This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something almost unheard of in American pop culture, both then and now. In the middle of ...

In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Linus shares what he learned with his friend and what he was trying to, often by asking the right questions.

During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show's producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead ...

One of the most poignant scenes in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is when Linus stands on a stage and recites a passage from the Holy Bible describing the Christmas story. “For unto you is born this day ...

Christmas is about Jesus. There: I said it. The sky did not fall. A bunch of “Bah, humbug!” men in 19th-century garb didn’t appear to tell me I have it all wrong — that Christmas is about presents and ...

And there was, on December 9, 1965, a network called CBS, airing holiday programming, hoping to attract viewers that night. And lo, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” came unto the viewers, and the glory of ...

There always comes a point during the Christmas season when I feel like such a blockhead. Got to get the tree up (this year we have four), put the lights on the house, buy the presents, wrap the ...