This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq.
Released: Dec 23, 1978
Runtime: 50 minutes
Stars: Walter Matthau, Tom Bosley, Theodore Bikel, Robert Morse, Dennis Day, Paul Frees
Crew: Arthur Rankin, Jr. (Director), Jules Bass (Director), Romeo Muller (Writer), Arthur Rankin, Jr. (Producer), Paul Coker Jr. (Production Design), Charles Dickens (Novel)