December at New York City's Radio City Music Hall where it did moderately well. One of many adaptations of the work, it was frequently revived in theaters by MGM. Television broadcast The film was shown on local television stations in the United States throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and was a staple of Chicago's WGN television's Family Classics. It ran in syndication throughout the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s on various local networks until the advent of cable television. Since the late 1990s, it has been broadcast on Turner Classic Movies, airing several times during December. Home media In 1988, MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment released A Christmas Carol on VHS celebrating its 50th anniversary, for the first time in a colorized version. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 1988 promoting the film's release on home video, actress June Lockhart admitted that, despite being an MGM production, it was "a 'B' picture". The colorized version was released once again on VHS by Warner Home Video in 2000. In November 2005, the black and white version was released on DVD in a "Classic Holiday Collection" box set including Boys Town and Christmas in Connecticut, two other MGM titles with a holiday/family theme; it was also released as an individual title. Since its first DVD release, it has seen multiple releases in various Christmas movie collection box sets. A Blu-ray version was released in November 2014. See also List of Christmas films List of ghost films List of A Christmas Carol adaptations References External links A Christmas Carol: With Original Illustrations in Full Color Print Edition 1938 films 1930s ghost films American Christmas drama films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films scored by Franz Waxman Films based on A Christmas Carol Films directed by Edwin L. Marin Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films set in London Films set in the 19th century Films set in the Victorian era 1930s historical drama films American historical drama films 1930s Christmas drama films 1938 drama films 1930s American films