Jerry Navarro, a Franklin-based musician, producer and composer, stands in front of a poster for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at the Historic Artcraft Theatre. Navarro and special musical guests will ...

1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first animated TV special based on the Peanuts comic strip. It would be followed by ...

What accounts for the staying power of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which first aired on CBS in 1965 and remains must-see TV to this day? Is it because it so powerfully taps into that deep vein of ...

A local community theater director, accurately portrayed by Martin Short, comes in to critique a performance of A Charlie Brown Christmas in SNL‘s Peanuts Christmas sketch that aired Saturday night ...

It's Christmastime, Charlie Brown! And with Christmastime comes Christmas movies like the aptly named "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Premiering in 1965 as the first "Peanuts" holiday special, "A Charlie ...

In this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live, Martin Short tried his hand at directing a Charlie Brown Christmas pageant. “You’re watching Freeform’s 25 Days of Christmas,” the sketch begins. “We now ...

The Peanuts special is the most overtly Christian TV holiday classic. So why does it speak to me so deeply? By James Poniewozik “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was a one-of-a-kind wonder when it premiered ...