Walt Disney began hosting his own television show for ABC in 1954 in an unusual contract: Disney provided ABC with a weekly hour-long television program in exchange for funding for the construction of Disneyland. As a result, the television show was also originally named Disneyland. The anthology series has since gone through a number of name changes over the years: Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, The Wonderful World of Disney, Disney's Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, and The Magical World of Disney. The series spanned an incredible 54 years—13 seasons of which were hosted by Walt Disney, himself.
With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.
Aired on Wednesday, March 9th, 1955 on ABC at 7:30pm
Aired on Wednesday, June 15th, 1955 on ABC at 7:30pm
Aired on Wednesday, September 7th, 1955 on ABC at 7:30pm
Aired on Friday, September 18th, 1959 on ABC at 8:00pm (under the heading of Walt Disney Presents)
Why are these all out of sync???
vawlkee51 1 month ago
Willy Ley left Germany before the Nazi's got into power. He was a science writer, but I believe he may have thought up the idea of the multistage or three stage rocket. He was in the US at the time and it was about a year before the end of WWII. He talks about the V-2 matter-of-factly here. Those were the rockets use on London nine years earlier. This was a very important series on space flight for the US public who had little or no knowledge on the subject.
eotto2001 7 months ago
At 6:56, these rocket powered vehicles were designed by Opel.
openvue 8 months ago
@PatchesRips Fair enough. But I think Mission:SPACE might cheer them up, when faced with all the disappointing lack of progress we've made in every scientific field.
ztslovebird 10 months ago
@ztslovebird I think he'd be justly disappointed in how little progress we've made since 1972, robotic landings notwithstanding.
PatchesRips 10 months ago
Just imagine what Walt would say about the space station, exploration of Mars, and Mission: SPACE!!!
ztslovebird 10 months ago