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Lee Mendelson, Executive Producer of A Charlie Brown Christmas and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

See it on ABC on December 16th, 8:30 pm EST, 2014, which marks the 50 th time the beloved special will air on television. Q: How did you and Bill Melendez (the animator) collaborate with Sparky on the script? At which point, both Bill and I didn’t know quite what to say except to say, “That’s never happened to our knowledge.

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