Four hours of Disney nostalgia with Opie Cunningham and Chrissy Snow? Absolute chaos.
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Disney. These are some of the titles of the Disney anthology series that first aired as Disneyland in 1954. Ron Howard and Suzanne Somers serve as hosts for the musical celebration.
Production
Ron Howard's aggressively sincere young man energy anchoring the chaos.
Costume
1978 celebrity fashion choices that aged like milk in the Florida sun.
Director
Art Fisher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This special aired in September 1978, shortly before Disney's 1979 corporate reorganization that nearly killed the animation division.
The special's existence proves 1970s networks would greenlight literally anything with 'anniversary' in the title if it filled four hours of Sunday programming.
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