On October 27th, 1966 It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown premiered on CBS.
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Ivan Reitman was born in 1946
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September 30th, 1960 saw the beginning of The Flintstones airing on ABC.
It would be the first cartoon to air Primetime on Friday nights at 8:30pm.
It is the second most successful and longest running animated series behind the Simpsons.