Peanuts Worldwide | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:02:34 1 History
00:02:43 1.1 1940s
00:05:27 1.2 1950s
00:08:40 1.3 1960s
00:12:53 1.4 1970s–1990s
00:15:03 1.5 2000: The End of iPeanuts/i
00:19:16 1.6 Peanuts Worldwide, LLC
00:21:34 2 Characters
00:30:13 3 Critical reception and legacy
00:35:33 4 Television and film productions
00:37:07 4.1 1959–1965: Beginnings
00:38:14 4.2 1965–1971: Television specials and theatrical films
00:41:21 4.3 1971–1976: Final golden years
00:42:46 4.4 1977–1981: Post-Guaraldi era
00:43:37 4.5 1982–1990: Vignettes and musicals
00:44:37 4.6 1990–2000: Charles M. Schulz's final years
00:46:15 4.7 2000–present: new specials
00:49:18 4.7.1 iThe Peanuts Movie/i (2015)
00:50:41 5 Books
00:52:56 5.1 iThe Complete Peanuts/i
00:54:28 5.2 Anniversary books
00:55:24 6 Theatrical productions
00:57:33 7 Sound recordings
01:01:00 8 Amusement parks
01:03:54 9 Other licensed appearances and merchandise
01:04:05 9.1 Advertising
01:05:17 9.2 Retail
01:06:16 9.3 Events
01:08:32 9.4 Games
01:09:57 9.5 Exhibition
01:10:36 10 See also



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Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At its peak in the mid- to late 1960s, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.The strip focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant.Peanuts is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s. The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters' interactions formed a tangle of relationships that drove the strip.
Peanuts achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The Peanuts holiday specials remain popular and are broadcast on ABC in the U.S. during the appropriate seasons, since 2001. The Peanuts franchise also had success in theatre, with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown an oft-performed production. In 2013, TV Guide ranked the Peanuts television specials the fourth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. A computer-animated feature film based on the strip, The Peanuts Movie, was released in 2015.