To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006. The program 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. Apple allowed non-subscribers free streaming in 2022 from October 28 to 31. It would be the only time the special aired on PBS, as the network could not renew the agreement for 2022. In 2021, the special returned to broadcast television on PBS and PBS Kids stations as part of a partnership by Apple and PBS. The special is also aired on Family Channel in Canada since 2018. From 2006 until 2019, ABC usually aired the special twice, once in a truncated format during a half-hour time slot and once in full during an hour-long time slot (filled out with an abridged version of the 1972 special You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown).īeginning in 2020, Apple TV+ became the exclusive home of all Peanuts specials. It aired annually on ABC during the Halloween season until 2019. (Dolly Madison continued to co-sponsor the Peanuts specials on CBS for many years.) The special was nominated for a 1966 Emmy Award.ĬBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001. The original sponsors were Coca-Cola (which had been the original sponsor of A Charlie Brown Christmas) and the Dolly Madison brand of baked snack food. 1 broadcast in that week's Nielsen TV ratings. Its initial broadcast took place on Octoon CBS, preempting My Three Sons, and tied Bonanza as the No. It was also the first Peanuts special whose title used the pattern of a short phrase followed by "Charlie Brown", a pattern which remained the norm for almost all subsequent Peanuts specials. The special features music composed by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, whose contributions include the theme song " Linus and Lucy". Ī Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M.
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