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May 16, 2007

Charlie Brown's secret baseball scandal

Landis_2  I only recently found out that for three years, from 1983 to 1985, CBS ran a Saturday morning cartoon series called "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show." Based on plot lines developed in the daily strips, it probably didn't produce any "classic" Peanuts material, though I could be wrong -- my knowledge of the show is thin at best.

However, there seems to be plenty of good material that survives on DVD (and on YouTube, of course). For example, in the brief, five-minute episode below, good old Chuck thinks he's finally a winner on the diamond ... but later finds out he's unknowingly been ensnarled in the kind of scandal that Kennesaw Mountain Landis (who Charlie Brown actually mentions in the episode) and Bart Giamatti knew about all too well. Enjoy.

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