It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

[BigShadow]

Watching Great Pumpkin on ABC!  Haven't seen this one in years!  Hot cup of Joe, fireplace roaring, rain outside, girlfriend sleeping, and seven dogs staring at me.  Such a heavenly Halloween!

[gummi]

I watched my copy of it a few days ago in preparation for the big day.  Now I kind of wish I would have watched it tonight with all the commercials with the rest of the country. 

[McDougals House of Horror]

In case you haven't seen it, here's the alternate ending...

[BigShadow]

Nice

[Phantom Stranger]

No Halloween is complete without it

[gummi]

In case you haven't seen it, here's the alternate ending...

I love that.  One of my favorite Fright Rags shirts!

[drmark7]

Watching Great Pumpkin on ABC!  Haven't seen this one in years!  Hot cup of Joe, fireplace roaring, rain outside, girlfriend sleeping, and seven dogs staring at me.  Such a heavenly Halloween!

I thought it was funny... someone decided they needed to use the 1980s song EURYTHMICS- "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This" in the ABC tv promos for GREAT PUMPKIN! I make no connection whatsoever!

[Scatter]

I prefer to watch it on DVD...........unless they show the ORIGINAL commercials with it on TV. THAT would be a blast!

[Phantom Dave]

Still is one of my all time favorites!   

[Haunted hearse]

In case you haven't seen it, here's the alternate ending...

To bad the photo failed to show before I discovered this thread.

[thelatewinslowleach]

I certainly love it as it was a major milestone in our late boomer collective conscience, but as of now I love it for the brilliance of it's musical score and the gorgeous artwork. The backgrounds during Snoopy's WWI sequence are breathtaking. Also, it has a sharp satiric jab at even 40 + years ago, Charles Schultz saw Christmas was being pushed in too early. The subtext was Linus "getting one holiday ahead of himself."

[Haunted hearse]

I certainly love it as it was a major milestone in our late boomer collective conscience, but as of now I love it for the brilliance of it's musical score and the gorgeous artwork. The backgrounds during Snoopy's WWI sequence are breathtaking. Also, it has a sharp satiric jab at even 40 + years ago, Charles Schultz saw Christmas was being pushed in too early. The subtext was Linus "getting one holiday ahead of himself."

I always thought it was Linus being an example of having the courage to believe in something, no matter how foolish others wanted to make him feel for having that belief.

[thelatewinslowleach]

I always thought it was Linus being an example of having the courage to believe in something, no matter how foolish others wanted to make him feel for having that belief.

I would agree with that as well, Linus's plight covers many levels. But Schultz did remark on the holiday confusion, From wikipedia "Linus's seemingly unshakable belief in the Great Pumpkin, and his desire to foster the same belief in others, has been interpreted as a parody of Christian evangelism by some observers. Others have seen Linus's belief in the Great Pumpkin as symbolic of the struggles faced by anyone with beliefs or practices that are not shared by the majority. Still others view Linus's lonely vigils, in the service of a being that may or may not exist and which never makes its presence known in any case, as a metaphor for mankind's basic existential dilemmas.[2] Charles Schulz himself, however, claimed no motivation beyond the humor of having one of his young characters confuse Halloween with Christmas. (In the 1959 sequence of strips in which the Great Pumpkin is first mentioned, Schulz also has Linus suggest that he and the other kids "go out and sing pumpkin carols", something he asks the trick-or-treating kids in the special itself.)"