A Happy New Year! Though it is now 2020, Scrooge Countdown 2019 continues until Epiphany, the end of Christmas season. I haven’t put as many animated versions as I have in the past, so it’s an animated one tonight. When I decided to start gathering different versions of A Christmas […]
Musical Monday I love Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol. I remember an earlier time when there was a more divided opinion of it. A time after that, I often heard and read a lot of folks list this as their favorite. Now, it is an undeniable classic! There is so much […]
It’s the second day of Christmas which means I can watch different adaptations of A Christmas Carol without feeling out of season! I missed yesterday’s entry as it was actually Christmas Day and I was “making rather merry” as Bob Cratchit would say. Though I watched one of my favorite […]
The best animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol ever done is the 1971 Chuck Jones production. It remains a high standard for any animated version that has followed. This was the version of A Christmas Carol I watched every year as a child side-by-side with the 1969 animated version. This […]
The 1994 Japanese / American joint venture is probably best for child viewing. It is one of the ones I don’t watch consistently every year. The last time I watched it was 2015. It was released on DVD in the early 2000’s. This endeavor is pretty traditional; however, there’s nothing […]
This was the one that started it all for me. This is the first A Christmas Carol I remember watching as a child the first time it was broadcast on U.S. television. It is the first of two Australian animated versions; this one was made in 1969 (the other was […]
Today’s two A Christmas Carol adaptations are animated versions meant for a juvenile audience. This is the first time I’ve included A Flintstones’ Christmas Carol and A Jetson Christmas Carol. Both are productions of the prolific Hanna-Barbera company. A Flintstones’ Christmas Carol is from 1994 and was originally a syndicated […]