The Wonderful World of Disney — Season 24
About this season
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.
Episodes (18)
1. Gus
Aired 18 September 1977 • 60 min
2. The Treasure of Matecumbe
Aired 2 October 1977 • 60 min
In this 1976 theatrical release, two runaway boys from post-Civil War Kentucky head for the island of Matecumbe off the Florida Keys, where a treasure is supposedly buried.
3. Charley for the Angel
Aired 16 October 1977 • 60 min
4. The Incredible Journey
Aired 23 October 1977 • 60 min
5. Halloween Hall O' Fame
Aired 30 October 1977 • 60 min
Halloween Hall o' Fame is a television special that first aired on October 30, 1977 as part of The Wonderful World of Disney. The special featured Jonathan Winters as a security guard working late at the Walt Disney Productions studio on Halloween night. He is accompanied by his dog, Peanuts. Winters, bitter about working on Halloween night, stumbles upon the prop room at the studio and begins acting out scenes with various props. Eventually he finds a crystal ball containing a talking pumpkin, Jack o' Lantern. Jack o' Lantern is hiding out from Halloween because it is no longer scary like it was in "the old days". The dialogue between the security guard and the pumpkin is interspersed with Halloween-related Disney cartoons, that Jack o' shows the security guard in his crystal ball and which the audience gets to enjoy. List of cartoons: The first cartoon, "Trick or Treat", features Huey, Dewey, and Louie as they go trick or treating. Donald plays a mean trick on them and the boys seek revenge on him with the help of a witch. The second cartoon, "Pluto's Judgment", shows Pluto on trial for tormenting cats featuring a jury of felines who instantly proclaim he's guilty. Thankfully, just as he's given the penalty, he wakes up, reveling it all to be a nightmare.
6. The Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World
Aired 20 November 1977 • 60 min
7. From All of Us to All of You #6
Aired 25 December 1977 • 60 min
8. Three on the Run
Aired 8 January 1978 • 60 min
Two brothers enter a dogsled race with white German shepherd, an English sheepdog and a bloodhound. Action happens when a grizzly bear appears.
9. Journey to the Valley of the Emu
Aired 22 January 1978 • 60 min
10. The Shaggy Dog
Aired 29 January 1978 • 60 min
A suburban teenager finds a magic ring that spontaneously causes him to turn into a dog.
11. The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Aired 5 February 1978 • 60 min
12. Race for Survival
Aired 5 March 1978 • 60 min
An African game warden's plane crashes in a remote area in Nairobi. His greyhound, Smokey, escapes from the wreckage with a note with instructions to find the man and help him. On the way, the dog befriends a lion who helps him get through the African wilderness and find help for his owner.
13. Trail of Danger (1)
Aired 12 March 1978 • 60 min
14. Trail of Danger (2)
Aired 19 March 1978 • 60 min
15. Mixed Nuts
Aired 26 March 1978 • 60 min
16. Child of Glass
Aired 14 May 1978 • 60 min
A family moves into an antebellum southern mansion. Only Alexander, their son, realizes that it is haunted by the ghost of Inez Dumaine, a young girl who was murdered there during the Civil War. He and his friend, Blossom, have until midnight on Halloween to solve a riddle that will let Inez's ghost rest in peace.
17. The Young Runaways
Aired 28 May 1978 • 60 min
C.L. Doyle and his wife take their oldest kids Rosebud and Joseph T. Doyle on a trip to Alaska, but leave their younger siblings Freddie and Margaret Jean in foster care under the supervision of some crooks. Angered over her parents carelessness, Rosebud convinces her brother to join them in kidnapping their younger siblings and running away from home, sparking a manhunt and a show of support from kids rallying on behalf of their cause.
18. A Tale of Two Critters
Aired 4 June 1978 • 60 min