It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown helped popularize the idea of Halloween specials, and it still holds up 57 years later.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown—released on CBS in 1966, now streaming on Apple TV+—was one of the earliest made-for-TV Halloween holiday specials, and has now become an annual viewing tradition for many. Its enduring success is thanks to a lot of factors, including the wry, witty banter Charles M. Schulz wrote for his Peanuts gang and Vince Guaraldi’s instantly nostalgic music.
Linus shrugs off ridicule and declares he’ll once again be foregoing trick-or-treating and parties in favor of waiting for someone who, from his description, sounds an awful lot like Santa Claus, aside from a few key details: his present-delivering spree originates from “the most sincere pumpkin patch” that exists, and, well, none of the other kids believe in him. Even Snoopy cackles with laughter upon seeing Linus’ deeply earnest letter to his Halloween hero.
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