Charles Schultz turned 100 in November

[Snarky Oracle]

 

[Snarky Oracle]

The Making of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (1965) one of those four mid-'60s holiday cartoons which seemed so definitive that they ran annually on network TV for more than 40 years (before the industry changed and those traditions stumbled). Some still do, like RUDOLPH, but I think you now have to stream the PEANUTS ones...

 

[Crimson]

I think you now have to stream the PEANUTS ones...

Yes the Peanuts, old and new, are on Apple +, but they do make A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS freely available, no subscription needed, for several days prior to Christmas; starting today, in fact.

 

[Seaviewer]

Would have turned 100 in November. He passed away in 2000.

 

[Snarky Oracle]

He passed away in 2000.

I remember it well.

 

[Angela Channing]

Charles Schultz was a close friend of one of my sheroes, Billie Jean King, and from time to time used to mention her in his comic strips.

 

[Snarky Oracle]

A 1963 doc on Schultz:

 

[Snarky Oracle]

A 2007 documentary on Schulz... it starts to get just a little dark around 44:00 :

 

[Seaviewer]

A 1963 doc on Schultz:

That's interesting. I didn't know that the characters had been animated before 1965's Christmas special and it's six years before "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was used as the title for the first Peanuts feature film.

 

[Angela Channing]

There's a more recent 2021 documentary called Who Are You Charlie Brown? which features the afore mentioned Billie Jean King and a number of other friends and fans of Charles M. Schulz as well as archive film interviews of Mr Schulz himself.

 

[Snarky Oracle]

That's interesting. I didn't know that the characters had been animated before 1965's Christmas special and it's six years before "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" was used as the title for the first Peanuts feature film.

Neither did I, except for some commercials.

The only animated PEANUTS specials I liked, though, were from the '60s. After that, they all felt cutesy and cloying and didn't work for me.

 

[Snarky Oracle]

 

[DallasFanForever]

When NASA names a spaceship after one of your characters you must’ve been doing something right.