This was the age of innocence. It was 15 minutes before this cartoon started that my Dad who was declared missing, presumed dead in Vietnam walked in the door safe and sound. Whenever Christmas rolled around and I'm depressed, I think of this cartoon and remember what Christmas is about. Thank you for this video!🎆🎄👍
History says that after watching the program a week before scheduled broadcast, just about everyone associated with it thought it would crash and burn. The fact that CBS had already scheduled it, and had nothing else to run, forced their hand. As we all know, it turned out to be a critical and financial success, and a start was born.
+Kevin Nelsonukoll And in 2002... Sally: I'd like to speak to my sweet baboo Linus: I am not her sweet baboo! Sally: I want to thank him for the valentine he sent me Linus: I did not send her a valentine! Sally: Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?
Growing up in the '60 and 70's if you missed this television special you had to wait until the following year. To the kids of today, you didn't have all these videos and RU-vid to watch this on demand.
@@dace938 Wow. I think the sentiment was... that's a big reason why these shows were extra special to us, simply because they were only available to us once a year... vs not any time we damn well felt like watching it. Should it matter that the parents didn't have Christmas specials? A lot of them didn't have a tv. Some of them didn't even have indoor plumbing. So what?
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is the first of many "Peanuts" specials that would air on CBS between 1965-2000. Before that, Charlie Brown and friends first television appearances were a series of commercials for the Ford Motor Company which aired from 1959-62. Creator Charles Schulz turned down the idea of a regular series, but in 1983,the "Peanuts" gang had its own shortlived series in "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show".
The footage in 0:19 was not part of the Special but part of a documentary in 1963 called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" which became the name of the first Peanuts movie 6 years later.
Which Schulz later regretted doing. But CBS talked him into it, because they wanted a weekly Saturday morning "Peanuts" series (they also desperately wanted an edge in their ratings). It lasted a little over two seasons- and 18 episodes.
CBS executives: "We don't like it...." Charles Shultz: "If you don't air my creation, I WILL end your careers!" *years later* CBS: good old Charles Shultz...
@@67nairb He did not have to. ABC acquired the rights in 2001. AppleTV+ got the rights this year and has an arrangement with PBS to continue it over the air.
These specials were exceptionally "special" to kids who grew up in the 60's and 70's. As far as a kid was concerned, there was no "electronic frontier". All we had were friends, the outdoors, and being sociable. There was no internet, no flat screen tv's & DVD players in every room, no streaming, no cell phones, nearly no personal computers. "Social media" was the newspaper, and the 19" tv. By today's standard... that era was BRUTAL. So... if you missed any of your favorite specials... not only did you have to wait till next year... you were p!ssed.
Notice the unused shot of Linus crashing into a sign saying "Danger". And also the footage of Charlie Brown attempting to play the piano was from the unreleased 1963 documentary _A Boy Named Charlie Brown_ (not to be confused with the 1969 film of the same name).
When I was a kid, our city newspaper had a Peanuts Christmas countdown of how many day til Christmas..back then there was no Sunday paper, so I was extra happy when 2 days had gone by...BTW, I have called the Peanuts franchise Charlie Brown forever.. weird...😎😊
It's too bad that this isn't airing on TV this year. It's basically a tradition. It almost feels like something is missing this season. But I guess less people watch TV these days. And Apple is a bit greedy at times.
It's honestly a shocker it didn't go off the air sooner. It should have definitely "run its course" by now. And I would have assumed networks would have forced people to watch it on home media in like the early 2000s, heck maybe even in the 90s, so the fact it lasted this long is incredible. This special definitely had a good run on television. But all good things must come to an end eventually.
@TheKillerEmcee Oh no, I agree, there isn't. It's just interesting how against all odds, for so long, TV stations decided this special should still be aired after all these years, even when the rest of the franchise has been phased out decades prior. So, if anything, it felt like this logically would have happened sooner. I'm not happy that it's gone at all. I'm just thinking realistically
@@fromthesidelines but this WAS the first peanuts special to air, as another special, a boy named Charlie Brown (not the 1969 film,) was made 2 years earlier, but didn’t get to air at all, and being finally released in 2005 as a dvd
I believe Televison's eventual sole purpose in the future is to just show this one special once a year. The day its taken off OVER THE AIR BROADCAST TELEVISION is the day of the second coming. With how this year has gone we came damn near close. It simply isnt christmas without the world's most famous blockhead
We've been able to get it on DVD for at least the past 20 years or so. So no biggie about whether or not they show this or other Christmas specials on TV. I will admit though, it's not quite the same without the distinctive CBS Special Presentation intro and of course it being sponsored by McDonalds...for the good time and great taste of McDonalds!
Those are still here on RU-vid if you have a way of switching between that and Apple TV or a DVD. The original home video release was in the 1980s (albeit edited) and a laser disc (uncut minus Coca-Cola insignia) came out in the 90s, yet those did not take the place of the annual network broadcasts until after Les Moonves became head of CBS. He let *The Wizard of Oz* get away from them, too, along with lots of other broadcast traditions. The prime-time animated special that once flourished at CBS died there under his watch. Shame on him.
The scene where Lucy slugs Charlie Brown after he (poorly)plays Schroeder's piano and everyone shouts, "That's terrible,Charlie Brown!" is not part of the special. Instead, it was a clip from a 1963 unaired special called, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". Six years later, it was the title of the first-ever Peanuts feature film.
Snowtime, Wintertime, Christmastime. The time of sugar plums, Santa Claus, and at last those lovable children from 'PEANUTS'! Enjoy "A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS"! Meet Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Beethoven, Lucy, and that infinite hound, Snoopy! THAT'S TERRIBLE, CHARLIE BROWN! Here comes Charlie Brown now! Listen. (Thanks for the Christmas card you sent me Violet. I didn't send you a Christmas card Charlie Brown. Don't you know a sarcasm when you hear it?) Be here as your favorite comic strip comes to life. This year enjoy "A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS"!
That was done for a series of Ford commercials (and a few sequences seen on "THE FORD SHOW STARRING TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD") between 1959 and '64. The animation seen at 0:19 was produced for a documentary on Charles Schulz in 1964.
0:18 It says DANGER intead of Coca Cola. Did they make two different versions. If so then why don't they use the version of the sign that says DANGER in all TV airings or DVD releases.
Coca Cola sponsored the special and made an agreement with CBS to air. When they finished the special everyone including CBS hated the special and thought it was gonna be a disaster. But since CBS made an agreement they had to air it, so they agreed to air it once and then that'd be it. When the show aired December 9, 1965 it was a huge success. They got 46% sure of audience, meaning that half of the television sets were on watching the special that night. The next it got all these great critical acclaim reviews and is now an absolute Christmas classic and tradition
It was transferred from a film print to tape to disc, and the color has substantially faded from that original film print. It is common with many film prints - unless they have undergone an extensive (and expensive) restoration the film prints will show problems such as color fading, print damage, and so on.
Repent and put your faith in Jesus. We're all sinners and deserve Hell, but Jesus died on the cross for our sins then rose from the grave. Everybody who puts their faith I'm Jesus will be saved. We all need God's grace.
He's portrayed like this in the comics as well. The other children are his friends but they often ostracize and bully him. He's prone to failure often because of his own insecurities. That's just part of his character.
@@doglikedude I think Lucy is a bigger failure than Charlie Brown in the fact that she has nothing better do with her life than pick on him. She's a real jerk and she claims that Schroeder is her boyfriend. In fact, he dislikes her immensely in the way she treats Charlie Brown. I think she's the one who's insecure There was one Peanuts comic strip however in which in Charlie did get the last laugh over Lucy. I read it over 40 years ago. Lucy had knitted herself a shirt with a zig zag stripe around it looking just like Charlie Brown's. She showed it to Patty and Violet who were always mercilessly picking on Charlie Brown. Lucy put on the Charlie Brown-like shirt and began to mock CB by crying: "Oh boohoo, I'm Charlie Brown and I'm such a loser, boohoohoo". She cried fake tears with Violet and Patty laughing in the background. All three were shameless. Lucy continued by mocking: "Oh boohoo, I don't have any friends. Nobody likes me boohoo. (which wasn't true at all) I'm such a blockhead, boohoohoo. Or words to that effect. Then all of a sudden Charlie Brown walks into the picture and says to Lucy: "Well hello Charlie Brown. You blockhead." and walks away. Lucy feels so embarrassed that her bubble says SIGH with Patty and Violet guffawing in the background at the end of the comic strip. That was very satisfying to me and would be to any Peanuts fan. It isn't often for Charlie Brown to get the last laugh. Incidentally, the day after Thanksgiving, ME TV had two Peanuts movies on called A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN and SNOOPY COME HOME to celebrate Charles Schulz's 100th Birthday.
