This beloved version of Dickens' classic tale aired on NBC every Thanksgiving after Macy's Parade. Bah! Humbug! On Christmas Eve, rich, coldhearted Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. They show him the love he's lost and the cold, bitter fate that awaits if he doesn't change his ways. Scrooge awakes on Christmas Morning a totally changed man. .