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A Christmas Carol (1993)
Country of Origin: UK/USA
Date of Original Broadcast: 25 December 1993
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Episode Running Times: 86 mins
Format:
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: colour
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A BBC/Arts & Entertainment Network/RPTA Primetime
co-production
Executive Producer: Bob Lockyer
Production: Christopher Gable
Production Coordinator: Anne Murray
SCRIPT
Original Scenario: Carl Davis
Developed With: Christopher Gable
Novel: Charles
Dickens
DIRECTION
Director: Kriss Rusmanis
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Design: Paul Pyant
Television Lighting: Steve Whittaker
Cameras: Dave Taylor, Steve Coleman, Steve Porritt, Ivars Galdins
Chief Electrician: Stuart Lister
Vision Supervisor: Hedley Parker
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Videotape Editors: John Pearce, Mike Curd, Spencer Hill
Vision Mixer: Sue Thorne
MUSIC
Music: Carl Davis
Music Performed by: BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra Leader: Tom Bangbala
Conductor: John Pryce-Jones
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Don Hartridge
Engineering Manager: Dave Parker
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Design: Lez Brotherston
Wardrobe Mistress: Kim Brassley
BBC Makeup Design: Joyce Dean
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Design: Lez Brotherston
BBC Graphic Design: Linda Sherwood-Page
MISCELLAENOUS
Choreography: Massimo Morricone
Northern Ballet Theatre Artistic Director: Christopher Gable
Northern Ballet Theatre Assistants to the Artistic Director: Elaine
McDonald, Graham Fletcher
Northern Ballet Theatre Administrator:Stephen Revell
Northern Ballet Theatre Technical Director: Steve Hodgkinson
Northern Ballet Theatre Company Manager: Mark Skipper
OB Stage Manager: Craig MacGregor
LOCATIONS
Recorded at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax
CAST
Jeremy Kerridge (Ebenezer Scrooge)
William Walker (Bob Cratchit)
Polly Benge (Mrs Cratchit)
Katherine Fletcher, Claire Rowland (daughters)
Christopher Akril (son)
Ryan Ward (Tiny Tim)
Matthew Madsen (ghost of Marley)
Lorena Vidal (Ghost of Christmas Past)
Royce Neagle (Ghost of Christmas Present)
Steven Wheeler (Ghost of Christmas Future)
Graham Fletcher (Mr Fezziwig)
Victoria Westall (Mrs Fezziwig)
Fergus Logan (young Scrooge)
Jayne Regan (his fiancée)
Peter Parker (Scrooge's nephew)
Graciela Kaplan (his wife)
with
artists of the Northern Ballet Theatre
PLOT SUMMARY
Miserly London 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?
TIMELINE
1993
July
13: UK - recording takes place
December
25: USA – television broadcast (on BBC2)
1994
December
8: USA – television broadcast
LINKS
SEE ALSO
A Christmas Carol
(adaptations)
REFERENCES
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))
pp.223-224
credits
KEYWORDS
ballet, book into film, christmas, ghosts
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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