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Disney anthology television series (1954)

Disney anthology television series poster
Original title
The Wonderful World of Disney
Directed by
Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Genre
anthology series
Country
United States
Length
34 seasons, 773 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series is a long-running anthology show from Disney that has aired under different titles since 1954. It presents a mix of classic cartoons, nature documentaries, and family movies, originally hosted by Walt Disney himself.

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What happens

The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney, was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 onward. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1983. After a two-year hiatus, it resumed, running regularly until 1991. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, following Disney's purchase of ABC in 1995. Until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 to 2022. In 2020, the series began airing movies from the Disney+ library. In 2022, The Wonderful World of Disney returned to the regular ABC schedule, airing on Sunday nights in the winter and spring. The show has only had two hosts: Disney co-founder Walt Disney and former Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner. The show is the second longest-running prime-time program on American television, behind Hallmark Hall of Fame. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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