Walt Disney anthology television series

For the Disney's California Adventure theme park show, see World of Color.

The Wonderful World of Disney
Genre	Comedy Drama
Format	Anthology series
Created by	Walt Disney
Written by	Maurice Tombragel Larry Clemmons Ted Berman
Directed by	Hamilton Luske Wilfred Jackson
Presented by	Walt Disney (1954-1966) Michael Eisner (1986-1996)
Narrated by	Dick Wesson (1954-1979) Mark Elliot (1981-1983) Danny Dark (1988-1990)
Opening theme	"When You Wish upon a Star"
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	55
No. of episodes	1,224
Production
Running time	60–180 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1954–1961) NBC (1961–1981) CBS (1981–1983) PBS (1983–1985) ABC (1986-1988) NBC (1988-1990) Disney Channel (1990–1996) ABC (1997-2008)
Picture format	480i (SD), 720p (HD)
Audio format	Mono 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound
Original run	October 27, 1954 (1954-10-27) – December 24, 2008 (2008-12-24)
Chronology
Related shows	ABC Saturday Movie of the Week

The Walt Disney anthology television series refers to a television series which has been produced by the Walt Disney Company under several different titles from 1955 to 2008. These include Disneyland (1954-1955), Walt Disney Presents (1955-1959), Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1960-1969), The Wonderful World of Disney (1969-1979), Disney's Wonderful World (1979-1981), Walt Disney (1981-1983), The Disney Sunday Movie (1986-1988), The Magical World of Disney (1988-1996), and finally back to The Wonderful World of Disney (1997-2008).

The first incarnation of the show premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The same basic show has since appeared on several networks. The series finale aired Christmas Eve 2008 on ABC. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame (see List of longest running U.S. primetime television series). However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than thirty years.

Overview

Originally hosted by Walt Disney himself, the series presented animated cartoons and other material (some original, some pre-existing) from the studio library. The show originally even featured one-hour edits of such then-recent Disney films as Alice in Wonderland, and in other cases, telecasts of complete Disney films split into two or more one-hour episodes.^[1] Occasionally, a more educational segment, such as The Story of the Animated Drawing, would be featured.^[2]

1950s

The show spawned the Davy Crockett craze of 1955 with the three-episode series (not shown in three consecutive weeks) about the historical American frontiersman, starring Fess Parker in the title role. Millions of dollars of merchandise were sold relating to the title character, and the theme song, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", was a hit record that year. Three historically-based hour-long shows aired in late 1954/early 1955, and were followed up by two dramatized installments the following year. The TV episodes were edited into two theatrical films later on.

On July 17, 1955, the opening of Disneyland was covered on a live television special, Dateline: Disneyland,^[1] which is not technically considered to be part of the series. It was hosted by Walt along with Bob Cummings, Art Linkletter, Ronald Reagan, and featured various other guests.^[3]

In the fall of 1958, the series was re-titled, "Walt Disney Presents", and moved to Friday nights, but by 1960, it switched to Sunday nights, where it would remain for twenty-one years.

1960s and 1970s

The series moved to NBC on September 24, 1961 to take advantage of that network's ability to broadcast in color.^[1][4] In addition, Walt Disney's relationship with ABC had soured as the network resisted selling its stake in the theme park before doing so in 1960.^[5] In a display of foresight, Disney had filmed many of the earlier shows in color, so they were able to be repeated on NBC, and since most of Disney's feature-length films were also made in color, they could now also be telecast in that format. To emphasize the new feature, the series was re-dubbed, "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color", and retained that moniker until 1969. The first NBC episode even dealt with the principles of color, as explained by a new character named Ludwig Von Drake (voiced by Paul Frees), a bumbling professor with a thick German accent, and uncle of Donald Duck. Von Drake was the first Disney character created specifically for television.

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color title sequence

Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, twelve years after the anthology series premiered. While the broadcast three days after his death had a memorial tribute from NBC news anchor Chet Huntley and film & TV star Dick Van Dyke,^[6] the intros Walt already filmed before his death continued to air for the rest of the season. After that, the studio decided that Walt's persona as host was such a key part of the show's appeal to viewers that the host segment was dropped. The series, retitled, "The Wonderful World of Disney", in September 1969, continued to get solid ratings, often in the Top 20, until the mid-1970s.

In 1976, Disney showed its hit 1961 film The Parent Trap on television for the first time, as a two-hour special. This was a major step in broadcasting for the studio, which had never shown one of its more popular films on television in a two-hour time slot (although they had shown their 1972 film Napoleon and Samantha as a two-hour TV program in 1975).^[1] A slightly edited version of the Disney classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea made its television debut as a two-hour special on NBC later that same year.^[1]

The show's continued ratings success in the post-Walt era came to an end in the 1975–1976 season. At this time, Walt Disney Productions was facing a decline in fortunes due to falling box-office revenues, while NBC as a whole was slipping in the ratings as well. The show became even more dependent on airings of live-action theatrical features, its True-Life Adventures, reruns of older episodes, and cartoon compilations. Nothing from the Disney animated features canon aired except Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo. However, in an era when cable TV was in its infancy and VCRs did not exist, this was the only way to see Disney material that was not re-released to theaters. Additionally, in 1975, when CBS regained the broadcast rights to MGM's film The Wizard of Oz, it was scheduled opposite Disney as it had been between 1960 and 1968. At that time, telecasts of that film were highly-rated annual events which largely attracted the same family audience as the Disney series. From 1968 to 1975, when NBC owned the rights to Oz, (which it had bought from CBS in 1967) it usually pre-empted Disney to show it. However, the show's stiffest weekly competition came from CBS's newsmagazine 60 Minutes.

In 1975, an amendment to the Prime Time Access Rule gave the Sunday 7:00 P.M. ET slot back to the networks, allowing NBC to move Disney back a half hour. It also allowed CBS to schedule 60 Minutes at 7:00 P.M. ET starting December 7; before this, 60 Minutes had been telecast at 6:00 P.M. ET and did not begin its seasons until after the NFL football season ended. Disney fell out of the Top 30 while 60 Minutes saw its ratings rise greatly. In September 1979, the studio agreed to the network's request for changes. The show shortened its name to, "Disney's Wonderful World", updated the opening sequence with a computer-generated logo and disco-flavored theme song, but kept the format largely the same. After comparing the ratings strength of 60 Minutes to the continuing problems of this show; low ratings, less and less original material, and frequent^{[citation needed]} pre-emptions, NBC cancelled Disney in 1981.

1980s

CBS picked up the program in the fall of 1981 ^[4] and moved it to Saturday night at 8:00 P.M. Despite more elaborate credits and yet another title — now simply, "Walt Disney" — the format remained unchanged. It lasted two years there, its end coinciding with the birth of The Disney Channel on cable TV. While ratings were a factor, the final decision to end the show came from then-company CEO E. Cardon Walker, who felt that having both the show and the new channel active would cannibalize each other.^[7]

After the studio underwent a change in management, the series was revived on ABC as a two-hour program beginning February 2, 1986,^[4] under the title, "The Disney Sunday Movie" (in the summer, the series was temporarily titled, "Disney Summer Classics"), with new CEO Michael Eisner hosting. Eisner was not the first choice. Many names were considered including Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Cary Grant (who was asked but turned it down), Tom Hanks (Eisner felt he was "too young" and turned him down),^[7] Walter Cronkite, Roy E. Disney (who closely resembled his uncle), and even Mickey Mouse.^[8] Eisner was persuaded to do it. He was not a performer, but after making a test video with his wife Jane and a member of his executive team (which required multiple takes), the studio believed he could do it. He hired Michael Kay, a director of political commercials for then-U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, to help him improve his on-camera performance.^[8]

The Disney Sunday Movie offered more original programming and a larger selection of library films than the Disney program had in the last few years of its original run, including another animated canon entry, 1973's Robin Hood. However, it still faced heavy competition from CBS; not only from 60 Minutes but now from the top-rated Murder, She Wrote at 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time. In the fall of 1987, ABC cut the show down to an hour. It moved back to NBC in 1988 under the new title The Magical World of Disney, where the competition problems it faced on ABC remained unchanged. NBC cancelled the show in 1990, and the title was used as a Sunday night umbrella for movies and specials on The Disney Channel from then until 1996; Eisner continued to host. The old name of The Wonderful World of Disney was used throughout the early part of the decade on many network specials.

1990s and 2000s

The series was revived once again on ABC in 1997,^[4] one year after Disney purchased ABC. Again called "The Wonderful World of Disney", it ran on Sundays until 2003, when it moved to Saturday night; it continued in that time slot until 2008 (airing in the midseason of 2005–2006 and the summers of 2007 and 2008). Since 2005, Disney features have been split between ABC, NBC, the Hallmark Channel, ABC Family Channel, and Disney Channel via separate broadcast rights deals. The show aired during the television midseason and/or the summer as an anthology series similar to Hallmark Hall of Fame with features such as the 2005 made-for-TV movie version of Once Upon a Mattress or commercial TV broadcasts of various films. The series finale aired Wednesday 8:00 P.M. ET on December 24, 2008, with a presentation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

2010s

As of 2011 there are currently no plans to bring back The Wonderful World of Disney.

Reruns

Around the same time as the 1980s ABC and NBC incarnations aired, reruns of older Disney episodes, airing under the Wonderful World of Disney banner, were syndicated to local stations in the United States.

Reruns of the shows were a staple of The Disney Channel for several years under the title Walt Disney Presents (which used the same title sequence as the 1980s CBS incarnation), when it was an outlet for vintage Disney cartoons, TV shows and movies, basically serving the same function that the anthology series served in the days before cable. The original opening titles were restored to the episodes in the late 1990s. When the channel purged all vintage material as of September 16, 2002,^[9] this show went with it. However, a few select episodes can be found on VHS or DVD (some being exclusive to the Disney Movie Club), with the possibility of more being issued in the future.

Recently, live-action Disney films from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s have been telecast commercial-free, uncut and letterboxed on Turner Classic Movies.

All of the episodes and existing material used in the series through 1996 are listed in the book The Wonderful World of Disney Television, by Bill Cotter (Hyperion Books, 1997 ISBN 0-7868-6359-5.)

Format

The original format consisted of a balance of theatrical cartoons, live-action features, and informational material. Much of the original informational material was to create awareness for Disneyland. In spite of being essentially ads for the park, entertainment value was emphasized as well to make the shows palatable. Some informational shows were made to promote upcoming studio feature films such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Some programs focused on the art and technology of animation itself.

Later original programs consisted of dramatizations of other historical figures and legends along the lines of the Davy Crockett mini-series. These included Daniel Boone (not the Fess Parker characterization), Texas John Slaughter, Elfego Baca, Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox", and Kit Carson and the Mountain Man (1977), with Christopher Connelly as Kit Carson, Robert Reed as John C. Fremont, and Gregg Palmer as mountain man Jim Bridger.

Also included were nature and animal programs similar to the True-Life Adventures released in theatres, as well as various dramatic installments which were either one part or two, but sometimes more.

This format remained basically unchanged through the 1980s, though new material was scarce in later years.

When the show was revived in 1986, the format was similar to a movie-of-the-week, with family-oriented TV movies from the studio making up much of the material. Theatrical films were also shown, but with the advent of cable television and home video, they were not as popular. The 1997 revival followed this format as well, with rare exceptions. A miniseries entitled Little House on the Prairie ran for several weeks under the TWWOD banner. Incidentally, this ABC revival included some non-Disney family films under the banner, such as 20th Century Fox's The Sound of Music and Warner Bros.' Harry Potter films, as well as television films such as Princess of Thieves from Granada Productions, and the 2001 remake of Brian's Song from Sony Pictures Television.

Films not yet televised

As of 2010, there are still two classic Disney films that have never been shown on television at all in their entirety. They are Fantasia and Song of the South. Though it has been re-released to U.S. theatres several times,^[10] and the Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Tar Baby segments have been shown on television, Song of the South has never been released on VHS or an authorized DVD in the U.S., due to the company's unease over the portrayal of Uncle Remus, a key black character in the film. No reason has been given for the withholding of Fantasia for telecast. Nearly all of the segments of Fantasia have been shown on television separately on the Disney TV program, notably The Sorcerer's Apprentice, as well as the uncensored Pastoral Symphony, but never the entire film with all its animated segments from start to finish.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs never aired in its entirety until it was telecast on February 14, 2010 on ABC Family, nearly 56 years after the beginning of the first Disney anthology show.

Theme music

• For its first six years, the series used the song "When You Wish upon a Star" as its theme. The recording was taken directly from the soundtrack of the movie Pinocchio.
• From 1961 to 1969, an original song was used, "The Wonderful World of Color", written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. This song helped to emphasize the use of color with its lyrics.
• From 1969 to 1979, "The Wonderful World of Disney" orchestral medleys of various Disney songs from movies and theme parks were used as theme songs.
• From 1979 to 1981, "Disney's Wonderful World", a disco-styled theme was written to emphasize the new visual changes, even though the format remained the same. The song was written by John Debney and John Klawitter
• From 1981 to 1983, "Walt Disney" a short disco arrangement of "When You Wish upon a Star," arranged by Frank Gari, served as theme against some elaborate, then-state-of-the-art computer graphics. During the show's three-year hiatus from American television, CBC Television in Canada continued to use this title sequence and theme music for their own versions of the show. The sequence was also used as the opening sequence on international Walt Disney Home Video releases from 1981 to 1987.
• From 1986 to 1988, a synthesized, pop-rock arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" with some clapping was the theme. That was used again for the 1989-90 season of The Magical World of Disney and the 1990-97 run on The Disney Channel.
• In 1988, an orchestral medley of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and "When You Wish upon a Star" was used. That was switched back to the 1986 theme in 1989.
• From 1990 to 1997, an orchestral medley of "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Part of Your World" (the latter from Disney's at the time recent hit The Little Mermaid) was used for network specials (known as The Wonderful World of Disney on CBS and A Disney Special on other networks). This theme has also been used internationally.
• From 1997 to 2002, "The Wonderful World of Disney" an orchestral medley of "When You Wish upon a Star" and "A Whole New World" (the latter was used in the movie Aladdin) were used; also used occasionally was the Louis Armstrong hit "What a Wonderful World".It is still used on G-TV and Telemundo.
• From 2002 to 2008, "The Wonderful World of Disney" a newer orchestral arrangement of "When You Wish upon a Star" with a wordless choir was used.
• In 2007, a brand-new orchestral arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" and a brand-new opening title sequence were used on ABC telecasts in the United States.
• In 2008, another brand-new orchestral arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" (in actuality, the theme from the current Walt Disney Pictures logo, composed by Mark Mancina) and a brand-new opening title sequence (depicting a montage of the company's work) were shown.

Show titles

• Walt Disney's Disneyland (1954–1955)
• Walt Disney Presents (1955–1959)
• Walt Disney's The Wonderful World Of Color (1960–1969)
• The Wonderful World Of Disney (1) (1969–1979)
• Disney's Wonderful World (1979–1981)
• Walt Disney (1981–1983)
• The Disney Sunday Movie (1986–1988)
• The Magical World Of Disney (1988–1996)
• The Wonderful World Of Disney (2) (1997–2008)

Ratings

Seasonal Nielsen Ratings

Network	Season	Timeslot	TV Season	Season Premiere	Season Finale	Season Rank	Viewers
ABC	1	Wednesday 7:30 PM ET	1954–1955	October 27, 1954	July 13, 1955	#6	12.00 million
	2		1955–1956	September 14, 1955	May 30, 1956	#4	13.05 million
	3		1956–1957	September 12, 1956	June 5, 1957	#14	12.37 million
	4		1957–1958	September 11, 1957	May 14, 1958
	5	Friday 8:00 PM ET	1958–1959	October 3, 1958	May 29, 1959
	6	Friday 7:30 PM ET	1959–1960	October 2, 1959	April 1, 1960
	7	Sunday 6:30 PM ET	1960–1961	October 16, 1960	June 11, 1961
NBC	8	Sunday 7:30 PM ET	1961–1962	September 24, 1961	April 15, 1962	#23	11.02 million
	9		1962–1963	September 23, 1962	March 24, 1963	#24	11.22 million
	10		1963–1964	September 29, 1963	May 17, 1964	#21	11.87 million
	11		1964–1965	September 20, 1964	April 4, 1965	#11	13.54 million
	12		1965–1966	September 19, 1965	April 10, 1966	#17	12.49 million
	13		1966–1967	September 11, 1966	April 2, 1967	#19	11.85 million
	14		1967–1968	September 10, 1967	April 28, 1968	#25	11.73 million
	15		1968–1969	September 15, 1968	March 23, 1969	#22	12.41 million
	16		1969–1970	September 14, 1969	March 29, 1970	#9	13.81 million
	17		1970–1971	September 13, 1970	March 14, 1971	#14	13.46 million
	18		1971–1972	September 19, 1971	April 9, 1972	#19	13.66 million
	19		1972–1973	September 17, 1972	April 1, 1973	#9	15.23 million
	20		1973–1974	September 16, 1973	March 13, 1974	#13	14.76 million
	21		1974–1975	September 15, 1974	March 23, 1975	#18	15.07 million
	22	Sunday 7:00 PM ET	1975–1976	September 14, 1975	July 25, 1976
	23		1976–1977	September 26, 1976	May 22, 1977
	24		1977–1978	September 18, 1977	June 4, 1978
	25		1978–1979	September 17, 1978	May 13, 1979
	26		1979–1980	September 17, 1979	July 27, 1980
	27		1980–1981	September 14, 1980	August 16, 1981
CBS	28	Saturday 8:00 PM ET	1981–1982	September 26, 1981	July 31, 1982
	29		1982–1983	September 25, 1982	September 24, 1983
ABC	32	Sunday 7:00 PM ET	1985–1986	February 2, 1986	June 22, 1986
	33		1986–1987	September 21, 1986	August 30, 1987
	34		1987–1988	October 4, 1987	May 22, 1988
NBC	35		1988–1989	October 9, 1988	July 23, 1989
	36		1989–1990	October 1, 1989	August 26, 1990
Disney Channel	37		1990–1991	September 23, 1990	September 15, 1991
	38		1991–1992	September 22, 1991	September 13, 1992
	39		1992–1993	September 20, 1992	September 12, 1993
	40		1993–1994	September 19, 1993	September 11, 1994
	41		1994–1995	September 18, 1994	September 10, 1995
	42		1995–1996	September 17, 1995	August 25, 1996
	43		1996–1997	September 2, 1996	December 1, 1996
ABC	44		1997–1998	September 28, 1997	May 18, 1998	#30	13.50 million
	45		1998–1999	September 27, 1998	May 30, 1999	#45	11.90 million
	46		1999–2000	September 26, 1999	May 14, 2000	#29	12.82 million
	47		2000–2001	October 8, 2000	May 31, 2001	#39	12.10 million
	48		2001–2002	September 16, 2001	May 19, 2002	#38	11.20 million
	49		2002–2003	November 3, 2002	July 27, 2003	#53	10.10 million
	50		2003–2004	September 27, 2003	May 10, 2004	#98	7.39 million
	51	Saturday 8:00 PM ET	2004–2005	October 16, 2004	June 17, 2005	#112	5.93 million
	52		2005–2006	November 3, 2005	July 8, 2006	#159	4.22 million
	53		2006–2007	December 16, 2006	August 4, 2007	#195	4.28 million
	54		2007–2008	December 23, 2007	July 26, 2008	#173	4.01 million
	55	Wednesday 8:00 PM ET	2008–2009	December 24, 2008		#144	4.39 million

Awards and nominations

Emmy Awards

Won

1. Best Individual Program of the Year (Operation Undersea, 1955)
2. Best Television Film Editing (Lynn Harrison, Grant K. Smith, Operation Undersea, 1955)
3. Best Action or Adventure Series (1956)
4. Best Producer – Film Series (Walt Disney, 1956)
5. Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming (1963)
6. Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment (Walt Disney, 1965)
7. Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement – Programs (Ron Miller, executive producer, 1971)

Nominated

1. Best Television Film Editing (Chester W. Schaeffer, "Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter", 1955)
2. Best Single Program of the Year ("Davy Crockett and River Pirates", 1956)
3. Best Musical Contribution for Television (Oliver Wallace, 1957)
4. Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Children's Programming (1962)
5. Outstanding Program Achievements in the Fields of Variety and Music – Variety (1962)
6. Outstanding Children's Program (Walt Disney, Ron Miller (Further Adventures of Gallagher, 1966)
7. Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming – Programs (Ron Miller, executive producer, 1969)
8. Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming – Programs (Ron Miller, executive producer, 1970)
9. Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement – General Programming (Ron Miller, producer, 1972)
10. Special Classification of Outstanding Program Achievement (Ron Miller, executive producer, 1977)
11. Outstanding Children's Program (The Art of Disney Animation, 1981) ^[11]

Home video

Several home video releases have included episodes of the anthology series.

• On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends

• Kids Is Kids

• The Adventures of Chip 'N' Dale

• Bambi Platinum Edition
  • Tricks of Our Trade [Excerpt]

• Alice in Wonderland Masterpiece Edition
  • One Hour in Wonderland [Complete Episode]
  • Operation Wonderland Featurette
  • The Fred Waring Show [First Half]
  • 1954 Introduction
  • 1964 Introduction

• Alice in Wonderland Special Un-Anniversary Edition
  • One Hour in Wonderland [Complete Episode]
  • Operation Wonderland Featurette
  • The Fred Waring Show [First Half]
  • 1954 Introduction
  • 1964 Introduction

• Alice in Wonderland 60th Anniversary Edition
  • One Hour in Wonderland [Complete Episode]
  • Operation Wonderland Featurette
  • The Fred Waring Show [First Half]
  • 1954 Introduction
  • 1959 Introduction
  • 1964 Introduction

• Peter Pan Special Edition
  • The Peter Pan Story Featurette

• Peter Pan Platinum Edition
  • The Peter Pan Story Featurette

• Dumbo 60th Anniversary Edition
  • Walt Disney Introduction

• Dumbo Big Top Edition
  • Walt Disney Introduction

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum Edition
  • Tricks of Our Trade [2 Excerpts]
  • The Silly Symphony Story [Excerpt]

• Pete's Dragon Gold Collection/High Flying Edition
  • The Plausible Impossible [Excerpt]

• The Aristocats Special Edition
  • The Great Cat Family

• Disneyland, USA
  • The Disneyland Story
  • Disneyland After Dark
  • Disneyland 10th Anniversary

• Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios
  • The Story of the Animated Drawing
  • The Plausible Impossible
  • Tricks of Our Trade

• Tomorrow Land
  • Man In Space
  • Man and the Moon
  • Mars and Beyond
  • Our Friend the Atom

• The Complete Pluto, Volume 1
  • A Story of Dogs (excerpt entitled: "Pluto's Picture Book")

• The Chronological Donald, Volume Two
  • A Day in the Life of Donald Duck

• Your Host, Walt Disney
  • I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
  • Backstage Party
  • Where Do the Stories Come From
  • The Fourth Anniversary Show
  • Disneyland 10th Anniversary

• True Life Adventures (4 volumes)

• Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic
  • The Golden Horseshoe Revue
  • Disneyland Goes To the World's Fair
  • Disneyland Around the Seasons

• So Dear to My Heart
  • So Dear To My Heart (introduction)

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Monsters of the Deep (excerpt)

• Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition
  • A Story of Dogs ("making-of" segment)/[Excerpt]
  • A Cavalcade of Songs (excerpt)/[3-Minutes Excerpt]

• Old Yeller
  • Best Doggone Dog In The West

• Darby O'Gill and the Little People
  • I Captured The King of the Leprechauns

• Johnny Tremain
  • The Liberty Story (first half)
  • Johnny Tremain, Part One (excerpt)
  • Johnny Tremain, Part Two (excerpt)

• Sleeping Beauty Special Edition
  • An Adventure in Art (segment: "Four Artists Paint One Tree")
  • The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (Life of Tchaikovsky segment only)

• Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition
  • An Adventure in Art (segment: "Four Artists Paint One Tree")
  • The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (complete episode – two versions)

• Pollyanna
  • Pollyanna, Part One (introduction)
  • Pollyanna, Part Two (introduction)
  • Pollyanna, Part Three (introduction)

• Swiss Family Robinson
  • Escape to Paradise/Water Birds (first half)

• The Parent Trap
  • The Title Makers (first half)

• The Sword in the Stone Gold Collection
  • All About Magic (complete episode)

• The Sword in the Stone 45th Anniversary Edition
  • All About Magic (excerpt)

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow (first half)

See also

• Zorro (1957 TV series)
• Disneyland Park (Anaheim)
• Mickey Mouse Club
• Disney Channel

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} http://epguides.com/WaltDisneyPresents/
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402635/combined
3. ^ Cotter, Bill (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. New York: Hyperion Books. pp. 17. ISBN 0-7868-6359-5.. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046593/companycredits
5. ^ http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/disland/dl1960.htm
6. ^ Brooks, Tim; Earle Marsh (1985). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–present (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. p. 1092. ISBN 0-345-31864-1. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Stewart, James B. (2005). "1". Disneywar (1st ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0-684-80993-1. 
8. ^ ^{a b} Masters, Kim (2000). "13". The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else (2nd ed.). New York: HarperCollins. pp. 189–190. ISBN 0-06-662109-7. 
9. ^ Hill, Jim (2002-09-06). "Vhat Vood Vault Do?". Jim Hill Media. http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2002/09/06/261.aspx. 
10. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038969/releaseinfo
11. ^ IMDb: Awards

External links

• Disneyland at the Internet Movie Database
• Disneyland at TV.com
• The Wonderful World of Disney at TV.com (1997)
• Disney interview in TV Guide (1961) (regarding the move from ABC to NBC)
• Information about the book The Wonderful World of Disney Television by Bill Cotter
• Episode list (1954–1996)