It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The One Way to Watch for Free This Fall

Matt Webb Mitovich
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Those waiting for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown to pop up on PBS or any other linear TV service this Halloween season will only find a lump of coal (if I may mix holiday metaphors).

PBS, which as recently as 2021 shared custody of the animated holiday classic with Apple TV+, will for a second straight year not do the same this fall.

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Apple TV+ claimed dibs on several Peanuts classics, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, back in October 2020 — removing them from ABC’s purview for the first time in decades. PBS in 2020 and 2021 was allowed in on the action, but since then only Apple TV+ has followed Linus Van Pelt’s quest to meet up with the mythical Great Pumpkin.

That said, Apple TV+ — which fetches $6.99 per month after a free seven-day trial — will, as is now “tradition,” stream for free It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ahead of Halloween Week, on Saturday, Oct. 21 and Sunday, Oct. 22.

Similarly, Apple TV+ will stream for free A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Saturday, Nov. 18 and Sunday, Nov. 19, while A Charlie Brown Christmas can be unwrapped for free on Saturday, Dec. 16 and Sunday, Dec. 17

A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS in 1965, and aired on ABC from 2000-2019. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown followed in 1966, also debuting on CBS and moving to ABC in 2001. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving premiered on CBS in 1973 and, like the others, moved to ABC in 2001.

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