Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

It wouldn't be the holidays without at least one viewing of the time-honored TV special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The beloved movie first aired on national TV in 1965, instantly becoming a classic ...

A choir member who sang on the original recording of the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which turns 60 this year, reminisces about the experience. NPR’s Chloe Veltman reports. This segment ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," with the soundtrack by Vince Guaraldi becoming a musical favorite. While Charlie Brown looked for the meaning of Christmas, a local ...

(ANALYSIS) “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the beloved animated television program, turns 60 this year. It is hard to imagine that it almost did not air. Network executives thought it moved too slowly ...

It’s the 60th anniversary of A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, which is just as memorable for its music as it is for the story animation. “The music of Vince Guaraldi…is now ubiquitous with the holiday,” ...

It's Christmas week, which means the time to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is officially upon us. A mainstay of the holidays since the 1960s, the 25-minute holiday special follows beloved ...

As a young child, I reacted to the zig-zag line of Charlie Brown’s shirt the way normal kids responded to the Golden Arches. Every stroke of Charles M. Schulz’s legendary Esterbrook 914 Radio pen ...

This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something almost unheard of in American pop culture, both then and now. In the middle of ...