Good Grief

"Schulz insisted that as a dog, Snoopy couldn't talk. Melendez experimented with making sounds that suggested a voice and speeding them up on tape--assuming a professional actor would do a final recording. But time ran short, and Melendez ended up serving as Snoopy's voice in 63 subsequent half-hour specials, five one-hour specials, the Saturday morning TV show and four feature films."

Charles Solomon in the Los Angeles Times writes an obit for Bill Melendez, co-producer of the Peanuts television specials.