A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

58 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 24, 1977

"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself…

A Christmas Carol

58 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 24, 1977

A Christmas Carol
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself…
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers BBC
Original title A Christmas Carol
Directors Moira Armstrong
Writers Elaine Morgan, Charles Dickens

Cast

Michael Hordern

as Ebenezer Scrooge

John Le Mesurier

as Marley's Ghost

Bernard Lee

as Ghost of Christmas Present

Patricia Quinn

as Ghost of Christmas Past

Carol MacReady

as Mrs. Cratchit

Zoë Wanamaker

as Belle

Paul Copley

as Fred (Scrooge's Nephew)

John Salthouse

as Young Scrooge

Veronica Doran

as Caroline

Clive Merrison

as Bob Cratchit

Tricia George

as Little Blonde

June Brown

as Mrs. Dilber

Zelah Clarke

as Martha Cratchit

Brian Blessed

as Narrator

John Grillo

as Caroline's Husband

David Hatton

as Undertaker's Man

John Ringham

as Charity Gentleman

Michael Mulcaster

as Ghost of Christmas Future

Dorian Healy

as Scrooge as Schoolboy

Tracey Childs

as Fan