Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Earth
First appearance:	The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"52","ed":"2011 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}

Charlie Brown was a fictional cartoon character created by Charles Schultz. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"page":"52","ed":"2011 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})

Biography

Red Nose Day 1991

Charlie Brown was depicted in a book released for Red Nose Day 1991 to raise money for Comic Relief, where he was depicted alongside a caption about "the little people without whom... etc. etc. ..". (COMIC: The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic ^[+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"])

Legacy

During Donna Noble's brief transformation into a half-Time Lord, as her mind began to overload, she confused Charlie Chaplin with Charlie Brown immediately after suggesting that she and the Tenth Doctor go meet Chaplin.

She immediately corrected herself, noting that this was not a feasible idea because Charlie Brown "was fiction". (TV: Journey's End ^[+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

The Doctor/Charlie Brown hybrid in The Glorious Dead

• Charlie Brown is the main protagonist of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strips, was referenced in the comic story The Glorious Dead (part 5) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"5","1":"The Glorious Dead (comic story)"} where one of the Doctor's counterparts from parallel universes, Theta Stigma, resembles Charlie Brown, while the Rani resembled Lucy van Pelt.
• The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic ^[+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"] does not explicitly state whether or not Charlie Brown is intended to be seen as a "real person", relative to the comic, which features a variety of characters from different series.
• The comic story The Glorious Dead (part 5) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"5","1":"The Glorious Dead (comic story)"} features one of the Eighth Doctor's counterparts from parallel universes, Theta Stigma, who is a combination of the Doctor and Charlie Brown, while the version of the Rani is a combination of Lucy van Pelt and the Rani.
• A version of Captain Britain featured in To Save Me, Why Must I Kill Me? ^[+]Loading...["To Save Me, Why Must I Kill Me? (comic story)"], is based upon Charlie Brown.

External links

• Charlie Brown at the Peanuts Wiki