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The Wonderful World of Disney

Season 26 1979 - 1980

  • 1979-09-09T23:00:00Z on ABC
  • 45m
  • 12h 45m (17 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Family
Walt Disney, one of Hollywood's most ambitious producers, was first approached to do television in 1950, when The Coca-Cola Company offered him a one-hour special. The one hour special, "One Hour in Wonderland," aired December 25, 1950 on NBC and garnered 90% of the television viewing audience. A second special, "The Walt Disney Christmas Special," aired December 25, 1951 on CBS. When Walt had drawn up plans for a theme park, known as Disneyland, he found a hard time obtaining funding; critics, including Walt's brother Roy, thought that it was unfeasible and that it would be a fiasco. At the same time, the ABC television network offered him a deal for a television anthology series. Walt wouldn't agree to it unless they put up partial financing for Disneyland (a term that had kept CBS and NBC from signing with him). ABC agreed, and also paid him $50,000 per program, an exorbitant sum for the time. The show, titled Disneyland, premiered on October 27, 1954 and was an immediate success. The program showcased original works from the Disney Studios. Cartoons, documentaries, educational shorts, all were shown to a captive worldwide audience. Variety was the key to its success, as it kept most of what it did fresh, multi-cultural and constantly changing its entertainment.

17 episodes

Season Premiere

1979-09-09T23:00:00Z

26x01 The Absent-Minded Professor (1)

Season Premiere

26x01 The Absent-Minded Professor (1)

  • 1979-09-09T23:00:00Z45m

Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""

Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""

1979-09-23T23:00:00Z

26x03 The Love Bug (2-hour)

26x03 The Love Bug (2-hour)

  • 1979-09-23T23:00:00Z45m

In this 1969 theatrical release, a race car driver buys a white 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, only to find that it has a mind of its own.

1979-10-14T23:00:00Z

26x04 Baseball Fever

26x04 Baseball Fever

  • 1979-10-14T23:00:00Z45m

1979-12-17T00:00:00Z

26x05 Major Effects

26x05 Major Effects

  • 1979-12-17T00:00:00Z45m

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.

1980-01-14T00:00:00Z

26x07 That Darn Cat!

26x07 That Darn Cat!

  • 1980-01-14T00:00:00Z45m

1980-02-18T00:00:00Z

26x10 Escape to Witch Mountain

26x10 Escape to Witch Mountain

  • 1980-02-18T00:00:00Z45m

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.

26x11 The Kids Who Knew Too Much

  • 1980-03-10T00:00:00Z45m

1980-03-17T00:00:00Z

26x12 Son of Flubber

26x12 Son of Flubber

  • 1980-03-17T00:00:00Z45m

This 1963 theatrical sequel to ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" finds Professor Ned Brainard inventing ""flubber gas,"" a gaseous form of his original concoction.

1980-04-14T00:00:00Z

26x13 Disney's Oscar Winners

26x13 Disney's Oscar Winners

  • 1980-04-14T00:00:00Z45m

This retrospective installment highlights Disney films that have won or been nominated for Academy Awards.

Sultan, a gentle Bengal tiger who appears on a popular (but unnamed) television series, is taken to Sportsman's Island by Alec Frost, a disreputable gamekeeper, and tortured in an attempt to make him vicious. Several days later, he is turned loose to be the object of a hunting party led by the island's cruel owner, George McKinzie.
Meanwhile, Paul Winters, a young pop singer on tour near here, becomes tired of his busy schedule and runs off from his mother and manager. He finds himself on Sportsman's Island and befriends Sultan.

26x15 Secret of Lost Valley (1)

  • 1980-04-27T23:00:00Z45m

26x16 Secret of Lost Valley (2)

  • 1980-05-04T23:00:00Z45m
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