Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1971. This was the first Peanuts TV special of the 1970s, airing nearly a year-and-a-half after It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, and was the first special to focus on a character other than Charlie Brown or Snoopy. (The feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown had been released in between the two specials.)