Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Carol for Another Christmas



Rod Serling wrote an updated version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, titled Carol for Another Christmas, which aired on ABC on December 28, 1964. In this version, Scrooge is American industrialist and isolationist Daniel Grudge. The themes of the the TV movie are more concerned with foreign relations and war than with general localized poverty, so you know nuclear annihilation comes into the picture. The reviews were mixed, some objecting to the political message, others criticizing it for its heavy-handedness while at the same time trying to avoid offending anyone in particular. It was not aired again after that first broadcast until 2012. See how many stars you can recognize in the cast. (Thanks, WTM!)


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