#246 - Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Television Pt. 3
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
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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02/17/23 - In this episode, Michael and John finish their discussion on Walt and television from Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color past his death to the days of Michael Eisner and the Sunday night movie.
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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 is brought to you by Dreams Unlimited Travel, experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
| 0:33.6 | Visit them on the web at Dreams Limited Travel.com. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey there, hi, they're ho there, and welcome to episode 246 of the Diz Unplugged, connecting with Walt |
| 0:44.1 | podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host and good friend |
| 0:51.0 | John Sikeri. |
| 0:52.4 | John, how are you today? |
| 0:54.5 | Doing well, loving that we're at part three with this. |
| 0:57.8 | This was a wonderful dive. |
| 1:00.6 | This was. |
| 1:01.6 | This was a lot of fun. |
| 1:02.6 | Brought back good memories of Walt and watching him on television every Sunday. |
| 1:09.9 | And this is it. |
| 1:11.0 | We are going to wind up our story with this episode. |
| 1:16.3 | So in our previous two episodes, we've been talking about Walt Disney's early years in television, |
| 1:22.1 | which include what prompted his venture into television, the start of his first series on ABC, Walt Disney's |
| 1:29.4 | Disneyland, and his falling out with ABC, which led Walt and Roy to selling the show to NBC. |
| 1:37.5 | The new show was titled Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, to emphasize it would now |
| 1:43.4 | be broadcast in color, and a new character was introduced, |
| 1:47.9 | Professor Ludwig von Drake, so viewers would know this was a completely new show. |
| 1:55.0 | Now, John, can you guess why Tinkerbell and Jiminy Cricket were the primary Disney characters |
| 2:00.4 | appearing on Walt Disney's Disneyland. |
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