40 specials and Charlie Brown never kicked the football! On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 9:00 AM danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> h/t one of those folk at alt.obituaries: > > Lee Mendelson, R.I.P. > Published Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 8:12 PM > > Producer Lee Mendelson, winner of a dozen Emmy Awards and four Peabody > Awards, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. One of each of those > trophies was for A Charlie Brown Christmas, which first aired in 1965. CBS > expected it to bomb in the ratings but it turned out to be one of the > highest-rated specials ever and its annual viewing became a vital > tradition in households not just in America but around the world. It also > led to more than forty subsequent Peanuts specials produced by Lee and his > animation partner Bill Melendez as well as two movies. Lee Mendelson > Productions also produced award-winning documentaries and animated shows > not featuring Charlie Brown and his friends. > ====== > https://www.newsfromme.com/2019/12/26/lee-mendelson-r-i-p > > _forty_, FORTY!, Peanuts specials. > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAGPJw13Nw1fWuwjx%2BaQfyw7Fev252gD0j2e6ExYUjACmRUKqyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
