A Christmas Carol (1984)

<p>🎄It’s 1984, and Ebenezer Scrooge is threatening to raise his asking price for a warehouse full of corn.  </p><p>This Christmas Eve episode not only drops on a Scrooge Sunday, but it’s also the Advent Calendar House’s 150th episode. To celebrate, I let listeners vote for which “Christmas Carol” to cover, and the winner is the 1984 TV movie starring George S. Scott, along with original “Equalizer” Edward Woodward as a sassy Ghost of Christmas Present, and we even spotted our favorite Alfred Pennyworth, Michael Gough, as a not-so-portly gentleman.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Erin Evans (<a href="https://twitter.com/mserinmevans">@mserinevans</a>).  </p><p>Joey O. (<a href="https://www.ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/imgonnadj24">@imgonnadj24</a>).  </p><p>Anthony Strand (<a href="https://toughpigs.com/">ToughPigs.com</a>, <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tough-pigs">Movin’ Right Along</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/durwoodclapper.bsky.social">@durwoodclapper.bsky.social</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. David Warner in “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBlUuIVX40">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze</a>.”  </p><p>2. George S. Scott in “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQWrqjSxgI">Angus</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IFmYarsdA">Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue</a>.”  </p><p>3. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We3dM1388y0">God Bless Us Everyone</a>,” this movie’s theme music by Nick Bicât.  </p><p>4. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(1984_film)">Wikipedia</a> and NO ONE ELSE names one Cratchit child “Michael,” played by Susannah York’s (Mrs. Cratchit) real-life son, Orlando Wells.  </p><p>5. Michael Carter (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3P15df6ct0">Bib Fortuna</a> in “Return of the Jedi.”  </p><p>6. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VbZE6YhjKk">It’s Corn</a>,” and <a href="http