Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Getting Schooled: Disney Family Album (1984)

When the Disney Channel was a premium (pay cable) network, they had a ton of original programming that now sits in the vaults, unused, unavailable on DVD.

One such example is the Disney Family Album, a series of half-hour documentaries that ran from June 1984 to January 1986, 20 episodes in all.

Buddy Ebsen (ex-Davy Crockett, The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones) returned to the Disney camp to serve as narrator, and also was seen on camera in the series finale, which focused on Davy Crockett. I think Buddy was working on Matt Houston somewhere around the time of this series.

This episode, from 1985, spotlights a variety of voice actors, most of them you know, like John Byner, Paul Winchell, Eva Gabor, and Alan Young. You might know that Alan was cast as Scrooge McDuck in the original DuckTales after first essaying McDuck (as Ebenezer Scrooge) in Mickey's Christmas Carol.



Good stuff. Now, get it out on DVD!

Rating: A.

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