A Christmastelevision special is typically a one_time, 30 minute animated program aired during the Christmas season. Some are extended episodes of currently running television series featuring the regular characters dealing with Christmas. Some specials are of a more variety show nature, featuring celebrities and/or singers and musical numbers and short skits.
All such specials are naturally strongly Christmas themed, but usually forgo the religious aspects of the holiday to concentrate on more general themes of giving, and goodwill towards man.
Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation: Examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr. Seuss children's book How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The Rankin-Bass animation studio is well known for its many holiday specials.
Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation; examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr.
In British television, a Christmasspecial is a one-off episode of a regular television series which may not otherwise be running in the winter or even that year, as in Britain television series tend to run on limited schedules of 6 to 13 episodes rather than year-round.
A Christmasspecial may or may not have a Christmas theme and often is not even set during the Christmas season but usually runs on Christmas day itself and is often longer than a regular episode of the series.
None of the special's technical problems detracted from the show's appeal; to the contrary, it is thought that these quirks, along with several other choices, are what lent the show such an innovative, authentic and sincere feeling.
The musical soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas, by jazz composer Vince Guaraldi, has become as well-known as the story itself, especially the piece entitled "Linus and Lucy," which has come to be regarded as the signature musical theme of the Peanutsspecials.
A soundtrack album for the special was released by Fantasy Records and remains a perennial best-seller.
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