Talk:Disney anthology television series

Ended

The article says that the series "ended for good," but doesn't ABC (now owned by Disney) show it on Sunday nights now? I'm sure I see it advertised weekly. —Frecklefoot 19:08, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Michael Eisner

Does anyone know if Michael Eisner does actually present the show? If so, who will present the show when Eisner leaves Sept 30? Surely not Bob Iger? --Speedway 16:53, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

I seem to remember "The Wonderful World of Disney" was on CBS in 1990. (They were showing "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and had a commercial for Beethoven. The CBS "bug" was on the screen, too.) Am I crazy?

What I mean is, my mom taped "Mickey's Christmas Carol" a long time ago. The opening sequence had Mickey painting with magical paintbrushes and a lot of things. All during that sequence, an orchestral mix of "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Part of Your World" was playing. Then, the title appeared. After a Donald Duck cartoon, I caught those dogs barking out "Jingle Bells" while I saw the Universal logo. After that, Mom cut through the commercials. When she did that, I saw the CBS "bug" at the bottom while everyone looked at a brown photo of some of the Disney gang singing Christmas carols. I think at the end of the movie, there was a preview of "The Nightmare Before Christmas". I also saw on the same tape the beginning of the same sequence with the ABC "bug". Am I crazy? Sorry for the long message. 71.111.209.99 15:04, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Man, I just don't get it. I don't get it. Does anyone know about this? I'll have the link for an example in a minute. Ah, here it is. Now, the open I saw was much longer and had clips from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and was flying over Disney-MGM Studios. It was also titled "The Wonderful World of Disney". It also didn't have the live-action 101 Dalmations and Toy Story clips (instead, Roger Rabbit and 3 Men and a Baby). Now can you see what I'm saying? Thank you. 71.111.232.40 20:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• The opens tended to evolve over the years, so all sorts of variations probably exist. —tregoweth (talk) 22:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right. Say, you can help contribute to this article. Would you mind helping add on to it, tregoweth? 71.111.232.40 13:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Videos

Look under the external links banner. I put up some video opens through YouTube. I hope you enjoy them. 71.111.232.40 20:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, who took the videos down? 71.111.232.40 22:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Nobody's explaining why they put down the videos. I'm not going to hurt you or anything. Just please tell me what's going on. Thank you. 71.111.232.40 19:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

• Looking back through the history, it looks like I did, without meaning to. I'd re-add them, but that's probably a copyright violation, and I don't want to attract Disney's lawyers. —tregoweth (talk) 21:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

How? As long as they don't know about it, we're clear. I bet Disney's lawyers really don't care. 71.111.232.40 00:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I put them back. Please do not touch. I put in a good 15 minutes doing this. Thank you. 71.111.232.40 00:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

What I meant is originally. 71.111.232.40 00:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• If a link is not legal and may harm Wikipedia, chances are someone will take it down. —tregoweth (talk) 00:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

How could it not be legal? Nobody uses them anymore. 71.111.232.40 01:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Whether they're being used or not, the programs (and their openings) are still copyrighted material, and whoever posted them to YouTube did so without Disney's permission. Disney could bring legal action against YouTube for hosting it, and possibly Wikipedia for linking to it. You may want to read Wikipedia:Copyrights for more information. —tregoweth (talk) 03:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Friend, I took 2 classes in Computer Applications. I know a lot about copyright law and the fair use policy. Are we out to make a profit? No. Are we entering a contest? No. So, as far as I'm concerned, we're OK. 71.111.232.40 23:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• No offense, but taking those classes doesn't make you a lawyer. :) Fair use is pretty complicated, and in lieu of expert legal advice, it's usually best to err on the side of caution. —tregoweth (talk) 04:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I still don't think we're doing anything wrong. I may not be a lawyer, but I know we're not trying to get in legal trouble. 71.111.232.40 15:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• They're taken down because you may have breeched some copyrights issues without knowing it. This is very common in the YouTube World, especially after the Viacom lawsuit. I myself, would like to find out if The Disney Shows that were once on The 'Disney' Channel would be on TV again, like on PBS or once Disney Junior is launched, there should be talks on a Vault Disney Channel or have them be back on The Disney Channel at midnight...the teenagers aren't up at late-night and many of the people who are would usually tape or TiVo it....Warren67 (talk) 00:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Article name

I've been thinking that the article should be renamed to something like "Disney anthology TV series"—it's not strictly a Walt Disney (the man) series, and the title currently doesn't indicate what kind of series it is. Thoughts? Comments? :) —tregoweth (talk) 02:02, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Syndication

Does anyone know about the Syndication details? In the late 80's / Early 90's there was a daily syndicated version of this that I used to watch every day as a kind on channel 31 (Sacramento area). That is all of the details I have, though. It was basically rerunning the entire library, which is where I first saw things like the "Wonderful World of Color" episode, etc. 67.181.97.183 03:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The 1980's version...

According to the article, the version of the show that aired on CBS was called Walt Disney. That's incorrect; it was called Walt Disney Presents. It may have also been called by that name in the late 50's, but that was before my time, so I wouldn't know about that. However, I distinctly remember when it moved to CBS, and it was called Walt Disney Presents. Up to this time, Disney's show usually aired on Sunday nights when we were at church, so we were excited when it was moved to a night that we would actually be home.97.73.64.150 (talk) 21:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

International Markets

There's no section for international broadcasts of the show?

The Wonderful World Of Disney aired as a mixture of reruns and Disney film repeats on Network Seven in Australia up until 1994(the last film premiere being Disney's Aladdin) before the Disney Channel came to Optus Vision(and later Foxtel) in late 1994/5.

The same business relationship between Seven and Disney saw the creation of Saturday Disney in 1990.

The actual theme of the Australian version was a mixture of Hi-Ho and Wish upon a Star. Colliric (talk) 05:17, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

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ABC in 1996

I'm fairly certain TWWD was airing on ABC in 1996 and not CBS, especially because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TFXI-H968U

KOCO-TV is an ABC-affiliated station, not to mention, there were advertisments about The Lion King's premiere in 1996 on "The Wonderful World of Disney". Dpm12 (talk) 02:50, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

RCA and "The Wonderful World of Color"

Does anyone think that it is worth mentioning that NBC was owned by RCA who owned most of the patents on color TV broadcasting? "The Wonderful World of Color" was designed to speed the adoption of color TV as all color TV's produced resulted in royalties to RCA. This explains the change in title with the move from ABC. It was not by accident that NBC was promoted as the first "All Color" network.Corumplex (talk) 21:09, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Space Jam on The Wonderful World of Disney?

I'm not sure Space Jam was ever on The Wonderful World of Disney. Why would Disney promote their competition? -2600:1702:2C60:A60:89DB:4537:566A:F1CB (talk) 17:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

The Disney Sunday Movie’s Time

Shouldn’t the article say “8:00pm to 9:00pm Eastern time”? I thought The Disney Sunday Movie was only an hour long. Cbsteffen (talk) 13:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Andy Burnett

I think the story arc of Andy Burnett on Walt Disney's Disneyland and elsewhere should be covered somewhere in Wikipedia. Even if it may not merit its own article, the title Andy Burnett should redirect to a section somewhere. Andrewa (talk) 14:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

There is a little material at Stewart Edward White#Writing. Andrewa (talk) 15:00, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Abigail Disney

Hi I see that Abigail Disney is listed as the host but to the best of my knowledge this series has been without a host since Michael Eisner left about 20 years ago, and also i cannot find any evidence to back up the idea of Abigail Disney hosting so unless anyone else has found something that i have not, i believe it to be false and needs to be removed. BWMESQ (talk) 00:27, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Removed the vandalism from December 2022. Msw1002 (talk) 01:54, 18 July 2023 (UTC)