Snoopy is on Santa’s naughty list in a new Peanuts special arriving Friday, Nov. 13, on Apple TV. The next day, the service opens a separate two-day window to stream A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for free. The two specials have different viewing terms, even though both are on the same service.
Snoopy Presents: 12 Days of Snoopy is a 32-minute, TV-G special. With Christmas 12 days away, Snoopy sets out to get off the list while the rest of the Peanuts gang tries to stay in Santa’s good graces. Apple lists it as part of the paid Apple TV catalog. A U.S. subscription is $14.99 a month, with a seven-day trial for eligible new subscribers. You can use the Apple TV app on a supported smart TV or watch in a browser. Apple’s U.S. listing includes English closed captions and audio description, with a separate Latin American Spanish audio-description track. The film listing credits Rob Boutilier and Matt Ferguson as directors, with Terry McGurrin voicing Snoopy and Riley Vargas as Charlie Brown.
The new special has a different soundtrack
Jeff Morrow wrote the score. In its trailer announcement, Apple lists John Legend’s “Get Ready,” produced by Raphael Saadiq, and “Trying to Get There” by Kamasi Washington featuring Leon Bridges. Laufey performs “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Those recordings are part of the new production. If you want the older specials with Vince Guaraldi’s music, look for the titles below.
When the Charlie Brown classics are free
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving streams free on Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nov. 15. Charlie Brown is pressed into hosting Thanksgiving and ends up serving buttered toast and pretzel sticks with help from Snoopy and Linus. The Charles M. Schulz Museum dates the animated special to 1973, eight years after the first Peanuts television special.
The next free weekend is Dec. 12 and 13 for A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was the first animated Peanuts television special, according to the museum, and debuted on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Charlie Brown directs a Christmas play and picks out the little tree that sets the rest of the story in motion. Peanuts’ holiday-specials page lists both classics and links to the Apple TV app.
Apple’s holiday calendar lists the free weekends by date. Thanksgiving’s free window comes two weekends before the Nov. 26 holiday, so anyone planning to watch it without a subscription should use Nov. 14 or 15.
