[ifinnegan]

TV network didn’t want the Gospel of Luke passage.

Schulz said he doesn’t do the show if it’s not in.

[leaning conservative]

Didn’t know that. Surprised because that was back in non woke times.

[fidelis]

The executives at CBS, when they first heard the soundtrack to Charlie Brown Christmas, hated it. They thought there was no way jazz music would work for a children's TV special. The soundtrack went on to become the biggest selling jazz album of all time.

They also hated that real kid's voice actors were used, that there was no laugh-track, and of course the quoting of Scripture by Linus. All of these things Charles Schultz (a former Sunday school teacher) insisted on. Since the whole thing was made in about three months and the network had already committed advertising to it in TV Guide and other places, it went on as planned. They just knew it would bomb, but it turned out otherwise.