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60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory