Trivia / A Christmas Carol (1971)

• Role Reprise: Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern previously played the roles of Scrooge and Marley twenty years earlier in Scrooge.
• Troubled Production: According to one of the specials assistant animators, Tony White, the special fell several months behind schedule by the time he joined its last three months of production. The animators had to pull 7 day workweeks with 14 hours of work per day to pull it off, and the last four days of production were an insane scramble to finish it in time, with the animators putting in an entire 4 nonstop days and nights, with unpaid overtime without sleep^note  however, the animators were given a one month holiday break as compensation! And even then, Williams was forced to use rotoscoping for a few scenes just to make it feasible to finish the animation. And the special was finished exactly one hour before it met its deadline! Despite this, its now regarded as one of the greatest pieces of TV animation and one of the best adaptations of Dickens' story ever done, even earning a theatrical release and winning an Oscar in the end.