{"id":1593,"date":"2011-06-19T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2011-06-19T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T18:31:40","slug":"when-was-charlie-brown-all-stars-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/when-was-charlie-brown-all-stars-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"When was Charlie Brown&#8217;s All-Stars planned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been laboring under the working assumption that the classic <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> was planned as a one-off, with people willing to do more specials if it was a success, but with that seeming unlikely to most involved. In his book <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0060198516\"><em>A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition<\/em><\/a>, producer Lee Mendelson notes that after viewing the special the week before it aired, network suits specifically told him that they wouldn&#8217;t be ordering any more. It creates the sense that <em>Charlie Brown&#8217;s All-Stars<\/em> was produced on only slightly less rushed a schedule than <em>A Charlie Brown Christmas,<\/em> being set in motion after that show&#8217;s huge and unexpected success.<\/p>\n<p>Then I stumble across <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=gKhWAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=t0ENAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3423,5619819\">this UPI story<\/a> which ran a few days before that fateful airing, in which Schulz was already saying &#8220;we&#8217;re doing a second show for June or July on baseball, and if the first two are a success we may have to come up with another for Halloween with Linus and the Great Pumpkin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Got to love that headline:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Peanuts&#8217; And His Pals In Christmas TV Special<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">That Peanuts; he&#8217;s my favorite character!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been laboring under the working assumption that the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas was planned as a one-off, with people willing to do more specials if it was a success, but with that seeming unlikely to most involved. In his book A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}