Hey Ya Charlie Brown
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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Lol - Roadhouse
In all fairness... the networks have so many highly rated shows... where could they possibly squeeze in 30 minutes of something people would want to watch?
Around Christmas every year now CBS runs old colorized I Love Lucy Christmas Specials, and they always win their time slot.
Actually, all the Charlie Brown specials are now available on Apple TV.
I know, not the same as broadcast and that sucks.
It is sad as the culture war is pretty much nationally lost but the legacy “VHF” alphabet channels are pretty much dead also.
hahahaha
“Apple TV currently has streaming rights for the Peanuts holiday specials.”
Yes, and Apple TV is (afaik) free, at least for the basic content. So you can probably just download the app and watch the Peanuts specials without paying anything.
Besides Networks slicing out more program for the commercials
having seen all Peanuts specials in the their first run, the contemporary ads are absolutely jarring in contrast with the vintage Peanuts specials.
We have all the specials on laserdiscs and those are unedited and complete, DVDs seem to be uncut also. On CD we have the music that Vince produced for Peanuts even stuff from the 70s right before he passed away, those are great to listen to.
So yeah, I dont miss watching them on old Broadcast tv at all.
Great. Those with apple streaming can watch it over and over again until their eyeballs fall out.
I noticed on Amazon prime, you can’t stream some movies (even some old ones) without buying a subscription to a premium channel. Just doesn’t seem right.
Pluto’s old TV series are very popular.
How very sad!
Ps. Love the poem/song on your page.
oh thanks...I was watching a church service on tv some years ago and it was sung....it moved me. I know nothing about it or the author but I looked it up and put it there.
The ongoing systematic destruction of Americana.
Do you need an Apple device?
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