Forgotten Disney's
Freaky Friday was on tv the other day (missed it)
But it got me thinking about other live action Disney films of the 70s/80s, most of which are rarely shown so get forgotten.
I used to love watching them on video especially at Christmas.
Condorman
The Cat From Outer Space
Swiss Family Robinson
Pete's Dragon (I think I wore that vhs out)
Spaceman and King Arthur (weirdly called Unidentified Flying Oddball in the US)
Any more?
But it got me thinking about other live action Disney films of the 70s/80s, most of which are rarely shown so get forgotten.
I used to love watching them on video especially at Christmas.
Condorman
The Cat From Outer Space
Swiss Family Robinson
Pete's Dragon (I think I wore that vhs out)
Spaceman and King Arthur (weirdly called Unidentified Flying Oddball in the US)
Any more?
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The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy DA
The Strongest Man In the World
The Parent Trap
They all used to be on regularly at Christmas in the 80s.
The Watcher in the Woods
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo was on TV the other day.
I can remember seeing Herbie Rides Again when I was very small in the cinema with my family.
You can watch it here:
http://www.1channel.ch/watch-18492-Newsies
Just click on one of the Putlocker or Sockshare links and you can watch free.
The Three Lives of Thomasina
The Million Dollar Duck
Midnight Madness
The Absent-Minded Professor
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
These aren't really talked about as much as other Disney films.
Bedknobs And Broomsticks
I remember 'The Cat From Outer Space!' Thought I'd be the only one
Homeward Bound and Homeward Bound II - the only talking-animal live action movies I ever went in for, and I loved them. Back then, they were a lot rarer, but these days you have all these 'Snow Buddies' and 'Space Buddies'.
Saying that 'The Shaggy DA' seemed to be on a lot, as did 'The Gnome Mobile'.
The 70's and mot of the 80's was a bad time for Disney. They made some very average films.
You don't know the same people I do...
Blackbeard's Ghost
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Return To Oz
Flight of the Navigator
I'm sure I've seen that in the last few months..
It was laughed off the screen and quickly pulled .
It then got treated to not one but two alternate endings .
Unfortunately all 3 are a bit of a let down after what goes before.
Not surprisingly Disney don't give it too much publicity.
BBC2 showed it before and the dvd has all the endings but its rather a creepy movie and very un Disney.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is another from the same era made during the days when Disney thought they were dying and becoming out of fashion.
And until The LIttle Mermaid came out they were on course for extinction
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is also a goodie .
Seek out the dvd with the extended version on
They're not the greatest films, but the live action stuff that Disney produced during the 1950s to 1970s have an innocent charm about them. One film that will probably never see the light of day again is SONG OF THE SOUTH.
SOTS came out on video.
Many of the Disney and Warner cartoons that feature racial stereotypes have been released on dvd albeit with silly commentators feeling the need to apologise for people enjoying them.
Hopefully SOTS will also be rediscovered for consumption by viewers who are not too stupid to watch this material in the context of when it was made
It didn't get the repeat cinema viewings like a collection of the animated classics did in the 80s
Also Basil the Great Mouse Detective got forgotten.
anyway, Basil is a really good one and i think that was the one that is officially known as ''The Great Mouse Detective'' in North America