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.
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.