Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving special will celebrate 40 years when it airs Thursday night at 8:00pm Eastern on ABC Television! Get your toast and popcorn ready!
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ABC: The ABC Television Network will kick off the holiday season with the classic half-hour animated PEANUTS special,
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on ABC. This marks the 40
th anniversary of the classic special, created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. In the 1973 special,
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,
Charlie Brown wants to do something special for the gang. However, the
dinner he arranges is a disaster when the caterers, Snoopy and
Woodstock, prepare toast and popcorn as the main dish. Humiliated, it
will take all of Marcie’s persuasive powers to salvage the holiday for
Charlie Brown.
A special bonus cartoon from Charles M. Schulz,
This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,
will air with the PEANUTS classic, in which history comes to animated
screen life in a captivating and informative program about the Mayflower
voyagers. The special will air with Spanish audio via SAP. In
This is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers,
the year is 1620. After 65 grueling, sea-tossed days, the Pilgrims are
in view of America’s shores – and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts crew are
with them as they experience firsthand the lifestyle of the early
settlers and celebrate the first Thanksgiving.
The cast includes Todd Barbee as Charlie Brown, Robin Kohn as Lucy,
Stephen Shea as Linus, Hilary Momberger as Sally, Kip DeFaria as
Peppermint Patty, Jimmy Ahrens as Marcie and Robin Reed as Franklin.
