A few years ago, in a fit of what can only be deemed temporary insanity, I set out and reviewed 20 different interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in one month. It was an astonishing feat of fortitude, the sort of thing normally reserved for Olympic-level competition, and when it was over, I was of course universally recognized as a world champion. However, only covering 20 iterations of Scrooge barely scratches the surface of all the near-countless versions that exist in the world of cinema. It would be child’s play to conjure up a list of 20 more takes on Dickens, right?

I am not that stupid.

I am, however, stupid enough to conjure up five more. So this year, on the week before Christmas, I’m going to give the Reel to Reel treatment to five additional Carols, five takes on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge that I didn’t tackle before. Come back Monday and you’ll see my look at the first of them. In the meantime, though, if you want to go back and look at the first 20 versions, I’ve provided handy links below:

1. Sir Seymour Hicks in Scrooge (1935)
2. Alastair Sim in A Christmas Carol (1951)
3. Fredric March in A Christmas Carol (1954)
4. Quincy Magoo in Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962)
5. Albert Finney in Scrooge (1970)
6. Scrooge McDuck in Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)
7. George C. Scott in A Christmas Carol (1984)
8. Bill Murray in Scrooged (1988)
9. Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1993)
10. Fred Flintstone in A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
11. Carface Carruthers in An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
12. Sir Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol (1999)
13. Simon Callow in Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
14. Kelsey Grammer in A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
15. ??? in A Christmas Carol: Scrooge’s Ghostly Tale (2006)
16. Oscar the Grouch in A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006)
17. Daffy Duck in Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
18. Robert Wagner in A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007)
19. Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol (2009)
20. David Ruprecht in Mister Scrooge to See You (2013)

There, that should keep you occupied for a few days. See you Monday!

Scrooge Revisited Checklist:

1.Walter Matthau in The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)

2. Henry Winkler in An American Christmas Carol (1979)

3.Cosmo Spacely in A Jetson Christmas Carol (1985)

4. Susan Lucci in Ebbie (1995)

5. Dean Jones in Scrooge and Marley (2001)