ABC To Air Charlie Brown Special This Thanksgiving

For generations, families have been enjoying the works of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz around the holidays and this Thanksgiving will be no exception as ABC is set to air the classic A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

After the turkey’s been carved and devoured and you’re settling down with a second helping of pie, why not gather around the TV next Thursday night and watch Charlie Brown and his Peanuts pals ponder the meaning of this fine American holiday?

Below is ABC’s description for the special and further down are a couple of clips.

“ABC Television Network will celebrate the start of the holiday season with the classic half-hour animated Thanksgiving-themed PEANUTS special, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network (Rebroadcast. ABC OAD: 11/16/01) A special bonus cartoon from Charles M. Schulz, This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers, will air with the PEANUTS classic. In it, 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.”

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