The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy’s Grand Adventure is a platformer game based on The Peanuts Movie. It was developed by Behaviour Interactive Chile Ltda. The game…
The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy’s Grand Adventure
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Peanuts is one of the most beloved comic strip franchises in history, created by Charles M. Schulz and running continuously from October 2, 1950 to February 13, 2000, the day after Schulz died. Built around the lovable loser Charlie Brown, his beagle Snoopy, and a cast of children navigating the small frustrations of childhood with surprising emotional depth, Peanuts has remained culturally active across animated television specials, films, and original productions. Apple TV+ is the exclusive streaming home for Peanuts content through 2030, and Sony took ownership of the franchise in December 2025.
Charles Monroe Schulz created Peanuts for United Feature Syndicate, debuting in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950. Schulz drew every strip himself for nearly fifty years, producing over 17,000 strips across five decades without assistance, one of the most sustained creative runs in newspaper comics history. The strip’s emotional register was unusual for its era, melancholy and sincere without being saccharine, and Schulz drew openly from his own life, incorporating personal anxieties, romantic failures, and spiritual questions into what was nominally a children’s comic. He continued drawing until December 1999, completing his final strip the night before he died on February 12, 2000.
Charlie Brown is the strip’s protagonist, a round-headed kid defined by his persistent optimism in the face of constant defeat. He cannot kick a football, his baseball team loses every game, and the little red-haired girl he loves never notices him. Snoopy is his beagle, one of the most recognizable animal characters in popular culture, whose rich fantasy life, most famously as a World War I flying ace doing battle with the Red Baron, runs parallel to the strip’s grounded childhood stories. Linus van Pelt carries his security blanket everywhere and delivers the franchise’s most direct statements of faith, including the recitation of Luke 2 that became the emotional center of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Lucy van Pelt is bossy and opinionated and perpetually pulls the football away from Charlie Brown. Schroeder plays piano and idolizes Beethoven. Woodstock is Snoopy’s small yellow bird companion.
A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965, produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, and became one of the most watched television specials in American history. The special’s decision to cast real children as voice actors, use a jazz score by Vince Guaraldi, and end with Linus reciting scripture made it unlike anything else on network television at the time. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown followed in 1966, and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in 1973. All three became annual broadcast traditions for decades, moving to ABC and eventually to Apple TV+ when the streaming service acquired the rights in 2020. Apple TV+ makes the holiday specials available for free briefly during their seasonal windows as part of its agreement with rights holders.
The Peanuts Movie arrived in November 2015, produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox, the first fully computer-animated Peanuts feature film. The story followed Charlie Brown’s attempt to impress a new girl who moves into the neighborhood, the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy pursued a fantasy adventure as a flying ace chasing the Red Baron. The film carefully preserved the flat graphic quality of Schulz’s original drawings in three dimensions, maintaining the look of the strip rather than modernizing it. It grossed over $246 million worldwide and was generally well received as a faithful and warm adaptation of the source material.
Apple TV+ became the exclusive streaming home for all Peanuts content in 2020, producing original series and specials alongside hosting the classic library. Camp Snoopy, an animated musical series following Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts, premiered on Apple TV+ and won an Annie Award, with its second season arriving June 26, 2026. The platform is also producing Snoopy Unleashed, an animated feature film following Snoopy after he runs away from home, with Charlie Brown leading the Peanuts gang on a search through a major city. Apple TV+ extended its exclusive Peanuts partnership through 2030 in October 2025 as part of its agreement with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide, and Lee Mendelson Film Productions.
Sony took control of the Peanuts franchise in December 2025, adding it to a portfolio that already included the Spider-Man and Ghostbusters franchises. The Schulz family retained involvement in the brand as part of the transition, signaling a creative continuity rather than a corporate wholesale change. Sony’s ownership coincides with one of the more active periods for Peanuts content in years, with Snoopy Unleashed in production, Camp Snoopy returning for a second season, and the 75th anniversary of the strip having been observed in 2025. The combination of a major studio owner and an exclusive streaming home through 2030 gives the franchise a stability it has not always had in the digital era.
Peanuts endures because Schulz’s strip took children seriously. Charlie Brown’s failures are not played for cheap laughs but for something closer to genuine pathos, and the strip’s willingness to sit with loneliness, anxiety, and uncertainty gave it an emotional range that most children’s entertainment avoids. Schulz drew the strip entirely by hand for half a century without taking a vacation, and his refusal to license Snoopy for advertising or to allow other artists to draw the characters defined the franchise’s identity as a personal artistic statement rather than a commercial product. The specials, the strip collections, and the film have carried that sensibility forward, and the characters remain among the most recognizable in the world more than two decades after their creator’s death.
The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy’s Grand Adventure is a platformer game based on The Peanuts Movie. It was developed by Behaviour Interactive Chile Ltda. The game…