Quote of the Day: “Charlie Brown Christmas” Producer Lee Mendelson
“We told Schulz, `Look, you can’t read from the Bible on network television.'”
-Lee Mendelson, executive producer of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” about initial fretting over “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz’s insistence that the program include the reading of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke. The program remains a hit 40 years later, with the gospel reading intact. He was quoted by USA Today.
