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Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color : Season 2
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Air date: 14 Sep '55 - 26 episodesWalt 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 same basic show has since appeared on several networks, with its latest revival debuting in 2012 on Disney Junior. 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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List of Episodes (26)
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1. Dumbo [1941]
14 Sep '55This is an airing of the beloved 1941 animated feature, edited to run in the allotted time slot. Mrs. Jumbo, a circus elephant receives a baby with large ears. The other elephants ostracize him, and his mother is locked up for attacking a heckling human. As Dumbo, the mocking nickname for the baby elephant given to him, finds himself without any friends, an ambitious mouse named Timothy befriends him and helps him overcome his problem.
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2. Behind the True-Life Cameras, Olympic Elk
21 Sep '55James Algar takes us behind the scenes of a True-Life adventure in The Everglades and in a desert with Bob Crandall.
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3. Jiminy Cricket Presents Bongo
28 Sep '55A little circus bear runs away and finds more of his own kind. Rejected at first, he soon becomes a hero after standing up to a bully named Lumpjaw. This is actually the first half of the animated film, Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
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4. People and Places: Tiburon, Sardinia, Morocco/Icebreakers
05 Oct '55This episode is from the People and Places theatrical series filmed by William N. Smith about his adventures in these exotic places.
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5. The Adventures of Mickey Mouse
12 Oct '55Walt looks at the career of Mickey Mouse through a collection of his short cartoons.
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6. The Story of the Silly Symphony
19 Oct '55This compilation of several of Disney's ""Silly Symphonies,"" a series of short cartoons from the 1930s has Walt telling viewers about the respective origins of many of the stories.
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7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [1948]
26 Oct '55
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8. The Story of Robin Hood [1952] (1)
02 Nov '55
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9. The Story of Robin Hood [1952] (2)
09 Nov '55
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10. Davy Crockett: The Keelboat Race
16 Nov '55It seems the only way Mr. Disney could bring his dead hero, Davy Crockett, back to life was to pass this story off as a ""tall tale"". It involves Davy and his pal Georgie Russel in a keelboat race to New Orleans against swaggering Mike Fink, the ""king of the river"". This episode is avalible on DVD as part of a 2-disc set.
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11. The Story of the Animated Drawing
30 Nov '55The first of three shows based on Disney's ""Art of Animation"" book. Walt Disney explores the history of Animation from primitive cave drawings, to Windsor McKay's ""Gertie the Dinosaur"" and Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat, up to Fantasia. Two cartoons are featured: The Skeleton Dance (1929) and the Nutcraker Suite segmest from Fantasia. This episode is avalible on the ""Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studios"" 2-disc DVD.
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12. The Goofy Success Story
07 Dec '55
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13. Davy Crockett: The River Pirates
14 Dec '55The final Davy Crockett story (the second ""Legend"" tale) has Davy and ex-foe Mike Fink on the same side, fighting some nasty pirates who are passing themselves off as Indians in order to start a war. This episode is avalible as part of a 2-disc DVD set.
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14. Man and the Moon
28 Dec '55This installment tells of many age-old legends and fantasies about the moon, upon which, at the time of this episode, man was still trying to land.
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15. When Knighthood Was in Flower [1953] (1)
04 Jan '56
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16. When Knighthood Was in Flower [1953] (2)
11 Jan '56
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17. A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris
18 Jan '56
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18. A Day in the Life of Donald Duck
01 Feb '56
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19. Survival in Nature
08 Feb '56
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20. Our Unsung Villains
15 Feb '56"Our Unsung Villains" is a 1956 episode of Walt Disney anthology television series. The program has Walt Disney handing over the hosting duties to the Magic Mirror, who promptly decides to do a show devoted to the Disney villains. Hans Conried plays the role of the Magic Mirror and would reprise the role in many Disney television specials, including the 1977 followup "Disney's Greatest Villains." In this program, the Magic Mirror only focuses on four villains, whereas he covers twelve in "Disney
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21. A Trip Thru Adventureland/Water Birds
29 Feb '56
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22. On Vacation
07 Mar '56
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23. Stormy, the Thoroughbred [1954]
14 Mar '56
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24. The Goofy Sports Show
21 Mar '56
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25. Where Do the Stories Come From?
04 Apr '56
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