Editing Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (section)

==Background==
''Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol'' was produced by UPA in its last days as an animation studio, following its acquisition by [[Henry G. Saperstein]]. UPA later produced a television series titled ''[[The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo]]'', in which Magoo portrayed other literary characters. The series ended soon after as UPA was unable to mass-produce cartoons for television.<ref name="tracker" /> It fills an hour-long time slot, as opposed to half an hour, which is different from most animated Christmas specials.<ref>{{cite book|last=Solomon|first=Charles|title=The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dz4E5mpwm6UC|year=2013|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-1-4521-1091-2}}</ref>

The special depicts the visits of the ghosts in a different order than the book, with the Ghost of Christmas Present appearing before Past. Tiny Tim resembles UPA's character [[Gerald McBoing-Boing]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Mr-Magoos-Christmas-Carol-Blu-ray/14897/#Review | title = Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol Blu-ray Review | last=Kauffman | first = Jeffrey |website = bluray.com | date=  October 28, 2010 | access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref> {{citation needed span|text=and Jacob Marley resembles Worcestershire, a character from ''[[Mister Magoo]]''.|date=January 2019}}

The special was rerun on NBC throughout the Christmas season until 1969.  Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, it aired on local stations in syndication during the Christmas season, in the 1990s, it aired on the [[Disney Channel]] and [[USA Network]], and in the 2000s, it aired on [[Cartoon Network]] with the entire song "Winter Was Warm" removed ("The Lord's Bright Blessing" replaced its reprised version for the end credits) and other sequences trimmed for time. Me-TV brought it back to broadcast television in 2011.  NBC aired the special again in 2012, with scenes depicting Magoo in the [[framing device]] cut in order to make room for commercials. [[The CW Television Network|The CW]] subsequently acquired the broadcast rights to the special; the original special aired in its entirety in 2014, but the NBC version aired the following year. Distribution rights to the special are currently held by [[NBCUniversal Television Distribution]] following parent company [[Comcast]]'s acquisition of its holder Classic Media, which was renamed [[DreamWorks Classics]].

When it premiered on Freeform on December 13, 2022, several sequences were edited out, including the song "We're Despicable (Plunderers' March) and Magoo & Cratchett's duet on "Ringle Ringle".