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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Here’s a real interesting comparison of the original release and the edits meant to “improve” the special.
Patty was a rather Tomboyish character. I think the “sir” inference was just playing up that character trait.
Sounds like marketing. Watch it wind up on network tv after some publicity and uproar. A network will say “we listened to you, enjoy a special presentation followed by a 30 minute retrospective on the Peanuts Christmas Special.”
I have all the Peanuts specials ripped to my Synology NAS and stream it via either their Plex App or my DVD player that has a built in media streamer. My first grandchild due in April will be watching all of it.
Not sure, but I don’t think that you do, it’s just an app and most big apps work on any kind of device.
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