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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What? You’ll get COVID from watching it?
Why don’t the powers at Charlie Brown Sue the sh&& our of those aholes?
My wife has all the DVDs.
Seen them and have memorized pretty much.
I’ve pulled the short-lived QM DVDs of Most Wanted to binge-watch.
True, broadcast TV has been in decline for many years now.
We are long since removed from a TV world, in which we had NBC, ABC, CBS, and some big cities had independent channels. We are even removed a long way from when the Fox network joined those Big Three broadcast networks.
Hopefully the good programming will always be available somewhere.
They’re on a stream service. So they’re not gone. It’s an evolving TV landscape. The 5 broadcast networks are a negligible part of the market, and frankly unimportant most of the time. Really on a streaming service you’re freed from network scheduling and limited viewing capabilities. You can watch them over and over any time.
“Christmas morning at our house starts with Mimosas, eggnog, and the theme music to A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
In some American cities they celebrate it with the call to prayer by the local Imam.
That’s probably the best thing that show has ever done (and the most I’ve seen of it)
its little increments and pretty soon, we've got tv personalities jerking off on camera.....
And the war on innocence is mostly hitting poor children who can’t afford Apple streaming.
Five-year-old me found Drummer Boy a bit dark and scary. Then again, I was terrified of the Abominable Snowman in Rudolf.
I have them all on dvd so they can go to hell..
I can’t believe they waited this long to boot Linus and his Christmas speech.
There are likely multiple sites that will have bootlegs, and BitTorrent will have plenty of copies.
Because parody is protected speech.
I think most of ‘em are missing my point that shared cultural experiences....particularly ones rooted in Christianity....are kinda important.
A Darkness has swept over the country.
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