loads of versions of scrooge over the years, which is best?

Muppets Christmas Carol

George Osborne

Probably racist now but Scrooge McDuck

Alistair Sim, the rest no where.

The latest effort by the BBC on the Dickens masterpiece shown in three parts over Christmas. Has been turned into a pretty dismal affair, despite its interesting deviations from the original story

I think they chose the wrong actress to play the part of Bob Cratchit's wife. I couldn't take to her at all.
I didn't think much of the actor who played the leading roll either. 

Poor casting by the BBC.

I certainly won't watch it again when the BBC subjects us to the inevitable repeats.

Yes a huge deviation from the original. Dickens my @rse.

I would not trust the BBC to take any story and not either dumb it down or add their version of social commentary to regardless of the era the story belonged to.

I have just read A Christmas Carol and don't feel any version reflects the story accurately.

Alistair Sim was terrific as ws Scrooge McDuck

The Patrick Stewart version was very good.

Alastair Sim by a mile! It's like arguing that another actor's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes is better than Jeremy Brett's.

they are all two white four me.

you kneed a bit more action with a gun toting female to make it a lot less sexist

and as for the dreadful patrimony, class snobbery and portrayal of the poor

I cried myself to sleep at the thought of what the guardian will say tomorrow

basil rathbone for me there Evgeny

elisjohn

Another vote for Alastair Sim, a wonderful actor

“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

Also

“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”


Fantastic stuff, that's what I call a proper Tory.

that is all very well Dr  but where is the diversity - I am sure, like me, you are appalled at the bbc's attitude

they should be in the stocks!!

I don't know about that moisok.
The Cratchit brats didn't look right if you weighed up their parents

I prefer Patrick Stewart's Scrooge.

What they don't tell you is the Cratchits' house in Camden would fetch over a million pounds today.

What they don't tell you is the Cratchits' house in Camden would fetch over a million pounds today.

All about the poverty of peoples' expectations, Scrooge's nephew's cohort bought up those freeholds long ago.

Seems there was far more social mobility in Dickens' day then there is now.

Things were better in the old days.

none of you have any empathy for the plight of these families and their starving children

you should go back a couple of hundred years to see the reality of it

it was easy  - you just shoved yer children up a chimmeny chim chim churoooooo

meanwhile at a food bank in Islington