A Christmas Carol Classics, take 2: Seymour Hicks, The Stingiest Man, & Jim Carrey

'Tis the season for the many flavors of A Christmas Carol to rear their heads – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Luke and Elysia sort the wheat from the chaff (and all the in betweens) in their second round of tackling the classic adaptations.

Films discussed this episode:

• Scrooge (1913) – silent short
• Scrooge (1935) – first feature-length talkie
• The Stingiest Man in Town (1956) – "lost" (and found) TV musical – album version: Spotify (without narration), Deezer
• The Stingiest Man in Town (1975) – Rankin/Bass animated short – YouTube doc short
• Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) – the animated one with Jim Carrey

Coming next episode: Dark Christmas Carols: FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

This season's final episode: More Christmas Carol Twists – Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), An American Christmas Carol (1979), Ebenezer (1998), Christmas Above the Clouds (2025), Christmas Karma (2025)

Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials...

I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode, which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage

II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and an audio drama of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (Supercast, Patreon)

III – Many of the most classic classic Christmas Carol adaptations

IV – An intermezzo on Dickens' life and the creation of this tale

V – Finally, our first round-up of cinematic twists on the classic tale

2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse

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