I'm glad Baltimore isn't on there. :D

CBS was initially opposed to A Charlie Brown Christmas because it addressed challenging themes not entirely suitable for television at the time: Besides the frank expressions of alienation that Peanuts had embraced from the beginning, the show raised questions not only about the commercialization of Christmas ("A racket run by a big eastern syndicate," Lucy confides to Charlie Brown) but about faith itself. And the network execs just didn't think jazz and Christmas were suited together.