A Boy Named Charlie Brown
6/5c, MeTV
Retro Pick
Nineteen years after their 1950 debut in the funny pages, lovable loser Charlie Brown and his Peanuts gang were rock star–huge, read daily by a 355 million-strong global audience that then swarmed to the instant-classic TV specials like A Charlie (streaming now on Apple TV+). Only the movies were left to conquer.