I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown

Animation, Children, Family, Holiday

Bill Melendez	Snoopy (voice)
Ashley Rose Orr	Lucy Van Pelt (voice)
Corey Padnos	Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Jimmy Bennett	Rerun (voice)
Hannah Leigh Dworkin	Sally (voice)
Adam Taylor Gordon	Charlie Brown (voice)
Kaitlyn Maggio	Little girl in Rerun's class (voice)
Jake Miner	Pig Pen/Franklin (voice)
Nick Price	Schroeder (voice)
Jimmy Bennett (III)

Director	Bill Melendez; Larry Leichliter
Producer	Bill Melendez; Lee Mendelson
Writer	Charles M. Schulz

I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown might otherwise be called "Peanuts: The Next Generation" for its sprightly emphasis on Linus and Lucy's younger brother, Rerun, and his quest to be worthy of a pet pooch. Like a, well, dog with a bone, Rerun is intent on forging a happy friendship with a canine as cool as Charlie Brown's Snoopy--in fact, he keeps coming around to see if Snoopy wants to play. (Of course, Snoopy's idea of playing is making Rerun his co-pilot in the imaginary cockpit of his imaginary World War I bomber.) This holiday season television special is not the wise, enduring classic that is 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas, but it is charming and sweet, particularly when Snoopy's brother, the desert-dwelling Spike, comes to stay. Schroeder fans will enjoy the usual shtick between love-struck Lucy and the piano genius' detachment. --Tom Keogh