Charles Dickens

The Muppet Christmas Carol

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Release Date1992-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1126

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1946-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count364

Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

Release Date1957-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count1

Vote Count29

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2009-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4820

The Artful Dodger

It's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.

Release Date2023-11-29

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Episode Count8

Vote Count186

Spirited

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

Release Date2022-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count721

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Release Date1971-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

Release Date1958-01-12

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Oliver & Company

A young cat named Oliver is left alone in a kitten box, while all the other young cats have new owners. A big dog named Dodger shows him how to get food and later Oliver lives with him, his owner Fagin and Fagin's other dogs Tito, Rita, Einstein, and Francis. Fagin has one problem besides being broke he owes a nasty man named Sykes a lot of money. If he can't pay it back he's in big trouble. While Oliver runs into a little girl named Jenny who becomes his new owner which he is happy with and later Sykes sees Jenny as the key for him to get his money.

Release Date1988-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1659

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date2005-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1218

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1984-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count405

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date2023-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count39

Oliver!

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Release Date1968-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count461

The King of Kings

Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vivid imagination, the boy walks alongside Jesus, witnessing His miracles, facing His trials, and understanding His ultimate sacrifice.

Release Date2025-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count125

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

Release Date2002-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count189

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1989-07-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Release Date2008-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count14

Vote Count75

Scrooged

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

Release Date1988-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1647

Great Expectations

Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.

Release Date1998-01-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count663

Scrooge & Marley

A modern day, queer variation on Charles Dickens' classic story of the holidays, "A Christmas Carol." On Christmas Eve, Ben Scrooge, the man who hates the holidays, is given the chance to begin again when he is visited by three spirits - the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music.

Release Date2012-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date2012-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count353

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1999-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count23

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1999-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Vote Count56

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

Release Date2022-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count471

Christmas Karma

In contemporary London, miserly British-Indian businessman Eshan Sood is compelled by three ghosts to reflect on his life and to consider the needs of those around him.

Release Date2025-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

Release Date1935-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count50

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1974-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

Release Date1951-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count355

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. Initially broadcast on BBC One from January to April 1966, only nine of the thirteen episodes are believed to still exist.

Release Date1966-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1999-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count220

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

Release Date1977-03-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol'

On Christmas Eve, Kelly is reluctant to go to a Christmas Eve ball, so Barbie tells her the story of Eden Starling, a glamorous singing diva in the Victorian England and the owner of a theatre house. However, Eden is self-centered and loves only herself. She is frequently accompanied by her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit. She does not believe in Christmas and orders all her employees to work on Christmas.

Release Date2008-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count577

Mickey's Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters.

Release Date1983-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count968

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1997-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count114

Bleak House

The generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past, he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever, and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.

Release Date2005-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count15

Vote Count58

All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series is an animated television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 in syndication and on the Fox Family Channel from 1998 to 1999, with 41 half-hour episodes produced in total. It aired on Cartoon Network in 1999 to 2000. It was produced by MGM Animation and was distributed by Claster Television. Don Bluth’s 1989 animated feature All Dogs Go to Heaven featured a roguish German Shepherd named Charlie who died, went to heaven, conned his way back to Earth for vengeance on his killer Carface and then found redemption through a little orphaned girl named Ann-Marie. The film was popular with audiences, spawning a sequel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and this animated series. The theme song for the series is "A Little Heaven", written by Lorraine Feather and Mark Watters. The singers were Gene Miller of Nashville, Clydene Jackson-Edwards and Carmen Twillie. Most of the voice actors from the feature films reprised their roles in the series, including Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bebe Neuwirth, Sheena Easton and Adam Wylie. Steven Weber provided the voice of Charlie B. Barkin, who was voiced in the films by Burt Reynolds and Charlie Sheen.

Release Date1996-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Ms. Scrooge

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

Release Date1997-12-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count12

Festival of Family Classics

Series of television versions of famous folk tales and classic literature.

Release Date1972-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1948-06-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count249

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date2011-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count3

Vote Count108

Christmas Carole

Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?

Release Date2022-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

Our Mutual Friend

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

Release Date1998-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count18

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1922-10-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

Oliver Twist

Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

Release Date1909-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1999-04-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count19

Oliver Twist

The fate of little Oliver, from life among the coffins, through a stay with the thief Fagin, to his fatal participation in a theft, which fortunately turns out well for Oliver. But the short period of a beautiful life with the benefactor Brownlow ends with the boy being kidnapped back to the London underworld, where he is forced to participate in a new robbery. However, thanks to Oliver's gang of thieves, it fails and Brownlow takes charge of the boy's fate again...

Release Date1965-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1983-03-31

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Hard Times

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Release Date1988-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

FX's A Christmas Carol

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

Release Date2019-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count208

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date2007-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count5

Vote Count90

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1982-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count28

Twist

In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.

Release Date2003-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count18

Scrooge

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Release Date1970-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count160

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1916-12-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Release Date1924-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Ebenezer

A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.

Release Date1998-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol

When Grouchy Smurf behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to appreciate Christmas.

Release Date2011-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count266

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1969-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

Carol

Self-centered Solomon Lynch takes a journey through his past, present, and future. But it takes more than Christmas spirit to set things right in this story of hope, faith, and redemption.

Release Date2024-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Scrooge

A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge.

Release Date1913-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1982-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count2

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1981-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count13

Vote Count2

Martin Chuzzlewit

When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

Release Date1994-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

The Man Who Invented Christmas

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Release Date2017-10-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count853

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1985-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count12

Vote Count8

The Personal History of David Copperfield

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.

Release Date2019-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count514

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1938-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count148

Klein Doortje

Release Date1917-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1922-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Mr. Scrooge

A Christmas Carol retelling

Release Date1964-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Karroll's Christmas

Allen Karroll hates Christmas ever since his ex-girlfriend humiliated him in front of thousands of people one Christmas. As a man who writes greeting cards for a living, this proves to be a hinderance. He also hates the man who lives across the street, Zeb Rosecog, who seems to take delight in tormenting him, who also happens to be the former CEO of Karroll's greeting card company. One day, Karroll is visited by the ghost Jacob Marley (related to Bob Marley), as well as the ghost of Christmas present, past and future (in that order) who all happen to have come to the wrong address, and had actually meant to visit Rosecog. During this experience, Karroll learns a lot about himself as well as Rosecog, and discovers that he and Rosecog have a lot in common, and decides to help Rosecog to see the light, and rediscover the joy of Christmas.

Release Date2004-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count9

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1999-04-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Our Mutual Friend

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

Release Date1976-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count7

Bleak House

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.

Release Date1985-04-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count8

Vote Count7

A Tale of Two Cities

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

An All Dogs Christmas Carol

Charlie, Itchy and Sasha itch and scratch their way through everything and anything in an effort to save Christmas from the wicked hellhound Belladonna, who wants to use dogs from all over the world to ruin Christmas.

Release Date1998-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count106

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Choirmaster John Jasper is obsessed with his nephew's fiancé. Will he take his opportunity to get rid of Edwin Drood?

Release Date2012-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Vote Count24

Lilli Palmer Theatre

A half-hour anthology series.

Release Date1955-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Episode Count1

VeggieTales: An Easter Carol

Ebenezer Nezzer is out of control! He's trying to make Easter bigger than ever by filling London with plastic eggs! But just how hard can his mechanical chickens work before they're… well, fried? In just one unforgettable day and night, Cavis and Millward (Bob and Larry) and a music box angel named Hope must convince Nezzer that Easter is about more than candy and eggs. Inspired by Dickens' Christmas classic, this very special VeggieTales film explains why millions of Christians around the world celebrate Easter past, present and future.

Release Date2004-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count12

John Grin's Christmas

An adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol " with Robert Guillaume as John Grin, the Scrooge character. His son Kevin has a role as the Bob Cratchit character, with Geoffrey Holder and Ted Lange as two of the Ghosts.

Release Date1986-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Humbugged

In a world of zany souls and colorful spirit-creatures, Jacob Marley is missing out on the party. His chaffey chains and lingering bitterness from working with mean-old-Scrooge has kept him from getting his wings. While the menagerie of whimsical characters around him sing boisterous songs and pull pranks on hapless humans, he wanders the cobblestone streets of London in a perpetual monologue of boo-hoo, poor me. His only friend is a quiet Raven who loyally looks out for him. But this all changes one Autumn day when Maybelline, Marleys tough-love angel parole officer gives him an off-the-record opportunity: scare Scrooge into becoming a better man and Marley can earn his wings!

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

Release Date1968-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count13

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1980-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1967-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count10

Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge embarks on a supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance at happiness.

Release Date2026-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Little Dorrit

A jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British production survives.

Release Date1920-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Carry On Christmas

Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances. While Scrooge is visited by three ghosts we see how his penny pinching has affected those around him.

Release Date1969-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

Hard Times

Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.

Release Date1994-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Christmas Above the Clouds

When a workaholic CEO tries to skip Christmas by flying to Australia, she’s in for the flight of her life. Haunted by her past, present, and future, she’s forced to confront the choices that led to her success yet left her flying solo. With the help of three quirky spirits and a surprise reunion with her ex, she might just rediscover the magic of Christmas—and the love she thought she’d lost.

Release Date2025-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

A Flintstones Christmas Carol

Fred is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage adaption of the classic Christmas story, but is acting a bit stingy in real life.

Release Date1994-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count148

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. A co-production with Time-Life Television Productions, the miniseries was first broadcast on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its entirety; the 1956 adaptation is completely lost, whilst only four of the 1966 adaptation's eight episodes are known to exist.

Release Date1974-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1979-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count9

Vote Count1

Christmas Carol: The Movie

Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment in the afterlife, the cruel and greedy Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to show him how the course of his life led him to where he is - and where it will lead if he doesn't change his ways.

Release Date2001-12-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count74

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1965-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count8

Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son is a television mini-series produced by the BBC in 1983. It was based on the book Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It was adapted by James Andrew Hall and directed by Rodney Bennett.

Release Date1983-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1997-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count85

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1980-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

Our Mutual Friend

Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.

Release Date1958-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

A Tale of Two Cities

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

Release Date1989-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?

Release Date2010-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count241

Hard Times

Hard Times is a four-part British television drama miniseries based on Charles Dickens' 1854 novel of the same name, a survey of English society and a satirisation of 19th century social and economic conditions. Wealthy, retired Coketown merchant Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his eldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits.

Release Date1977-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Humbug

A contemporary telling of the story of Scrooge. When a wealthy real estate mogul will be visited by the three ghosts.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Olivia Twist

Charles Dickens's classical Oliver Twist story, but set in modern day Stockholm and with a girl as the main character.

Release Date2002-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count7

Vote Count1

Čarovná rybí kostička

Release Date1984-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1986-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count10

Vote Count4

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2004-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count52

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1935-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count74

Oliver Twist

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Release Date1912-10-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1977-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count21

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Edwin and Miss Rosa were engaged since childhood. While nothing foreshadows the impending tragedy, the lovers are carefree, the inhabitants of a small English town watch their romance. Edwin Drood and Ne, who arrived from Ceylon, did not help their rivals in the region because of Rosa's mission. Edwin and Rosa decide to remain only friends. However, the conflict with Neville becomes more acute. The rivals go to the lake shore for a decisive conversation. After that, Edwin disappears without a trace. The trail of Edwin disappears, and the suspect in his murder is Neville. Released from prison for lack of a straight street, he leaves the city. Edwin's guardian Jasper continues his independent search for the killers. At the moment, a "lonely bachelor living on his own means" comes to town. He also conducts his own investigation. The investigation of Jasper and the mysterious stranger is coming to an end, but...

Release Date1980-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Scrooge and Marley

Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean Jones, widely acclaimed for his acting ability in St. John in Exile and well-known for many Disney movies and Broadway shows.

Release Date2001-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the students. Meanwhile, Kate is subjected to the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, aided by her uncle. Nicholas and his new friend, Smike, begin their adventures and eventually set out to rescue Kate, with the usual Dickensian twists, turns and asides.

Release Date1982-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Nicholas Nickleby

With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film.

Release Date1912-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A Christmas Cop

It's Christmas Eve in big city Chicago, and vigilante cop Nils Scroogesen is in no mood to celebrate -- and you can take that to the bank.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

It's Christmas, Carol!

The story of driven, heartless, publishing executive, Carol Huffman, who on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of her former boss, Eve. Eve tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and that she is there to show her the error of her ways. Eve explains that normally there would be three ghosts for the job but due to budget cutbacks, she is in charge of Carol's journey through her past, present and future.

Release Date2012-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count36

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was released in November 1901. As was common in cinema's early days, the filmmakers chose to adapt an already well-known story, in this case A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in the belief that the audience's familiarity with the story would result in the need for fewer intertitles. It was presented in 'Twelve Tableaux' or scenes. The film contains the first use of intertitles in a film.

Release Date1901-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count38

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1975-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Release Date1947-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count20

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

Release Date1988-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count27

The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

Release Date1921-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Bleak House

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

Release Date1920-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1935-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count77

Carol for Another Christmas

Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.

Release Date1964-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count29

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date2007-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count13

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1971-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count56

Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Release Date1987-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby

Modern interpretation of the classic Charles Dickens tale about a young man who must support his family following the death of his father, turning to his sinister uncle for help.

Release Date2012-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count5

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count22

The Chimes

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Charles Dickens which was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.

Release Date1999-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Scrooge

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.

Release Date1978-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

A New Diva's Christmas Carol

Aphrodite was made famous back in the day for performing THE timeless love song of the era. The song that everyone plays at their weddings, in every sappy commercial for diamonds or rings or puppies or soldiers coming home. It made her a ton of money, but Aphrodite HATES this song. She’s now the meanest judge on Pop The Question but her life changes when Brianna, becomes the breakthrough contestant, exuding love and purity. When Aphrodite reluctantly becomes her mentor, she does everything possible to steer her away from love and love anthems and so is visited by three spirits who take Aphrodite on a journey through love (and Christmas) past, present and future to try and shake her out of her funk and let love back in!

Release Date2022-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1982-07-31

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count17

The Prince of Rome

In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a deal with a prince for the hand of his daughter, he'll find himself caught in a magical journey between past, present and future. Assisted by some rather illustrious companions, he'll have to come to terms with whom he really is and give his life a new meaning.

Release Date2022-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count60

Starožitníkův krám

Release Date1980-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Utshob

On the eve of Eid, a grumpy, miserly loner Jahangir is visited by three mysterious guests, claiming to be ghosts. As they make him revisit his past, Jahangir is forced to confront the life he has built in bitterness and solitude. A heartwarming tale of regrets, memories and rediscovering love and laughter.

Release Date2025-06-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count12

The Signalman

A railroad signalman is haunted by a series of otherworldly events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifestations, or the signalman's psychological response to his isolation and repetitive work?

Release Date2015-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.

Release Date1962-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count61

A Diva's Christmas Carol

In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.

Release Date2000-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count35

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Release Date1952-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count14

An American Christmas Carol

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

Release Date1979-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count38

A Christmas Carol

The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.

Release Date2020-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count13

An Orphan's Tragedy

Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.

Release Date1955-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count3

A Christmas Carol

Selfish businessman Jason Mudrick is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Mudrick is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2025-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1917-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Dombey & Son

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Release Date1974-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Boy Called Twist

The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's gang of street urchins. With a gritty honesty steeped in its vibrant characters, Boy called Twist superbly captures the contemporary equivalents of Dickens' seedy individuals as it shadows the timeless tale in its own inimitable style.

Release Date2004-02-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1958-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count19

Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Release Date1967-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Scrooge

The miserly Scrooge changes his ways after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Release Date1928-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Dombey and Son

The dream of Charles Dombais, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, his wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Release Date2007-06-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1995-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Christmas Carole

35mm test scenes from a 1966 Agnès Varda project. Distributors and producers were unimpressed. Three friends try to earn money decorating café windows for Christmas. A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens.

Release Date1966-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Fagin

The story behind how Fagin became the king of the pickpockets. Said to be a musical.

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.

Release Date2006-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

A Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.

Release Date1984-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1933-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count15

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

Release Date2001-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count18

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.

Release Date1980-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Merry Moisex

When Moisex declares his hatred for Christmas, Kevin sets out to change his mind by creating a short film. This documentary captures their journey of creativity, humor, and the search for holiday spirit.

Release Date2024-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1934-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

A Vintage Detective Story

A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.

Release Date1982-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

A Christmas Carol

Loan shark Eddie Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2000-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate, but first, he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters. Filmed at the Alexander Palace Theatre, London.

Release Date2022-11-27

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Vote Count6

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Stingiest Man in Town

An animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass -- the duo behind some of the most enduring Christmas specials ever (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical, this charming cartoon stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq. It features animation by Japanese studio Topcraft, known for their work on other Rankin/Bass films such as The Hobbit, The Flight of Dragons, and The Last Unicorn.

Release Date1978-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count16

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date2001-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count23

The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol

It's Christmas Eve and Nan receives some unexpected visitors, in the form of Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. In this comic retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Nan is shown the error of her ways, but is it too late for her to swap her Scrooge-like misery for some seasonal goodwill?

Release Date2009-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count12

A Christmas Carol

Playwright Jack Thorne and director Matthew Warchus offer a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic story. This timeless—and timely—tale of redemption welcomes theatergoers of all ages into an immersive experience that’s brimming with Christmas spirit, with dazzling staging, moving storytelling, and a dozen of the most cherished Christmas carols, including 'Joy to the World', 'Silent Night', and 'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear'.

Release Date2020-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count7

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1954-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count16

Cricket on the Hearth

A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness.

Release Date1967-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count19

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2018-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count12

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1910-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count39

Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas

'Tis the season to be cool, as Beavis and Butt-Head star in their own twisted version of two holiday classics. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future struggle to teach a Scrooge-like Beavis the true meaning of Christmas, while Charlie the angel comes down from heaven to show Butt-Head how much better life would be without him. Will Beavis and Butt-Head learn their lesson? Does a snowflake have a chance in hell?

Release Date1995-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count29

Bleak House

Part of serial Tense Moments from Great Plays.

Release Date1922-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Release Date1947-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

Release Date1935-02-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count11

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly old man who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. A magical tale popular with all ages, adapted into a ballet by an all-British artistic team including composer Sally Beamish and choreographer David Bintley.

Release Date2023-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1960-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay.

Release Date2017-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count25

Estella Scrooge

Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!

Release Date2020-11-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1993-12-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7

Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'

An abridged dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", performed live at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and based on Dickens's own adaptation for his dramatic readings.

Release Date1994-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Manik

Manik is mentally and physically abused by the manager of the orphanage he lives in. However, when he runs away to Calcutta, he finds himself in deeper trouble in a far more dangerous world.

Release Date1961-01-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Yellow River

Behind the scenes at the original Fast and Furious afterparty, the mysterious death of Playboy model Felicia Tang haunts 2000s Hollywood. Testimony by Michelle Rodriquez, Devon Aoki, and other original cast members.

Release Date2020-12-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1940-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

All American Christmas Carol

A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.

Release Date2013-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count26

A Christmas Carol

Ellen Scrooge, a demanding egocentric owner of a pharmaceutical company, adamantly continues to work her employees on Christmas Eve, but she is soon encountered by three ghosts that will transform her perspective on life. This independently-produced adaptation shines a new comedic twist on Charles Dickens' classic tale.

Release Date2019-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

A Christmas Carol

Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.

Release Date1981-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date2021-12-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count5

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

On the anniversary of Jacob Marley's death, his business partner Ebenezer Scrooge finds unwelcome company in the form of three spirits from Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Release Date2012-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.

Release Date2006-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count8

Oliver Twist

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Release Date1962-01-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Concept

National Theatre Live: London Tide

A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

Release Date2024-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1962-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Pickwick Papers

A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoylov.

Release Date1972-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Pickwick Club

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.

Release Date1986-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Nicholas Nickleby

One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature.

Release Date1985-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Merry Christmas

Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Release Date1955-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Our Mutual Friend

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

Release Date1921-06-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A Frozen Christmas Carol

Hop on Santa's sleigh for a ride of a lifetime! This holiday season, Santa and his trusty sidekick, Lear the reindeer, tell the magical classic tale of A Christmas Carol. Join all your Christmas favorite characters -- Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghost Of Christmas Past, in this retelling of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas classic.

Release Date2018-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Tale of Two Cities

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Release Date1917-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

National Theatre Live: Oliver Twist

Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their mischievous gang of pick pockets. But the enjoyment is short-lived as he falls under the influence of the vicious Bill Sykes. This production was specially filmed for audiences to enjoy online at home and features creatively integrated sign language, audio description, and captioning.

Release Date2022-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2,000 first prize to promote his bank.

Release Date1979-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Release Date1934-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

It's Never Too Late

Release Date1953-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Adventure of the Shooting Party

The lost 3rd part of the film The Pickwick Papers, directed by Laurence Trimble, appeared in 1913. This silent three-reel adaptation of Charles Dickens's first novel starred the American comedian John Bunny, who was very popular in his day but is now almost completely forgotten, and was filmed mainly on location in England.

Release Date1913-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A Christmas Carol

The turkeys are hanging in the butchers shop on Gloucester Road, the Christmas Steps are decked with holly, but Christmas Eve is a bleak night for miserly money-lender Ebenezer Scrooge. Before the night is through, he is visited by four ghosts who show him chilling portraits of his past, present and future. As the sun rises, will he come to see the bitter truth of his selfish life, learning kindness, compassion and, ultimately, the true meaning of Christmas? Join Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and Scrooge himself in this riot of music and theatrical imagination, to find out.

Release Date2020-11-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story

The storm is really getting bad out there. Come on in and sit by the fire, enjoy the tree, make yourself a hot cup of Cocoa and enjoy the classic tale of The Nutcracker. Let us be your instant Christmas escape into a world of majesty and wonder, a world filled with wooden soldiers and sugarplum fairies. This is a audio/video atmospheric piece that is designed to create instant Christmas ambiance.

Release Date1992-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Oliver Twist

An orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.

Release Date1912-05-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1950-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Rich Man's Folly

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Release Date1931-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Pan Pickwick

Release Date1988-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. Brimming with joyful songs, magical spirits, and holiday cheer, the Tony-Award winning Dallas Theater Center’s A Christmas Carol boldly reimagines Dickens’ classic tale of joy, redemption, and the spirit of Christmas.

Release Date2021-12-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Release Date1911-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. Originally aired as part of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens.

Release Date1959-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

Cricket Behind the Hearth

An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out of focus." Do not forget that Christmas is about to enter. And on Christmas night, what miracles do not happen!

Release Date2001-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

David Copperfield

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.

Release Date1911-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Little Dorrit

A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

Release Date1913-07-28

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

An early experimental television broadcast of Dickens's famous novel.

Release Date1943-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Cricket on the Hearth

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

Release Date1909-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count10

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1979-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

An animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens book.

Release Date1987-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count8

Christmas at Deejay's House: A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. A reinterpretation of Charles Dickens' timeless 1843 novella by the cast of Radio Deejay.

Release Date2004-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens' 'Ghost Stories' from the Pickwick Papers. The Ghost in the Wardrobe: A young law student moves into an old rooming house haunted by a resident ghost. Tension grows between the two, building to a surprising conclusion. The Mail Coach Ghosts: Time travel puts a young man on a collision course with a ruthless nobleman and his evil henchmen. When the young man falls in love with a beautiful maiden, a captive of the nobleman, he plans a daring rescue to free her. The Goblin and the Grave Digger: Fiery nether-regions set the scene for this unearthly tale of a grave digger put on trial for his life by the King of the Goblins. The eerie account of his nightmarish ordeal is a special effects encounter that will enthral fans of the supernatural.

Release Date1987-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1983-07-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date1922-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers

A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.

Release Date1912-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

The Virtue of Rags

A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.

Release Date1912-12-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1914-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count8

The Stingiest Man in Town

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4 ghosts and is shown visions of his past life and the consequences of his life on others.

Release Date1956-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Signalman

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.

Release Date1976-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Vote Count37

Oliver Twist

Release Date1919-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Release Date1914-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.

Release Date2015-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Rich Little's Christmas Carol

In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to convince him otherwise.

Release Date1978-12-17

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10

Story of the Christmas Carol

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.

Release Date1955-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Right to Be Happy

Considered to be lost.

Release Date1916-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

A Tale of Two Cities

An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.

Release Date1911-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Cricket on the Hearth

Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.

Release Date1923-08-11

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Great Expectations: The Untold Story

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Release Date1987-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol

When Brer Rabbit learns that Brer Fox is planning to evict Brer Bear on Christmas, he decides to teach the fox a lesson. Brer Rabbit gets the townspeople to stage their own version of "A Christmas Carol" and trick Brer Fox into thinking that the ghost of his friend, Brer Wolf, has returned. The ghost warns Brer Fox to reform his miserly ways by showing him his past, present and future Christmases. Brer Fox is so terrified by these visions he vows to change his ways, and throws a big Christmas party for the whole town.

Release Date1992-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

The Death of Poor Joe

A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Release Date1901-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Vote Count9

Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Release Date1934-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Příběh se starou lenoškou

Release Date1972-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Carol de Navidad

A humorous, contemporary, and somewhat Caribbean adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," it tells the story of three ghosts, including the titular "Carol de Navidad", who harass Scrooge until he agrees to fairer working conditions for his company's employees.

Release Date2022-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses them. On the night of Christmas Eve, his long-dead partner Jacob Marley comes as a ghost, warning him of a horrible fate if he does not change his ways.

Release Date1908-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

The Boy and the Convict

A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.

Release Date1909-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

Release Date2009-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Carol Project

A ghost story with timeless lessons of greed, love, loss and redemption.

Release Date2006-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

The Lyric Theatre: A Christmas Carol

Nobody hates Christmas more than the selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge. But on a cold Christmas Eve, he’s taken on an extraordinary journey through time that presents him with an opportunity to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

Release Date2025-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1

Dotheboys Hall, or Nicholas Nickleby

An ignorant teacher beats a pupil and is caned by his new assistant.

Release Date1903-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Nae Expectations

Pip is just your average wee guy – happy with his lot and not much of a complainer (though you really wouldn’t blame him if he was!). Regularly tortured and terrified, in what is, it must be said, a truly hard life, he still finds time to laugh, smile and dream of a brighter future, even though no-one expects anything of him. Or so he thinks…

Release Date2023-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Gospel According to Scrooge

Closely follows the original with a twist of Ebenezer Scrooge making one choice that changes more than just his life. It was a fateful Christmas Eve that Scrooge would never forget!

Release Date1983-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge is visited by three spirits, representing his past, present and future, and, after seeing what they have to show him, must make a determination of how he will continue to live his life.

Release Date1979-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

A LEGO Christmas Carol: A Brickfilm

Based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts to help him change his greedy way through the spirit of Christmas.

Release Date2020-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Milwaukee Rep: A Christmas Carol

Milwaukee Rep’s hit new adaptation is a tale of love, hope and redemption with just the right blend of beautiful music, lively dancing, stunning sets and eye-popping special effects. It’s a dazzling Christmas feast with enough theatrical goodies to fill any sized stocking hung by the chimney with care. Join Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and Scrooge in this holiday classic the whole family will love.

Release Date2020-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Cricket on the Hearth

Release Date1922-05-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Christmas Carol

A ballet version of the famous Dickens classic.

Release Date1994-12-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Chimes

Release Date1914-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

A Tale of Two Cities

Release Date1922-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Christmas on the North Pole Express

A woman named Cassidy rides a train to her small, home town, and explores her past, present, and future in different cars in the train.

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Canto di Natale

A modern version of Charles Dickens work. Gioele is a modern-day Scrooge, who hates Christmas but will end up changing his mind, also thanks to the love of his secretary Bianca.

Release Date2020-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

The Passions of Carol

Carol Scrooge, the curmudgeonly owner of a sleazy skin publication, insists that her employees work on Christmas. However, on Christmas eve, Miss Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, each of whom shows her a different vision of Christmas, from Carol's lurid past of sexually manipulating her childhood friends to the meager Christmas celebrations of her present-day employee, Bob Hatchet and his wife, to a terrifying and sleazy vision of Christmas yet to come; each visit is infused with a barrel of laughs and a valuable lesson about the importance of giving and holiday spirit.

Release Date1975-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count7