Time for another post in Balladeer’s Blog’s Eighth annual orgy of entries on various versions of A Christmas Carol.

MR SCROOGE (1964) – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog will remember the bizarre lengths I go to in order to track down every Carol that I can. This is one of those “don’t ask” situations. I don’t want to become an international criminal. (I’m kidding … maybe.)
Mr Scrooge was originally broadcast on December 21st, 1964 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It runs just an hour and stars Cyril Ritchard as Ebenezer Scrooge and the very appropriately named Eric Christmas as Marley’s Ghost. As with the Continue reading