It's 59 years since 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' aired on December 9, 1965, and it still remains one of the most beloved holiday viewings for good reason.

There's something heartbreaking, bittersweet, but also, in a way, oddly hopeful in Charlie Brown's depression and the inevitable isolation and loneliness it brings. His inability to feel joy when others celebrate, and the sense of not belonging that comes with it. In him finding value and significance, and maybe even a little bit of empathy for the small, frail tree that nobody else wanted ("I think it needs me"). The ending and the beauty of accepting and loving different and imperfect things (and people) just as they are. The score by Vince Guaraldi.

A gem of a short TV special, that perhaps hits differently and even more poignantly when you watch it again as a grown adult.

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love."

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