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
What a Cartoon! television special called the "World Premiere Toon-In" (termed "President's Day Nightmare" by its producers, Williams Street). The special was hosted by Space Ghost and the cast of "Space Ghost Coast to Coast", and featured comic interviews and a mock contest with the creators of the various cartoons. The Toon-In was simulcast on Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT. To promote the shorts, Cartoon Network's marketing department came up with the concept of "Dive-In Theater" in 1995 to showcase the 48 cartoon shorts. The cartoons were shown at water parks and large municipal swimming pools, treating kids and their parents to