The History of Walt Disney's Something Wicked This Way Comes
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
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael and Tom celebrate Halloween with a haunting look at the 1983 Ray Bradbury fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Websites/Articles:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) for The Great Disney Movie Ride
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (film), Wikipedia
- Disney Plus-Or-Minus: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Adam Jahnke
- Disney’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” 40 years later … for Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek
- Something Wicked This Way Comes a movie review by James Berardinelli for ReelViews
- Some Case Wicked This Way Comes, The Black Case Diaries Movie/TV Podcast
- Re:Vieww: Something Wicked This Way Comes by The Dark Herald for Ark Haven Comics
- Throwback Thursday: “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (1983) By Tony Schaab for Science Fiction.com
- “It’s a thousand years to Christmas”/Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) by Grant Watson for Fiction Machine
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Cinefantastique Magazine
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Moviepedia
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by wondersinthedark
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom the Kingdom, you're listening to the Connecting with Walt is brought to you by dreams and limited travel, experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
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| 0:50.3 | Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode three, four 3, 4, 5 of Connecting with WALP, celebrating our Tincenial year. |
| 0:58.2 | I am your host, Adis historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Tom Bell. |
| 1:06.0 | Tom, how are you today? |
| 1:08.4 | Boo. |
| 1:10.2 | I see you're in your Halloween costumes. |
| 1:13.4 | How would you describe it for our listeners? |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:21.3 | You're having a good Halloween, Michael? |
| 1:24.2 | So, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:25.7 | We, you know, last weekend we had at the zoo, we had the happy Howl O'ween. |
| 1:32.3 | And I didn't, I didn't wear my costume I was going to wear. |
| 1:36.9 | I have a Sorcerer Mickey costume. |
| 1:38.9 | I thought, oh, I'll wear that because it looked like it was going to rain. |
| 1:42.5 | So I basically just wore the little light-up necklace of Jack Skellington, |
| 1:49.0 | even though you could see it was lighting up. |
| 1:51.1 | And then I bought a headband of Sorcerer Mickey Ears at Hong Kong Disneyland |
| 1:57.5 | because there's so much nicer than the headbands we have out here |
| 2:02.0 | where they're plastic and all that. |
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