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A Christmas Carol (1962)
Country of Origin:
UK
Dates of Original Broadcast: 1962
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Episode Running Time: 60 mins
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Produced by: Hal Burton
SCRIPT
Novel: Charles
Dickens
MUSIC
Music: Edwin Coleman
Libretto: Margaret Burns Harris
Music Performed by: The Pro Arte Orchestra
Leader: Max Salpeter
Conductor: William Reid
Associate Conductor: Alan Boustead
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designed by: Hal Burton
CAST
Stephen Danton (Ebenezer Scrooge)
Derick Davies (Bob Cratchit)
David Hillman (Scrooge's nephew)
Marion Lowe (woman canvasser/charwoman)
Trevor Anthony (ghost of Jacob Marley/Ghost of Christmas Present)
Edward Donlevy (Ghost of Christmas Past/shopkeeper)
Andrew Clark (Scrooge as a boy)
Sheelagh Mulholland (Scrooge's sister)
Brenda Marshall (Scrooge's fiancée)
Rhys McConnochie (Scrooge as a young man)
Catherine Wilson (Mrs Cratchit)
Sylvia Eaves, Janette Lynn, Lynn Williams (Bob Cratchit's daughters)
Forrester Pyke (Tiny Tim)
Gerwyn Morgan (nephew's friend)
Carole Rosen (nephew's visitor/laundress)
Elizabeth Boyd (nephew's wife)
Giles Havergal (Ghost of Christmas Future)
Francis Egerton (business man)
Norman Lumsden (undertaker's man)
David Pinto (errand boy)
Christopher Brett
Edward Morgan
PLOT SUMMARY
Miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas
Eve by the ghost of his dead business partner Marley, who warns him
that three more ghosts will appear during the night trying to show Scrooge
the error of his ways. As the night wears on, he's visited by the Ghost
of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas
Yet to Come. But will even they be enough to soften old Scrooge's heart?
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Broadcasters: BBC Television
TIMELINE
1962
December
24: UK - television broadcast (on BBC-TV)
LINKS
SEE ALSO
A Christmas Carol (adaptations)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Variety 16 January 1963 p.32 (USA)
credits, review
BOOKS
A Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: A Critical
Examination of Dickens's Story and Its Productions on Screen and Television
by Fred Guida (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc (2000)) p.190
credits
KEYWORDS
book into film, christmas, ghosts, misers, opera, redemption
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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