Charlie Brown Specials

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by EricJ » November 28th, 2020, 4:38 pm

Now, us smug disc fans wait to see whether Rudolph and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" will end up as the latest hostages in the Streaming Wars... :mrgreen:
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Today marks the first day of the free period dealy on Apple TV. Looks like you do need an Apple ID to watch if you don't already have one. Only Great Pumpkin, no Election special.
Have an intuition that AppleTV only took the Peanuts specials hostage in the first place as an attempt to brand-promote their network-exclusive "Snoopy in Space" series.
Another reason why nobody watches AppleTV Originals, and why we've got to slap new streaming services down before they reproduce.

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Post by Dacey » November 28th, 2020, 4:44 pm

Frosty and Santa Claus both aired last night.

Rudolph will air on Tuesday.
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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Daniel » November 28th, 2020, 7:13 pm

Yep, I even made mention of it...

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Post by Daniel » December 12th, 2020, 6:36 pm

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs tomorrow on PBS. Gonna be weird not to see "Christmas Tales" afterwards, and more sad not to see "I Want a Dog for Christmas". Thank goodness I have them on disc.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Ben » December 12th, 2020, 8:42 pm

Physical media. Wins. Every. Time. ;)

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Post by EricJ » December 12th, 2020, 8:48 pm

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"A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs tomorrow on PBS. Gonna be weird not to see "Christmas Tales" afterwards, and more sad not to see "I Want a Dog for Christmas". Thank goodness I have them on disc.
My Blu disc has "It's Christmas Time Again, CB" as the B-side....Hark!

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Ben » December 12th, 2020, 8:51 pm

Yes, he doesn’t really mean...

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by EricJ » December 12th, 2020, 9:14 pm

Oh, good. I was hoping he wouldn't.

(Anyone wanna unpack that inscrutably veiled attempt at a knee-jerk diss, folks? This one's got me stumped.) :?

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Ben » December 13th, 2020, 4:21 am

No "dissing", just a pre-empt for anyone else who might make the obvious remark.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Daniel » December 13th, 2020, 2:30 pm

Good grief.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Ben » December 13th, 2020, 5:58 pm

:lol:

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Daniel » March 1st, 2021, 3:25 pm

Just popped up on Amazon: "Come hang out with Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts® gang in their four feature-length movies presented for the first time ever in one Blu-ray collection!"

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Pretty much a lock to be included:

"Snoopy Come Home"
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
"Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown"
"Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)"

Those last two would be their first time on Blu.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Randall » March 1st, 2021, 8:32 pm

Saw this. I'll look into selling my old DVD and BD versions.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by EricJ » March 3rd, 2021, 12:30 pm

I'm not crazy about the other three (or the AppleTV era branding that forgets about the Round-Headed Kid), but I might upgrade my "Boy Named CB" Blu for the bragging rights of all four.

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Re: Charlie Brown Specials

Post by Daniel » October 7th, 2021, 5:52 pm

All three holiday specials will be airing on PBS! First time for Great Pumpkin. Yay!

Schedule:

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" - October 24 at 7:30 p.m. ET

"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" - November 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" - December 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET

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