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As we’ve covered here on TVLine before, pilots are a tricky beast, trying to both sell a show and make a good first impression. For a variety of genres, we’ve talked about the shows that started with their best foot forward, like the best sitcom pilots of all time. But now we’re talking about the…

Lee Mendelson wanted to spare Charlie Brown a bit of trouble. The CBS executive, overseeing director Bill Melendez’s efforts to animate Charles Schulz’s new Halloween special, bristled at Melendez’s suggestion that three voiceless neighbors hand the trick-or-treating character a rock.