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A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or ""Flubber"", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
A bumbling professor accidently invents flying rubber, or ""Flubber"", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Dean Jones plays a race car driver who meets a pretty young woman (Michelle Lee) he sees working in the window at a fancy car dealership. He pretends to be interested in a car, but the dealer has nothing he can afford. Well, actually, that's not true. There is one little Volkswagen Beetle that was purchased by a woman who also bought a Bentley. She bought it for her maid but brought it back because the car misbehaved. Jones isn't interested in the car, but it follows him home. Cops show up at his place accusing him of stealing the car, which of course he didn't. Jones blames the sleazy car dealer for this, and for the strange behavior the car exhibits when he tries to drive it. The car has a mind of its own, and its special qualities make it good for racing. A romance develops between Jones and Lee when Lee tries to convince Jones the car is normal but soon finds out the truth. Lee can't stand Jones at first, of course.
Eventually Jones decides to keep the car and race it, but the car
Although the narrator speaks of the show's star, Major Effects, as being a hero of superhuman proportions, a 100-year-old man appears. It's all a bit of special effects, explains the Major, who is actually actor Joseph Bottoms (star of the studio's then-current theatrical releaseThe Black Hole). He introduces a wizard known as ""Bigger-Than-Life,"" who endows him with magical powers to explain how the effects are realized.
A young woman with an active imagination contacts the FBI when her cat DC (Darn Cat) comes home wearing a wristwatch. She's convinced its the tip-off to crack a bank robbery and kidnapping case that has the authorities baffled. An allergic agent is assigned to ""tail"" the cat to find the hostage, and laugh (and romance) follows.
In this 1975 theatrical release, Tia and Tony are two siblings with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle so that he can claim them for his sinister boss, millionaire Aristotle Bolt.
Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland), who wants to exploit them. Jason (Eddie Albert), a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony ""escape to witch mountain,"" while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
This 1963 theatrical sequel to ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" finds Professor Ned Brainard inventing ""flubber gas,"" a gaseous form of his original concoction.
Two kids get into real trouble when a dying man leaves a package in their toy sailboat.
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in more trouble than before.He mixes up weather patterns and causes glass breakage around the county. Its up to his students to save him.
Thought to have been murdered by her evil stepmother, Snow White lives happily in the woods with the Seven Dwarfs. The Queen, discovering Snow White is still alive, plots to destroy the princess once and for all. Armed with a deadly ""wishing apple"" and dressed as a peddler woman, the Queen sets out to find her rival. Will the Evil Queen finally become the ""fairest in the land""? Will the Seven Dwarfs arrive in time to stop the Queen? Will Snow White be reunited with her one true love? This Live play from Radio City Music Hall was a huge success for Disney. This special is now considered very rare.
Timothy Hutton plays a rock star who needs a break from his hectic touring schedule. He ""runs away"" for a few days to relax and strangely enough ends up on a small island owned by a very wealthy man. The rich guy entertains himself by having big game brought to his island for his hunting pleasure.
