The Stingiest Man in Town

Jules Bass
1978-12-23

Meet Scrooge...
5.5
50 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Walter Matthau Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) Unowned
Tom Bosley B.A.H. Humbug (voice) Unowned
Theodore Bikel Marley's Ghost (voice) Unowned
Robert Morse Young Scrooge (voice) Unowned
Dennis Day Nephew Fred (voice) Unowned
Paul Frees Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice) Unowned
Sonny Melendrez Bob Cratchit (voice) Unowned
Debra Clinger Martha Cratchit (voice) Unowned
Bobby Rolofson Tiny Tim (voice) Unowned
Steffi Calli Belinda Cratchit (voice) Unowned
Eric Hines Peter Cratchit (voice) Unowned
Dee Stratton Fred's Wife (voice) Unowned
Darlene Conley Mrs. Cratchit (voice) Unowned
Shelby Flint Belle (voice) Unowned
Diana Lee (voice) Unowned
Charles Matthau The Boy (voice) Unowned