The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (1973) which has a 30-minute run time is listed as a “TV Special” while “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) with a 25-minute run time is listed as a “TV Movie”. Also, “He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown” (1968), which also has a 30-minute run time, is listed as a “TV Short”. For consistency, IMDb should determine what length a film, special, video, etc. is considered a short. IMDB should also merge either the TV Short and TV Special categories or merge the TV Movie and TV Special categories. Regardless, these 3 categories should become 2 categories with only one criterion determining whether the tv film is considered one or the other. That criterion should be the length of the tv film including credits.






