• Air date: 09 Sep '79 17 episodes
      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 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.
  • List of Episodes (17)
    • 1. The Absent-Minded Professor (1)

      09 Sep '79
      Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""
    • 2. The Absent-Minded Professor (2)

      16 Sep '79
      Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""
    • 3. The Love Bug (2-hour)

      23 Sep '79
      In this 1969 theatrical release, a race car driver buys a white 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, only to find that it has a mind of its own.
    • 4. Baseball Fever

      14 Oct '79
    • 5. Major Effects

      16 Dec '79
      Although the narrator speaks of the show's star, Major Effects, as being a hero of superhuman proportions, a 100-year-old man appears. It's all a bit of special effects, explains the Major, who is actually actor Joseph Bottoms (star of the studio's then-current theatrical releaseThe Black Hole). He introduces a wizard known as ""Bigger-Than-Life,"" who endows him with magical powers to explain how the effects are realized.
    • 6. From All of Us to all of You #7

      23 Dec '79
    • 7. That Darn Cat!

      13 Jan '80
    • 8. Mickey's Greatest Adventures

      20 Jan '80
    • 9. Donald's Valentine's Day Salute

      10 Feb '80
    • 10. Escape to Witch Mountain

      17 Feb '80
      In this 1975 theatrical release, Tia and Tony are two siblings with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle so that he can claim them for his sinister boss, millionaire Aristotle Bolt.
    • 11. The Kids Who Knew Too Much

      09 Mar '80
    • 12. Son of Flubber

      16 Mar '80
      This 1963 theatrical sequel to ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" finds Professor Ned Brainard inventing ""flubber gas,"" a gaseous form of his original concoction.
    • 13. Disney's Oscar Winners

      13 Apr '80
      This retrospective installment highlights Disney films that have won or been nominated for Academy Awards.
    • 14. The Sultan and the Rock Star

      20 Apr '80
      Sultan, a gentle Bengal tiger who appears on a popular (but unnamed) television series, is taken to Sportsman's Island by Alec Frost, a disreputable gamekeeper, and tortured in an attempt to make him vicious. Several days later, he is turned loose to be the object of a hunting party led by the island's cruel owner, George McKinzie. Meanwhile, Paul Winters, a young pop singer on tour near here, becomes tired of his busy schedule and runs off from his mother and manager. He finds himself on Sport
    • 15. Secret of Lost Valley (1)

      27 Apr '80
    • 16. Secret of Lost Valley (2)

      04 May '80
    • 17. Misadventures of Chip N' Dale

      27 Jul '80