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.

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.

Created 15 years after the first Peanuts comic strips were published in 1950, Christmas picks up as Charlie Brown bemoans the holiday's over-commercialization and questions its true meaning.

Though Schulz never liked the name and would harbor no small resentment of it for decades, the cartoonist nurtured “Peanuts” into one of the most successful comic strips in history ... 1965 with “A ...

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.

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.

Christmas beams tradition! Trees, lights, presents and The Peanuts holiday movie, of course. How to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" free this December.

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.