Dateline Disneyland July 17, 1955 in TV Guide

nattcallai Haziran 04, 2022

While I’m at the beach on the French Riviera for the next few days please enjoy these “rebroadcast” posts from 2008. Magazine Monday will return with a new post this Monday.

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Happy 56th Birthday Disneyland!

Since TV was such an integral part of Disneyland’s beginning and a large part of its ultimate success, I’d thought it would be fun to pay tribute to the TV show that started it all.

TV Guide for the week of July 16 - 22, 1955. I’m not to familiar with Julius La Rosa, but he does have a great 1950’s warm friendly smile.

Sunday night, 7:30pm Live (this is a Pittsburgh, PA eastern time zone edition) Dateline Disneyland. How old is that picture of Walt? No photo or even a mention of Ronald Reagan or Bob Cummings. Were they added as co-emcee’s at the last minute? I know the TV Guide’s were printed ahead of time, but I think just a couple of weeks. Poor “Private Secretary” and “Studio 57”, they didn’t have a chance that night!

Don’t forget the regular “Disneyland” TV show is still on Wednesday’s at 7:30pm. This week, “a trip to Fantasyland”. Speaking of Bob Cummings, he’s got his own comedy show at 7:00pm.

Edward R. Morrow had just shot an episode of “Person to Person” with Marilyn Monroe. After the show, she let a ton of “candid snapshots” be taken of her. Interesting facial expressions, a "show" or a real look inside of this fascinating woman?