A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special. It is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. After Linus tells Charlie Brown about the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown cheers up, and the Peanuts gang unites to celebrate the Christmas season. It has been honored with an Emmy and a Peabody Award.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special. It is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. After Linus tells Charlie Brown about the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown cheers up, and the Peanuts gang unites to celebrate the Christmas season. Its success paved the way for a series of Peanuts television specials and films. Its jazz soundtrack achieved commercial success, selling four million copies in the US. Live theatrical versions of A Charlie BrownChristmas have been staged. The special was commissioned and sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, and was written over a period of several weeks, and produced on a small budget in six months. It has been honored with an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and has become an annual presentation in the United States, airing on broadcast television during theChristmas season. At Grace Cathedral, this choir was featured on the recording of a jazz score by pianist Vince Guaraldi. By the early 1960s, Charles Schulz’s comic strip had gained enormous popularity. Television producer Lee Mendelson had an idea for a documentary on its success, phoning Schulz to propose the idea. Several months later, Schulz phoned Mendelson again to propose a documentary. The idea for the documentary was a success, and Mendelson proposed the special as a TV special in the fall of 1965.
It made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965, and received high ratings and acclaim from critics. It was the first Peanuts TV special to have a laugh track, in addition to its tone, pacing, music, and animation, led both the producers and the network to predict the project would be a disaster, but it proved to be a success. The show has been shown on PBS and PBS stations in the UK, Australia, Canada, and Australia since the early 1990s, and on PBS in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. The series has also been shown in Europe and Australia, and is scheduled to be shown in Australia in the spring of 2015. It will also be shown on the UK PBS channel, PBS UK, in the summer of 2015, and in Europe in the autumn of 2016, as part of a special series on the history of the Peanut Club, The Peanuts Gang, The Charlie Brown Adventures, and The Angels Sing. The specials are available on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-Ray, with a digital download of the special available for the first time on November 14, 2015. The DVD will be released on November 25, 2015, on the 30th anniversary of the release of the first episode of the series, “The Peanuts Movie” The special is available on the DVD, and will be available on Blu- ray, and CD, on November 30, 2015 on the 31st, and November 31, 2016 on the CD, as well as the DVD.
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