Picks and Pans Review: An American Christmas Carol

UPDATED 12/17/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/17/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (8:30-10:30 p.m. ET)

In a pointless update of the 19th-century Dickens classic to Depression-era New England, Henry Winkler is a Scrooge whose finance company repossesses belongings on Christmas Eve. The plot has no surprises, of course, and Winkler's voice is not as convincingly old as his makeup.