One of the McShea family's favorite Halloween TV specials is "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" with the all of the "Peanuts" gang, and it's on TV tonight at 8:30 on ABC-TV.

Here's a bit about the special animated feature, according to Wikipedia:

"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special (and second holiday-themed special, following A Charlie Brown Christmas) to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on CBS, preempting My Three Sons."

If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat. Linus decided to sit in the pumpkin patch all night on Halloween, waiting for "The Great Pumpkin" to appear, rather than go trick or treating. And the jazz piano soundtrack makes it very Charlie Brown-ish. Watch the opening of the program:

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