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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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
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!!
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.
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!
@@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!
...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!! :)
@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".
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.
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.
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".
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.
Disney made a ton of variants of this intro to fit with their current TV movies. Check out my Brat Patrol Promo/Disney Sunday Movie Intro video for that version.
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').
@rwalford1979 The DL Resort and the whole of WDW have about the same number of attractions, despite the fact that WDW has more parks and many more times the land.
I'm pretty sure that isn't Kurt Russell. It looks like it's from the 80's. I'm guessing it's from some forgotten TV movie, as that's what most of these clips are from.
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.
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.
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;
Lovin' that Casio soundtrack! On a more sensible note, its a shame we don't see more classics on TV anymore. I remember Robin Hood used to be on all the time
Ah yes, I remember this intro to Disney movies on CBC as a kid growing up in the 1980's. Such happy memories, the world seemed more magical back then.
I knew this intro existed! I was starting to think I imagined it! lol!
Damn I miss these days
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 still get goose bumpy with this opening. Between ABC, NBC, and The Disney Channel I miss this opening soooooooo much.
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.😀
Now you can do all of those things on your phone!
Classic, Iconic, and Legendary! It just rocks - enough said.
That brings back the good memories of my childhood
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.
OMG I miss this so much. My favorite disney intro!
Omg I remember this every Sunday me and my siblings would watch this while dinner was getting ready
Seeing John Candy bean himself in the racquetball court scene from "Splash" is one of my most enduring memories of this series of opening montages.
Where the hell did my childhood go? Please take me back!
Take me back to
I wish. Brings the deepest memories flooding in
YEAH! I love this 80's Disney intro! Man! I wish that they would still advertise it on TV today.
That tune always made me feel emotional.
Me too
Miss those days
This, was my saturday morning when I was a kid.
Ironically, Disney Afternoon was on Sunday evening.❤
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!!
why cannot this world still be like this?
One of my all-time favorite Disney intro:-)
2/18/23
This was my intro I grew up to. We play this on our way to the parks now.
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 :)
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.
This brought back so many memories of watching the disney movies with Mom when I was a kid. Thanks for uploading!
Back then, Disney could do no wrong. God bless 1980's innocence & those graphics!
A time when you need only to hear this from the other side of the house and run jump into the couch for a warm cozy Sunday night.
I love this intro! Greetings from Poland, in this country we adopted simillar versions of it 😁
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....
Been forever since I heard this. Always brings back memories of my childhood. The ones I saw was a bit different though since I was only 2 in 1986.
In Poland it was broadcast in the 90's lol but as "Walt Disney presents" block and with different shots of movies
Exactly! And in 2000s too 👍
This takes me back to being seven years old once again. I miss my childhood. Good programming!
I remember those days. every Sunday night on ABC.
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.
The feels just from watching this.
I miss the year 1986.
Man, this takes me back. Thanks for posting it!
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
0:44
The Black Cauldron! OH YES! MY FAVORITE MOVIE - IN THE WORLD!
A shortened version of this was used on UK VHS releases for Disney's direct to video movies - it was just renamed DISNEY PREMIERE CINEMA.
Every Sunday night was Disney and homemade pizza. Miss those times.
Sounds cool. I wish i had a loving fam
This was definitely from the era when a movie was shown on network TV it was a BIG deal. I miss those days to an extent.
1986, the year I was born.
I was born that same year. In fact I was born the same the very same week “Captain EO” premiered.
I was born a year later 1987
My favorite. Thank you!
i remember,yes i do :D omg,it was so long time ago...i watched it every sunday :))) THANK YOU for posting it...my childhood is right next to me :)
My childhood!!!! Thank you
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!!
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.
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!
I like the music of the opening
DeAndre 95 I can visualize star wars and Marvel footage while listening
Maybe that is where my love for music started.
@@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!
It's "When You Wish Upon A Star" from Pinocchio, not Transformers. :/
I love the music
Back when I was only a 6-year old.
In Poland, this was every saturday morning.
@cbsteffen NBC had "The Magical World Of Disney", which used the same music and some of the visuals.
MY CHILDHOOD RIGHT HERE!!!
Mine too. Of course, the first one I remember is the 30 second 1984 Version.
Holy God I remember this! I have no idea what # 2 is though. Sorry! But wow--THANK YOU for this!! :-D
I like this version better than the modern version to be honest. I think i like the bass how it’s not clear lol. Idk why.
Memories, memories, memories :)
I can't believe I actually found this! This is awesome! Haven't heard this melody in ages. :D
Walt would have been proud.
And look, both Disney World and Disneyland are showcased. =D
+Angie2343 Walt would have been indeed
+Manuel Orozco =D
Angie2343 Happy New Year Angie
+Manuel Orozco Samr to you! Hope it's a good one!
Angie2343 And be full of new memories
Those were the days...
Awesome and magical intro! Sometimes I wish I would have been born in the late 80's. I was actually born in 93
So was I!
Alex Kenderian Cool
I wish i was born in atleast 1975 so i can be able to remember the 80s
mowens07 Gaming Double cool
Brings back a lot of memories, man I wish I had a time machine.
...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!! :)
Some of us have attention spans.
@@Attmay Wish i had some too! :)
@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".
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.
Ah yeah I remember this and "Neon Mickey"
Such magic and beat music
This is my favorite of the Disney anthology intros, because it's the one I remember most from when I was a kid.
0:38-0:40: In memory of Lisa Burke, excuse me Cindy Williams. 1947-2023
I remember this like it was yesterday! I cried a little...
Anyone else here on a nostalgia overload at 1 in the morning?
0:12 Satellite Mickey Head from The Disney Channel bunper makes a cameo appearence
He’s from the prop
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.
the best of all the intros
Gawd I miss my childhood.
I remember this!!! Wow!
This was the best of the intros!
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".
I didn't realize that about Jittlov. I'm glad he got "discovered" so to speak. He was an inspiration to me.
I watched it in the 90's. Magical moments :)
And yet, you and a handful of people like yourself managed to pull it off. Congratulations.
that so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miss this
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.
Disney made a ton of variants of this intro to fit with their current TV movies. Check out my Brat Patrol Promo/Disney Sunday Movie Intro video for that version.
My childhood in a nutshell. Please bring back those days...
I wish Disney used this again.
For my family on friday night's, it was dukes of hazard, then beauty and the beast and the NBC chimes and going to bed at the start of dallas!
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').
I'm 23 and I almost cry :)
I agree! High School Musical and such are ok but kids need to know what being a disney kid is, which is to watch the classics!
@rwalford1979 The DL Resort and the whole of WDW have about the same number of attractions, despite the fact that WDW has more parks and many more times the land.
I'm pretty sure that isn't Kurt Russell.
It looks like it's from the 80's. I'm guessing it's from some forgotten TV movie, as that's what most of these clips are from.
Oh wow, I remember this I do believe!
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.
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.
alucard624 preaching to the choir. I want a legit copy of all the episodes of The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
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;
+CaptRicoSakaraPrower The only thing awesome about Disney Channel these days to me is Descendants
This bring smile to my old fat cynical face.
Damn it, disney!
Lovin' that Casio soundtrack!
On a more sensible note, its a shame we don't see more classics on TV anymore. I remember Robin Hood used to be on all the time