I was thinking about A Christmas Carol and how wonderful George C. Scott is, second to the brilliant Alistair Sim, and I forgot to mention watching A Carol Christmas, which I must admit gets a qualified rave. I liked the cast, the score, which is funny, moving, and full of heart, but I wasn't crazy about the book. I thought it had great ideas like Marley's ghost being a DVD and the three spirits, but it never moved me. This past Christmas I watched every Christmas Carol I had - Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Michael Hordern, Patrick Stewart, Basil Rathbone, and the Carl Davis ballet - and only George C. Scott's version moved me. To paraphrase Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Scrooge is not as simple as he seems.
I loved Blake's ballad, BK; it's wonderful.