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• Adored by the Network: When the Wonderful World of Color came to NBC, the show had been promoted five months before its premiere.
• Executive Meddling: ABC wanted more westerns from Disney during the later 50s, which brought out a lot of "Frontierland" mini-series like Elfego Baca and The Swamp Fox. This was one of the reasons Walt fled to NBC.
  • While the show was doing good on CBS, Disney didn't let the show go on after the 1982-83 season so there wouldn't be any competition with the new Disney Channel.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Ludwig von Drake is voiced by Paul Frees, best known as Boris Badenov.
  • The narrator of "50 Happy Years" is Danny Dark, best known as Superman in Super Friends.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The total number of episodes available on DVD seems pretty small when considering how many seasons this show has.
  • Various Disney Blu-Ray Discs contain excerpts of varying lengths, but as of April 2013, only one full episode has become available to own on Blu-Ray: "The Peter Tchaicovsky Story". Sleeping Beauty included two versions of it as bonus features.
• Network to the Rescue: After the show was dropped by NBC due to low ratings, CBS was quick to pick it up in 1981.
• Old Shame: Drew Carey really regrets playing the title role in Gepetto, a 2000 musical adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio, to the point where mocking him for it became a Running Gag on Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
  • Also on The Drew Carey Show, he once brought Seth Adkins, who played Pinocchio, on the set in full costume and he said he didn't want to be around him anymore.
• Screwed by the Network: In the 70s, NBC placed the show opposite CBS' 60 Minutes, which took its toll on the ratings.