#245 - Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Television Pt. 2
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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4.7 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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02/10/23 - In this episode, Michael and John continue their discussion on Walt and television and dig into some of the classic programming from Walt Disney's Disneyland.
Michael’s Disneyland History Segments
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom to Kingdom, you're listening to the Diz Unplugged Connecting with Walt |
| 0:06.6 | podcast. Connecting with Walt Podcast. Connecting with Walt is brought to you by Dreams and Limited Travel, the experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
| 0:32.8 | Visit them on the web at Dreams and Limited Travel.com. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, they're hi, they're how there, and welcome to episode 245 of the Diz Unplugged, |
| 0:42.1 | connecting with Walt Podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host and good friend |
| 0:49.2 | John Sikeri. |
| 0:50.6 | John, how are you today? |
| 0:52.7 | Very good and very happy to be here with you for this, |
| 0:55.4 | part two of very interesting stuff. Yeah, yeah, it is fun. Going back in time to some of this |
| 1:05.3 | in my boyhood when Walt was on television and all that. |
| 1:16.3 | So in our previous episode, we talked about how Walt Disney entered into an agreement with the ABC Television Network with the primary intention to promote films and obtain financing |
| 1:23.8 | to construct Disneyland the Park. |
| 1:27.3 | We left our story with Walt and Royce signing the |
| 1:30.2 | contract with ABC and planning their first television series titled Disneyland to tie it into |
| 1:36.8 | Disneyland the park. Walt decided he would be the host with the initial intention of handing off |
| 1:43.4 | the hosting duties once the show got running. |
| 1:47.0 | A majority of Walt's introductions to the episodes were filmed in his office. What most didn't realize |
| 1:53.8 | was that this office was in reality a set, specially constructed for the series. Although it was |
| 2:00.6 | meant to represent Walt's actual office, |
| 2:03.8 | the set was enhanced a bit to make it more interesting to viewers. |
| 2:08.1 | For example, at this time, Walt's real office was in the studio's animation building. |
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