How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special) animation divisions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where Jones was under contract at the time. CBS, coming off the surprise success of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" a year before, allotted Jones and MGM a $315,000 budget, more than four times what Bill Melendez was offered to produce "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The original broadcast was sponsored by the Foundation for Full Service Banks whose sponsor plugs within the original airing were later edited out for subsequent broadcasts. The entirety of the book's text, with some slight embellishment, was adapted into the special; to pad the special to a full 30-minute time slot,
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special) You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (TV special) You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is the 29th prime-time animated musical TV special based upon the comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. This adaptation of the 1967 musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" originally aired on the CBS network on November 6, 1985. The special was produced by Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. It is the first "Peanuts" special to have input from the Japanese animation studio, Studio Pierrot, and like the other specials, had input from Toei Animation, also from Japan. The program opens with the other "Peanuts"