Transcript: Profile: Why "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is so special

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
12-12-2003
Profile: Why "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is so special

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Thirteen days until Christmas. The TV networks are festooned with holiday specials notorious for their near toxic sugar content. Nonetheless, Dallas Observer critic Robert Wilonsky will wait again for yet another rebroadcast of the now classic from CBS in 1965, "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

(Soundbite from "A Charlie Brown Christmas")

ROBERT WILONSKY reporting:

Here is one Hebrew for whom "A Charlie Brown Christmas" remains one of the great pleasures of the holiday season. Dare I say it, far better than a plate of Uncle Phil's langouste. The ...

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