# Poll: Your favorite version of "A Christmas Carol" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 25, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048 "2025-12-25T15:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/61 "2025-12-26T19:44:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > There was a TV movie called _Ebbie_ with Susan Lucci as Ebbie Scrooge. 1995 which is impossibly 30 years ago. Just looked it up on IMDb-- that is probably it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/62 "2025-12-26T21:29:07Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Sorry if that sounds like a hijack, but I’m asking if maybe we can lay that particular version quietly aside, just as we would do with an older version that played on racial stereotypes. I can go along with that. As a short cartoon, Magoo _might_ be funny, but that version was too much. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/63 "2025-12-27T00:23:21Z")
First version was Mr Magoo (which I just saw 2 days ago, for the first time in decades. It’s on You Tube.) Favorite, though is Alistair Sim. Although if I’m being perfectly honest I do fast forward through his past. They spend a bit too much time on his shady business dealings. But the scene at the end when he appears at Nephew Fred’s for dinner, brings me a bad case of verklempt, every time. I’ve probably seen The Muppets more than any version (it being my kids’ favorite) and it is very dear to my heart. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/64 "2025-12-27T00:58:28Z")
Is it the 1938 version that features Scrooge chewing out Bob Cratchit for using too much coal in the stove? I remember the poor guy working late in the office, shivering and miserable. All the versions find different ways to show Scrooge as a miserable and heartless person. I’m watching the Alastair Sim version tonight. It ran frequently on TBS when I was in high school. He doesn’t treat Bob Cratchit too badly in this version. He does complain about giving Cratchit a _full day_ off to celebrate Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/65 "2025-12-27T01:13:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Is it the 1938 version that features Scrooge chewing out Bob Cratchit for using too much coal in the stove? Yes. And putting more coal on to warm up the room was Fred’s idea in the first place, and the jerk doesn’t step up and say so, just lets Crachit get chewed out. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/66 "2025-12-28T21:56:57Z")
> **[An All Dogs Christmas Carol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_All_Dogs_Christmas_Carol)** > > An All Dogs Christmas Carol is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical comedy drama television special based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The third and final installment in the All Dogs Go to Heaven film series, it also serves as the series finale to the animated series. Unlike the first two films, where the main characters are Charlie and Itchy, Carface is the focus of the story. > A bunch of angel puppies ask the whippet Annabelle to tell them a story. She begins to ... I grew up watching this version of the classic tale. Always been my favorite version, probably because it was also my first. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/67 "2025-12-29T17:29:09Z")
No love for Blackadder? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/68 "2025-12-29T20:25:39Z")
Additionally, I, too, have seen Blackadder’s version, and _An American Christmas Carol_ with Henry Winkler (TV movie). Oh, yes, and Mr. Magoo’s version is one of my top three favorites. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/69 "2025-12-29T21:38:25Z")
If I had tried to list all the TV shows that did Christmas Carol episodes, I’d still be composing the post. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048/70 "2025-12-29T22:03:27Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > If I had tried to list all the TV shows that did Christmas Carol episodes, I’d still be composing the post. - You can do better than that. “If I had tried to list all the TV shows that did Christmas Carol episodes”, there would be time for a _fourth_ Ghost to visit. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-version-of-a-christmas-carol/1026048.md?page=3)