The Stingiest Man in Town
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.
First aired
December 23, 1978
Type
Movie
Characters
Cast
Walter Matthau
Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Tom Bosley
B.A.H. Humbug (voice)
Theodore Bikel
Marley's Ghost (voice)
Robert Morse
Young Scrooge (voice)
Dennis Day
Nephew Fred (voice)
Paul Frees
Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
Sonny Melendrez
Bob Cratchit (voice)
Debra Clinger
Martha Cratchit (voice)
Bobby Rolofson
Tiny Tim (voice)
Crew
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Director
Jules Bass
Director
Katsuhisa Yamada
Animation Director
Masaki Îzuka
Associate Producer
Yoshiko Sasaki
Animation
Masahiro Yoshida
Animation
Tooru Hara
Animation Coordinator
Tsuguyuki Kubo
Animation Supervisor
Minoru Nishida
Background Designer
Hidemi Kubo
Layout
Tadakatsu Yoshida
Layout
Ikko Kobayashi
Layout
Janice Torre
Lyricist
Bernard Hoffer
Music
Charles Dickens
Novel
Paul Coker Jr.
Production Design
Fred Spielman
Songs
Romeo Muller
Writer
First aired
December 23, 1978
Type