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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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Another piece of the continuing deconstruction of American culture. CBS resisted Linus telling the Gospel Nativity Story from the beginning, until Charles Schultz dug his heels in. Five and a half decades later it looks as if the secular deconstructionists have gotten their way.
1 posted on 10/20/2020 12:56:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This makes me very sad. There is a war on innocence.


2 posted on 10/20/2020 12:58:06 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Buckeye McFrog

To my knowledge it’s the only Christmas special that actually tells us why we have Christmas.


3 posted on 10/20/2020 12:58:31 PM PDT by ealgeone
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4 posted on 10/20/2020 12:59:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: ealgeone

Yep, so it must be destroyed!..................


5 posted on 10/20/2020 12:59:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If it’s wholesome, it must be banned.


6 posted on 10/20/2020 12:59:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ealgeone

I have my copy on DVD. It WILL be shown at our house.


7 posted on 10/20/2020 1:01:01 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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8 posted on 10/20/2020 1:01:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
too white privilege for today's young eyes and minds??
9 posted on 10/20/2020 1:01:57 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal! And often.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s okay...have them downloaded.
Along with many of the shows they attempt to ignore and pretend no longer exist?


10 posted on 10/20/2020 1:02:54 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: dfwgator

Yet the left wants to curb violence on TV........................


11 posted on 10/20/2020 1:02:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Christmas morning at our house starts with Mimosas, eggnog, and the theme music to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
We all grew up with it - a real sense of comfort.


12 posted on 10/20/2020 1:03:04 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: ealgeone

There was the stop-animation Little Drummer Boy.


13 posted on 10/20/2020 1:03:52 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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I guess eventually we’ll have “Joyous Holiday Number 11’s” that Quark made fun with no mention of Christmas at all.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0681198/


14 posted on 10/20/2020 1:04:14 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Nobody watches network television anymore. Apple TV currently has streaming rights for the Peanuts holiday specials.

Everything can be streamed on demand. Parents of young children have the responsibility to cut their cable and subscribe to streaming services like Apple TV (available on Roku by the way) and moderate the content for their children accordingly.

15 posted on 10/20/2020 1:04:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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I liked Family Guy’s take on that.


16 posted on 10/20/2020 1:05:03 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: hoagy62

You’ve got that right!


17 posted on 10/20/2020 1:05:31 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Five and a half decades later it looks as if the secular deconstructionists have gotten their way.

This is just rights holders maximizing revenue to deliver value to shareholders. Plus the way they've padded 35 minutes of ads into a 25 minute cartoon in recent years have made it all but unwatchable in broadcast.

18 posted on 10/20/2020 1:05:34 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Dagnabitt

Yes...forgot about that one.


19 posted on 10/20/2020 1:05:55 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Buckeye McFrog
> In 2020, Apple TV+ procured the rights to the Peanuts holiday specials and will offer them on the streaming service.

The company bought the rights to the specials.

The company will air them on its own service, for its customers.

As they have every right to do.

Well, I don't have Apple TV so I won't get to see it this year.

But folks, this is just normal business. Nothing untoward about it. Sad, though.

20 posted on 10/20/2020 1:07:09 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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