Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.

Americans are obsessed with a white Christmas and all the trimmings ... the English novelist and author of the enormously popular "A Christmas Carol," first published in 1843.

The Muppet Christmas Carol opens with a dedication to both Jim and fellow Muppeteer Richard Hunt. Richard died in January 1992 from AIDS-related complications, almost a year before the movie hit ...

I was in this building that was all white ... were not Victorian, they were very modern,” he has been quoted as saying in promotional materials for the Muppet Christmas Carol.

Then of course in the Victorian era, you have Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol ... Janisse: I don’t know that they’ll be in black and white, but they will all be period.

There have been many iterations of Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol over the years, but the black-and-white version starring Alistar Sim is the highest-ranked version among Rotten ...