Wayne Allwine not only voices Mickey Mouse, but he also voices the beggar who asks Scrooge for change at the beginning as well as the first weasel gravedigger.
Will Ryan voices Willie the Giant, the Big Bad Wolf and Pete.
All-Star Cast: Just about every major character from the Classic Disney Shorts appears in this, with the odd exception of Pluto, although Pluto was originally supposed to appear.
For both the LP and the short; Alan Young is the second actor to voice Scrooge. He was first voiced by Bill Thompson (best known as the voice of Droopy) in Scrooge McDuck and Moneynote In Soccermania (essentially the "prototype" version of DuckTales), he was voiced by Will Ryan, but Alan Young would be the permanent voice of Scrooge from DuckTales onwards..
For the LP, Minnie and Daisy were voiced by Janet Waldo after both were previously voiced by Ruth Clifford. For the short, Daisy was voiced by Patricia Parris.
For the LP, Mickey is voiced by Alan Young instead of his usual voice actor at the time Jimmy MacDonald.
For the short, Goofy is voiced by Hal Smith instead of Tony Pope (his primary voice actor at the time). Smith would go on to voice Goofy for a few more educational shorts and shorts during The '80s.
As Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher had passed away in 1971 and 1979, Will Ryan takes over as Willie the Giant and Pete & Big Bad Wolf.
Of all the characters you might expect to play cold-hearted swindler and calculating businessman Jacob Marley, we get... Goofy? Turns out He Really Can Act!
Also, for the Ghost of Christmas Future, who ends up being Pete of all people. Who’d have thought that someone as normally harmless and simple as him could be so scary?
Release Date Change: This was intended as a television special and was to debut on CBS in 1982, but an animators' strike meant it couldn't be finished in time. A Clip Show special, A Disney Christmas Gift, had to be thrown together to take its place; that show has been covered at The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials. When it was finally released the next year, it was not initially on television, but theatrically, alongside a reissue of The Rescuers (earning an Oscar nomination at the process). It was finally shown on television in 1984, on NBC and Disney Channel, and released on home video shortly afterwards.
Swan Song: This was the final time Donald Duck was voiced by his original voice actor, Clarence Nash. Nash died two years later and was replaced by Disney animator Tony Anselmo, who voices Donald to this day.
What Could Have Been: One rejected idea was to have Scrooge pass a pet shop with an eager Pluto in the window, and later buy him for Tiny Tim at the end.
Written by Cast Member: Scrooge's voice actor Alan Young helped adapt the story and was one of the writers given a "Story Adapted by" credit.
Miscellaneous trivia
This was the first time Wayne Allwine and Alan Young voiced Mickey and Scrooge at length (though Wayne had begun voicing Mickey six years prior on the animated wraparounds of The New Mickey Mouse Club), and they became the permanent voices for those characters until their deaths in 2009 and 2016, respectively.
Some of the tombstones in the cemetery bear the names of famous names in music, such as Bob Wills and Gladys Knight. Another tombstone has the name of Barry Temple, an animator who worked on this and other Disney productions.
