Setting the tone immediately for the beloved Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Christmas, “Christmas Time is Here” by jazz musician Vince Guaraldi has become a staple of the holiday season since audiences first heard it in 1965.  Guaraldi had already worked with the Peanuts properties, composing “Linus and Lucy” for an album in 1964 called […]

The Twilight Zone celebrated Christmas in 1960 with one of the few episodes where something good happens to the main character, “The Night of the Meek.”  Starring Art Carney as a drunken department store Santa who is depressed that he cannot help the poor children of his neighborhood like the real Santa could.  Finding a […]