but it's also the first holiday special to have an original script. Throughout A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown rejects the commercialization of Christmas while observing those around him.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the “Peanuts” gang have been entertaining people since Charles Schulz’s comic strip debuted in 1950. Eventually, the group would make the move to television.

Schulz insisted on writing the script himself ... And that’s what he did. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” famously culminates with a nearly minute-long recitation from the Gospel of Luke ...