To celebrate 55 years of A Charlie Brown Christmas, Jean shared some other stories behind a television gift that keeps on giving, from the absence of Santa Claus to Snoopy’s mischievous streak.

That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown” —Linus The principal of Patterson Middle School in Killeen, Texas asked the aide, Dedra Shannon, to remove the decoration on December 7.

A blanket is all it takes to make Linus happy and he loses it. Charlie just wants to fly a kite and it breaks so he makes another one. And, everyone is trying to spoil his fun.

From Linus’s desperate wait in the pumpkin patch (accompanied by an increasingly irate Sally), to Charlie Brown’s hol-ey ghost costume to Snoopy’s first televised air duel with the Red Baron ...

Linus secures the tree by wrapping his blanket around its base and stripping the decorations from Snoopy’s doghouse, the kids work together to transform the little tree Charlie Brown thought he ...

Linus’s recitation from the first chapter of Luke is the high point of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the beloved holiday TV special that continues to captivate viewers of all ages 56 years after ...

Slight and sparse of hair, clutching his security blanket, Linus is an unlikely hero. But, as he navigates the chilly, spare landscape of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Linus shows us there's hope ...

But the play does not go as Charlie Brown hoped. Whatever the solution to his feelings of despair, it is not, at least in some blanket sense, other people.

Linus is the intellectual soul of the Peanuts cast, he drops knowledge on Charlie and his dumb friends constantly, yet ironically, he’s also a big baby who carries around a security blanket and ...