1979 opening to The Wonderful World of Disney

[midnightcaller200]

Tv was much better back then than what we got now we are in a world of garbage tv

back when I was growing up, we watched lassie and the wronderful world of disney as a family

[Padauy]

0:59 lol

[DPabon123]

I'll never know why they cancelled this program. Such a great show! Better than what Disney has been showing on TV for the past couple of years.

[TheWitchOvAgnesi]

@DPabon123 Whoa... major understatement there buddy.

[Beautifulmusiclistnr]

The original Parent Trap was just Terrific! Maureen O'hara was so beautiful and Haley Mills playing twin sisters was too much! I remember watching this as a kid on The Wonderful World of Disney" I wish I was watching it now! Oh to be a kid again and oh to be able to watch good clean tv! Thanks for posting!

[YoshiAngemon]

I saw an intro with DIFFERENT Clips, from my DVD of "Donald in MathMagic Land," which I got from Disney Movie Rewards with DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. If they knew what they were doing, they could've added more cartoons on there, like Donald and the Wheel, Freewayphobia and its sequel, Goofy's Freeway Troubles, and of course, Scrooge McDuck and Money.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL just Like I forgot about it. i remember "Now you see it now you dont"

[pardyhardly]

I always thought that Tinkerbell was a fairy.

[SnowbirdFlock]

@pardyhardly Isn't she? She's not a mosquito

[schroeder8911]

Loved it, but I seem to recall being disappointed when the movies turned out to be in two parts. Had to wait a week to see how Old Yeller ended...

[moviesperson100001]

@schroeder8911 I have that movie on VHS from a long time ago and I don't remember there being an intermission.

[schroeder8911]

@moviesperson100001 :) No, there wouldn't have been. The problem was that the movies ran about two hours and the Sunday night televised version on The Wonderful World of Disney had to play in two parts. This was because the time slot was only an hour long. Since this was before VHS, we would be very upset if we missed one of the parts.

[twimama43]

I loved watching The wonderful World of Disney. :) Brings back so many memories.

[fivebearrugs]

Okay, so I saw *another* TWWOD title sequence used from 1978-1979... just how many title sequences were used in the 1969-1979 incarnation??

[czarinadude15]

wooh... 19 years before my birth...

AWESOME...

[czarinadude15]

wooh... 9 years before my birth...

AWESOMEEE...

[MrJacMac1986]

The announcer was Dick Tufield who did the voice of the Robot on Lost in Space

[Horizons1]

Holy crap! Look at the Polynesian!

[TubeScrewed]

I never noticed growing up watching this, there are variations of the intro.  That's cool.

[fivebearrugs]

Apparently it won't let me post YouTube links, but this is the intro I was talking about: type in "1970's Opening Theme to The Wonderful World of Disney" in the search box; it's by a user named LoreneFaith.

[fivebearrugs]

Interesting...I've *never* seen the intro for this version before, cool! I guess I'm used to the version that was aired on Vault Disney....

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@fivebearrugs: Make that "Versions"...the 1964, 1967 and 1970 versions of the WWoD title sequences were used on Vault Disney reruns.

[fivebearrugs]

@SeanElGatoTelevision Thanks for the info! Again, I didn't know that there were several versions of title sequences! :)

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

Nice find! I've never seen this since I was a wee one. It has the WWOD "25 Years" bumper included, a clip from "The Parent Trap", a 1979 intro and the episode title. But I never knew that this episode intro to "The Patent Trap" on WWOD exists until now. According to the WWOD Television book by Bill Cotter, it was aired as a rerun on May 6th, 1979, but many of these are edited for television in a 2-hour time slot rather than two and a half hours since it first aired back in 1976.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

@HomeoftheGoodGuys But thankfully, I have this film on DVD as well.

[TIPTON340]

They cut the sappy opening sung by Annette Funechello.

[DisneyVideoMagic2]

@TIPTON340 You might see the real opening credits on either the 1997 VHS or the DVD of the film. I also have the 1997 VHS and the 2007 DVD with "Parent Trap 2".

[BlackwoodCompany]

The castle must have been the one that was in the first one since it had it in the last one.

[nicholasm79]

@BlackwoodCompany What usual rhetorical nonsense.

[TerryT1976]

This opening I do not recall ever seeing. I have one opening on several commercially sold VHS tapes of the WWoD series with the same music but different visuals.

[heine71]

In the opening: A clip from "The Parent Trap", I guess.

[robatsea2009]

@heine71  yes

[heine71]

@robatsea2009 Of course, the title of that Disney movie appeared in the clip! It stars Hayley Mills.

[nicholasm79]

@heine71 What gave that away genius????

[czarinadude15]

@heine71 yeah..

parent trap is awesome :)

both versions