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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special | 1985 | George C.
Scrooge's headstone prop can still be visited at Saint Chad's Churchyard in Shrewsbury, where the cemetery sequence was shot. The production team found the stone, apparently blank, and gained permission to have it inscribed. This was left in place at the end of the shoot.
This is probably the only version of 'A Christmas Carol' in which Scrooge wears dress pants with a dress shirt, vest, and smoking jacket instead of his nightshirt, slippers, and cap. Rumor has it that George C. Scott openly reeled at the very thought of portraying Scrooge under such conditions, especially in an English winter. In the book, Scrooge wears his shirt, pants, vest, dressing gown, and slippers. Scott's clothing is very close to the book.
Charles Dickens took the name Scrooge from an archaic English verb meaning "to squeeze."
Charles Dickens lost the rights to "A Christmas Carol" in a lawsuit filed by numerous impostors claiming the story as their own. Following the suit, Dickens wrote "Bleak House," an equally-successful novel about corruption in the English Courts.
The scenes set in the Cratchit family house were filmed in a wine merchants which is still there. The particular building was next door to a car garage. The scene in which Scrooge visits and learns of Tiny Tim's death had to be reshot, owing to an extractor fan drowning out the actors' speech from the body shop on the other side of the wall.
"Ebenezer Scrooge: [on Tiny Tim] Tell me, Spirit... Will he live? Ghost of Christmas Present: I see a vacant place at this table. I see a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die. Ebenezer Scrooge: No. Say he'll be spared. Ghost of Christmas Present: If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, none other of my species will find him here. But if he is to die, then let him die and decrease the surplus population. Ebenezer Scrooge: You use my own words against me? Ghost of Christmas Present: Yes. So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the surplus population is and where it is. It may well be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child."
"Ebenezer Scrooge: [after Present shows him a starving homeless family] Why do you show me this? What has it to do with me? Ghost of Christmas Present: Are they not of the human race? Look here, beneath my robe! [opens his robe to reveal two filthy, ashen, corpse-like children standing where his legs should be] Ghost of Christmas Present: Look upon these! Ebenezer Scrooge: [stupefied with horror] What are they? Ghost of Christmas Present: They are your children! They are the children of all who walk the earth unseen! Their names are Ignorance and Want! Beware of them, for upon their brow is written the word "doom"! They spell the downfall of you and all who deny their existence! Ebenezer Scrooge: Have they no refuge, no resource? Ghost of Christmas Present: [smiles, mocking him from an earlier conversation] "Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?" Ebenezer Scrooge: [looks down at the children] Cover them. I do not wish to see them. Ghost of Christmas Present: I thought as much. [Present closes his robe to conceal the children] Ghost of Christmas Present: They are hidden... but they live... oh, they live..."
