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On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS, quickly becoming a beloved holiday tradition for millions.
However, during its creation, the production faced a tight deadline and skepticism from network executives, forcing the team to rush the special to completion.
A year later, the creators revisited the project to fine-tune details they felt could be improved, and that updated version went on to air/be released as the final, definitive version of the special.
Quoted from the book A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition:
“When we saw the finished show, we thought we had killed it. It had so many warts and bumps and lumps and things. A year later we fixed up a few things, but we never completely recreated the show. The inconsistencies and little problems seem to make it even more endearing to a lot of people, and Sparky never wanted to change it.”
Due to this, there has never been a proper restoration of this 1965 version of the special, which includes things such as:
- The Coca-Cola sponsorships.
- Non-revised scenes.
- Animation errors.
I have taken upon the opportunity to restore this version of the special using multiple sources, along with adding additional content to the special, such as:
- Special features (Includes A Christmas Miracle: The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the original promotional ad, and my own personal restoration of *My Charlie Brown Christmas, an edit to A Charlie Brown Christmas made by the cast of Scrubs for their 2003 Christmas party.)
- A brand new color correction to the 4K Blu Ray’s, using publicly released animation cels as color reference, and color corrections and restorations of the 16mm film scan for removed scenes.
- Brand new custom subtitles using the Peanuts font and typography, cross referenced by Schultz’s comics to better reflect character personality and delivery.
The video sources include:
- 2 seperate 4K Blu-Ray uploads.
- 16mm scan by Thunderbean (for all other removed scenes)
- Garrett Gilchrist’s restoration’s of the removed Coca-Cola opening and credits (provided on his Patreon)
For audio, the only track that will be provided with this release is the 16mm optical audio (from Thunderbean’s release.)
If anyone has any more A Charlie Brown Christmas-related material that they want to provide for this release, please PM me!
* This is a different restoration than the other Scrubs restoration that has been posted before by goofydylan8.
