Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
Genre	Animated TV special
Created by	Charles M. Schulz
Written by	Charles M. Schulz
Voices of	Wesley Singerman (Charlie Brown, Ugly Kid) Megan Taylor Harvey (Sally Brown) Serena Berman (Lucy van Pelt) Tim Deters (Rerun van Pelt) Lauren Schaffel (Lydia) Christopher Ryan Johnson (Schroeder) Bill Melendez (Snoopy and Woodstock)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Running time	18 mins
Production company(s)	United Feature Syndicate
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	December 8, 2002
Chronology
Preceded by	A Charlie Brown Valentine
Followed by	Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It originally aired on ABC December 8, 2002. It has since been broadcast each Christmas season after that as a companion segment in an hour-long slot featuring an unedited version of A Charlie Brown Christmas. It is the only TV special to credit Charles M. Schulz posthumously for writing. Other TV credits do not credit Schulz writing it.

The special consists of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmastime situations. The installments are as follows:

Snoopy tries to get Lucy to ask him to join her in the skating show, but she's only interested in Schroeder. Later, he dresses up like Santa Claus to work as a bell-ringer to raise money. He is briefly confronted by an angry Rerun, who chastises him for failing to deliver the toys promised to him the previous Christmas. At one point, while dressed as Santa, he plays "Oh! Susanna" on the accordion, which Lucy comments "isn't very Christmasy" as she and Linus walk by. Upon hearing that, he quickly switches to "Christmas Time is Here" (with Woodstock whistling along). He also attempts to make peace with the ferocious cat who lives next door but it takes a ferocious swipe again.

Linus tries to decide what kind of letter he should write to Santa and toys with the affections of the strange girl at school who keeps changing her name, like "Jezebel", "Susan", "Rebecca", "Lydia", and "Rachel".

Sally decides to give everyone paper airplanes for Christmas and she discovers that "Samantha Claus" is actually "Santa Claus", embarrassing herself at school. Later, she decides to "fall down" a tree for Christmas. When Charlie questions her about her plan, she says "I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at, I hope it'll just fall down." Later, just such an occurrence happens. She is bullied by the kid living in the house whose yard the tree was standing in and enters a bet with Sally for who will keep the fallen tree.

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