Traditional Tuesday In last year’s blog, I noted that 2019 was the twentieth anniversary of the Patrick Stuart version. Now at twenty-one years, it is secure in its place among the traditional classics. A Christmas Carol fanatics were well aware of his acclaimed early ‘90’s one-man theatre piece where he performs […]
Musical Monday Since its early days, American television has been using ACC for holiday programming; sometimes bad and occasionally very successful. Today is one of the surviving endeavors of early U.S. television from 1954/55 starring Frederic March and Basil Rathbone. For me, the latter half of the 1980’s was a […]
Silent Sunday The oldest surviving version of A Christmas Carol (ACC) on film is Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost from 1901. This is only the second time I’ve included it in the annual “watch-a-thon.” I have never fully written about this version before, giving it only brief references, instead. Only an […]
Advent 2020 begins, which means I begin start my annual marathon viewing & reviewing of different versions and adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. As usual, this year is a new blog and site address. As stated in previous intros, I have loved A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ever since […]