Scrooge tries to persuade himself it is all 'humbug' - until an apparition walks through the door. It is the ghost of Jacob Marley ... Scrooge throughout Episode 1. He makes comparisons to ...

That is a fully Dickensian equation, of the sort that the author anticipated in the opening stave ... put Ebenezer Scrooge ...

There's more to work than life.

On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts, starting with his old business partner, Jacob Marley. The three spirits which follow, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present ...