Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated Christmas fantasy 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. Many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe, as well as Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), and characters from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) and Robin Hood (1973), were cast throughout the film. The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on 16 December 1983, with the re-issue of The Rescuers (1977). In the United States, it was first aired on television on NBC, on 10 December 1984.
Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio musical An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. The musical featured similar dialogue and a similar cast of characters.
Characters[]
- Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Alan Young)
- Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit (voiced by Wayne Allwine)
- Donald Duck as Fred Honeywell (Ebenezer's nephew) (voiced by Clarence Nash)
- Water Rat and Mole as Collectors for the Poor (voiced by Hal Smith and Will Ryan)
- Goofy as Jacob Marley (voiced by Hal Smith)
- Jiminy Cricket as the host of Christmas Past (voiced by Eddie Carroll)
- Daisy Duck as Isabel (voiced by Patricia Parris)
- Willie the Giant as the host of Christmas Present (voiced by Will Ryan)
- Minnie Mouse as Mrs. Cratchit
- Morty Fieldmouse as Tiny Tim (voiced by Dick Billingsley)
- Ferdie Fieldmouse as Peter Cratchit
- Melody Mouse as Martha Cratchit
- Pete as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (voiced by Will Ryan)
- J. Thaddeus Toad as Mr. Fezziwig