Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Thanksgiving Toons: The Mayflower Voyagers (This is America, Charlie Brown, 1988)

CBS experimented with the Peanuts gang by producing an 8-part miniseries, stretched out over a period of months, not nights, that would place Charlie Brown and pals in various points in history, a la 1974's U. S. of Archie.

This is America, Charlie Brown launched in October 1988 with the first episode, the Thanksgiving themed "The Mayflower Voyagers".

Edit, 11/3/2020: The video has been deleted. All that is available now is a short excerpt:



I never saw this episode or any of the miniseries, so there won't be a rating. We will, however, make a concerted effort to locate the remaining seven installments for future posts.

2 comments:

Goldstar said...

This is America, Charlie Brown also marked the first time in Charlie Brown's long career where he was voiced by a girl (Erin Chase).

hobbyfan said...

She wasn't the only one to voice Charlie in the miniseries. I think there were one or two boys that essayed the part.