Editing It's Magic, Charlie Brown

{{short description|1981 television special}}
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| image                = ItsMagicCB-TC.jpg
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| genre                = Animated TV Special
| creator              = [[Charles M. Schulz]]
| director             = [[Phil Roman]]
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| voices               = [[Sydney Penny]]<br>Cindi Reilly<br>Earl Reilly<br>[[Bill Melendez]]<br>Michael Mandy<br>Shannon Cohn<br>Brent Hauer <br>Casey Carlson
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| opentheme            = 
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| composer             = [[Ed Bogas]]<br>[[Judy Munsen]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
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| executive_producer   = [[Lee Mendelson]]
| producer             = Bill Melendez
| company              = [[Lee Mendelson Film Productions]]<br>[[Bill Melendez Productions]]<br>[[United Media|United Media Productions]]
| runtime              = 24 minutes
| network              = [[CBS]]
| released             = {{Start date|1981|04|28}}
| related              = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown]]'' (1981)
}} 
}}

'''''It's Magic, Charlie Brown''''' is the 21st [[prime-time]] [[animation|animated]] [[television special]] based upon the [[comic strip]] ''[[Peanuts]],'' by [[Charles M. Schulz]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Solomon |first1=Charles |title=The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials |date=2012 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-1452110912 |pages=137, 146}}</ref> It originally aired on April 28, 1981.<ref name=Woolery>{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987 |date=1989 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-2198-2 |access-date=27 March 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/animatedtvspecia0000wool/page/216/mode/2up |pages=216–217}}</ref>

==Plot==
Charlie Brown decides that Snoopy needs to educate himself, and gives him his [[library card]] to check out a few books. Snoopy takes out a book about magic and performs a magic show as "The Great Houndini." He ends the show by making Charlie Brown disappear. A sudden [[rainstorm]] ends the show early, and Charlie Brown is left [[invisible]]. Snoopy tries several ideas to make him visible again, including draping a sheet over him, which only scares Charlie Brown when he looks in the mirror and sees what he thinks is a ghost.

Charlie Brown realizes he has a golden opportunity to kick Lucy's football without her knowing. Charlie Brown finally succeeds in kicking the football four times and taunts her about it. Furious, Lucy threatens Snoopy into bringing back Charlie Brown.

Snoopy manages to bring Charlie Brown back after blindly shooting his invisibility counter spell in an attempt to find him. Charlie Brown turns back to normal while he attempts to kick Lucy's football again before she pulls it away at the last second. Regardless, Charlie Brown is happy that he finally kicked the football, although Lucy says no one will believe him. Charlie Brown says that Snoopy will believe him since he made it possible for him. When Lucy scoffs at Snoopy, the insulted beagle magically levitates Lucy into the sky, and leaves her stuck there as payback until Linus pulls her down with his blanket during the credits. After being brought down by Linus, a defeated and humiliated Lucy walks home.

== Cast ==
* Michael Mandy as [[Charlie Brown]]
**[[Peter Robbins (actor)|Peter Robbins]] as Charlie Brown screaming (archived)
* [[Sydney Penny]] as [[Lucy van Pelt]]
* Cindi Reilly as [[Sally Brown]]
* Earl Reilly as [[Linus van Pelt]], [[Franklin (Peanuts)|Franklin]]
* Brent Hauer as [[Peppermint Patty]]
* Shannon Cohn/Casey Carlson as [[Marcie]]
* Christopher Donohone as [[Schroeder (Peanuts)|Schroeder]]
* [[Bill Melendez]] as [[Snoopy]], [[Woodstock (Peanuts)|Woodstock]]

==Home media==
''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' was released on DVD on September 2, 2008, as a bonus feature on [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]]'s remaster of ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]''.<ref>[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Charlie-Brown-Peanuts-Specials-Great-Pumpkin/9890 Charlie Brown/Peanuts Specials DVD news: Rear Box Art for It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition | TVShowsOnDVD.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016212655/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Charlie-Brown-Peanuts-Specials-Great-Pumpkin/9890 |date=2008-10-16 }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0082570|title=It's Magic, Charlie Brown}}

{{Peanuts television specials}}

[[Category:Peanuts television specials]]
[[Category:Television shows directed by Phil Roman]]
[[Category:1980s American television specials]]
[[Category:1980s animated television specials]]
[[Category:1981 television specials]]
[[Category:1981 in American television]]
[[Category:CBS television specials]]
[[Category:Films about invisibility]]
[[Category:Films about magic and magicians]]