Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It originally aired on ABC December 8, 2002. It has since been broadcast each Christmas season after that as a companion segment in an hour-long slot featuring an unedited version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". It is the only TV special to credit Charles M. Schulz posthumously for writing. Other TV credits do not credit Schulz writing it. The special consists of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of
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