Here is my favorite Christmas movie ever. I’ve watched it almost every year since I was a small child. I always felt like I could relate to Charlie Brown–self doubting, a worrywart, a little avoidant–basically an introvert who tries hard to be liked. He’s never mean to anyone but often seems to be the butt of jokes and pranks.
Charlie also sees all the commercialism around him every holiday season (yes, it was bad even in the ’60s, when this was made) and yearns to know the true meaning of Christmas. Linus, always the philosopher and deep thinker, has the answer.
It’s refreshing that the story of Christ’s birth is central to this movie, which is still shown on network television today.
So here’s my Christmas gift to my followers. Enjoy!
The opening seems to have been cut from this movie (I couldn’t find a full version on Youtube), so here is that too. I always loved the jazzy piano music used in the Peanuts specials.
The famous Christmas dance, also not in the video above:
Lucky Otters Haven 
OH! So he is that way! There was no cc back then so I don’t know much.
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I love A Charlie Brown Christmas. My wife’s favorite is A Christmas Story (especially when they do the 24hr marathon).
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That’s a good one too. I actually have a “leg lamp” Christmas ornament. It doesn’t light up anymore though.
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Lol – I bought my wife an actual leg lamp. It is lit up in our front window every night!
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Oh cool!
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I haven’t seen The Peanuts Movie yet, but I’m so happy the Peanuts characters are being re-introduced to a new generation of kids. I remember Peanuts was a thing in the late 60s/early 70s and Peanuts toys, books and clothing were everywhere.
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I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Peanuts gang. We had all the books in our house when I was a kid, and I read them all many times. I even played the part of Lucy in “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” when I was in high school.
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I had all the books as a child. I remember winning a stuffed Snoopy at school too and I was over the moon about it. When I was 5 or 6 I had kind of a crush on Linus, lol! Go figure.
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I have a friend on FB who has a little girl named Lucy. When their second baby turned out to be a boy, she wanted to name him Linus, but her husband vetoed it. š
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Haha!
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My cynicism tells me they cut the artsy parts (music and dance) to add more commercials! Or, even more sadly cynical, because those subjects have been cut out of most children’s standard education. Last, and more likely, they may have been too boring for today’s kids whose entertainments are much noisier, flashier and busier. Maybe the current popularity of Peanuts is a harbinger of a return to more innocent (though hopefully not Republican) times?
I finally saw A Christmas Story during one of the marathon showings that started a few years ago. I didn’t enjoy it on first viewing and have not seen it since, though I gave some thought this year to seeing a local production of what I understand is a more musical stage version.
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