spell, Charlie Brown struggles with this bizarre problem, but realizes that he has a golden opportunity to finally kick Lucy's football.

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Plot Keywords:

magic | invisible | rain | magic trick | magic show | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Details

Official Sites:

Snoopy.com

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 April 1981 (USA)

Also Known As:

It's Magic, Charlie Brown

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Bill Melendez Productions, United Feature Syndicate (UFS)

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first Peanuts special to show the inside of Snoopy's doghouse.

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Goofs

Linus's blanket apparently stayed shredded after Snoopy tried the trick where it would be put back together again, yet in the next shot, his blanket is perfectly fine.

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Quotes

[Snoopy has covered an invisible Charlie Brown in mud]
Charlie Brown: I feel like a chocolate chip cookie.

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Crazy Credits

As the credits begin with Lucy still magically floating in the air, Linus walks by and uses his blanket to pull her down.

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Connections

Follows You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (1975)

User Reviews

Snoopy the Magician

One of the things I always loved about the Charlie Brown specials were that they were always a surprise, you never really knew what the Pennuts gang were going to get into next. This is another of my favorite specials.

There really isn't a whole lot to say about this one it's basically about Snoopy learning magic, that's pretty much it but that's cool because it finally dove into one of the things I always loved as a kid magic tricks.

In a way the whole special plays out like a skit comedy as most of what happens is pretty random and all revolve around the subject magic. I don't want to give too much away but from what you can see Snoopy is obviously a magician in progress as he seems to be hit or miss at first with most of the magic tricks.

Two of my favorite parts of the special were seeing Snoopy perform a magic trick with Linus's blanket where it's the trick to cut it apart and then make it magically intact again. It is just fraking hilarious as we just see the reactions on Linus's face, he's literally going into a nervous breakdown; for a really smart guy Linus has got problems.

Another of course was Charlie Brown becoming invisible, throughout a whole third of the special it's focused on Charlie Brown despite not seeing him but it's just fun seeing Charlie Brown get into some antics and have fun with his invisibility. He even gets to do something that I've been waiting for years to happen and it's finally paid off.

Charlie and Snoopy are magically powered for fun.

Rating: 3 and a half stars