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Charlie Brown holiday specials airing on TV this year on PBS

ByWesley Coburn|
A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING - The ABC Television Network will kick off the holiday season with the classic half-hour animated PEANUTS special, ÒA Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,Ó Wednesday, NOV. 27 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. In the 1973 special, ÒA Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,Ó created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown wants to do something special for the gang. However, the dinner he arranges is a disaster when the caterers, Snoopy and Woodstock, prepare toast and popcorn as the main dish. Humiliated, it will take all of MarcieÕs persuasive powers to salvage the holiday for Charlie Brown. A special bonus cartoon from Charles M. Schulz, ÒThis Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,Ó will air with the Peanuts classic, in which history comes to animated screen life in a captivating and informative program about the Mayflower voyagers. The special will air with Spanish audio via SAP. In ÒThis Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,Ó the year is 1620. After 65 grueling, sea-tossed days, the Pilgrims are in view of AmericaÕs shores Ð and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts crew are with them as they experience firsthand the lifestyle of the early settlers and celebrate the first Thanksgiving. (©1973 United Feature Syndicate Inc.)
A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING - The ABC Television Network will kick off the holiday season with the classic half-hour animated PEANUTS special, ÒA Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,Ó Wednesday, NOV. 27 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. In the 1973 special, ÒA Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,Ó created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown wants to do something special for the gang. However, the dinner he arranges is a disaster when the caterers, Snoopy and Woodstock, prepare toast and popcorn as the main dish. Humiliated, it will take all of MarcieÕs persuasive powers to salvage the holiday for Charlie Brown. A special bonus cartoon from Charles M. Schulz, ÒThis Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,Ó will air with the Peanuts classic, in which history comes to animated screen life in a captivating and informative program about the Mayflower voyagers. The special will air with Spanish audio via SAP. In ÒThis Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,Ó the year is 1620. After 65 grueling, sea-tossed days, the Pilgrims are in view of AmericaÕs shores Ð and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts crew are with them as they experience firsthand the lifestyle of the early settlers and celebrate the first Thanksgiving. (©1973 United Feature Syndicate Inc.)

The Charlie Brown holiday specials will air on TV this year.

The Charlie Brown holiday specials caused quite the uproar earlier this year when it was revealed that they had become an exclusive to the Apple TV Plus streaming service, to the point where over a 100,000 fans signed an angry petition to bring the Peanuts Gang back to network TV.

Well, fans of Snoopy, Linus and the rest can rejoice, because PBS stepped in to work out a deal to air the Charlie Brown holiday specials A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas this year.

As Snoopy and everyone else feel like they belong to the public as national treasures, it seems quite appropriate that public television should air these timeless specials, focused as they tend to be with anti-commercialism messages and the daily trials of everyday life.

According to Good Housekeeping magazine, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will air on PBS, as well as the PBS Kids subchannel, on Sunday, November 22 at 7:30 p.m. ET, while will air on Sunday, December 13.

Alternatively, viewers wanting to view the specials could rent them on Amazon Prime Video, or if they’re subscribers to Apple TV Plus, they could watch them anytime.

If you aren’t a subscriber, Apple TV Plus has a free one-week trial option, so you could watch it that way, and they are also allowing everyone to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for free from Wednesday, November 25 to Black Friday, November 27.

If you’re still wanting your Peanuts fix and none of these options are appealing for whatever reason, the surprisingly-amazing Peanuts Movie is streaming on Disney Plus, which offers a large amount of canine content.

Or you could assemble a gingerbread version of Snoopy’s doghouse, which would be pretty great if you’re trying to keep the grandkids off of screens for bit.

The Peanuts holiday specials first aired on CBS, beginning in 1965, before the rights were acquired by ABC in 2000, where they’ve aired since until this year.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving debuted in 1973, featuring Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, while Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock call up their inner Julia Childs and cook up a holiday feast which looks slightly unconventional, consisting of things like tasty but decidedly-unusual things like toast, pretzel sticks, and ice cream.

Will you be watching the Charlie Brown holiday specials this year?

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