1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first animated TV special based on the Peanuts comic strip. It would be followed by additional Peanuts holiday classics like It's the Great Pumpkin ...

you can get up to three months of the streaming service totally free. In the name of Christmas (and in an effort to not be a total Grinch!) Apple made the Charlie Brown Christmas special free for all ...

and Lucy names herself "Christmas queen" in the neighborhood play, a forlorn Charlie Brown searches for "the real meaning of Christmas." He makes his way to the local lot of aluminum trees ...