The Stingiest Man in Town

The Stingiest Man in Town (町一番のけちんぼう, "Machi Ichiban no Kechinbō") is a 1978 animated Christmas musical television special based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. It was created by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, and features traditional animation rather than the stop motion animation most often used by the company. It was an animated remake of a long-unseen, but quite well received, live-action musical special (also called The Stingiest Man in Town) which had starred Basil Rathbone, Martyn Green, and Vic Damone. The live-action version had been telecast on December 23, 1956, on the NBC anthology series The Alcoa Hour, and was published on DVD in 2011, by VAI. The animated remake first aired December 23, 1978, in the United States on NBC, and was telecast in Japan the next day.

Additional Voices

 * Diana Lee

Video Releases
* Included in Classic Christmas Favories DVD set with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold, and Pinocchio's Christmas.