Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

For many people, the Halloween season television broadcast's bring out nostalgic seasonal movies such as 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' from the wonderful mind of Charles Shultz. The animated classic was on TV tonight and got people thinking about the history behind it. We thought we'd post it below.

From Wikipedia.org:

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the third prime time animated television special, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

It was the first Halloween special to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting My Three Sons. CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001. The program was nominated for an Emmy award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature It's Magic, Charlie Brown which was released in 1981.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006 entitled, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic with the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.

And until next year, here's to hoping you get more than a bag of rocks for Halloween!

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