We're into the third stave of A Christmas Carol, and there is a lot to cover in this one. In this episode, Collin talks about the first half of the Ghost of Christmas Present portion of the story, including an argument between Scrooge and the Ghost about bakers being open on Sundays, the entirety of the Cratchits scene, and lots and lots of descriptions about food.

Sources and additional links:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitch-and-toss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitching_pennies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopiahttps://www.oed.com/dictionary/biffin_n?tab=factsheet#21019265

https://www.bard.org/study-guides/vocabulary-and-glossary-of-terms-othello/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/pediatrics/article-abstract/516441

https://web.archive.org/web/20100620084555/http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=adamant&resource=Webster%27s&quicksearch=on

https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Poetry/a_child_of_the_snowschesterton.htm

https://musicb3.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/the-song-of-tiny-tim/

Just when I thought I was done with the 1970s adaptations, I learned there was one more. This TV movie is so obscure that it only aired once and only exists in a home recording. Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol tells the story of Cyrus Flint, a 1970s bank manager (played by Hoyt Axton) who gets a visit from some Christmas ghosts and hears a lot of country music. Also starring Mel Tillis, Lynn Anderson, Martha Raye, Dottie West, The Statler Brothers, and many more.

Balladeer's Blog Review: https://glitternight.com/2011/12/12/christmas-carol-a-thon-2011-skinflint-1979/

Just when I thought I was done with the 1970s adaptations, I learned there was one more. This TV movie is so obscure that it only aired once and only exists in a home recording. Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol tells the story of Cyrus Flint, a 1970s bank manager (played by Hoyt Axton) who gets a visit from some Christmas ghosts and hears a lot of country music. Also starring Mel Tillis, Lynn Anderson, Martha Raye, Dottie West, The Statler Brothers, and many more.

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. This episode covers the second stave, which involves the Ghost of Christmas Past. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more.

Sources and additional links:

⁠LibriVox Audiobook⁠

https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-4/Charles Dickens' sister and nephew

https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/dickens-characters-c-d.htmlJack Robinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Robinson_(mythical_person)Organ of Benevolence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolence_(phrenology)

Negus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negus_(drink)

Roger de Coverly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_de_Coverley

Written in March by William Wordsworth

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/written-in-march

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. This episode covers the second half of the book's first stave, which involves the haunting of Marley's ghost. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more.

Sources and additional links:⁠

LibriVox Audiobook⁠:

https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens-4/

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

By Washington Irving

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2048/2048-h/2048-h.htm

Origin of ghosts rattling chains:

https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_chainedghosts.html#:~:text=It%20has%20often%20been%20said,dungeon%20and%20the%20torture%20chamber.

Letters of Pliny

By Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Translated by William Melmoth

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2811/2811-h/2811-h.htm

"Marley had no bowels" meaning

Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (2006). "Introduction". In Dickens, Charles (ed.). A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. vii–xxix. ISBN 978-0-19-920474-8.

Witching Hour

https://www.britannica.com/topic/witching-hour

Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more. This episode covers the first half of the book's first stave, from the beginning of the story up through Bob Cratchit leaving the counting house.

Sources and additional links:

LibriVox Audiobook

Ghost Stories in Victorian England

Dead as a Doornail

Dead as a Doornail #2

John Elwes

Who Was the Real Ebenezer Scrooge

Humbug

Debtor's Prison

Workhouses (Many books linked on this page)

Workhouse Documentary

Thomas Robert Malthus essay

The Treadmill

Dunstan

On this episode of Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast, Collin looks over the first season of the podcast, answers a few questions from listeners, and talks about what episodes will like throughout the coming year. Thank you for listening!

There is one more TV adaptation to cover from the 1970s, and it deserves its own episode. In An American Christmas Carol, Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, an Americanized Ebenezer Scrooge, and he's backed up by a supporting cast including Dorian Harewood, Susan Hogan, R.H. Thomson, and many more. The setting is moved to Concord, New Hampshire during the Great Depression, a perfect choice for this kind of story. Find out why this is one of the most underrated versions of A Christmas Carol.

On this episode, Collin covers three weird adaptations from the 1970s: A Christmas Carol 1977 from the BBC (with Michael Hordern as Scrooge), Rich Little's Christmas Carol (with Rich Little as W.C. Fields as Scrooge), and A Special Sesame Street Christmas with Oscar the Grouch needing a change. All three of these are extremely weird in their own way, and there is a lot to talk about. Guests on these specials include Ethel Merman, Patricia Quinn, Leslie Uggams, and Rich Little many times over.

In this episode of Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Podcast, Collin covers the three animated adaptations from the 1970s. First, it's the Richard Williams Oscar-winning short A Christmas Carol from 1971, with Alastair Sim reprising his role. Second, it's the Rankin/Bass remake of The Stingiest Man in Town, with Walter Matthau as Scrooge. Finally, it's Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol, with Yosemite Sam as Scrooge. Plus, find out more about why these 1970s versions were obsessed with the Devil.