It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. It was also the first Peanuts special to use the titular pattern of a short phrase, followed by "Charlie Brown", a pattern which would remain the norm for almost all subsequent Peanuts specials. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting My Three Sons. (The original sponsors, as seen during the original opening sequence (almost never seen afterward in its entirety), were Coca-Cola, the original sponsor of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the Dolly Madison brand of baked snack foods, which would go on to be a longtime co-sponsor of the Peanuts specials on CBS.)

CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001, where it now airs annually during the Halloween season. Until 2013 ABC broadcast, You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown aired immediately after It's the Great Pumpkin, as if to emphasize the proximity of Halloween to Election Day (the Great Pumpkin is also mentioned in You're Not Elected). The special aired twice in 2014 and 2015. The first time, ABC aired Toy Story of Terror! with The Great Pumpkin following afterward. The second time was the more traditional airing with You're Not Elected following afterwards.

The program was nominated for an Emmy Award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature It's Magic, Charlie Brown which was released in 1981. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic includes the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.

A history of the program and the various religious interpretations of Linus' sincere belief in the Great Pumpkin are explained in the 2015 book, A Charlie Brown Religion.

The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.

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Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ven	Jap(1977)	Jap(1985)	Jap(1986)	Jap(1994)	Jap(1997)	Mex(AppleTV+)	Jap(AppleTV+)	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Fin	Nor	Den	Russ	Spa(Catalan)	Spa	Por	Ita(1982)	Ita(1988)	Fra(AppleTV+)	Ita(AppleTV+)	Bel(Flemish)	Swe(AppleTV+)	Fin(AppleTV+)	Nor(AppleTV+)	Den(AppleTV+)	Kor	Hong	Taiw	Vie	Thai	Ind	Turk	Egypt
	Snoopy	Bill Melendez										Bill Melendez										Bill Melendez											Bill Melendez
	Charlie Brown	Peter Robbins	Sofía Álvarez			José Manuel Vieira													Tamás Bolba
	Linus Van Pelt	Christopher Shea	Cristina Camargo	Kiyoshi Komiyama		Maythe Guedes	Kiyoshi Komiyama		Kenyû Horiuchi																				Renata Bertolas
	Lucy Van Pelt	Sally Dryer	Diana Santos			Lilo Schmid		Miyuki Ichijô														Sarah MacDonaldBerge						Graziella Porta	Renata Bertolas
	Sally Brown	Kathy Steinberg	Olga DonnaDío			Rossana Cicconi			Chie Kōjiro																		Sandra deCastro		Angiolina Gobbi
	Violet Grey	Ann Altieri				Irina Índigo
	Schroeder	Glenn Mendelson				Sergio Sáez	Kaneta Kimotsuki	Bin Shimada
	Patty	Lisa DeFaria				MaríaTeresa Hernández									Kelly Marot
	Pig Pen	Gabrielle DeFaria Ritter		Shun Yashiro		Ivette Harting	Shun Yashiro	Ken'ichi Ogata																					Angiolina Gobbi
	Frieda	Ann Altieri																				Benedikte Kruse
	Shermy	Glenn Mendelson
	Title	N/A	JoséManuel Rosano			Kaihiamal Martínez

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