"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is a beloved seasonal staple, but the Peanuts gang’s TV special wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. Lee Mendelson was the executive producer of that special. He told us that after it first aired in 1965, he didn’t expect to ever see it on TV again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqPMepx_3T8