* ActorSharedBackground: Like this version of Scrooge, Creator/GeorgeCScott lost his mother as a child (albeit when he was seven years old, not [[DeathByChildbirth as a baby]]).
* AllStarCast:
** Creator/EdwardWoodward as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
** One of the businessmen out soliciting money for the poor is Creator/MichaelGough who is best known as [[Film/Batman1989 Alfred Pennyworth]]. (Ironically [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy another]] Alfred Pennyworth [[Creator/MichaelCaine played Scrooge himself]] [[Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol eight years later.)]]
** Mrs. Cratchit is Susannah York.
** Belle is played by Lucy Gutteridge.
** Beneath the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come's veil and robe is Michael Carter, the man who played [[Film/ReturnoftheJedi Bib Fortuna.]]
* DoublingForLondon: Shrewsbury doubled for Victorian London. Scrooge's headstone can still be visited in the graveyard of St Chad's Church.
* FakeBrit: The American Creator/GeorgeCScott as the British Scrooge. He [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent uses his own American accent]], and it ends up working in the film's favor.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Creator/DavidWarner, mostly associated with powerful, intimidating and villainous characters like [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} Cal Hockley's]] [[TheDragon Dragon Spicer Lovejoy]], [[Film/TimeBandits Evil]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Ra's al Ghul]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} the Archmage]] and [[Film/{{Tron}} the Master Control Program]], here plays the poor, earnest, kind-hearted family man Bob Cratchit.
** And to a lesser extend Roger Rees, who played Scrooge's nephew Fred. Most people nowadays either think of him as [[Film/RobinHoodMenInTights The Sheriff of Rottingham]] or as [[Series/{{Warehouse13}} James MacPherson]].
*** In the [[Series/Titanic1996 1996 made for TV version of Titanic]], Rees and Scott work together again, this time with Rees playing a shrewd businessman Ismay opposite Scott's friendly and sociable Captain Smith.
* RealLifeRelative: Two of the Cratchit children, Belinda and the unnamed middle son, are played by Susannah York's actual children, Sasha and Orlando Wells.
* ScullyBox: Creator/EdwardWoodward was only 5'9", whereas Creator/GeorgeCScott was 6'0".
** For some scenes, Shrewbury resident, the late Martin Wood, stood in for Woodward.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/LeoMcKern was originally cast as The Ghost of Christmas Present.
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