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31 - February 6, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
The iconic beagle flies high in Apple’s
‘The Snoopy Show’
BY GEORGE DICKIE
For those who have delighted in the adventures of the
Peanuts gang over the decades, “The Snoopy Show” offers
up pure red meat.
Indeed, the half-hour series that premieres Friday, Feb.
5, on Apple TV+, presents the further adventures of the
care-free beagle made famous in late animator Charles
Schulz’s 1950-2000 comic strip and subsequent TV
specials, joined by his best friend Woodstock. Charlie
Brown, Linus and Lucy and the rest of the crew serve as
background characters here.
Each episode consists of three seven-minute vignettes
that are based on the iconic comic series and features the
signature animation style that has entertained audiences
for more than seven decades.
The objective, says executive producer Mark Evestaff, is
to stay as true to Schulz’s original creation as possible.
“For a lot of the people working on the show, they’re all
fans first and all the artists are fans first, so the opportunity
to give Snoopy his own series felt like the right thing to
do,” he explains. “And certainly there was enough material
with Charles Schulz producing like almost 18,000 strips
over the years. and a lot of our stories are mined from
those strips specifically to create stories in the show. ... We
really did go back to the strips and really looking at the
“The Snoopy Show”
premieres Friday
on Apple TV+.
details of Schulz’s poses and even of course lines from the
strip, if we can use them and it still works, then absolutely.
We tried to stay as close and faithful to that spirit.”
And part of that spirit lies in the dialog – or lack
thereof. As a dog and a bird, Snoopy and Woodstock don’t
speak human English so Evestaff and the team had to
come up with ways to tell stories without the use of words.
“It really was just more animation, more acting and then
adding, of course, the odd vocalizations to what we do
have and carried that through ...,” Evestaff explains. “You
throw enough artists at it, enough talented artists that
have a passion and bring that passion, we’re able to tell
these stories and it’s really wonderful how that some of our
best stories are almost without dialog at all through seven
minutes and are some of our most heart-warming and our
best friendship stories.”
In the end, this is a story of a friendship between two
iconic characters with whom viewers have had a long
relationship and Evestaff didn’t want to betray that.
“There’s, of course, a lot of trepidation off the top – are
we going to ruin Snoopy in all these things?” he admits.
“But truthfully, I think if you pack it with enough of the
right people and they bring enough of that passion and
hard work, then the results sort of speak for themselves.”
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