Rich Little's Christmas Carol, broadcast in Canada as A Christmas Carol, is a TV special that premiered on CBC Television in December 1978, and in the United States on Home Box Office (HBO) on December 16, 1979. The special won an International Emmy Award and a Rose d'Or award. It was produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1978. It starred Rich Little in a one-man performance with impersonations of his characters playing the parts in Charles Dickens' famous 1843 holiday story, A Christmas Carol.
Little played the following celebrities:W. C. Fields as Ebenezer Scrooge §
Paul Lynde as Bob Cratchit
Johnny Carson as Fred
Laurel and Hardy as the two solicitors §
Richard Nixon as Jacob Marley
Humphrey Bogart as the Ghost of Christmas Past §
Groucho Marx as Fezziwig §
James Stewart as Dick Wilkins
Peter Falk as Columbo/the Ghost of Christmas Present
Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker/Mrs. Cratchit
Truman Capote as Tiny Tim
Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau/the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
James Mason, George Burns and John Wayne as the three businessmen
Jack Benny as a boy §
