A Charlie Brown Christmas was originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. The opening sequence has been chopped off for decades to hide the Coke promotion. This was how it looked when first aired in 1965.
Category: Charles M. Schulz
The all-time greatest comic strip
Sparky at 100
There are plenty of online notices right now about Charles M. Schulz, who was born 100 years ago today. Terry Gross interviewed Schulz in 1990. Good Ol’ Monte gets a nod, as does cartoonist Jimmy Johnson’s then-wife Rheta, who wrote Good Grief!: The Story of Charles M. Schulz.
Apple-infused Pumpkin
Good thing I kept last year’s PBS airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on my OTA TiVo. This year, Apple TV+ will be the only place showing the cartoon, ending its 55-year run on broadcast television.
Regretfully, PBS does not have the rights to distribute the Peanuts specials this year. We’ll all have to watch for the Great Pumpkin in a different pumpkin patch this Halloween.
— PBS KIDS (@PBSKIDS) September 29, 2022
That Was Then
Saying someone is the GOAT today means exactly the opposite of what it meant for Charlie Brown.
Ludwig-out
Are you searching for 13-and-a-half continuous hours of Beethoven to fill your day?
They’re here.
Pumpkin Spice Peanuts
The free version of the soundtrack, compliments of the Great Pumpkin.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNORqZcDxMcMacxgn3-oaicZ05ZXANuh0
Note: That playlist has the earlier soundtrack release, taken from the music and effects tracks used for the TV show. The new release is from the original session master tapes.
A quick comparison of the TV show…
… to the master tape.