1. It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974)
Easter is a holiday oddly bereft of pop-cultural artifacts. An outwardly religious holiday, the celebration suffers from not having a rich secular mythology built up around it, unlike Christmas, which allows for countless movies and specials about some unseen facet of Santa Claus’ North Pole lair. Consequently, that leaves the holiday without the sorts of flotsam and jetsam that pop up on local TV stations during the Christmas season, outside of the usual slate of Biblical epics. It’s not for lack of trying, however, and one of the most successful ...
