Mickey's Christmas Carol

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Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated Christmas fantasy drama featurette, directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and stars Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. The rest of the cast was filled mostly using characters from pre-existing Disney animated properties; notably from the Mickey Mouse universe, Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), and Robin Hood (1973). The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 16, 1983, with the reissue of The Rescuers (1977). In the United States, it first aired on television on NBC, on December 10, 1984. Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio musical An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, featuring similar dialogue and a similar cast of characters. The primary differences between the record album and animated...

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