There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown

There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown
Genre	Animated TV Special
Created by	Charles M. Schulz
Directed by	Bill Melendez
Voices of	Chad Webber Stephen Shea Robin Kohn Hilary Momberger Linda Ercoli Jimmy Ahrens Christopher DeFaria Lynda Mendelson Bill Melendez
Theme music composer	Vince Guaraldi
Country of origin	U.S.
Production
Producers	Lee Mendelson Bill Melendez
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	CBS

There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown is the ninth prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This marks the on-screen debut of Marcie, who first appeared on the comic strip in 1971. It was originally aired on the CBS network on March 11, 1973, and released to DVD as a bonus feature (along with another Peanuts special Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown) on January 2, 2004. It was also released in remastered form as part of the DVD box set, "Peanuts 1970's Collection, Volume One."

Plot

There are three months of school left and all of the Peanuts gang are under pressure from too many tests and homework assignments. They now have to make preparations to write a report on a field trip to an art museum.

Charlie Brown's grades are falling from A to C and he has to receive a big grade on his museum report in order to salvage his grades for the entire term. Simultaneously, he must fight off the distraction of Peppermint Patty and her classmate Marcie (in her animated debut), both of whom have feelings for him. Unfortunately, on the way to the art museum, Charlie Brown, his sister Sally, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Snoopy inadvertently arrive in a supermarket and mistake it for the art museum. When Linus shows Charlie Brown and Lucy slides that resemble the works he took pictures of, Charlie Brown's hopes of salvaging his grades are shattered. As he waits for his graded report, he expects the worst of it all. However, everything works out for the best, as his teacher assumes his report is a description of an art museum described through the metaphor of a supermarket and she gives him the grade he needs.

Peppermint Patty later apologizes to Charlie Brown for saying bad things to him and that it was not easy for a girl to talk like that to a boy. But Peppermint Patty angrily blows Charlie Brown away after Charlie Brown brings up the Little Red-Haired Girl. Marcie, who was watching this and calling her 'sir' throughout the special, reminded Peppermint Patty that she said the wrong thing again like she did in the supermarket. Peppermint Patty then asks Marcie if she knows how annoying it is being called 'sir' a lot when she tells her not to. Marcie responds, "No, ma'am".

Cast and characters

• Chad Webber - Charlie Brown
• Stephen Shea - Linus van Pelt
• Robin Kohn - Lucy van Pelt
• Hilary Momberger - Sally Brown
• James Ahrens - Marcie
• Todd Barbee - Franklin
• Christopher DeFaria - Peppermint Patty
• Bill Meléndez - Snoopy
• Vince Guaraldi - Joe Cool Singer

Violet, Patty, and Frieda made cameo appearances but they are silent.

Music score

No official soundtrack for There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown was released. However, recording session master tapes for seven 1970s-era Peanuts television specials scored by Vince Guaraldi were discovered by his son, David Guaraldi, in the mid-2000s. Select music cues from There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown were released in 2007 on the compilation album, Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials.

Credits

• Written and Created by: Charles M. Schulz
• Directed by: Bill Melendez
• Produced by: Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez
• Original Music Composed and Performed by: Vince Guaraldi
• Music Supervision by: John Scott Trotter
• Graphic Blandishment: Ed Levitt, Evert Brown, Dean Spille, Frank Smith, Bernard Gruver, Carole Barnes, Ellie Bogardus, Phil Roman, Don Lusk, Bob Carlson, Sam Jaimes, Bill Littlejohn, Al Pabian, Rod Scribner, Hank Smith, Beverly Robbins, Eleanor Warren, Manon Washburn, Faith Kovaleski, Adele Lenart, Joanne Lansing, Dawn Smith, Joice Lee Marshall, Carla Washburn, Debbie Zamora
• "Joe Cool" Sung by: Vince Guaraldi
• Editing: Robert T. Gillis, Charles McCann, Rudy Zamora
• Recording:
  • Voices: Radio Recorders, Coast Recorders
  • Music: Wally Heider Recording
  • Mix: Producers' Sound Service
• Camera: Dickson-Vasu, Tony Rivetti
• in cooperation with United Feature Syndicate, Inc. and Charles M. Schulz Creative Development, Corp., Warren Lockhart, President
• THE END "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown" © 1973 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All Rights Reserved

External links

• There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown at IMDb