suppose? >> if it's quite convenient, sir. >> it's not convenient. >> one of the enemies of christmas is greed. and dickens is responding to the income inequalities, the unfairness, the hardships of urban life in britain during the industrial age. >> two pounds, five shillings, ladies. due before christmas. that means today. >> it's a powerful story about regeneration and rehabilitation and change. >> it's a morality play and it's a redemption story, but it's also a ghost story. >> merry christmas, governor. merry christmas. >> there was this notion that christmas night was when the veil between the two worlds was at its thinnest. >> why are we having a ghost story at christmas? well, we really like it and we can't stop. we can't stop remaking it. >> there's a 1901 version. in 1910, the edison company made their own adaptation.