It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 10, 2017. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. A Halloween special, it was the third "Peanuts" special (and second holiday-themed special, following "A Charlie Brown Christmas") to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. It was also the first "Peanuts" special to use the titular pattern of a short phrase, followed by "Charlie Brown", a pattern which would remain the norm for almost all subsequent "Peanuts" specials. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27,
A Charlie Brown Christmas comics and animation industries, among them Eric Goldberg ("Pocahontas"), Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.", "Up"), Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo", "WALL-E"), Jef Mallett ("Frazz"), and Patrick McDonnell ("Mutts"). The show's score made an equally pervasive impact on viewers who would later perform jazz, among them David Benoit and George Winston. More directly, the special launched a series of Peanuts films, TV specials (many of them holiday-themed) and other works of entertainment. Linus' speech near the end of the special was used in the Sidewalk Prophets Christmas song "What a Glorious Night". In 2013 Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. began licensing an official stage