For the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz's comic strip will be making their big-screen debut in 3D.

CBS agreed to produce more Peanuts cartoons, averaging about one per year into the 1990s. And a slew of other Christmas specials, inspired by the Peanuts success, would follow in the years afterward.

Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” says one of the children as Charlie saunters past. “Good ol’ Charlie Brown. … How I hate him!” Blissfully ignorant of his peers’ disdain, Charlie continues smiling ...

Animators worked feverishly to produce the thousands of images needed for a cartoon before the deadline. ... A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on December 9, 1965.

For many of us, A Charlie Brown Christmas is as synonymous with the holidays as ice skating, school pageants and finding the perfect tree. Created 15 years after the first Peanuts comic strips ...

Peanuts Producer: Where That Adult ‘Mwa-Mwa-Mwa’ Sound Came From. After 50 years of making the specials, Lee Mendelson is getting an Annie Award on Saturday.

There have been 44 Peanuts cartoons produced for television. ... And the 50th anniversary of the first Peanuts television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," will be marked Nov. 28 by ABC.

A Charlie Brown Christmas remains as popular as ever, 57 years after its initial release. Experts and fans consider why the movie, with its jazz soundtrack, is a perennial favourite.

Mendelson called up “Peanuts” comic strip creator Charles “Sparky” Schulz and told him he had just sold “A Charlie Brown Christmas” – and they would have mere months to write ...