Disneyland

(1954 - 1958)

Anthology / Family

60 minutes

Disneyland is the first of the Walt Disney anthology series that aired weekly continuously for 35 seasons on television.  The program titled Disneyland aired on ABC on Wednesday from 1954 to 1958 in an hour-long format.

The first episode of Disneyland, broadcast on October 27, 1954, was called The Disneyland Story. The episode included a brief tour of Walt Disney Studios and then a segment about Disney’s new theme park to be opened on July 18, 1955, and previews of upcoming episodes.

The original episodes were introduced by Walt Disney, and episodes of the show were broadcast following the themes of the various original main areas of Disneyland called Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland.

There were animated and/or live-action episodes, and some were taken from the Disney Studio archives while others were original episodes.  Some of the episodes were edited versions of Disney feature films.

The Walt Disney anthology series includes:

Disneyland (1954 – 1958)

Walt Disney Presents (1958–1961)

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969)

The Wonderful World of Disney (1969–1979)

Disney's Wonderful World (1979–1981)

Walt Disney (1981–1983)

The Disney Sunday Movie (1986–1988)

The Magical World of Disney (1988–1996)

The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2008)