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1966 · Movie · 25m · Approved

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

CriticsCritics: 90
AudienceAudience: 8.0

A group of children prepares for Halloween as one hopeful boy waits in a pumpkin patch for a legendary visitor. Meanwhile, another child gets ready for a party, a beagle imagines himself battling the Red Baron, and Charlie Brown faces an especially disappointing night of trick-or-treating.

My take

You’ll enjoy this if you like gentle, nostalgic holiday specials with playful humor and family-friendly warmth; Not for you if you want genuinely scary Halloween thrills or a more complex story.

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Cast

Christopher SheaPeter RobbinsSally DryerBill MelendezCathy SteinbergGail DeFariaGlenn MendelsonAnn Altieri

Director

Bill Melendez

If tonight is a It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown night…

…these live in the same corner of my head.

Want one picked out for tonight?

Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.