A Christmas Carol Twists, part 2: Magoo, Ameri-Canadianacana, Hallmark, & Christmas Karma

It is time for Luke and Elysia's 2025 Christmas Carol adaptation blitz to come to a close with five of the most fun movies of the bunch, from the first ever Christmas special through the Great Depression and the Old West to love in the Aussie airline air to an underexplored history of Uganda.

Watch the films yourself, or let them recap them for you, pointing out all the best and/or most ridiculous bits.

Films discussed this episode:

• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) – YouTube mini doc
• An American Christmas Carol (1979)
• Ebenezer (1998)
• Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
• Christmas Karma (2025)

This year's Christmas Carol classics (already released): Scrooge (1913), Scrooge (1935), The Stingiest Man in Town (1956), The Stingiest Man in Town (1975), Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

Dark Christmas Carols (already released): FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials...

I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode, which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage

II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and an audio drama of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (Supercast, Patreon)

III – Many of the most classic classic Christmas Carol adaptations

IV – An intermezzo on Dickens' life and the creation of this tale

V – Finally, our first round-up of cinematic twists on the classic tale

2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse

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