The TV special It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown debuted in 1966. I had just turned eight years old, and was a Peanuts fan, both from the comics page in the newspaper and from the earlier special A Charlie Brown Christmas. In those days, everyone at school had watched the same TV shows the night before (we only had two channels), so we spent the next day discussing the show. It gave us the catchphrases "I got a rock" and "Dog germs!" Relive those memories with a list of trivial facts about It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
Yes, I noticed that the video clips here borrow heavily from later Peanuts specials. The Halloween special had no Franklin, no Peppermint Patty or Marcie, and Snoopy didn't do aerobics. (via Laughing Squid)
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Ten Facts About It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
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Franklin first turned up in the daily strips in July, 1968, and it was more than three years later (October, 1971) before Marcie showed up. Peppermint Patty made her first appearance in the newspaper strips on August 22, 1966 – by which time, of course, the Hallowe'en TV special was already so far into production that there would have been no way to shoehorn her in.
And just to save you time in looking it up – Woodstock (Snoopy's little bird friend) actually appeared in the comic strips as far back as March 1966, but didn't get his name until June of 1970.
-"BB"-
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