A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1983-1992 VHS)

As announced by CBS/Fox Video in early 1983, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the Peanuts gang's first full-length theatrical feature film, was released on VHS and Betamax for the first time ever in July of that year. Priced at an affordable $29.95, it was one of CBS/Fox's earliest low-priced videocassette releases, alongside The Black Stallion Returns. At this time, CBS/Fox issued a majority of their titles, including reissues of older titles, at $29.95. This made CBS/Fox the next company to release low-priced tapes, after RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and Paramount Home Video.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown was one of the first releases to use a new CBS/Fox Video logo animation, accompanied by APM music called "National Trust" by Keith Mansfield. On a blue backdrop, two grids converge in the center of the screen while "CBS" and "FOX" fly into an orange flash that forms in the center of the screen, cutting them into a segmented line logo as the grids disappear, then the letters of the word "VIDEO" fly under the logo, one-by-one before the trademark symbol appears to the bottom-right corner of "FOX". These final actions are synced up to the last notes of the music. The 1984 VHS reissue was one of the first CBS/Fox tapes to used closed-captioning, done by the National Captioning Institute. In July 1983, to promote the VHS and Betamax debut, fast-food chain McDonald's also sold Camp Snoopy glasses with Happy Meals.

Advertised on

 * The Last Unicorn (1983 VHS)
 * Doctor Dolittle (1983 VHS)
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1983 VHS)
 * Pingu Barrel Of Fun (1991 VHS)
 * Pingu 2 Building igloos (1992 VHS)
 * Pingu 3 Hide And Seek (1992 VHS)
 * Pingu 4 Pingu The Chef (1993 VHS )
 * Pingu The Photographer (1995 VHS )
 * Pingu’s Birthday (1995 VHS)
 * Pogles wood (1991 VHS)
 * Ivor The Engine The First Story (1991 VHS )
 * BBC Comedy Videos (1985-1995 VHS)
 * Ivor The Engine & Elephants (1986 VHS)
 * Ivor The Engine & Dragons (1984 VHS)
 * BBC Children’s Favourites (1988 VHS)
 * Beebtots (1988 VHS)
 * Clangers (1990 VHS)
 * Clangers 2 (1991 VHS)
 * Noggin The Nog Tales Of The Northlands (1990 VHS)
 * Noggin The Nog The Omruds Plus The Firecake (1991 VHS)
 * Postman Pat 1 (1986 VHS)
 * Postman Pat 2 (1986 VHS)
 * Postman Pat 3 (1986 VHS)
 * Postman pats BIG VIDEO (1988 VHS)
 * Postman Pats NEW video (1991 VHS)
 * Postman Pat and Tuba (1994 VHS)
 * Fireman Sam VOL 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 AND 8 (1988 -1995 VHS)
 * Ripping Yarns (1986 VHS)
 * More Ripping Yarns (1986 VHS)
 * Even More Ripping Yarns (1986 VHS)
 * Fawlty Towers Box Set (1986 VHS)
 * Rab C nesbitt Series 1-11 (1991-1995 VHS )
 * JACKANORY (1989-1994 VHS)

Trivia

 * This was the first home media release of any film to be promoted by McDonald's.
 * The first issue VHS, from 1983, would have its opening become a gag later on the 1991 VHS release of "The King and I" (1956).