Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is the 41st prime-time animated TV special based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

He is briefly confronted by an angry Rerun, who chastises him for failing to deliver the toys promised to him the previous Christmas.

At Charlie Brown's urging, he also attempts to make peace with the ferocious cat who lives next door but to no avail.

Her first target turns out to be in the yard of a hostile "ugly kid," who, in disbelief, flippantly tells her she can have the tree if it falls down.

In the final sketch, Charlie Brown tells Sally he ordered a toy bicycle for her dollhouse, which never arrived.

By the 1990s, changes in the delivery of closing credits and increases in advertising minutes on the networks made it impossible for all of A Charlie Brown Christmas to be aired in a half-hour time slot.

During 2001, the first year ABC aired A Charlie Brown Christmas, the show was followed by a retrospective hosted by Whoopi Goldberg featuring the voice cast and producers of the special.

Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales was created to replace that retrospective in rounding out the hour for subsequent airings.

From 2010 to 2012, a portion of the special was cut to clear a spot for Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa, a seven-minute short produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Only "Happy Holidays from Snoopy," "Yuletide Greetings from Linus," and "Merry Christmas from Charlie Brown" aired in these years, though the special has again been shown in its entirety since 2013.

[3] The music score for Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales was composed by Vince Guaraldi (except where noted) and performed and arranged by David Benoit.