I just had to comment this video again, when those synth drums kick in I still have goosebumps, I miss those times when Disney was really magical, kids these days are really missing out, how can some people hate the 80's? It was my favourite decade!
The nostalgia with this is so overwhelming it's almost palpable. I was around kindergarten age, and can vividly remember watching this with my family Sunday nights on the pull out couch.... the memory seems like a completely different reality altogether after all these years.
I was 13 in '86 and I still stopped whatever I was doing ( Video Games, Playing Guitar, talking to my friends on the phone e.t.c.) and watch the intro.😀
As someone who is a sucker for intros, opens, bumpers, outros, and similar video segments, on behalf of my generation, I thank you for your service to the art of intro creation.
Sunday nights still hold for me as pivotal foundational memories ❤ Treasure those times. I can't believe how good we had it and did not realize it. Today, everyone's crazy.
Seeing this brings back many memories from my childhood of my family sitting infront of the tv on Sunday nights watching the Disney Sunday night movie. thanks for posting!!
wow! i remember this, my mom recorded Alice and wonderland sometime in 1988 and it had this intro in it... the tune always gets stuck in my head, even 29 years later. lol!
I would love to see those old movies again! I can't remember all the titles to them. When I was a kid Disney movies were awesome and wholesome...nowadays... my daughter loves the older shows. "The talking cat" is our favorite to watch :)
Geez, I wasn't alive yet during the 1980s and yet I still got a nostalgic tear at this. Then again I love 1980s nostalgia as much as I love 1990s nostalgia so....
I never knew this intro existed but the version of When You Wish a Upon a Star I also heard from the NBC & Disney Channel intro for The Magical World of Disney. Either way I get emotional whenever I hear this track.
i agree. people have a certain music, food, tv show, movie, anything that brings it back. i mean i do have those things that bring me back but if i had to choose just ONE thing that brings me back, it would be any 80's disney music, theme song, intro to a movie...anything 80s disney does it for me.
you did a great job....wish they would bring back this old channel lineup and all again...maybe on a vintage disney channel....would adore that and I know there would be millions more that would too, that remember it this way and brings back wonderful memories for them
@@zetamagnus101 I don't know about you, but the music at 0:28-0:46 sounds like the music by Vince DiCola that was featured in a 1986 movie which was the very first movie of a certain franchise which I am a fan of. Try to guess if you can!
I have always loved the part with the cameraman letting viewers peer into the movie camera... I desperatly love and miss the 80's! If I recall there was a disney sunday movie every sunday night on channel 3,5,or 9..a time for kids and parents to settle in and watch a wholesome movie that was non-objectional. It was from like 7-8:30, or 7-9,,and then it was bed time for school for us kids!
We're looking at YOUR work here!? God, you are a master of your craft! Wherever you are today, if you left, you should come back and show the new generation how it's done. I LOVED this as a kid! Thank you very much!!
The death of Frank Wells was definitely a blow to the Walt Disney company, specifically to the the Theme Park division. He will be missed. You can keep Eisner and Katzenberg though. Eisner transformed a perfectly good parking lot at Disneyland into an empty amusement park, and axed the traditional animation department at Disney. Katzenberg is responsible for all of those Dreamworks CG disasters that give me nightmares. Eisner & Katzenberg defined the term "corporate meddling".
...that intro is so exciting, I remember being let down by whatever movie they ended up showing! Some old flick from the 50's is not gonna work on a sugared up 80's kid!! :)
This theme music should be reused next fall on the Wonderful World of Disney. Also the Wonderful World of Disney should use during their bumper each and every single bumper theme used in their 66 year history; and also use brand new 2020's CGI Graphics.
The current Disney Channel rarely shows anything remotely "Disney". The real reason why things like the Disney Sunday Movie don't exist anymore is that cable channels like Disney and Nickelodeon took away a huge slice of the demographic pie, and the networks decided that programming aimed at children just wasn't profitable enough anymore. The result? No more family friendly cartoons on primetime (Except for the stalwart holiday specials) and no Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Being an 80's kid, I grew up on this. This was Disney's Golden Age. This age up to the early 90's was what defined Disney. These shows along with Care Bears, Mother Goose's Rockin Rhymes, Dumbo's Circus, The Cat from Outer Space, the Not Quite Human film series, Gary Owens & Eric Boardman's Dinosaur specials, and even DTV. Nowadays, it's all about kids-pop music, kid-soaps, and other stupid senseless bullshit. The only good that came out of it was George Tekai's guest appearance on the space episode of Sweet Life on Deck, and the original Zenon & Halloweentown High (they're the only two modern Disney films series I can tolerate). Everything else sucks. T__T;
This aired on ABC for "The Disney Sunday Movie". The Disney Channel promos featuring the satellite are different, but were likely produced by the same people.
Wow this takes me back to my childhood. Lot's of memories flooding back. It's probably why I don't like disney since most of these films are very hard to come by.
Yeah, Disney is notorious for being stingy with their releases of classic films and shows. And when they end up DO releasing them, it's in VERY small amounts so when you eventually find them they go for 2 to 3 times what they were priced at originally. Case in point: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh and the Guy Williams Zorro series, both of which are super expensive now to get on DVD but weren't when they first released.
They still occasionally play animated Disney films on ABC on Sunday Nights. I think ABC actually plays more classic Disney animation than the Disney Channel these days.
Once NBC took over in the fall of 1988 Disney's Sunday show was titled "The Magical World Of Disney". The theme music in that intro is identical, and several shots are used from this version, but I don't think this specific version aired again once Disney moved from ABC.
Disney did *not* really have a close relationship with ABC back then and The Disney Sunday Movie was the first association between the two companies in 25 years. ABC did air the original Disneyland TV show from 1954-61, but Walt left them for NBC because they weren't broadcasting in color. NBC aired Disney programming for the next 20 years. Even this association in 1986 was tentative, as ABC cancelled it in 1988 and Disney moved back to NBC for the next two years.
@@80sCommercialVault Did ABC cancel it because of low ratings? I mean we watched it back then. What else was on Sunday nights back then? ESPN didn’t even get Sunday Night Baseball and Sunday Night Football until 1990.
Partly, yes. It competed primarily against "60 Minutes" and "Murder She Wrote" on CBS. "Murder She Wrote" dominated the ratings back then and averaged 30 million viewers.
@@80sCommercialVault Wow. I had no idea Murder, She Wrote was so popular. My parents never watched it so I never think about it much. I know 60 Minutes was popular but I thought the Disney Sunday movie was on after 60 Minutes ended, I was 6-8 years old at the time so my memory probably isn’t the most reliable. Jaguargator9 did a video about the first time ABC tried to make Sunday Night Football in the late 70’s and it was a ratings disaster because they couldn’t compete with 60 Minutes and All in the Family.
@bostonkid1979 If you actually take the time to read the video description, all the movies that are featured in this intro are listed. The movie shown here is "Help Wanted: Kids".
@mattjnor98 His point is that the Disney Company is now a purely profit-driven enterprise and no longer considers taking risks or breaking creative ground like it once did. Walt Disney was a capitalist, but prided himself in constantly making gambles and putting creativity before profit. Also, I personally think Disney has created very little of value in the last 15-20 years. The problem is more systemic than the garbage they program on the Disney Channel.
I'm pretty sure in the UK ITV used this intro when playing Disney movies in the 90s. (They recycled a few US cable themes, the Disney Afternoon instrumental theme ended up the intro for 'Disney Club').
