Good Grief! ; Linus' Wait for the Great Pumpkin Hits 40 Years

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You'd think that selling "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" to CBS back in 1966 would have been as easy as selling ... well, pumpkins on Halloween. Or Charlie Brown at any time.

Not so, animator Bill Melendez recalls.

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Good Grief! ; Linus' Wait for the Great Pumpkin Hits 40 Years

"We didn't know whether the network would buy it," Melendez says. "I'd always have to do a sales pitch. And I can really do a pitch. They used to say: 'Come on, Bill, do a dance for The Man.' "

And this was after "A Charlie Brown Christmas" had been a huge, Peabody- and Emmy-winning hit in 1965, and after the "Peanuts" comic strip mania was well unde...

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