It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

1992 animated Christmas television special

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is the 36th prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on November 27, 1992. The program is composed of various storylines from the comic strip. It was the first Christmas themed Peanuts special since the inaugural A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, though an episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show featured a new Christmas vignette in 1985. The animation for the special was done by Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, making it the first Peanuts special to be animated by an overseas studio rather than Bill Melendez Productions, who served as animation revisionists. This was the final new Peanuts animated special to air on CBS. The network cancelled all future animated specials, although they still aired in re runs until 2000.

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown was first shown on CBS on Friday, November 27, 1992 the day after Thanksgiving and was the last Peanuts special to have its television premiere on that network. The show received a 10.0 rating and was watched by about 9.3 million households. The special no longer airs on American television as both CBS and its successor Peanuts broadcaster, ABC, abandoned it in favor of other specials. In Canada, YTV still airs it as a standalone special as of 2012.

A VHS release was made available at Shell gas stations a few months prior to the TV airing, which would make this the first Peanuts special released directly to video. Paramount gave it another video release in 1996, and it was later included as a bonus special on the DVD and Blu ray of A Charlie Brown Christmas by Warner Home Video, who currently owns the rights to both specials.