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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Fauci is also trying to cancel Thanksgiving so there’s more going on here than meets the eye.
There are no gay or transgender characters. What do you expect? Children must be taught the correct values today.
“...it’s little increments and pretty soon, we’ve got TV personalities jerking off on camera.....”
Truth is always stranger than fiction....Jeffrey Toobin.
Glad I have the DVDs for the Halloween and Christmas specials. Feels good to actually own something they can’ttake away.
It really started with the “Rural Purge” in 1970.
Yes, we cut the cord several years ago. The only time we watch network TV at our home (over an antenna) is during football season.
Parents have the responsibility to take that out of their homes. There are sufficient streaming services out there to provide quality content for children to watch.
Haven't had cable TV in my home for five years now and never missed it for one minute.
Same here....and, all of the Little House on the Prairie DVDs.
There are no transgender characters.
There are no identified gay characters.
Why is this on tv? (/sarc)
Apparently not diverse enough for the liberal brains to handle. How sad.
And I've got AppleTV+ so we'll be watching it too.
I insist on owning DVDs of the movies I like.
My kids and mr. mm keep telling me that DVDs and CDs are on their way out because you can get everything online and I said, yeah, and when they decide to not carry it any more, then what?
I still have the DVD when Netflix, et al decide to not carry what I want to see.
LOL!!!!!!! So was I!
Well, at least Charlie Brown isn’t homeless and destitute, for now.
Maybe NutFluX can find a new home and theme for him .. it did for LeBrain and The Obammys.
I think that has a lot to do with it. I have Great Pumpkin and the Christmas one on DVD. I would not have watched the broadcast anyway. I remember taping "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" during one of its annual showings in the late 80's or early 90's. 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.
What’s the excuse? the virus? the democrat-inspired riots? the election? or just because don’t want us to have any fun?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are based on Christianity! That’s the reason!
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