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In a similar vein, I love the added scene Scrooge has with Mrs. Dilbert after he's reformed, especially her line, "To keep me mouth shut?" in response to his asking her to guess why he's given her a guinea.

I think this debtor scene was unique to Sim and not taken from Dickens. Notice how the debtor is "Samuel Wilkins" which might make one seeing this for the first time think there'll be a tie-in to young Scrooge's friend Dick Wilkins, but Dick doesn't appear at all in the Sim version so there's...

It is magnificent and Focus I might add put out some other great quality radio dramas too including adaptations of "Billy Budd" (with Edward Woodward), "Les Miserables" and the entire Narnia series.

Oddly, the cassette version I originally got in the late 90s has Joseph Campanella hosting even though the packaging credited Suchet.

I rediscovered the Matthau voiced animated version of "Stingiest Man In Town" last year for the first time since its first broadcast but have not seen Rathbone's version. Those who like the Sim version should also track down the Focus On The Family Radio Theatre audio dramatization, which...

I love to experience many different versions of the story and find new ones. This year for the first time I saw the 1954 television production with Frederic March and Basil Rathbone as Marley. Am also just now watching a 1977 BBC version with Michael Hordern (who played Marley in the Sim...

I regard Sim's version as the best with its one flaw being that we don't see Scrooge making amends to the men of charity. That's one scene that should always appear in every version of the story.