I’ve just noticed that this year’s enjoyable new DVD release Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown has been marked way down to under seven bucks! That’s a good price for a good disk; there’s no second special on it, but remember this is a double-length feature, and there are a reasonable number of documentary featurettes.

But, if you don’t need special features, don’t mind ads, and don’t need to ever watch it again, the special will get its U.S. broadcast debut on Thursday night, at 8:30 in most areas, on Fox. I’ve checked and it is slotted for a full hour, so this won’t be some severely edited version. An 8:30 start means that it will overlap with the last few minutes of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (and all of The Mayflower Voyages) on ABC. The movie will be preceded by the new special Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (which I reckon I will skip, and thus never learn if they tackle just how one can have a “Christmas” in the years B.C.)  and will be followed by a rerun of last year’s Christmas episode of The Simpsons.

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