Tune into ABC on Wednesday, November 27 at 8 p.m. EST to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. In the Thanksgiving Day special, Charlie Brown hosts the first recorded Friendsgiving with Snoopy, Woodstock, Peppermint Patty, Franklin and the rest of the gang.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the tenth prime-time animated short film based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year. The special continues to be aired every November in prime time, now on the ABC network. It was the third holiday special after A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in 1966.
Immediately following is a special bonus cartoon This Is America, Charlie Brown: The Mayflower Voyagers. The special starts off in 1620, with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang making the difficult trip to Plymouth Colony. It concludes with the kids arriving safely to their destination and celebrating the first Thanksgiving with the pilgrims in 1621.
