Holiday Classics we wish on BD

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Originally Posted by Joe Cain

The CBS Alcoa Hour live-action TV musical The Stingiest Man In Town featuring Basil Rathbone as Scrooge and music by Tutti Camarata---best musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol ever, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, even apart from the fact that it's CBS, it probably doesn't exist anymore...but at least they reissued the soundtrack on CD last year.

From basilrathbone.net:

Showcase Productions Inc., the copyright owner of "The Stingiest Man in Town," continues to search for a film or kinescope copy of that program. So far, NBC has not been able to locate a print or negative in its vaults; also no copy has been located at the Library of Congress. At one time Showcase Productions was very close to obtaining a kinescope from a former Alcoa executive, but negotiations fell through. If the company is able to obtain a kinescope, it will use state of the art equipment and digital enhancement technology to restore the film, and make videotapes commercially available. But at the present time no videotape of "The Stingiest Man in Town" exists.
http://www.basilrathbone.net/faq.htm#stingiest