Peanuts specials. This came after Coca-Cola asked Mendelson if he had a Christmas special. He said "yes." The next day he called Schulz up and said they were making "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The animated version of "Peanuts" differs in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adult voices are heard, though conversations are usually only depicted from the children's end. To translate this aspect to the animated medium, the sound of a trombone with a solotone mute (created by Vince Guaraldi played by Dean Hubbard) was used to simulate adult "voices." A more significant deviation from the strip was
A Christmas Story (1972 TV special) On July 31, 2012, Warner Home Video released "Hanna-Barbera Christmas Classics Collection" on DVD in region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection burn on demand service. This collection features a trilogy of Christmas specials: "A Christmas Story", "The Town Santa Forgot" and "Casper's First Christmas". A Christmas Story (1972 TV special) A Christmas Story is a 1972 American animated Christmas television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which was broadcast in syndication on December 9, 1972. As a family gathers around the tree on Christmas Eve, their son Timmy has made a special wish in his letter to Santa Claus. But