| version | actor |
| First public reading; Dec. 27, 1854 | |
| oldest surviving film; 1908 | |
| 1935 British version | |
| Campbell Playhouse radio (orig. aired 12/23/38) | |
| 1938 MGM version | |
| 1951 British version (aka 'Scrooge') | |
| 1962 animated musical (UPA studio) | |
| 1970 film musical | |
| 1972 Oscar-winning animated short | |
| 1977 tv-movie version (An American Christmas Carol) | |
| 1978; tv special feat. famous impersonator | |
| | version | actor |
| 1978 animated TV special (The Stingiest Man in Town) | |
| 1983 Oscar-nominated Disney short | |
| 1984 CBS tv-movie | |
| 1988 Blackadder version | |
| 1988 modern-day NY version ('Scrooged') | |
| 1992 Muppets version | |
| 1996 Lifetime network gender-bending version ('Ebbie') | |
| 1998 tv movie western version | |
| 1999 TNT remake | |
| 2004 NBC musical | |
| 2009 Disney 3-D version | |
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