The Wonderful World of Disney (1954)
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
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Episode 1 - Moochie of the Little League: A Diamond Is a Boy's Best Friend
Release Date: 1959-10-02Moochie's trying to make up for being "Small Fry" by putting his whole heart into catching for his Little League Team. He even finds a new field for his league when the old one's destroyed. He even ropes his best friend's dad into the league. But when Moochie might make the All Star team, the family's vacation plans might be ruined.
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Episode 2 - Moochie of the Little League: Wrong Way Moochie
Release Date: 1959-10-09 -
Episode 3 - Killers of the High Country
Release Date: 1959-10-16 -
Episode 4 - The Birth of the Swamp Fox
Release Date: 1959-10-23One of producer Walt Disney's more blatant efforts to duplicate the success of his early TV miniseries Davy Crockett, the 8-part Swamp Fox featured another flamboyant frontiersman hero who wore coonskin-style headgear and whose adventures were introduced with a catchy, memorable theme song. Based on a book by Dr. Robert D. Bass, The Swamp Fox stars Leslie Nielsen as real-life American patriot Francis Marion, a wealthy landowner who during the Revolutionary War led a hardy band of guerilla fighters against the Redcoats and pro-British tories in his native South Carolina. The villain of the piece (at least in the first few episodes) was another actual historical figure, the ruthless Banastre Tarleton (John Sutton), an officer in the British Green Dragoons (Marion and Tarleton later served as the models for the hero and villain, respectively, of the 1999 Mel Gibson film Patriot). In the first episode, Marion is prevailed upon by his friends and neighbors to help free South Carolina from t
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Episode 5 - Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother
Release Date: 1959-10-30Under the command of Colonel Tarleton of the Green Dragoon cavalry, Francis Marion strives to free South Carolina from the British.
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Episode 6 - Perilous Assignment
Release Date: 1959-11-06 -
Episode 7 - Elfago Baca: Move Along, Mustangers
Release Date: 1959-11-13 -
Episode 8 - Elfago Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid
Release Date: 1959-11-20 -
Episode 9 - A Storm Called Maria
Release Date: 1959-11-27 -
Episode 10 - Texas John Slaughter: The Robber Stallion
Release Date: 1959-12-04 -
Episode 11 - Texas John Slaughter: Wild Horse Revenge
Release Date: 1959-12-11 -
Episode 12 - Texas John Slaughter: Range War at Tombstone
Release Date: 1959-12-18 -
Episode 13 - Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance
Release Date: 1960-01-01 -
Episode 14 - Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning
Release Date: 1960-01-08 -
Episode 15 - Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy
Release Date: 1960-01-15 -
Episode 16 - Swamp Fox: A Case of Treason
Release Date: 1960-01-22 -
Episode 17 - Wild Burro of the West
Release Date: 1960-01-29 -
Episode 18 - Two Happy Amigos
Release Date: 1960-02-05 -
Episode 19 - Texas John Slaughter: Desperado from Tombstone
Release Date: 1960-02-12 -
Episode 20 - Texas John Slaughter: Apache Friendship
Release Date: 1960-02-19 -
Episode 21 - Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick
Release Date: 1960-02-26 -
Episode 22 - Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Release Date: 1960-03-04 -
Episode 23 - This is Your Life, Donald Duck
Release Date: 1960-03-11 -
Episode 24 - Elfago Baca: Friendly Enemies at Law
Release Date: 1960-03-18Attorney Elfego Baca is called on to investigate Rawls Kettrick, a powerful cattle baron. Rawls is accused of trafficking in stolen cattle but proclaims his innocence. As Baca looks into the case the list of suspects grows.
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Episode 25 - Elfago Baca: Gus Tomlin is Dead
Release Date: 1960-03-25 -
Episode 26 - The Mad Hermit of Chimney Butte
Release Date: 1960-04-01