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I have to sneak over to Xander's to watch A Snoopy Christmas but its worth it to see him do the Snoopy dance. Willow BtVS
Way back in the 20th century on this day in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas was aired for the first time!!
From USA Today....
When CBS bigwigs saw a rough cut of A Charlie Brown Christmas in November 1965, they hated it.
"They said it was slow," executive producer Lee Mendelson remembers with a laugh. There were concerns that the show was almost defiantly different: There was no laugh track, real children provided the voices, and there was a swinging score by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.
Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez fretted about the insistence by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz that his first-ever TV spinoff end with a reading of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke by a lisping little boy named Linus.
"We told Schulz, 'Look, you can't read from the Bible on network television,' " Mendelson says. "When we finished the show and watched it, Melendez and I looked at each other and I said, 'We've ruined Charlie Brown.' "
Good grief, were they wrong. The first broadcast was watched by almost 50% of the nation's viewers. "When I started reading the reviews, I was absolutely shocked," says Melendez, 89. "They actually liked it!"
In other news driving home this morning 54 miles after getting around seven inches of snow was so much fun. Wound up like a cheap watch now. There are way too many people that dont know how to drive in this weather. Do people forget what snow is every year when construction season starts? If the tractor trailers are passing you you might be going a bit too slow!
Speaking of snowstorms, last Saturday night coming home from playing poker at Gordy's I hit a pothole and tore a hole the size of a golf ball in the oilpan of the Ford Focus. Still havent heard back frm the insurance adjuster yet, which is kind of annoying seeing that Ann works for the company that insures the car. and the car is at a garage less than three miles from their corporate headquarters, youd think they would have gotten back with us by now.
Off to visit Little Nemo. Good Morning and Good Luck!
Way back in the 20th century on this day in 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas was aired for the first time!!
From USA Today....
When CBS bigwigs saw a rough cut of A Charlie Brown Christmas in November 1965, they hated it.
"They said it was slow," executive producer Lee Mendelson remembers with a laugh. There were concerns that the show was almost defiantly different: There was no laugh track, real children provided the voices, and there was a swinging score by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.
Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez fretted about the insistence by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz that his first-ever TV spinoff end with a reading of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke by a lisping little boy named Linus.
"We told Schulz, 'Look, you can't read from the Bible on network television,' " Mendelson says. "When we finished the show and watched it, Melendez and I looked at each other and I said, 'We've ruined Charlie Brown.' "
Good grief, were they wrong. The first broadcast was watched by almost 50% of the nation's viewers. "When I started reading the reviews, I was absolutely shocked," says Melendez, 89. "They actually liked it!"
In other news driving home this morning 54 miles after getting around seven inches of snow was so much fun. Wound up like a cheap watch now. There are way too many people that dont know how to drive in this weather. Do people forget what snow is every year when construction season starts? If the tractor trailers are passing you you might be going a bit too slow!
Speaking of snowstorms, last Saturday night coming home from playing poker at Gordy's I hit a pothole and tore a hole the size of a golf ball in the oilpan of the Ford Focus. Still havent heard back frm the insurance adjuster yet, which is kind of annoying seeing that Ann works for the company that insures the car. and the car is at a garage less than three miles from their corporate headquarters, youd think they would have gotten back with us by now.
Off to visit Little Nemo. Good Morning and Good Luck!
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