It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown
| It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown | |
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| Genre | Animated TV special |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Written by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Directed by | Bill Melendez |
| Voices of | Jamie E. Smith (Charlie Brown) Mindy Ann Martin (Sally Brown) John Christian Graas (Linus van Pelt) Marnette Patterson (Lucy van Pelt) Phillip Lucier (Peppermint Patty) Lindsay Bennish (Marcie) Sean Mendelson (Franklin) Deanna Tello (Peggy Jean, Violet, and Patty) Matthew Slowik (Harold Angel) Brittany M. Thornton (Additional Voices) Bill Meléndez (Snoopy and Woodstock) |
| Theme music composer | Vince Guaraldi |
| Composer(s) | Vince Guaraldi David Benoit |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Lee Mendelson |
| Producer(s) | Bill Melendez |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
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| First shown in | November 27, 1992 |
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| Preceded by | It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown |
| Followed by | You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown |
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is the 36th prime-time animated TV special based on the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on the CBS network on November 27, 1992.
The program is composed of various storylines from the comic strip. It was the first Christmas-themed Peanuts special since the inaugural A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, though an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show featured a new Christmas vignette in 1985. This was the final "new" Peanuts animated special to air on CBS. The network cancelled all future animated specials in 1990, even though they still aired in re-runs until 2000.
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is composed of several Christmas-themed story lines, all taken directly from the Peanuts comic strip:
In the final scene, Lucy tells Linus to get up from the beanbag, but Linus refuses, saying that they remembered the time when they opened presents under the Christmas tree, and thinking that why they haven't been nice all day. Lucy angrily tells him that he's driving her crazy. The film ends with Linus saying, "Joy to the world".
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown was first shown on CBS on November 27, 1992, and was the last Peanuts special to have its television premiere on that network. The show received a 10.0 rating and was watched by about 9.3 million households.
The special no longer airs on American television as both CBS and its successor "Peanuts" broadcaster, ABC, abandoned it in favor of other specials. In Canada, YTV still airs it as a standalone special as of 2012.
A VHS release was made available at Shell gas stations a few months prior to the TV airing, which would make this the first Peanuts special released directly to video.Paramount gave it another video release in 1996, and it was later included as a bonus special on the DVD and Blu-ray of A Charlie Brown Christmas by Warner Home Video, who currently owns the rights to both specials.
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