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The Alcoa Hour: The Stingiest
Man in Town (1956)
Date of Original Broadcast: 23 December
1956
Episode Running Times: 90m
Format: black and white
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: A Theatrical Enterprises production
Producer: Joel Spector
Unit Manager: Hank Shensky
SCRIPT
Novel: A Christmas Carol by Charles
Dickens
Book: Janice Torre
DIRECTION
Director: Daniel Petrie
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: Bill Raker
Video: Tony Nelle
MUSIC
Music: Fred Spielman
Book and Lyrics: Janice Torre
Arrangers: Tutti Camarata, Ray Ellis
Orchestra Conductor: Camarata (real name: Tutti Camarata)
Piano Music Performed By: Fred Spielman (Concerto Inferno)
Choral Director: Jerry Packer
SOUND
Audio: Don Frey
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costumes: Motley
Make Up: Bob O'Bradovich
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Scenic Designer: Kim Swados
Graphic Artist: Robert A. Jones
MISCELLANEOUS
Stage Managers: Bill Post, Dean Grant
Technical Director: O. Tamburri
Assistant to Producer: Kathleen Greene
Choreographer: John Heawood
CAST
Brook Taylor (announcer)
Basil Rathbone (Ebenezer Scrooge)
The Four Lads (chorus/narrators/beggars)
Johnny Desmond (Fred)
Robert Weede (ghost of Jacob Marley)
Vic Damone (young Scrooge)
Patrice Munsel (Belle)
Martyn Green (Bob Cratchit)
Betty Madigan (Martha)
John McIver (first charitable gentleman)
Robert Wright (Christmas Present)
Alice Frost (Mrs Cratchit)
Philippa Bevans (Mrs Dilber)
John McGovern (second charitable gentleman)
Ian Martin (Christmas Past)
Dennis Kohler (Tiny Tim)
Bryan Herbert (Mr Fezziwig)
Richard Morse (Peter)
Karyl Ann Traum (Belinda)
Carson Woods (Billie)
Karen Wolfe (Annie)
John Heawood (the rag picker)
Olive Dunbar (Betty)
Stephen Meininger (an urchin)
Keith Herrington (Christmas Yet to Come)
The Jerry Packer Chorus
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?
AVAILABILITY
USA
Television Distributors: NBC
TIMELINE
1956
December
23: USA - television broadcast (on NBC)
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.185-186
credits
KEYWORDS
book into film, christmas, ghosts, misers
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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