Peanuts (1997 adult TV series)/Episodes

Peanuts is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, loosely based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip of the same name and developed by Brian Graden for the two television networks, Fox and Comedy Central. The show revolves around the five main characters—Snoopy, Charlie, Sally, Linus and Lucy—and their bizarre adventures in and around their hometown, South Park.

Parker and Stone loosely developed the show from The Spirit of Christmas, two consecutive animated shorts created in 1992 and 1995. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, ultimately leading to Peanuts' production, boughting the TV rights to Schulz's strip. It debuted in August 1997 with great success, consistently earning the highest ratings of any basic cable program.

Since its debut on August 13, 1997, Peanuts has broadcast 282 episodes, and its twentieth season premiered on September 14, 2016. Peanuts: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, a feature-length film, was released in theaters on June 30, 1999 and grossed over US$83 million worldwide. In 2007, Comedy Central and Fox celebrated the show's tenth anniversary with Imaginationland: The Movie. On its fifteenth anniversary, Comedy Central and Fox released 6 Days to Air: The Making of Peanuts on October 9, 2011. Peanuts: The Stick of Truth, a video game released in 2014 received positive reviews from critics. A sequel titled Peanuts: The Fractured but Whole, will be released in 2017.

Episodes of Peanuts have been nominated for a variety of different awards, including 3 Annie Awards (with one win), 2 Critics' Choice Television Award (with zero wins), 17 Emmy Awards (with five wins), 3 TCA Awards (with zero wins), and received a Peabody Award. Several compilation DVDs have been released. In addition, the first nineteen seasons have been released on DVD and Blu-ray, and are available for Regions 1, 2 and 4 as of September 2016.

The show remains as one of Comedy Central and Fox's highest rated programs, Comedy Central's second-longest-running, behind The Daily Show, and Fox's third longest-running behind The Simpsons and Family Guy. Comedy Central has renewed Peanuts through 2019, bringing the show to 23 seasons. As of December 7, 2016, 282 episodes of Peanuts have aired, concluding the twentieth season.