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The 'Charlie Brown Christmas' Special Was the Flop That Wasn't
• arcleinThe public would have specific expectations, then, when CBS aired for the first time an animated adaptation of the comic strip on December 9, 1965. The greater gamble for the network, though, was how airing an animated children's special at night w