By James Poniewozik “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was a one-of-a-kind ... full of grays and wafting snowflakes. I could wrap myself in the Vince Guaraldi jazz score like a quilt.

What accounts for the staying power of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which first aired ... and that sometimes we will cross the border between them. It’s complicated. When he published ...

And at the top of my must-watch list is always A Charlie Brown Christmas, a special that gave holiday hope to blockheads and scrawny trees alike. With those little plastic wanna-be trees selling ...