A Charlie Brown Christmas (December 5, 1965)

It’s been 60 years since the world first set eyes on this Charlie Brown TV special. Doing the research, I was surprised that it was shown by CTV in Canada four days before it premiered on CBS on December 9th. The American viewers saw it at 7:30 pm. Canadian viewers saw it at 5:50 pm EST, 4:50 pm CST.

There were legendary disagreements that occurred before the CBS executives allowed the show to air. The inconjuncts shown above may be the reason(s). The Moon is inconjunct Mercury; Venus is inconjunct the Jupiter/Ascendant conjunction. The extra stress points come from the T-square pointing at the Sun, with squares to Saturn and a Uranus/Pluto conjunction. But in spite of all that conflict, it succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations. Fans of the 15-year-old Peanuts comic strip made sure of that.

God bless us, every one, including Charlie Brown.