Mickey's Christmas Carol

Mickey's Christmas Carol
Mickey Mouse series
Theatrical release poster with The Rescuers
Directed by	Burny Mattinson
Produced by	Burny Mattinson
Story by	Burny Mattinson Tony L. Marino Ed Gombert Don Griffith Alan Young Alan Dinehart
Voices by	Alan Young Wayne Allwine Hal Smith Will Ryan Eddy Carroll Patricia Parris Dick Billingsley Clarence Nash
Music by	Irwin Kostal
Animation by	Glen Keane Mark Henn Ed Gombert Dale Baer David Block Randy Cartwright Kathy Zielinski
Layouts by	Michael Peraza, Jr. Sylvia Roemer Gary M. Eggleston
Backgrounds by	Jim Coleman Brian Sebern Kathleen Swain Tia W. Kratter Donald A. Towns
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date(s)	December 16, 1983 (1983-12-16) (with The Rescuers)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	26 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The Simple Things (1953)
Followed by	The Prince and the Pauper (1990)

Mickey's Christmas Carol is a 1983 American animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It was directed and produced by Burny Mattinson. The cartoon is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. Many other Disney characters, primarily from the Mickey Mouse universe, Robin Hood, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, were cast throughout the film.

Mickey's Christmas Carol was largely an animated adaptation of a Disneyland Records 1974 audio musical entitled An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. The musical featured similar dialogue and cast of characters with the exception of the first and last Christmas ghosts.

This was the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical cartoon produced in over 30 years. With the exception of re-releases, Mickey had not appeared in movie theaters since the short film The Simple Things (1953). Many additional characters seen in the film had also not appeared in a theatrical cartoon for several decades. The film was also the last time in which Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck. Nash was the only original voice actor in the film as Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse) and Pinto Colvig (Goofy) had died in the 1960s, Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket) and Billy Gilbert (Willie the Giant) in 1971, and Billy Bletcher (Pete and the Big Bad Wolf) in 1979. It was also the first time in animation that Scrooge McDuck (as Ebenezer Scrooge) was voiced by actor Alan Young (who had first voiced the character on the musical album); Young would continue to be the primary voice actor for McDuck until the actor's death in 2016.