![]() ![]() Remember his biggest role before this was the romantic comedy lead in Tammy and the Batchelor opposite Debbie Reynolds. Along with 1956's Forbidden Planet, Leslie Nielsen's 1959-61 role as General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, helped make him an adventure star (until Airplane! accidentally returned him to comedy). It also turned song and dance man Buddy Ebsen, the original choice as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, into a small screen star with the folksy, aw shucks personna continued in The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones. It created the homespun, always honest, man of the people personna that would endure through Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1962-63) and Daniel Boone (1964-70). ![]() WDP gave Fess Parker his first real starring role as Davy Crockett in 1955. These limited episode productions, the first mini-series, launched two major careers and redirected a third. ![]() Its live action originals literally the stuff of legend into new legends: Davy Crockett, The Swamp Fox and The Scarecrow. As did some of the best animation, from Disney's best general release Donald Duck shorts to entirely new productions, including a new character who quickly achieved a place in the Duckville pantheon Ludvig Von Drake. Some of the most beautiful, not to mention earliest, color film of natural wonders flowers, butterflies and national parks appeared on this show. This show was a mainstay of my childhood. It started as "Walt Disney Presents" and became "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color". ![]()
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