Peanuts cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Meléndez became friends, and when producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a two-minute animated sequence for a TV documentary called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" in 1963, he brought on Meléndez for the project. Before the documentary was completed, the three of them (with help from their sponsor, the Coca-Cola Company) produced their first half-hour animated special, the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning "A Charlie Brown Christmas", which was first aired on the CBS network on December 9, 1965. This episode is undoubtedly the most widely recognized of all "Peanuts" TV
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow rights for the special as of 2018. A VHS version is also available from ABC Video Enterprises in 1987, and Warner Home Video on October 3, 1990 in the "Holiday Treasures" line. It was also released on DVD on October 2, 2012. Warner Home Video repackaged the DVD release of the special along with three of other Rankin/Bass Christmas DVDs in the 4 Kid Favorites: Merry Masterpieces box set, released on October 13, 2015. The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow is a 1975 Christmas stop motion