Mr. Scrooge

by Richard Morris and Ted Wood, directed by Bob Jarvis

Release: 21 December 1964
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

In this 54-minute black-and-white CBC broadcast of Claman and Morris’s stage musical, the Ghost of Christmas Past arrives on a tricycle, Christmas Present is inebriated, and Christmas Future holds his own severed head in his hands.

— Michael Main

♫We’re knockin’ off his knick-knacks♫

DEBUT

Mr. Scrooge (CBC-TV, Canada, 21 December 1964).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

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INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Release—According to the OCR text of the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fimage%2F557678548%2F'><em>Red Deer Advocate</em>, 18 December 1964</a>, the adaptation was broadcast on Monday, 21 December 1964, as part of the <em>CBC Show of the Week</em> series.
Credits—from the <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paleycenter.org%2Fcollection%2Fitem%2F%3Fq%3Dall%26p%3D439%26item%3D108067'>Paley Center</a> with confirmation from <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca%2Fen%2Farticle%2Fdolores-claman-emc'>The Canadian Encyclopedia</a>.