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For the first time since 1965, the Peanuts holiday specials are not scheduled to air on broadcast TV
MeTV ^ | 10/20/2020 | MeTV Staff

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: americana; appetv; apple; charliebrown; christmas; culture; downthememoryhole; halloween; mythreesons; peanuts; thanksgiving; waronchristmas; waronholidays
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To: ealgeone
To my knowledge it’s the only Christmas special that actually tells us why we have Christmas.

'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' hints at it when the Grinch realizes that Christmas isn't about presents and decorations. “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”

But nothing can top actually reading right out of the Gospel.

61 posted on 10/20/2020 1:40:29 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: dayglored
Well, I don't have Apple TV so I won't get to see it this year.

I felt the same way about the movie Greyhound starring Tom Hanks. I had been looking forward to seeing that film at the cinema; but, COVID hit and it never made it to the cinema. Then, Apple got a hold of it and played it on Apple TV, which I do not have; and, I do not intend to pay for another subscription just to see one film. A week ago or so there was someone on the Varney & Co. show who was talking about how much money the movie made on Apple TV. I wonder if it ever dawns on them that they could make even more money if they allowed Netflix or Amazon Prime Video to show the film as well.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit wrote a while back, that if we have movies (or tv series, I suppose) that we like, we had better buy them now before they either disappear, or are re-edited by some "woke" SJW, so that you won't even recognize the film. I have added the movie 1776 and The Crossing to my blu-ray collection just in case. Also, the local PBS station used to show the film How Green Was My Valley on Thanksgiving afternoon; but, they haven't shown that movie for years now, so I bought a copy.

62 posted on 10/20/2020 1:43:33 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: cherry
we've got tv personalities jerking off on camera.....

Yeah, I just heard about that one. Didn't see it; but, I'm sure I didn't miss much. LOL

63 posted on 10/20/2020 1:46:45 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: I want the USA back
Thanksgiving and Christmas are based on Christianity! That’s the reason!

Fauci bailed on the Catholic Church and considers himself a Humanist now, so that's a pretty strong indicator.


64 posted on 10/20/2020 1:47:55 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The nets will only get worse.

There is one simple answer.

Cut your damn cable and only watch what you want to watch.


65 posted on 10/20/2020 1:48:42 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: LibertarianLiz
we've got tv personalities jerking off on camera..... Yeah, I just heard about that one. Didn't see it; but, I'm sure I didn't miss much. LOL

The way things are headed it'll be Emmy material in about five years.


66 posted on 10/20/2020 1:48:46 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Grampa Dave

The post is about over-the-air (antenna) TV.
It has nothing to do with cable.


67 posted on 10/20/2020 1:49:34 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

If you aren’t familiar with the story the execs at CBS absolutely HATED two aspects of the special.

1) Linus reading the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke
2) The jazz soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.

They made an edited version without the Gospel reading and different music and showed it to Schultz. He threatened to walk if they did not stick to the original version, which they eventually did.

And these were TV executives in 1964. They are way, way worse now.


68 posted on 10/20/2020 1:52:59 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It is most definitely the explicit appeal to the very meaning of Christmas in this Peanuts classic that has prompted the pagan media to make this decision.


69 posted on 10/20/2020 1:55:24 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Another piece of the continuing deconstruction of American culture.

Melodramatic much? Just cause it’s not on your rabbit ears tv doesn’t mean it’s going away

70 posted on 10/20/2020 1:55:52 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Apple likely bought the rights to keep it off the air.


71 posted on 10/20/2020 1:56:09 PM PDT by montag813
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To: hoagy62

My understanding is that the original Peanuts feature has been whittled down over the years anyway as advertisers have demanded more and more of the time slot. It’s shocking when you see the original and see how much has been taken out over the years. Several minutes worth.


72 posted on 10/20/2020 1:57:25 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

73 posted on 10/20/2020 1:57:46 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Another piece of the continuing deconstruction of American culture. Melodramatic much? Just cause it’s not on your rabbit ears tv doesn’t mean it’s going away

No. Only that it's going away for everyone who does not subscribe to Apple TV.

By itself perhaps it does not mean much. But combined with Fauci trying to cancel the holidays and a lot of other things going on out there, definitely part of a coordinated effort.


74 posted on 10/20/2020 1:58:29 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Just buy your own copy and watch it at your leisure.

Cut the networks out and let the full royalties go to The Schultz estate and the Vince Guaraldi Estate.

Buy them as presents for your children and grandchildren.


75 posted on 10/20/2020 1:59:12 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: LibertarianLiz
> ...if we have movies (or tv series, I suppose) that we like, we had better buy them now before they either disappear, or are re-edited by some "woke" SJW, so that you won't even recognize the film...

A year ago I decided that is was time to get a DVD of "Blazing Saddles", so I went to buy a copy, and after a bit of thought, instead purchased the entire Mel Brooks DVD collection.

Brooks is 94, and hopefully will live many more years, but not so many that he sees his masterpieces torn to shreds and destroyed in the name of WOKE.

76 posted on 10/20/2020 1:59:34 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: montag813
Apple likely bought the rights to keep it off the air.

Not unheard of. Dr. Laura used to complain that radio stations in certain markets would buy the rights to her show and then NOT air it, only to ensure that their competitors could not.


77 posted on 10/20/2020 1:59:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: P-Marlowe

This isn’t about me, it’s about the long-term macro effects on our culture.


78 posted on 10/20/2020 2:00:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: dayglored

I remember being in college and seeing Chuck Jones, the animator behind many of the Looney Tunes classics, give a lecture. This was at the point where politically correct censorship of cartoons was just beginning to take hold.

Jones got quite emotional about it and at one point shouted at the audience “Tell these heavy-handed idiots to stop raping my cartoons!”

I’m sure Mel Brooks could identify.


79 posted on 10/20/2020 2:02:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: mkleesma

At our house we play Elvis singing Christmas songs while decorating and on Christmas day. One year we tried to change it and my adult kids revolted. They said, it isn’t Christmas without Elvis.

We don’t do mimosas, but my daughter came up with a great Christmas breakfast. Waffles made from brownie mix, topped with Vanilla ice cream.


80 posted on 10/20/2020 2:03:13 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden is China's bitch)
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