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.

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' caught TV executives by surprise. They were not expecting the special's subversive holiday message. Many thought the show would be a failure.

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 ...