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1965 animated Television receiver special

A Charlie Brownish Christmas
Charlie Brown Christmas.jpg
Genre Blithe goggle box special
Based on Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz
Written by Charles Thousand. Schulz
Directed by Bill Melendez
Voices of
  • Peter Robbins
  • Christopher Shea
  • Kathy Steinberg
  • Tracy Stratford
  • Nib Melendez
  • Ann Altieri
  • Chris Doran
  • Sally Dryer
  • Karen Mendelson
  • Geoffrey Ornstein
Theme music composer Vince Guaraldi
Opening theme "Christmas Time Is Here"
Ending theme "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Composer Vince Guaraldi
Country of origin Usa
Original language English
Production
Executive producer Lee Mendelson
Producer Pecker Melendez
Running time 25:25
Product company
  • Lee Mendelson Films
Budget $96,000[1]
Release
Original network CBS
Moving picture format 4:3 35mm flick
Audio format Monaural
Original release December nine, 1965 (1965-12-09)
Chronology
Preceded past A Boy Named Charlie Chocolate-brown (1963)
Followed past Charlie Brown's All Stars! (1966)

A Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas is a 1965 animated tv set special. It is the start Telly special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Produced by Lee Mendelson and directed by Bill Melendez, the plan fabricated its debut on CBS on December ix, 1965. In the special, Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers when he chooses a existent, but puny, Christmas tree as a centerpiece.

After the comic strip's debut in 1950, Peanuts had become a phenomenon worldwide by the mid-1960s. The special was commissioned and sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, and was written over a flow of several weeks, and produced on a small-scale budget in six months. In casting the characters, the producers took an unconventional route, hiring child actors. The programme's soundtrack was similarly unorthodox, featuring a jazz score by pianist Vince Guaraldi. Its lack of a laugh track (a staple in US television set blitheness in this menses), in improver to its tone, pacing, music, and animation, led both the producers and the network to predict the project would be a disaster. Notwithstanding, contrary to their collective apprehension, A Charlie Brown Christmas received high ratings and acclaim from critics. It has been honored with an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and has become an annual presentation in the United States, airing on broadcast telly during the Christmas season. Its success paved the manner for a series of Peanuts television specials and films. Its jazz soundtrack achieved commercial success, selling v million copies in the US.[2] Alive theatrical versions of A Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas have been staged.

Plot [edit]

On their style to join their friends ice skating on a frozen pond, Charlie Brown confides in Linus that, despite the Christmas season, he is still depressed. After Linus' reproach, and a put-down from Violet, he visits Lucy's psychiatric berth and tells her his problem. She suggests that he straight the group's annual Christmas play to become him involved, and he accepts.

Charlie Brown becomes even more discouraged by his observations of Christmas' commercialization every bit he heads for the rehearsal: Lucy laments over not receiving real estate for Christmas; Snoopy decorates his doghouse for a neighborhood lights and display contest; and Charlie Brown's younger sis Sally asks him to write a greedy letter to Santa Claus. At the rehearsal, Charlie Brown finds a play fit for the 1960s with dancing, lively music, an uncooperative cast and a "Christmas Queen" (Lucy). Unable to control the cast, Charlie Brown decides the play needs a more "proper mood," and recommends a Christmas tree; Lucy suggests a big, pink aluminum tree then sends him and Linus to get one.

At the tree lot, Charlie Chocolate-brown picks the merely existent tree there, a small sapling. Linus questions his option, but Charlie Brown believes that once decorated, it will exist perfect. When they render, however, Lucy and the others scorn him and the tree and walk away laughing. Crestfallen, Charlie Brown loudly asks if anyone knows what Christmas is all most; Linus says he does, walks to center stage, asks for a spotlight, recites the annunciation to the shepherds, returns and says, "That's what Christmas is all most, Charlie Brown."

Realizing that he does not have to let capitalism ruin his own Christmas, Charlie Brown takes the tree home to decorate it and show the others that information technology will work in the play. He stops at Snoopy'due south doghouse, which had won the lights and display competition, and hangs a large red Christmas ball on his tree. The ornamentation'due south weight causes the tiny tree to curve to the ground; believing he has killed the tree, Charlie Brown, dejected, walks away.

The others realize that they were as well difficult on Charlie Brownish and quietly follow him. Linus gently uprights the drooping tree and wraps his blanket around its base of operations to requite it some support. After the others give the tree a makeover using more decorations from the doghouse, even Lucy concedes to Charlie Dark-brown's choice. The kids then kickoff bustling "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Hearing them, Charlie Brown returns to see that the sapling is now a magnificent Christmas tree. All the kids shout, "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!", and so sing "Hark" with Charlie Brown joining in as snow begins to fall.

Vox cast [edit]

  • Peter Robbins equally Charlie Brown[3]
  • Christopher Shea: Linus van Pelt[4]
  • Tracy Stratford as Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt[5]
  • Cathy Steinberg equally Sally Brown[5]
  • Chris Doran every bit Schroeder and Shermy
  • Geoffrey Orstein as Pig-Pen
  • Emerge Dryer equally Violet
  • Anne Altieri as Frieda
  • Pecker Melendez as Snoopy
  • Karen Mendelson equally Patty
  • Choral vocals: Members of the children's choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church (San Rafael, California) directed by Robert "Barry" Mineah. The choir was recognized for their contribution to this work at a 40-year anniversary at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.[ citation needed ] The choir was besides featured on the Vince Guaraldi recording At Grace Cathedral.[6]

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

By the early 1960s, Charles M. Schulz'south comic strip Peanuts had gained enormous popularity.[7] Television producer Lee Mendelson acknowledged the strip's cultural impression and had an idea for a documentary on its success, phoning Schulz to propose the idea. Schulz, an avid baseball game fan, recognized Mendelson from his documentary on ballplayer Willie Mays, A Human Named Mays, and invited him to his abode in Sebastopol, California, to discuss the project.[8] Their coming together was cordial, with the program to produce a half-hour documentary set up. Mendelson wanted to characteristic roughly "i or two" minutes of animation, and Schulz suggested animator Neb Melendez, with whom he collaborated some years earlier on a spot for the Ford Motor Visitor.[ix] Mendelson later stated that he was drawn to doing an animated Charlie Brown afterwards working on A Man Named Mays, noting that Mays was arguably the best baseball role player of all time, while Charlie Brown, in a running gag in the strips, was one of the worst, making him a natural follow-up subject to his previous work.[ten]

Despite the popularity of the strip and acclamation from advertisers, networks were not interested in the special.[11] Past April 1965, Time featured the Peanuts gang on its magazine encompass, perhaps prompting a call from John Allen of the New York-based McCann Erickson Agency.[7] Mendelson imagined he would sell his documentary, and blindly agreed to Allen's proposal: an animated half-hr Peanuts Christmas special.[11] The Coca-Cola Company was looking for a special to sponsor during the vacation season. "The bad news is that today is Wednesday and they'll need an outline in Atlanta by Monday," Allen remarked to Mendelson.[12] He speedily contacted Schulz, and the duo got to work with plans for a Peanuts Christmas special.[7] The duo prepared an outline for the Coca-Cola executives in less than 1 24-hour interval, and Mendelson would later recall that the majority of ideas came from Schulz, whose "ideas flowed nonstop."[13] Co-ordinate to Mendelson, their pitch to Coca-Cola consisted of "wintertime scenes, a school play, a scene to exist read from the Bible, and a audio track combining jazz and traditional music."[14] The outline did not change over the form of its product.[xv]

As Allen was in Europe, the duo received no feedback on their pitch for several days.[13] When Allen got in touch on with them, he informed them that Coca-Cola wanted to purchase the special, but also wanted it for an early December broadcast, giving the duo only six months to scramble together a squad to produce the special. Mendelson assured him – without complete conviction in his statements – that this would be no problem. Following this, A Charlie Brown Christmas entered product.[13]

Writing [edit]

Schulz's master goal for a Peanuts-based Christmas special was to focus on the true meaning of Christmas.[xiii] He desired to juxtapose this theme with interspersed shots of snow and ice-skating, perchance inspired by his own babyhood growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota.[13] He also created the thought for the school play, and mixing jazz with traditional Christmas carols.[13] Schulz was adamant most Linus' reading of the Bible, despite Mendelson and Melendez's concerns that religion was a controversial topic, especially on telly.[15] Melendez recalled Schulz turned to him and remarked, "If we don't do it, who will?".[7] Schulz'due south interpretation proved accurate, and in the 1960s, fewer than 9 percent of telly Christmas episodes contained a substantive reference to religion, co-ordinate to university researcher Stephen Lind.[16] It has too been suggested[ by whom? ] that Linus'southward recitation of Scripture was incorporated in such a way that information technology forms the climax of the pic, thus making information technology impossible to successfully edit out.

Schulz's faith in the Bible stemmed from his Midwest background and religious and historical studies;[15] as such, aspects of religion would be a topic of report throughout his life.[17] According to a 2015 "spiritual biography", Schulz'south organized religion was personal and complex, and would be integrated in a number of his programs.[18]

The program's script has been described as "barebones", and was completed in just a few weeks.[19] In the days following the special's sell to Coca-Cola, Mendelson and animator Pecker Melendez met with Schulz in his domicile to aggrandize upon the ideas promised in the pitch. Mendelson remembered that on the previous Christmas Day he and his spouse had read Hans Christian Andersen'south "The Fir-Tree" to their children.[14] Schulz countered with the thought that there be a tree with the spirit of lead grapheme Charlie Brownish.[20] Mendelson suggested they employ a laugh runway, a staple of television animation, but Schulz rejected this idea immediately.[20] He felt strongly that the audience should not be instructed when to laugh.[19] They spoke at length about creating an official theme that was neither jazz nor traditional to open the program. Schulz wanted a part of the special to feature the graphic symbol of Schroeder performing Beethoven, and Mendelson combined this with the inclusion of Guaraldi's "Linus & Lucy" number.[twenty] Schulz penned the script for A Charlie Brown Christmas, with Melendez plotting out the blitheness via a storyboard. His storyboard contained six panels for each shot, spanning a combined 80 or-so pages.[20]

Casting [edit]

In casting the silent comic strip characters of Peanuts, the trio pulled from their personalities.[three] Atomic number 82 character Charlie Brown's vocalism was decided to be downbeat and nondescript ("blah," equally Mendelson observed), while Lucy be bold and forthright.[3] Linus' voice, it was decided, would combine both sophistication with childlike innocence.[3] Mendelson recognized that the graphic symbol of Snoopy was the strip'southward well-nigh popular character who seemed to seize "the best jokes," merely realized they could not cast a voice for the cartoon dog. "In the process, we gained a veritable 'canine Harpo Marx,'" Mendelson subsequently wrote.[3] Melendez suggested he provide gibberish for Snoopy'south mutterings, and simply speed up the record to prevent viewers from knowing.[3] There are no adult characters in the strip or in this special. Later specials would introduce an offscreen instructor; her lines are eschewed for the sound of a trombone as the team behind the specials found it humorous.[21]

With this in listen, the trio fix out to bandage the characters, which proved to exist a daunting procedure. Casting for Charlie Brown proved most difficult, as it required both good acting skills but also the ability to appear nonchalant.[xx] The producers picked eight-year-sometime Peter Robbins, already known for his roles spanning tv set, film, and advertisements.[three] Robbins considered Charlie Chocolate-brown to be 1 of his favorite characters, and despite leaving acting as an developed, he considered his time in the role a highlight of his life.[22] His godmother, Hollywood agent Hazel McMillen, discovered Christopher Shea, who would go Linus in the special.[three] His slight lisp, co-ordinate to Mendelson, gave him a "youthful sweet," while his emotional script reading "gave him power and authorisation as well."[4] Tracy Stratford played the role of Lucy, with the creators beingness impressed past her attitude and professionalism.[5] Kathy Steinberg was the youngest of the performers, only vi years quondam at the fourth dimension of recording. Also young to read, the producers had to give her one line at a time to recite.[5] Robbins remembered Melendez did this for him too, joking that he also mistakenly copied his Latino accent.[vii] Mendelson desired to have non-actors (non "Hollywood kids") perform on the special, and he sent tape recorders home with his employees for their children to audition.[19]

Much of the groundwork cast came from Mendelson's home neighborhood in northern California.[5] According to Robbins, the children viewed the script'due south sophisticated dialogue equally "edgy," finding several words and phrases, among them "eastern syndicate", difficult to pronounce.[3] He recalled the recording sessions every bit chaotic, with excited children running rampant. Yet, the recording of A Charlie Brownish Christmas was completed in one twenty-four hour period.[3] Jefferson Plane was recording side by side door and came over to go the children'due south autographs.[7] Following the special'southward broadcast, the children became wildly popular in their respective elementary schools; Robbins recalled groups approaching him request him to recite lines of dialogue.[5]

Blitheness [edit]

Animation for A Charlie Brown Christmas was created by Bill Melendez Productions. Mendelson had no idea whether or not completing a half-hr's worth of animation would exist possible given the product's six-calendar month schedule, but Melendez confirmed its feasibility.[14] In actuality, animation was only completed in the final 4 months of production.[23] CBS initially wanted an hr's worth of animation, but Melendez talked them down to a half-hour special, assertive an hour of television animation was too much.[1] Having never worked on a half-hour special before, Melendez phoned Bill Hanna of Hanna-Barbera for advice, but Hanna declined to give whatsoever. CBS gave a budget of $76,000 to produce the show and it went $twenty,000 over budget.[1] The start step in creating the animation was to brand a pencil drawing, afterward inking and painting the drawing onto a cel.[7] The cel was then placed onto a painted groundwork. There are xiii,000 drawings in the special, with 12 frames per 2d to create the illusion of movement.[7]

Melendez had previously worked for Warner Bros. and Disney, and working on Peanuts-related cloth gave him a take chances to animate a truly flat cartoon design.[24] The motility of Schulz's characters, particularly the Peanuts gang, was very limited. The character of Snoopy, nonetheless, proved the exception to the rule. "He can do anything – move and dance – and he's very easy to animate," said Melendez.[24]

Music [edit]

The soundtrack to A Charlie Brownish Christmas is an unorthodox mix of traditional Christmas music and jazz. The jazz portions were created by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Producer Lee Mendelson, a fan of jazz, heard Guaraldi's crossover hit "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on the radio not long after completion of his documentary Charlie Brown & Charles Schulz, and contacted the musician to produce music for the special.[9] Guaraldi composed the music for the project, creating an entire piece, "Linus and Lucy," to serve as the theme.[11] When Coca-Cola commissioned A Charlie Brown Christmas in spring 1965, Guaraldi returned to write the music.[7] The starting time instrumentals for the special were recorded past Guaraldi at Glendale, California'due south Whitney Studio with bassist Monty Budwig and drummer Colin Bailey.[25] Recycling "Linus and Lucy" from the earlier special, Guaraldi completed ii new originals for the special, "Skating", and "Christmas Fourth dimension Is Here".[25] In the weeks preceding the premiere, Mendelson encountered problem finding a lyricist for Guaraldi's instrumental intro, and penned "Christmas Time is Here" in "nigh 15 minutes" on the backside of an envelope.[15]

The special opens and closes with a choir of children, culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California, performing "Christmas Time Is Here" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing".[5] I of the singers, Candace Hackett Shively, went on to get an simple school teacher, and sent a letter of gratitude to Schulz after he announced his retirement in 2000.[5] In the letter, she recalls recording the choir at Fantasy Studios and going out for ice foam afterward, while also saying she tells the story to her course-schoolers each holiday flavour.[21] The recording sessions were conducted in belatedly autumn 1965 and were cut in three dissever sessions over 2 weeks. They frequently ran late into the night, resulting in angry parents, some who forbade their children from returning; consequently, numerous new children were present at each session.[26] The children were directed by Barry Mineah, who demanded perfection from the choir. Mendelson and Guaraldi disagreed, desiring the "kids to sound like kids"; they used a slightly off-key version of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" in the final cut.[26] Children were paid five dollars for their participation. In add-on, the children recorded dialogue for the special'southward final scene, in which the crowd of kids shout "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"[26]

The soundtrack for the special was recorded during these sessions, with decisions regarding timing and phrasing determined speedily. Guaraldi brought in bassist Fred Marshall and drummer Jerry Granelli to record the music, and spent time later re-recording earlier tracks, including covers of "The Christmas Vocal" and "Greensleeves." The eventual LP release credited Guaraldi solely, neglecting to mention the other musicians; Guaraldi was notorious for never keeping records of his session players.[27] Nearly iii decades later, in an effort to resolve the affair, Fantasy surmised that the recordings with Budwig and Bailey were employed in the special, while Marshall and Granelli recorded the anthology.[27] Despite this, other individuals have come frontward challenge to have recorded the special's music: bassists Eugene Firth and Al Obidinski, and drummers Paul Distel and Benny Barth. Firth and Distil are listed every bit performers on a studio-session written report Guaraldi filed for the American Federation of Musicians.[27]

A Charlie Brownish Christmas was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007,[28] and added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings in 2012.[29]

"I have always felt that one of the key elements that made that show was the music," said Mendelson in 2010. "It gave it a contemporary sound that appealed to all ages. Although Vince had never scored anything else and although I was basically a documentary picture show maker at the time, we started to piece of work together on the cues because we both loved jazz and we both played the piano. Then he would bring in the material for each scene and we would get over information technology scene by scene. About of the time, the music worked perfectly. Only in that location were times we would either non utilize something or use it somewhere else. Nosotros went through this same procedure on all 16 shows. Although there was always some left over music, nearly of the time what he wrote and performed is what went on the air."[30]

Reception [edit]

A Charlie Brown Christmas was completed just 10 days shy of its national broadcast premiere.[7] All involved believed the special would exist a disaster. Melendez get-go saw the completed blitheness at a showing in a theater in the days before its premiere, turning to his crew of animators and remarking, "My golly, nosotros've killed it."[7] Melendez was embarrassed, but one of the animators, Ed Levitt, was more than positive regarding the special, telling him it was "the best special [he'll] ever brand [...] This show is going to run for a hundred years."[7] [1] Mendelson was similar in his assumptions of the show's quality, and when he showed the film to network executives in New York, their opinions were also negative. Their complaints included the show'due south deadening footstep, the music not plumbing equipment, and the animation too simple. "I really believed, if it hadn't been scheduled for the following week, there's no style they were gonna broadcast that show," Mendelson afterwards said.[7] Executives had invited television critic Richard Burgheim of Fourth dimension to view the special, and debated equally to whether showing it to him would be a practiced idea.[15] His review, printed the following week, was positive, praising the special as unpretentious and writing that "A Charlie Brown Christmas is one children's special this season that bears repeating."[31]

The program premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965, at seven:30 pm ET (pre-empting The Munsters),[32] and was viewed by 45% of those watching television that evening,[19] with the number of homes watching the special an estimated 15,490,000, placing information technology at number two in the ratings, behind Bonanza on NBC.[7] The special received critical acclaim: The Hollywood Reporter accounted the evidence "delightfully novel and amusing," while the Weekly Multifariousness dubbed information technology "fascinating and haunting."[33] Bob Williams of the New York Post praised the "very neat transition from comic page to screen," while Lawrence Laurent of The Washington Postal service declared that "natural-born loser Charlie Brown finally turned up a real winner last night."[34] Harriet Van Horne of the New York Globe-Telegram hailed the scene in which Linus recites scripture, commenting, "Linus' reading of the story of the Nativity was, quite but, the dramatic highlight of the flavor."[34] Harry Harris of The Philadelphia Inquirer called the program "a yule classic [...] generated placidity warmth and amusement," and Terrence O'Flaherty of the San Francisco Relate wrote, "Charlie Brown was a jewel of a television bear witness."[33] Ben Gross of the New York Daily News praised the special's "charm and good taste," while Rick DuBrow of United Press International predicted, "the Peanuts characters last night staked out a claim to a major television time to come."[34] The picture has an aggregated review score of 83% based on 18 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.[35]

The evidence's positive reviews were highlighted with an ad in trade magazines;[36] 1 thanked Coca-Cola, CBS, United Features Syndicate, and the prove'southward viewers.[33] Fantasy released the special'due south soundtrack the get-go week of December 1965, coinciding with the special'due south airdate.[37] United Feature Syndicate pushed difficult to promote the special, while Word Publishing issued a hardcover adaption of the special.[37] CBS promptly ordered four additional Peanuts specials.[15] A Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas was awarded the Emmy Accolade for Outstanding Children's Program in 1966. "Charlie Chocolate-brown is not used to winning, so we thanks," Schulz joked.[vii]

Rotten Tomatoes records three negative reviews for the special for an overall rating of 83%.[38] 1 is a 2005 two-star review from Emanuel Levy that is no longer on Levy's website; the other 2 come from the Medium Popcorn podcast, in which both hosts gave the special a one-out-of-five stars review.[39]

Television broadcasts [edit]

CBS [edit]

The special was originally circulate on CBS in 1965 and rerun each twelvemonth from 1966 until 2000.

The original broadcasts included references to the sponsor, Coca-Cola. Because of Dolly Madison's eventual co-sponsorship of the series,[40] besides as subsequent FCC laws mandating the separation of commercial material from the actual program textile,[41] subsequent broadcasts and habitation media releases removed all references to Coca-Cola products. Broadcasts of the special in later years too had some scenes, animation, including audio furnishings being redone for correction. Snoopy'south dog bowl was repainted red instead of white, Lucy at present makes a whirling noise when scared out of her psychiatric booth, new blitheness was placed in scenes where the children dance on stage afterward the start time to avoid repetition, music was added in the background of the rehearsal scenes, and Snoopy no longer sings like a human in the final carol, amongst others.[42]

Removed from some subsequent broadcasts is a scene in which Linus throws a snowball at a tin can tin using his blanket. For several years it was rumored the tin was a Coca-Cola tin can.[40] Withal, a recently obtained re-create of the original print disproves this rumor, showing the tin was ever a generic tin can.[43]

ABC [edit]

Beginning with the 2001 vacation flavour, ABC held rights to the special. On Dec 6, 2001, a one-half-hour documentary on the special titled The Making of 'A Charlie Brownish Christmas' (hosted by Whoopi Goldberg) aired on ABC. This documentary has been released as a special characteristic on the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the special. In subsequent years, to let the special in an 60 minutes timeslot to be broadcast uncut for fourth dimension, the animated vignette collection, Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales, is broadcast in the remaining time for that hour.

The show's 40th anniversary broadcast on Dec 6, 2005, had the highest ratings in its fourth dimension slot[ citation needed ].

The 50th ceremony circulate aired on Nov thirty, 2015, and it featured a full two-60 minutes fourth dimension slot that was padded past a special, It'due south Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown, which was hosted past Kristen Bell, and featured musical performances by Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Morrison, Sarah McLachlan, Boyz Ii Men, Pentatonix, David Benoit, and the All-American Boys Chorus.[44] It also included documentary features.[45] After eighteen consecutive years of being circulate on the network, the special aired on ABC for the final time on December 5, 2019 at 7pm ET/PT.

Apple Tv+ and PBS [edit]

In October 2020, Apple TV+ caused exclusive rights to all Peanuts-related media. Under the terms of the understanding, Apple Television+ must make A Charlie Dark-brown Christmas and two other vacation specials (It's the Swell Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving) available for free on the platform during a iii-twenty-four hour period window. The window for A Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas was from December 11 to thirteen, 2020; subscribers to Apple TV+ have a broader window to watch the specials.[46] After mounting criticism over Apple'due south conclusion to remove the Peanuts specials from free television, the company announced a deal with PBS to resume the annual broadcast tradition. In accordance with most PBS member stations' non-commercial educational licenses, the special was presented on PBS without commercial suspension, with an underwriting message from Apple being the simply advertising.[47] PBS, Apple and WildBrain, the rightsholder to the Peanuts television library, announced they had renewed the arrangement in October 2021.[48]

Domicile media [edit]

In 1985, the special was released on VHS and Betamax by Media Home Entertainment, along with You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown. In 1987 the special was released on VHS by its kids subsidiary, Hi-Tops Video. In 1991, the special was released for a limited time on VHS through Vanquish Oil for sale at their gas stations.[ citation needed ]

On September 28, 1994 the special was released by Paramount on VHS. A laserdisc was released by Paramount (distributed past Pioneer) in 1996; Side 2 independent the 1979 special Y'all're the Greatest, Charlie Brown. In September 2000 it was released on DVD. Bonus features included the 1992 special It's Christmastime Once more, Charlie Brownish. On September 23, 2008, Warner Domicile Video (to which the rights to the Peanuts specials reverted before in the year, due to Melendez'south connections to WB) released a "remastered" DVD. Bonus features include a restored version of Christmastime Once again and a new documentary titled "A Christmas Phenomenon: The Making of A Charlie Brownish Christmas".

On October 6, 2009, it was released in high definition Blu-ray Disc from Warner in remastered Dolby five.1 surround sound. This disc also contains Information technology's Christmastime Over again, A Christmas Phenomenon, a DVD of the special, and a Digital Copy.[49]

Since off-network rights to this special have been transferred to Warner Bros., it has become available as a download on the iTunes Shop, PlayStation Network, Amazon Instant Video, and Google Play, and includes Information technology'due south Christmastime Again, Charlie Chocolate-brown and It'due south Flashbeagle, Charlie Brownish.

In December 2014, a 50th anniversary 2-DVD set was released. It also features the special It'due south Christmastime Over again, Charlie Brown, and the Making of... documentary from previous editions.

On October 31, 2017, it was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray disc containing Information technology's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown and the Making of... special.

Legacy [edit]

A Charlie Dark-brown Christmas has get a Christmas staple in the United States. Within the scope of futurity Peanuts specials, it established their style, combining thoughtful themes, jazzy scores, and simple blitheness.[fifty] Information technology as well, according to author Charles Solomon, established the half-60 minutes animated special every bit a television tradition, inspiring the creation of numerous others, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) and Frosty the Snowman (1969).[50] (Before animated specials such as Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ran a full 60 minutes.) U.s. Today summarized the program'south entreatment upon its 40th ceremony in 2005: "Scholars of popular culture say that shining through the programme'southward skeletal plot is the quirky and sophisticated genius that fueled the phenomenal popularity of Schulz's work."[19] Across its references to organized religion, unheard of on goggle box at the fourth dimension, the special also marked the first time children voiced animated characters.[19]

The special influenced dozens of young aspiring artists and animators, many of whom went on to piece of work within both the comics and animation industries, amidst them Eric Goldberg (Pocahontas),[51] Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc., Up), Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E),[1] Jef Mallett (Frazz),[l] and Patrick McDonnell (Mutts).[52] The evidence'due south score made an as pervasive impact on viewers who would subsequently perform jazz, among them David Benoit[53] and George Winston.[37] More directly, the special launched a series of Peanuts films, TV specials (many of them vacation-themed) and other works of entertainment.

Linus' spoken language nearly the stop of the special was used in the Sidewalk Prophets Christmas vocal "What a Glorious Night".[54]

Stage adaptation [edit]

In 2013, Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. began licensing an official phase version of the television special authorized past the Schulz family and Lee Mendelson.[55] The stage version follows the television special but includes an optional sing-along department of Christmas songs at the stop. It includes all of Vince Guaraldi's music from the idiot box special and the telly script is adjusted for the phase by Eric Schaeffer. It has been performed at hundreds of schools, churches and customs theatres.

Tree (The Charlie Brownish Christmas Tree) [edit]

Charlie Chocolate-brown (left) and Linus (right) with the Charlie Chocolate-brown Christmas Tree

The popularity of the special practically eliminated the popularity of the aluminum Christmas tree, which was a fad from 1958 to 1965, when the special portrayed it negatively. Past 1967, simply ii years afterward the special first aired, they were no longer beingness regularly manufactured.[56] [57] [58] [59]

The "Charlie Dark-brown Christmas Tree" has been used to comedic effect with people familiar with the special and has get synonymous with poorly executed or minimalist Christmas decorating. A model of the tree is offered by various retailers.[59]

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