Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (1980)

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!) was directed by Bill Meléndez. It was the fourth and final full-length feature film to be based on the Peanuts comic strip, and was followed three years later by a 1983 television special, What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?, in which the gang sees memorials and places related to World Wars I and II.

Unlike most other Peanuts animated adaptations, this film is one of the few to prominently feature adults in both on-screen and speaking parts, without the use of the signature trombone speech (“wah-wah”) sound effect. The four adults that are featured include a London black cab driver who takes Snoopy to Wimbledon, a waiter in a London restaurant (with such a strong Cockney accent that the kids cannot understand him), a French teacher, and the Baron (who is seen only as a silhouette).