‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’ won’t air on TV in 2022 along with other Peanut specials – By Deron Dalton (Pennlive) / Oct 18, 2022
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” isn’t airing on TV this year, and it’s for the second time since the holiday special premiered 56 years ago.
The Halloween special premiered on Oct. 27, 1966, nearly a year after “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premiered on Dec. 9, 1965, on CBS. “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” premiered in 1973.
After airing on CBS for decades, the specials made a network switch to ABC in 2000 and 2001. In 2018, AppleTV+ bought all of the rights to the Peanut specials. In 2020, the specials became exclusively available on the platform, NPR reported.
