Posted on 10/20/2020 12:56:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
The first time It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown aired on television, it preempted My Three Sons. As in, an original episode of My Three Sons. The date was October 27, 1966, and Douglas family fans had just seen Yvonne Craig play a meter maid the previous week. Instead, CBS viewers got the Peanuts crew.
The idea of a Peanuts holiday special, and a Peanuts cartoon in general, was still relatively novel. Great Pumpkin was just the third animated special from the mind of Charles Schulz. A Charlie Brown Christmas has premiered one year earlier. The Christmas special was so popular, it revitalized the live tree industry and decimated the plastic Christmas tree trend.
The overlooked baseball-themed Charlie Brown's All Stars! aired between Charlie Brown Christmas and Great Pumpkin in the summer of 1966. Since 1966, 42 additional Peanuts animated specials have been produced for broadcast television. More importantly, the two most popular ones, the Xmas and Halloween gems, have been reaired every year as well. Until now.
In 2020, Apple TV+ procured the rights to the Peanuts holiday specials and will offer them on the streaming service. As of now, ABC, the most recent home of Snoopy and his gang, has no plans to show Great Pumpkin over broadcast television, according to People.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973) and A Charlie Brown Christmas are slated for a similar fate.
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Well, with my business destroyed, broadcast tv is all we can afford @ present. Maybe for the rest of my life, at this rate. Mostly I just watch it for local news. Luckily, the “sub” channels have some good old programs & movies - more than I have time for anyway, really.
Cancelled due to virus lockdown.
Yes the world has changed.
I bet some younger people here don’t know what you mean by VHF channels.
I’m an 80 year old kid and this pisses me off. The ongoing destruction of Americana by democrats.
It’s because the Peanuts gang — yes, even Franklin! — were White Supremacists.
More of the same for this disaster of a year. Can 2020 end any faster?
When the DVD came out, I discovered that the TV telecast had been cut; probably because there are more commercials in a 30-minute broadcast than there were in the 60’s.
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Yup. More commercials.
Pluto TV is a mixed bag.
I have indulged some classic Dr. Who the past few nights.
The Sunmakers and Underworld were on recently.
Calm down karen
I miss the old fashioned independent TV stations.
Before it became a Fox affiliate, WHNS 21 in the GSP area ran all kinds of things, especially oddball movies and obscure series.
I discovered Robotech courtesy of a long gone WAXA TV 40.
Good ole Linus.
I never understood the whole Marcie and sir thing regarding Peppermint Patty.
The jazz soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
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That is the best!
Some of us understand the Marxist deconstruction of a culture.
Others have their head planted up their ass.
Totally agree with you on Yvonne Craig (RIP). Did she rock that bikini or what?
Oh yes. Moving lame Charlie Brown specials to Apple TV is the same as Marxist. How much paint have you huffed tonight?
Is that really true? Antenna sales have been surging in recent years and more and more channels continue to become available over the air as more people realize you don't have to pay for television at all.
Oh yes, Batgirl and the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta.
Same here. Don’t know the author but it really struck me. Saved a copy from yours!
Nobody watches network tv anymore. It’s too expensive to run these when everyone has copies of their own. No need to show them.
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