It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966): The Halloween Special Adults Still Wait For

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For generations, Linus waited for the Great Pumpkin, Snoopy fought the Red Baron, and Charlie Brown came home with rocks.

This is the story of how the Peanuts Halloween special came together, became a yearly tradition, and eventually disappeared from free television.

Timestamps:

00:01 - Intro
00:31 - Sparky and the Name He Hated
02:26 - Hit or Disaster?
03:15 - A Condition From the Network
04:54 - Real Kids, Real Problems
06:13 - Jazz Nobody Expected
07:24 - Making the Strip Move
10:02 - Enter the Dreamer
12:22 - Why Linus Believes
13:33 - Did CBS Get Its Blockbuster?
14:46 - Four Words
15:51 - Beyond the Moon
16:24 - Then One Year, It Wasn’t There