The Stingiest Man in Town is a 1978 animated Christmas musical television special based on Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.[1] It was created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and features traditional animation rather than the stop motion animation most often used by the company.[2] It was an animated remake of a long-unseen, but quite well received, live-action musical special (also called The Stingiest Man in Town) which had starred Basil Rathbone, Martyn Green and Vic Damone. The live-action version had been telecast on December 23, 1956, on the NBC anthology series The Alcoa Hour, and was released on DVD in 2011 by VAI.[3] The animated remake first aired December 23, 1978, in the United States on NBC, and was telecast in Japan the next day.
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- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 330. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Emily Todd (December 22, 2017). "The makers of Rudolph also created some of the most off-the-wall Christmas specials ever". Vox. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Emily Todd (December 14, 2011). "The Stingiest Man In Town". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 30, 2019.