Charlie Brown's All Stars! (1966) is the second prime-time animated television special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was the second such TV special (following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez (who also directed), and originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1966, with annual re-airings on CBS through 1971. ABC returned the special to television on April 7, 2009, as a companion to It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.