Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is the third Christmas television special based on the comic strip Peanuts. It was produced in 2002 for ABC, created to fill out the hour-length time slot when they broadcast the unedited A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Synopsis


The special consist of a series of vignettes, each one starring a different member of the Peanuts gang in various Christmas time situations.


 * Happy Holidays from Snoopy: Snoopy unsuccessfully tries to get Lucy to ask him to join her in the skating show, but she's only interested in Schroeder. Later, he dresses up like Santa Claus to work as a bell-ringer to raise money. At one point, while dressed as Santa, he plays "Oh! Susanna" on the accordion, which Lucy comments "isn't very Christmasy" as she and Linus walk by. Upon hearing that, he quickly switches to "Christmas Time is Here". He also attempts to make peace with the ferocious cat who lives next door but it takes a ferocious swipe again.
 * Yuletide Greetings from Linus: Linus tries to decide what kind of letter he should write to Santa and toys with the affections of the strange girl at school who keeps changing her name, like "Jezebel", "Susan", and "Rebecca".
 * Season's Greetings from Sally: Sally decides to give everyone paper airplanes for Christmas and she discovers that "Samantha Claus" isn't real, embarrassing herself at school. Later, she decides to "fall down" a tree for Christmas. When Charlie questions her about her plan, she says "I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at, I hope it'll just fall down." Later, just such an occurrence happens.
 * Peace on Earth from Lucy: Lucy struggles with being nice and tries to get Schroeder and Linus to buy her Christmas presents.
 * Merry Christmas from Charlie Brown: Charlie Brown and Sally prepare for Christmas together.

Availability
The special was first issued to home video as a bonus special on the original 2004 DVD release of I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, distributed by Paramount. In 2009, it was given its own DVD release, sold exclusively at CVS Pharmacy stores. This DVD, distributed by Warner Bros., included another Peanuts special, Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? This DVD release of the special was later reissued as a retail release the following year.