Network executives were not at all keen on several aspects of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," forcing Charles M. Schulz and producer Bill Melendez to wage some serious battles to preserve their vision. The executives did not want to have Linus reciting the story of the birth of Christ from the Gospel of Luke (Lk 2:8-14). The network orthodoxy of the time assumed that viewers would not want to sit through passages of the King James Version of the Bible. Charles Schultz was adamant about keeping this scene in, remarking that "If we don't tell the true meaning of Christmas, who will?"
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