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RobertMoore
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This month(December) will mark the 40th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" which will air on ABC tonight(December 6th).
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Joseph_Gallant
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More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
This article on USA Today.com has some interesting "behind-the-scenes" details as to the production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas", including how network executives (the show was originally broadcast in 1965 on CBS) reacted after screening the program.
This article on USA Today.com has some interesting "behind-the-scenes" details as to the production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas", including how network executives (the show was originally broadcast in 1965 on CBS) reacted after screening the program.
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KMRichards
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
A similar article appears in this morning's Los Angeles Times (registration may be required):
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business</a>
The article was in the main news section (not in the business section, despite where it was classified on the website) and began at the bottom of page 1.
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A similar article appears in this morning's Los Angeles Times (registration may be required):
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business</a>
The article was in the main news section (not in the business section, despite where it was classified on the website) and began at the bottom of page 1.
Talk about your institution!<P ID="signature">______________
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RobertMoore
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
> A similar article appears in this morning's Los Angeles
> Times (registration may be required):
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business
> The article was in the main news section (not in the
> business section, despite where it was classified on the
> website) and began at the bottom of page 1.
> Talk about your institution!
I have one thing to say about that:"GOOD GRIEF!!!"
> A similar article appears in this morning's Los Angeles
> Times (registration may be required):
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-charlie6dec06,0,4102331.story?coll=la-home-business
> The article was in the main news section (not in the
> business section, despite where it was classified on the
> website) and began at the bottom of page 1.
> Talk about your institution!
I have one thing to say about that:"GOOD GRIEF!!!"
Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9 1965.
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9 1965.
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MegoMan
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
> A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9
> 1965.
>
Denis Leary's recent special on Comedy Central featured a parody of this.<P ID="signature">______________
"I look out for me and mine."-Capt. Malcom "Mal" Reynolds in Serenity</P>
> A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9
> 1965.
>
Denis Leary's recent special on Comedy Central featured a parody of this.<P ID="signature">______________
"I look out for me and mine."-Capt. Malcom "Mal" Reynolds in Serenity</P>
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KMRichards
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
> A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9
> 1965.
If you had read the USA Today article Joseph linked to, you would see that this was mentioned in the footnote; OTOH, the Times mentioned "December 1965" and it would have been easy to include the entire date.<P ID="signature">______________
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> A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS on December 9
> 1965.
If you had read the USA Today article Joseph linked to, you would see that this was mentioned in the footnote; OTOH, the Times mentioned "December 1965" and it would have been easy to include the entire date.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
I was just using that for historical reference, KM.
I was just using that for historical reference, KM.
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Joseph_Gallant
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Robert Moore writes:
> I have one thing to say about that:"GOOD GRIEF!!!"
Come to think of it, that may be the reaction of programming executives at CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN and the WB when they get tonight's (December 6th) Nielsen ratings report in the morning, look at the numbers for 8 P.M. Eastern/Pacific, and see that once more, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" dominated it's time period.
I am writing this response during a commercial break in the show. I'm now going to go back to my TV and watch the rest of the show.
BTW, I watched the first telecast in 1965 on a black-and-white TV set. I was a very young child back then. I saw it in color for the first time in 1968, which was some nine months after my parents had purchased our first color TV.
Robert Moore writes:
> I have one thing to say about that:"GOOD GRIEF!!!"
Come to think of it, that may be the reaction of programming executives at CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN and the WB when they get tonight's (December 6th) Nielsen ratings report in the morning, look at the numbers for 8 P.M. Eastern/Pacific, and see that once more, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" dominated it's time period.
I am writing this response during a commercial break in the show. I'm now going to go back to my TV and watch the rest of the show.
BTW, I watched the first telecast in 1965 on a black-and-white TV set. I was a very young child back then. I saw it in color for the first time in 1968, which was some nine months after my parents had purchased our first color TV.
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TimL
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Re: The short Christmas Cartoons following
>
>
> BTW, I watched the first telecast in 1965 on a
> black-and-white TV set. I was a very young child back then.
> I saw it in color for the first time in 1968, which was some
> nine months after my parents had purchased our first color
> TV.
>
I watched the first broadcast when I was 8 years old. By the way, I liked the short Christmas Cartoons last night featuring each of the kids after Charlie Brown Christmas. Considering they were made recently, and without Schulz's involvement (obviously) They were very nicely done, in the spirit of the original newspaper strips on which they were based.
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>
> BTW, I watched the first telecast in 1965 on a
> black-and-white TV set. I was a very young child back then.
> I saw it in color for the first time in 1968, which was some
> nine months after my parents had purchased our first color
> TV.
>
I watched the first broadcast when I was 8 years old. By the way, I liked the short Christmas Cartoons last night featuring each of the kids after Charlie Brown Christmas. Considering they were made recently, and without Schulz's involvement (obviously) They were very nicely done, in the spirit of the original newspaper strips on which they were based.
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RobertMoore
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
> Come to think of it, that may be the reaction of programming
> executives at CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN and the WB when they get
> tonight's (December 6th) Nielsen ratings report in the
> morning, look at the numbers for 8 P.M. Eastern/Pacific, and
> see that once more, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" dominated
> it's time period.
According to overnight estimates, 15.4 million viewers watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas", up by 1.7 million from 2004.
> Come to think of it, that may be the reaction of programming
> executives at CBS, Fox, NBC, UPN and the WB when they get
> tonight's (December 6th) Nielsen ratings report in the
> morning, look at the numbers for 8 P.M. Eastern/Pacific, and
> see that once more, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" dominated
> it's time period.
According to overnight estimates, 15.4 million viewers watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas", up by 1.7 million from 2004.
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Joseph_Gallant
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Re: More On "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
Robert Moore noted:
> According to overnight estimates, 15.4 million viewers
> watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas", up by 1.7 million from
> 2004.
And indeed, the other networks probably had more reasons to react with "Good Grief!!!!!": Yesterday's (December 7th) "Inside Edition" reported that this year's showing of "Charlie Brown Christmas" drew the largest audience for any prime-time animated special since 2001.
Robert Moore noted:
> According to overnight estimates, 15.4 million viewers
> watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas", up by 1.7 million from
> 2004.
And indeed, the other networks probably had more reasons to react with "Good Grief!!!!!": Yesterday's (December 7th) "Inside Edition" reported that this year's showing of "Charlie Brown Christmas" drew the largest audience for any prime-time animated special since 2001.
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