A Christmas Carol

Welcome to episode 12 of Adapted with Anna and Sam! It's the last episode of the year, and of Season 1, and of course, it's all about A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens and the 1951 version starring Alistair Sim. Listen to Anna and Sam, and very special guest Stephen, debate how patronizing Dickens may be and does he really portray consent well, but mostly come for all the accents and the new game "What the Dickens??". We hope you've enjoyed this first season, and thank you so much for your support!!!!

You can find all the cast lists and other fun trivia on iMDB.

Purchase the book and/or movie at Amazon and/or Barnes and Noble, or your favorite indie bookstore, or borrow from your local library in person or via Overdrive.

Honorable Mentions

--All the other adaptations (okay, not nearly ALL of them): 1970 musical version starring Alec Guinness and Albert Finney, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Muppet Christmas Carol (starring Gonzo as the best Dickens EVER), Robert Zemeckis' motion capture nightmare, a forthcoming version from Tom Stoppard, Scrooged, the George C. Scott version, the Patrick Stewart TV movie, and of course, the Vanessa Williams TV movie

--Other Dickens: Simon Callow, Julian Fellowes

--Mad about Oliver: Oliver Twist, Oliver, Oliver Reed, Oliver Platt, Oliver Hardy

--Inspired by Alistair Sim: C. Montgomery Burns in the Simpsons, Alec Guinness in the Ladykillers

--Not-so-delicious twist: M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening

--Jeff Goldblum: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

--Favorite franchises: Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Charlie Brown

--Things we love (two truths and a lie edition): A Christmas Prince, Victor Victoria, Blood & Cornado trilogy

--Recommend you avoid: Beowulf (the motion capture CGI one)

--To do or not to do, these are adaptations: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones

--It's good to be bad?: Caligula, Ayn Rand & Atlas Shrugged

--We still throw out random stuff: Aquaman, Beetlejuice, The Lion King, Japanese anime/manga, The Slipper & the Rose, Dr. Seuss and his Whos

--Call backs to earlier episodes: Jurassic Park, Rebecca, Alec Baldwin's chest merkin (The Hunt for Red October)

--And what to look forward to in Season 2, premiering April 4, 2019: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney and the 1978 movie starring Donald Sutherland and *the* Jeff Goldblum, followed by The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett and its 1934 adaptation

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Credits:

Theme music credit: "Cheery Monday" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Logo credit: Fourth Wall Graphics, fourthwallgraphics.com