A Charlie Brown Christmas is on tonight! -

[LiberalElite]

on ABC "check your local time" etc.

[meow2u3]

1. 8:30 EST in the Philadelphia viewing area

Tuned in right now.

[LiberalElite]

2. 8:30 in NYC area too -

I love the Vince Guaraldi score.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Damn! I missed it!

I have a particular attachment to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," since we did the play in school - and I was Charlie Brown. It was an all girls' school.

[pokerfan]

6. That's why I own it

along with "Its The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." We can watch it anytime and best of all, they're aren't cut for the modern commercial load. Each episode is 25:30 in length. How did networks ever survive with only four and half minutes of commercials per half-hour block?

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I used to record it back in the day on my VCR

I could probably find it online, but it's not quite the same. I used to work with CBS and they had them all, Charlie Brown, The (animated) Grinch, etc., but I remember hearing they were selling them off. And I should probably consider owning it, too, since there is so little worth watching on network TV, these days, that it's no longer on my radar. :

[WinkyDink]

7. Repeated 12/16.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Thanks for the heads up!

[Brother Buzz]

4. Vince Guaraldi's music is the glue that holds everything together

Here's the inspiration for all the music Vince produced for the Charlie Brown specials (It's hard to pick-up with the jazzy Christmas standards, but it's definitely there):

[Boomerproud]

5. I love, love, love that song.

Thanks so much for posting!

[LiberalElite]

11. YES! one of my top five faves of all time NT

[Brother Buzz]

12. Curious, what are your other four?

I hope Brubeck, another native Californian jazz man made your list.

My list would include still another native Californian, Johnny Otis performing his signature song, Earle Hagen's Harlem Nocturne (Rene Bloch on Alto Sax totally nailed the Film noir sound).

[LiberalElite]

13. None of them because I'm not a jazz

aficionado. Yet at age 12 one of my first 45 rpm purchases was Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Sounds Orchestral.

[bigwillq]

10. Love it.

I love the Peanuts gang.