A Christmas Carol will forever remain my favorite read. Even at 57, the 5th stanza still makes me swell up and cry just a little bit. I guess it's just me hoping that I can be redeemed at the end of my years..
A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas stories. I've watched every one of them more than once over the years. Lol. The history behind it is very interesting. Thank you, Robert. 🙂❤️
I’m on a a Christmas carol binge this year😂 I have watched two different black and white , two different cartoons , two American ones and heard two different radio dramas😅 Still going to watch more of them …
"A Christmas Carol" is my favorite as well. As far as the Movies, I'm partial to the 1984 TV Movie with George C. Scott, Edward Woodward, Michael Gough, and Roger Rees.
Fascinating - I had no idea about the Scottish inspiration for A Christmas Carol! Poor Ebenezer Scrogge - he certainly didn’t merit his name becoming a by-word for penny-pinching. 😮😂 Thanks 🙏👍
It is a great story. Last year I read. a 101 year-old copy of “A Christmas Carol”. It was thrilling to think of this book being in such good shape after so long and the story is still so popular. Thank you for telling us about Mr. Scrogge. 😊👍
My dad's family is from Glasgow, my dad and his 5 brothers were first generation to be born in the USA, they came here in the late 1930's. My two versions of A Christmas Carol are with George C Scott and Jim Carrey.
This is one of my absolute favourites. Second only to It’s a Wonderful Life. You really make history come alive. I’m so thankful to Graeme for introducing you to me. I so enjoy your offerings. Thank you
Oh, man! Possibly the best one yet! A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite stories ever. I can't think of a version I don't like. Thank goodness Charles Dickens mis-read the stone. Thanks for this!
I love it!! Altho George C Scott was great and I loved Henry Winkler as the American Scrooge, my fave is the original Muppet Xmas Carol (newer versions do not have the fiancée’s breakup song, the love is gone).
I love the stories you choose to share with us. I especially enjoyed this bit of history because I've always enjoyed "Scrooge" and all the different versions there are to watch. When I was young there were no Muppets though... So the ghost of c Christmas Future was horribly scary. 😂
I've never been the greatest Dickens fan, after being forced to read Great Expectations in 9th grade. But I do love this story, and all the cinematic and stage productions I've seen over the years. Loved your presentation, and as a bonus I get to use "death furniture" in a sentence from now on. :)
I agree with you. I haven’t liked any other work by Dickens( although I’ve only tried three or four-not all), but with A Christmas Carol, I like every version I’ve seen so far.
My two favorite versions are the Patrick Stewart one and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Alongside Caine's performance, perhaps my favorite thing about the Muppets version is the accuracy and how they inserted lines from the book in the songs.
Definitely do not take down your early posts. All of your videos are interesting. The newer videos may look better to you but the content and the passion of how you tell things is fantastic the rest is simply cosmetic
The Muppets Christmas Carol is a classic to be sure, it's fascinating to learn how this story came about and to consider how many versions there are of it's retelling in film. Great stories never die. Thank you for sharing!
Albert Finney’s version is my favourite! Reminds me of when I was a kid! Brilliant to know there was inspiration behind Dickens stories and where the inspiration lies (pun intended) Edinburgh just look’s glorious and I cannot wait to visit ❤
@@scotlandunplugged 😂 aww, wee lad! Although that pea soup did look toxic 🤣🤣🤣. Kidding, the reaper was enough to make you think very seriously about being mean, or any kind of negative! I love the ghost of Christmas past on scrooged with bill Murray though. She is epic smacking him about 😂😂😂. Thats what I love about your videos though, how history links right up to the present day. Kids doing history as a gcse should be watching you, the extraordinary information and lay out of it would be fantastic for both gcse and college. Had I known while doing my college to watch these, I wouldn’t have felt broken by the end 😂🤣
Watched A Christmas Carol, for the first time, when I was about the same age as your wee ones. The original (The Muppets version came out a bit later) gave me chills, as a child, but it's still one of my favorites, today. I may not have seen EVERY version put to film, but I am gaining on it. Very much enjoyed hearing how this classic story was born. Happy Christmas to you and your family, in case I forget to say it later.
Scrooge is one of my favorite stories also! Thank you for the history lesson on the origin of it! It was fantastic, and you always make it so interesting!❤
I have this book on my book shelf, I read it to remind myself, life is not about being rich in money, it's about being rich in family and love! One of my favorites! ❤😊
Well done! A Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas story, and I love every version. Your history lesson is the star on top of my Dickens tree! Thanks, Robert!
My all time favorite Christmas story. I personally love the George C. Scott movie. I’ve never seen the Patrick Stewart version though. Think I’m gonna look for it now.
Thank you, mate, for the wonderful video and the insight. I like the Patrick Stewart version, myself. However, my favorite version will always be the 1951 movie with Alistair Sim. Also, there is a movie about Charles Dickens writing "A Christmas Carol" called "The Man Who Invented Christmas". Highly recommended.
Don't ever stop the Dad Jokes! You make me miss my own dear Dad who died a couple years ago at age 82. He was witty like you. Your kids are blessed ❤ I wish you a Blessed Advent 🕯️ and a Happy Christmas 🎄🎁
Thank you! Dickens's Christmas Carol is my favourite story for the season. My favourite film version features the great actor Alastair Sim. Thank you! Merry Christmas!
So…when can we get the audible of you reading the original?! We would love to hear that version! Favourite movie version is the 1951 with Alistair Sims. My dad pantomimed to the Barrymore album version every year for Xmas before he passed several years ago. Now, every year, my mother, sister and I get on the phone and one of us plays it on speaker and we all listen and think of dad. It is my most favourite bit of Xmas.
A Christmas Carol is not one of my favorite Christmas stories, it is one of my favorite things in all of existence. i am neither wealthy or miserly but i identify A LOT with Scrooge, have always told people i am actually very nice but i AM NOT friendly. i think i may be a misanthrope and people irritate me and id rather avoid them. but at the same time i feel very deeply, i feel so much sympathy for people and i see some much pain and hurt in people around me that it makes me suffer. but i cant help and i dont want them near me and i just want to be left alone. but this story and Scrooge are an inspiration for me, they bring me hope and joy. Scrooge manages to get past his demons and he finds his way through the darkness to the other side. and i always hope that some day i will too.
Well researched & presented - again ! the story also owes in subtle ways to The Tradition of Freemasonry - in part why Dickens became a Freeman of the City of dear Auld Reekie. Well done - keep serving up these priceless / tasty pots of porridge - nourishment for the soul.
My favorite Christmas Carol is with Patrick Stewart. but I also like the movie that came out a couple years ago wrote about Charles Dixon, called The Man who Invented Christmas, staring Dan Steven's as Charles Dixon.
Great review, thanks. I like seeing the scenes around Edinburg. Albert Finney is the best Scrooge ever!! How about a review of Clement Moore's 1823 poem?
Charles Dickens was a great author. A Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas book and Ive watched many of the movies and I watch them every Christmas along with finding new ones.
FYI, for those wondering what the gravestone said about Scroggie, it's that he was a MEAL MAN. He was in the corn meal business. I couldn't understand it either so I looked it up. Lol
LOVE how this kind of inspiration jumps into my mind as I write! Hope something I write will win humans a place worthy of their time to read as much as his!!
When I started researching my ancestry, I found out I had an ancestor named Ebenezer S. I was briefly excited until I found out his surname was "Smead", not "Scrooge", and he lived in the mid-1700s, a few generations before Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol".
this is awesome! We visited Scotland last year and wish every day we could go back. This channel is great 😊 I love this history of one of my favorite stories.
From the mid 14th century to the mid 19th century we went through a mini ice age. This is the period where the Thames would regularly freeze over each winter and there were ice fairs on the river. When Dickens was a child it snowed for eight out of his first ten Christmases. So when he wrote A Christmas Carol he was remembering the white Christmases of his own childhood.
The part of Dickens being inspired in Canongate is hilarious it was started on April 1st in the Scotsmen newspaper as a very elaborate April Fools joke.
I love the Muppet's version, but the Mickey one is good too. I love A Christmas Carol and every Christmas I will watch at least 5 different versions, although there are many more, I usually have about 3 I have to watch and then I rotate the other 2 with other versions from over the years. Thanks for sharing the history of how Scrooge came to be.
Red doors on churches! I saw this for the first time in 2001 when I went to Pennsylvania. It's not done here in the south so it was so weird to see them.
Thank you! So informative, and loved the trip around Edinburgh. I’ve never been to your country, but would love to visit someday. I have two favorite versions of A Christmas Carol, one I watched when I was a child with Reginald Owen, made in 1938. And the newest version with Jim Carrey as Scrooge. Of course it’s animated, but it’s done so well! 😊🎄
There was a short story in the Pickwick Papers called The Goblin That Stole a Sexton which may be a precursor to A Christmas Carol. Gabriel Grub was a surly gravedigger who is redeemed. It is a great story.
Very interesting, a side of Dicken's I never knew. Thanks! I've seen almost every version of "Scrooge" aka Christmas Carol. I think my all time fav is the Alister Sim version. Not sure EXACTLY why..just something about this version. And like you, it's my FAVORITE Christmas movie. Then there's "Christmas Vacation" on the funny side of Christmas.
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The Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas story. I watch it every year.
A Christmas Carol will forever remain my favorite read. Even at 57, the 5th stanza still makes me swell up and cry just a little bit. I guess it's just me hoping that I can be redeemed at the end of my years..
A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas stories. I've watched every one of them more than once over the years. Lol. The history behind it is very interesting. Thank you, Robert. 🙂❤️
I’m on a a Christmas carol binge this year😂
I have watched two different black and white , two different cartoons , two American ones and heard two different radio dramas😅
Still going to watch more of them …
❤💗💕❣. Merry Christmas. 🎅🤶🧑🎄
A muppet Christmas carol and scrooged are my favorites
"A Christmas Carol" is my favorite as well. As far as the Movies, I'm partial to the 1984 TV Movie with George C. Scott, Edward Woodward, Michael Gough, and Roger Rees.
You would be pleased to know that it's on RUclips, if you don't have a copy.
And don't forget Frank Finlay as Marley - wow!
Fascinating - I had no idea about the Scottish inspiration for A Christmas Carol! Poor Ebenezer Scrogge - he certainly didn’t merit his name becoming a by-word for penny-pinching. 😮😂 Thanks 🙏👍
The Disney Character Scrooge McDuck makes sense now.
Isn't it funny how his name became associated with being stingy just from this novel/movie.
It is a great story. Last year I read. a 101 year-old copy of “A Christmas Carol”. It was thrilling to think of this book being in such good shape after so long and the story is still so popular. Thank you for telling us about Mr. Scrogge. 😊👍
I like the Muppets version too, light the lamp not the rat! Lol
Scrooge you ! :-) I 👍liked it🏴 ! 👍😎🇺🇸 ! Hehehe 😜 Merry Christmas 🎄?
You really make history interesting & seeing the historical places is wonderful. Thanks for sharing your beautiful city with us.
Muppets version is hands down the best version! "Come in & know me better man!"
Nah, Bill Murray version
My dad's family is from Glasgow, my dad and his 5 brothers were first generation to be born in the USA, they came here in the late 1930's. My two versions of A Christmas Carol are with George C Scott and Jim Carrey.
This is one of my absolute favourites. Second only to It’s a Wonderful Life. You really make history come alive. I’m so thankful to Graeme for introducing you to me. I so enjoy your offerings. Thank you
Charles Deckins ....As a Geordie it makes me smile ....A Christmas Carol is my favourite Christmas story too ...
Love this hope you be making more
Oh, man! Possibly the best one yet! A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite stories ever. I can't think of a version I don't like. Thank goodness Charles Dickens mis-read the stone. Thanks for this!
Another fascinating story. Love to see Edinburgh so colourful. Thank you for sharing, Robert.
So it just goes to show that scrooge is a figment of an under done price of beef,or under cooked potatoe,thank you Charles
I love it!! Altho George C Scott was great and I loved Henry Winkler as the American Scrooge, my fave is the original Muppet Xmas Carol (newer versions do not have the fiancée’s breakup song, the love is gone).
Hi Robert what a story. I had no idea about all of that. Thanks for sharing it. I loved this video.
Take care and stay safe till next time. ❤
Excellent
I love the Alistair Simms version the best as it's the closest to the book . The Muppets is second. Great video ! Have a great day !
I love the stories you choose to share with us. I especially enjoyed this bit of history because I've always enjoyed "Scrooge" and all the different versions there are to watch. When I was young there were no Muppets though... So the ghost of c Christmas Future was horribly scary. 😂
Another great video. Thanks for all you do.
I've never been the greatest Dickens fan, after being forced to read Great Expectations in 9th grade. But I do love this story, and all the cinematic and stage productions I've seen over the years. Loved your presentation, and as a bonus I get to use "death furniture" in a sentence from now on. :)
I agree with you. I haven’t liked any other work by Dickens( although I’ve only tried three or four-not all), but with A Christmas Carol, I like every version I’ve seen so far.
A Christmas Carol is in a class all by itself. Its virtually perfect
I had to read it in 9th grade as well and thoroughly enjoyed it. However I read the stories in the text book that weren't assigned also.
Yeah, guy needed to learn to use quotation marks. :-/
To know Dickens is to know English.
I so love the Storyteller you are! The fact that you throw history in doesn't hurt at all. Thank You! I had no idea the Scottish tie to that story.
My two favorite versions are the Patrick Stewart one and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Alongside Caine's performance, perhaps my favorite thing about the Muppets version is the accuracy and how they inserted lines from the book in the songs.
Definitely do not take down your early posts. All of your videos are interesting. The newer videos may look better to you but the content and the passion of how you tell things is fantastic the rest is simply cosmetic
I agree! I watch the videos over and over again. I love a good story and he certainly has a gift for story telling!!
This was a fastenating story! I had never heard the origin story of Scrooge. It was very compelling! Thanks for your wonderful videos! 💜
Good one! Another one I didn't know the history behind. Thank you very much.
Yay! You passed 30,000 subscribers! 😁😁🤩😘😘😘😍🥰🥰
Great one Robbie, thanks for the information about the Christmas carol story
Wonderful telling of the back story/ history on A Christmas Carol!❤
The Muppets Christmas Carol is a classic to be sure, it's fascinating to learn how this story came about and to consider how many versions there are of it's retelling in film. Great stories never die. Thank you for sharing!
Albert Finney’s version is my favourite! Reminds me of when I was a kid!
Brilliant to know there was inspiration behind Dickens stories and where the inspiration lies (pun intended) Edinburgh just look’s glorious and I cannot wait to visit ❤
The Albert Finney version scared the life out of me as a kid 🐄
@@scotlandunplugged 😂 aww, wee lad! Although that pea soup did look toxic 🤣🤣🤣. Kidding, the reaper was enough to make you think very seriously about being mean, or any kind of negative! I love the ghost of Christmas past on scrooged with bill Murray though. She is epic smacking him about 😂😂😂.
Thats what I love about your videos though, how history links right up to the present day. Kids doing history as a gcse should be watching you, the extraordinary information and lay out of it would be fantastic for both gcse and college. Had I known while doing my college to watch these, I wouldn’t have felt broken by the end 😂🤣
Yes fantastic musical numbers in that version
@@mpol701 exactly! Father Christmas being my favourite tune too 😊
@@Emma-Jayne so many great songs, watched already last week, now on miracle on 34th street 1940s version colour one, excellent film
Watched A Christmas Carol, for the first time, when I was about the same age as your wee ones. The original (The Muppets version came out a bit later) gave me chills, as a child, but it's still one of my favorites, today. I may not have seen EVERY version put to film, but I am gaining on it. Very much enjoyed hearing how this classic story was born. Happy Christmas to you and your family, in case I forget to say it later.
Merry Christmas!
Another amazing story and a piece of history. Wonderful Robert! Loved EDINBURGH.
Absolutely wonderful. Such a world famous story, I had no idea how it came to be! I love it. ❤❤
Scrooge is one of my favorite stories also! Thank you for the history lesson on the origin of it! It was fantastic, and you always make it so interesting!❤
I truly loved this video. Informative, fun and enjoyable. Love your videos
Absolutely love to see Scotland through your eyes as a “hometown boy”. Hope I can visit again someday!
What a cool story! I really liked the part of how the family gave the money for Capt Cooks ship, sense I grew up in Hawai'i!
Have a Happy Christmas and New Year!! I enjoy your RUclips videos very much .
Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes!
I have this book on my book shelf, I read it to remind myself, life is not about being rich in money, it's about being rich in family and love! One of my favorites! ❤😊
Alistair Sim is my Favorite Actor who played Ebenezer Scrooge.
And Mr. Sim's is from Scotland.
Well done! A Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas story, and I love every version. Your history lesson is the star on top of my Dickens tree! Thanks, Robert!
My all time favorite Christmas story. I personally love the George C. Scott movie. I’ve never seen the Patrick Stewart version though. Think I’m gonna look for it now.
Thank you, mate, for the wonderful video and the insight. I like the Patrick Stewart version, myself. However, my favorite version will always be the 1951 movie with Alistair Sim. Also, there is a movie about Charles Dickens writing "A Christmas Carol" called "The Man Who Invented Christmas". Highly recommended.
❤ my favorite Christmas movie ever. Just not Christmas without seeing as many versions as I can. Love hearing the history. Thanks!
'Spirited' the musical is a pretty good version as well.
I so enjoy the gloom!!!
My favorite! I watch through out the whole years
Don't ever stop the Dad Jokes! You make me miss my own dear Dad who died a couple years ago at age 82. He was witty like you. Your kids are blessed ❤ I wish you a Blessed Advent 🕯️ and a Happy Christmas 🎄🎁
Thank you! You too!
Scrooged the dark comedy with Bill Murray is great!
A Christmas Carol was one of my favourite Dickens films. Thanks for sharing your video.
First time viewing one of your videos….most excellent. You just picked up a new subscriber!
I like when video creators leave their early videos up for viewing. Everyone starts somewhere. Your viewers can go back and see your evolution. 😊
Thank you! Dickens's Christmas Carol is my favourite story for the season. My favourite film version features the great actor Alastair Sim.
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Fantastic history of bygone story, Robert 👍🏆❤ You truly are a remarkable young man ❤ I'll be getting my🍿 out and watching that movie 🎥 again👍❤
So…when can we get the audible of you reading the original?! We would love to hear that version!
Favourite movie version is the 1951 with Alistair Sims. My dad pantomimed to the Barrymore album version every year for Xmas before he passed several years ago. Now, every year, my mother, sister and I get on the phone and one of us plays it on speaker and we all listen and think of dad. It is my most favourite bit of Xmas.
I love Charles Dickens and this story is one of my favorites!❤❤❤ The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best, imo.
A Christmas Carol is not one of my favorite Christmas stories, it is one of my favorite things in all of existence. i am neither wealthy or miserly but i identify A LOT with Scrooge, have always told people i am actually very nice but i AM NOT friendly. i think i may be a misanthrope and people irritate me and id rather avoid them. but at the same time i feel very deeply, i feel so much sympathy for people and i see some much pain and hurt in people around me that it makes me suffer. but i cant help and i dont want them near me and i just want to be left alone.
but this story and Scrooge are an inspiration for me, they bring me hope and joy. Scrooge manages to get past his demons and he finds his way through the darkness to the other side. and i always hope that some day i will too.
John Jacob Astor, according to friends of Dickens, was the inspiration for the Scrooge character.
As I’ve gotten older, “A Christmas Carol” has become my favorite Christmas movie…almost every variant.🎄🎅🏻🎄
Thanks for this one. Hoping you and yours are God blessed this Christmas in remembering our Savior's birth. 🎉
Well researched & presented - again ! the story also owes in subtle ways to The Tradition of Freemasonry - in part why Dickens became a Freeman of the City of dear Auld Reekie. Well done - keep serving up these priceless / tasty pots of porridge - nourishment for the soul.
My favorite Christmas Carol is with Patrick Stewart. but I also like the movie that came out a couple years ago wrote about Charles Dixon, called The Man who Invented Christmas, staring Dan Steven's as Charles Dixon.
Thank you for this great part of your wonderful history ❤❤❤ Beautiful buildings.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE!!!
all versions
Great review, thanks. I like seeing the scenes around Edinburg. Albert Finney is the best Scrooge ever!! How about a review of Clement Moore's 1823 poem?
Charles Dickens was a great author. A Christmas Carol is my favorite Christmas book and Ive watched many of the movies and I watch them every Christmas along with finding new ones.
FYI, for those wondering what the gravestone said about Scroggie, it's that he was a MEAL MAN. He was in the corn meal business. I couldn't understand it either so I looked it up. Lol
LOVE how this kind of inspiration jumps into my mind as I write! Hope something I write will win humans a place worthy of their time to read as much as his!!
When I started researching my ancestry, I found out I had an ancestor named Ebenezer S. I was briefly excited until I found out his surname was "Smead", not "Scrooge", and he lived in the mid-1700s, a few generations before Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol".
Great story and love the graveyard! Love the land of my ancestors.🏴🇺🇲
this is awesome! We visited Scotland last year and wish every day we could go back. This channel is great 😊 I love this history of one of my favorite stories.
A great Dickens classic! ❤😂❤
A Christmas Carol is my favourite Dickens story.
Very cool history!! Thanks for sharing.
From the mid 14th century to the mid 19th century we went through a mini ice age. This is the period where the Thames would regularly freeze over each winter and there were ice fairs on the river. When Dickens was a child it snowed for eight out of his first ten Christmases. So when he wrote A Christmas Carol he was remembering the white Christmases of his own childhood.
The part of Dickens being inspired in Canongate is hilarious it was started on April 1st in the Scotsmen newspaper as a very elaborate April Fools joke.
I love the Muppet's version, but the Mickey one is good too. I love A Christmas Carol and every Christmas I will watch at least 5 different versions, although there are many more, I usually have about 3 I have to watch and then I rotate the other 2 with other versions from over the years. Thanks for sharing the history of how Scrooge came to be.
Wow! This guys Scottish brogue is the best! I’m talking like him in my mind and I sound so cool. Talk on my Scottish brother, talk on. 🇺🇸🏴👍
The story is great but, your Scottish brogue makes the story telling the best ever!
A great telling of lore. Loved it.
This was so interesting and scrumptious. "The Jean Luc Pickard version" made me laugh.
This is awesome! One of my favorite stories of all time- And, I've directed this on stage about 19 times.
Way cool! Thank you! I like the old 1950’s version!
You have a very engaging way about you. Wonderful storytelling.
Red doors on churches! I saw this for the first time in 2001 when I went to Pennsylvania. It's not done here in the south so it was so weird to see them.
Thank you! So informative, and loved the trip around Edinburgh. I’ve never been to your country, but would love to visit someday. I have two favorite versions of A Christmas Carol, one I watched when I was a child with Reginald Owen, made in 1938. And the newest version with Jim Carrey as Scrooge. Of course it’s animated, but it’s done so well! 😊🎄
Very interesting! Thank you and Merry Christmas 🎄
To me, Alistair Simm is the definitive Scrooge. I watch that version every year.
Same.
I prefer Muppets version.
My favorite is with Albert Finney
Thankya very much, that's nicest thing that anyone has done for me
Fascinating!!!
Just found this video, something REALLY fascinates me about Christmas ghost stories, there's something oddly comfy yet macabre thing
There was a short story in the Pickwick Papers called The Goblin That Stole a Sexton which may be a precursor to A Christmas Carol. Gabriel Grub was a surly gravedigger who is redeemed. It is a great story.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Blessings always🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for your videos. I am grateful for what I have learned from each one of them.
A Christmas Carol is my top Christmas story. Favourite film version is the Albert Finney Musical one.
Very interesting! Thanks for the video!
Fascinating! Greet job
This was great, thank you. No one does videos better than the Scots.
Very interesting, a side of Dicken's I never knew. Thanks! I've seen almost every version of "Scrooge" aka Christmas Carol. I think my all time fav is the Alister Sim version. Not sure EXACTLY why..just
something about this version. And like you, it's my FAVORITE Christmas movie. Then there's "Christmas Vacation" on the funny side of Christmas.