A Charlie Brown Christmas
originally aired on CBS
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special. It is the first TV special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, and features the voices of Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Kathy Steinberg, Tracy Stratford, and Bill Melendez. The special was commissioned and sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, and was written over a period of several weeks and produced on a small budget in six months.