Director(s)Bill Melendez
Producer(s)Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson (executive)
Top GenresAnimation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Short Films
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A Charlie Brown Christmas Overview:

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Bill Melendez and produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson.

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Encore Podcast: The Miracle of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

By David on Nov 29, 2019 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" wasn't intentionally created to be timeless, but because of its simplicity and sincerity, timeless it is. Miraculously, it avoids every cliche associated with children's animation and is a perfect blending of music, words and images that clearly conveys one man's vision a... Read full article


Encore Podcast: The Miracle of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

By David on Nov 29, 2019 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" wasn't intentionally created to be timeless, but because of its simplicity and sincerity, timeless it is. Miraculously, it avoids every cliche associated with children's animation and is a perfect blending of music, words and images that clearly conveys one man's vision a... Read full article


The Miracle of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

By David on Dec 14, 2018 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" wasn't intentionally created to be timeless, but because of its simplicity and sincerity, timeless it is. Miraculously, it avoids every cliche associated with children's animation and is a perfect blending of music, words and images that clearly conveys one man's vision a... Read full article


The Miracle of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

By David on Dec 14, 2018 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" wasn't intentionally created to be timeless, but because of its simplicity and sincerity, timeless it is. Miraculously, it avoids every cliche associated with children's animation and is a perfect blending of music, words and images that clearly conveys one man's vision a... Read full article


25 Days of Christmas: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

on Dec 24, 2017 From Journeys in Classic Film

This review originally ran December 23rd, 2011. ?I still adore this Christmas special! As we get ever closer to Christmas Day we’re hitting the best Christmas films to watch. ?This isn’t a film per se, it’s a television special, but it’s iconic to Christmas. ?It’s the 1... Read full article


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When viewing the rough cut of the show, both Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson were convinced that they had a flop on their hands. After it premiered, they were happily surprised and shocked at the high ratings and excellent reviews that the show received. Today, the show remains the second longest-running Christmas special on US network television (the 1964 Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer premiered one year earlier and is still broadcast every year on US network television).
Kathy Steinberg, who did the voice of Sally Brown, had not yet learned to read at the time of production, so she had to be fed her lines, often a word or syllable at a time, which explains the rather choppy delivery of the line "All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share".
First Peanuts special produced and directed by Bill Melendez.
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