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
Christmas Special (The Naked Brothers Band) Christmas Special (The Naked Brothers Band) Christmas Special is the sixth episode and the first Christmas special on the part documentary and part rock-mockumentary musical comedy series "The Naked Brothers Band", which was created by Polly Draper. The premise of "Christmas Special" is that Nat has the holiday blues since Rosalina's letters from abroad have a steadily decreasing number of Xs and Os. He has to find his spirit back before a benefit that is hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. If Nat does not find something to give him the Christmas spirit, it could ruin a benefit the band is holding