Im 62 and never got into the Charlie Brown stuff
The shows were kind of lame and lifeless, but in the pre-internet days of only five over-the-air TV channels and no VCRs or DVDs, my parents were nice enough to sit through the Peanuts’ specials every Halloween and Christmas and let me watch them, just because.
Kinda like the Wizard of Oz, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Frosty the Snowman. It was only shown once a year, we couldn’t record it or buy it, and we thought we just had to watch it.
I’m a year younger than you and was the same