Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated Christmas fantasy featurette, directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, and stars Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. The rest of the cast was filled mostly using characters from pre-existing Disney animated properties; notably from the Mickey Mouse universe, Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio (1940), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), and Robin Hood (1973).

The featurette was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution on December 16, 1983, with the re-issue of The Rescuers (1977). In the United States, it was first aired on television on NBC, on December 10, 1984.

Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely adapted from the 1974 Disneyland Records audio musical An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, featuring similar dialogue and a similar cast of characters. The primary differences between the record album and animated featurette are the collectors for the poor were played by Honest John and Gideon from Pinocchio, the Ghost of Christmas Past was played by Merlin from The Sword in the Stone and the Ghost of Christmas Future was played by the Evil Queen in her peddler disguise from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but in the animated version, the collectors for the poor are played by Ratty and Mole from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the Ghost of Christmas Past is played by Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio and the Ghost of Christmas Future is played by Pete. Additionally this film was the last time that Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck before his death in 1985.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984, but it lost to Jimmy Picker's Sundae in New York. It was the first nomination for a Mickey Mouse short since Mickey and the Seal (1948).