It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

TV Movie
1966
U
25m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

23K

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Bill Melendez and Peter Robbins in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

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

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Hand-Drawn Animation Animation Comedy Family

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

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

23K

YOUR RATING

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Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 4 nominations total

Linus Van Pelt
(voice)
(as Chris Shea)

Sally Dryer

Lucy Van Pelt
(voice)

Cathy Steinberg

Sally Brown
(voice)

Ann Altieri

Frieda
(voice)
…

Lisa DeFaria

Patty
(voice)

Bill Melendez

Snoopy
(voice)

Glenn Mendelson

Schroeder
(voice)
…

Gabrielle DeFaria Ritter

Pigpen
(voice)
(as Gail DeFaria)

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Trivia
After this special originally aired children all over the country sent candy to Charlie Brown out of sympathy.

Goofs
In the opening scene in which Lucy and Linus go out to the pumpkin patch, we see the setting sun in the background, which the children pass as they walk. However, the sun (just like the moon when we drive a car) would not be "passed" as though it were a stationary object; rather it would "move" along with the person moving. A second setting sun appears at the end of the same shot, after the children turn a corner and walk in another direction.

Quotes
[repeated line]
Charlie Brown: I got a rock.

Crazy credits
Linus and Charlie Brown are at the wall and Charlie tells Linus that he's done stupid things in his life, too. Then Linus keeps on shouting during the credits about how sitting and waiting in a pumpkin patch wasn't stupid.

Alternate versions
The version of the show broadcast on CBS from the late 1970s until it went to ABC was edited, cutting out most of the trick-or-treat/I got a rock sequence. This version was also time-compressed. Some older video releases also edit this sequence and also the scene where Snoopy dances along to Schroeder's World War I-era piano music. Later airings on CBS in the late 1990s would also cut the scene where Lucy pulls the football away when Charlie Brown attempts to kick it. The Paramount video release is unedited.

Connections
Edited into Blue Peanuts (1987)

Soundtracks
Snoopy and the Leaf
(uncredited)
Written by John Scott Trotter
Performed by The Vince Guaraldi Trio

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Featured review

Halloween Parade

I always loved watching this on CBS when I was a kid. I even loved the commercials. They were always either Dolly Madison or McDonald's commercials. That seems like a strange thing to mention but I felt it added something extra to this special. I loved the look of the show. All the oranges and reds and other fall colors. From the pumpkin carving opener, the pumpkin patch, Snoopy's fantasy World War I adventures as he makes his way across the French countryside, to the beautiful musical score, it all adds up to one great Halloween experience. Taking you back to a simpler time when the world seemed more innocent. We'll miss you Charlie Schultz.