If ever there was a must-have Thanksgiving feature, it is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Warner Home Video is releasing this Thanksgiving classic on Blu-ray October 5th, 2010 with a remastered deluxe edition. The disc will feature a couple of bonuses: The Mayflower Voyagers and a featurette titled “Popcorn & Jellybeans: Making a Thanksgiving Classic”. This release is a combo pack, providing both a standard DVD and Hi-Def Blu-ray disc of the whole set.

This animated special first aired on CBS prior to Thanksgiving, 1973, and won an Emmy the following year. The special tells the story of how the Peanut’s gang tries to pull of Thanksgiving as only they can do: Charlie Brown’s family was going to spend Thanksgiving with his grandparents. Peppermint Patty gives him a call, pressuring him into hosting a little pre-Thanksgiving feast for all of his friends. Chuck didn’t seem thrilled with the idea, but he’s just too much of a pushover to say “no” to anybody. With his parents gone, a virtually empty kitchen, and only novicial knowledge on how to prepare meals, Charlie Brown hands the cooking reigns over to Snoopy. Ever the crowdpleaser, Snoopy spends most of the episode alternating between wearing a chef’s hat and wearing a pilgrim’s hat. Either way, hat-wearing dogs are funny stuff. And this tale of Thanksgiving, coupled with the straightforward telling of the pilgrim story in The Mayflower Voyagers makes this must-see TV — every Thanksgiving.