Yahoo Lifestyle It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Only Way to Watch for Free This Fall
Those waiting for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to pop up on PBS or any other linear TV service this Halloween season will only find a lump of coal (if I may mix holiday metaphors).
PBS, which as recently as 2021 shared custody of the animated holiday classic with Apple TV+, will for a third straight year not do the same this fall.
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Apple TV+ claimed dibs on several Peanuts classics, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, back in October 2020 — removing them from ABC’s purview for the first time in decades. PBS in 2020 and 2021 was allowed in on the action, but since 2022 only Apple TV+ has followed Linus Van Pelt’s quest to meet up with the mythical Great Pumpkin.
That said, Apple TV+ — which fetches $9.99 per month after a free seven-day trial — will, as is now “tradition,” stream for free It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ahead of Halloween Week, on Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20.
Similarly, Apple TV+ will stream for free A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Saturday, Nov. 23 and Sunday, Nov. 24, while A Charlie Brown Christmas can be unwrapped for free on Saturday, Dec. 14 and Sunday, Dec. 15.
A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS in 1965, and aired on ABC from 2000-2019. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown followed in 1966, also debuting on CBS and moving to ABC in 2001. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered on CBS in 1973 and, like the others, moved to ABC in 2001.
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