01917cam a2200193 4500 179602530 TxAuBib 20141024120000.0 141024s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062344830 0062344838 TxAuBib It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown : The Making of a Television Classic / Lee Mendelson with Reminiscences by Bill Melendez. 2014 Hardcover Edition. New York, New York : William Morrow Publishers, 2014. Join Linus, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally and Snoopy for their Halloween night, when the Peanuts gang puts on their costumes to trick-or-treat while Linus waits dutifully in his pumpkin patch for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. Nearly five decades after It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first aired in 1966, the television special is still drawing in audiences. This past Halloween, seven million viewers tuned in to watch Lucy steal the football from Charlie Brown, Snoopy fight the Red Baron, and Linus be very hopeful for the Great Pumpkin. In this book, Executive Producer Lee Mendelson reminisces with original Peanuts animator Bill Melendez about working with Charles M. Schulz, "Sparky", as he was known to his friends. Mendelson also writes about how Great Pumpkin was sold to the network, the hesitation to have Charlie Brown receive a rock in his bag (for fear children all over the U.S. would get rocks for Halloween), the decision to animate the Flying Ace (Snoopy's WWI alter ego) for the first time, and other fantastic tidbits of insider information. He also visits with original young cast members who lovingly recall their memories of doing the show. 20141024. TXBAY