History Series / WaltDisneyPresents

** ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''

The Creator/{{Disney}} television anthology series began airing in 1954 on Creator/{{ABC}} to provide funding for [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]. Rather than stick to one genre, the series covered a wide gamut of genres. The original ''Disneyland'' series was themed around each of the four sections of the Disneyland theme park: "Adventureland" was for the studio's nature documentaries, "Frontierland" was dedicated to dramatizations of US history, "Fantasyland" showcased the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon feature films]], and "Tomorrowland" was dedicated to the wonders of science, particularly the then-nascent space program. Walt Disney often promoted upcoming movies and new theme park attractions on this show. In 1961 the series moved to {{Creator/NBC}} and was broadcast in color for the first time. The series remained on NBC for 20 years before moving for two seasons on {{Creator/CBS}} in 1981.

* TheHost: Creator/WaltDisney himself for much of the show's run, and studio CEO Creator/MichaelEisner in the 1980s and '90s.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{OnceUponAStudio}}''

-->'''Ptolemy:''' Learned men of science, I have listened to all your arguments. I now decree that our great Earth stands immovable as the hub of the universe. The supreme center of intelligent thinking.

* TheHost: Creator/WaltDisney himself for much of the show's run, and studio CEO Michael Eisner in the 1980s and '90s.

->''"Hello. I'm Walt Disney. Thanks to some old-fashioned magic we call "imagination," right now we're leaving the world of today behind. So if your imagination is ready... here we go."''

[[caption-width:350:''"And now your host, Walt Disney."'']]

->''"And now your host, Creator/WaltDisney."''

The Creator/{{Disney}} television anthology series began airing in 1954 on Creator/{{ABC}} to provide funding for [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]. Rather than stick to one genre, the series covered a wide gamut of genres. The original ''Disneyland'' series was themed around each of the four sections of the Disneyland theme park: "Adventureland" was for the studio's nature documentaries, "Frontierland" was dedicated to dramatizations of US history, "Fantasyland" showcased the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon feature films]], and "Tomorrowland" was dedicated to the wonders of science, particularly the then-nascent space program. Walt Disney often promoted upcoming movies and new theme park attractions on this show.

In 1961 the series moved to {{Creator/NBC}} and was broadcast in color for the first time. The series remained on NBC for 20 years before moving for two seasons on {{Creator/CBS}} in 1981. The series was canned in 1983 as not to provide competition for the new Creator/DisneyChannel. But in 1986, the series returned to ABC and then to NBC in 1988 before being cancelled again, moving to the Disney Channel in 1990 as an umbrella title for Sunday night movies and specials. After Disney's buyout of ABC, the series returned to television in 1997 as an outlet for Disney movies and specials, as well as miniseries and films from outside studios. In the early 2000s, the series aired periodically, usually in the summer months until apparently being cancelled for good in 2008, making the Disney anthology series [[LongRunner the second longest-running primetime show on television.]] The series returned to ABC in December 2015, again only airing new specials or televisings of Disney-owned movies on a sporadic basis.

** ''Series/DavyCrockett1954''

* CondemnedByHistory: Zigzags between this and VindicatedByHistory in "The Great Cat Family." The episode shows how the cat was once worshipped as a god by the ancient Egyptians and became a useful tool in reducing the number of cases of Bubonic Plague, only to be demonized through superstitions and treated as a monster, witches in animal form, and minions of evil. The episode ends on a happier note showing how cats have managed to bounce back.

* HumansAreMorons: Ludwig Von Drake's thesis in "Man is his Own Worst Enemy"[[note]]later to be called "Ducking Disaster with Donald and his Friends[[/note]] is that people are the biggest challenge facing people to-day because people cannot think for themselves.