The Magical World of Disney

Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""

Ned Brainard is the forgetful science professor at Medfield College. In this 1961 theatrical release, he tries to manage his love life, his dog, and his accidental new invention, flying rubber, or ""flubber.""

In this 1969 theatrical release, a race car driver buys a white 1963 Volkswagen Beetle, only to find that it has a mind of its own.

Although the narrator speaks of the show's star, Major Effects, as being a hero of superhuman proportions, a 100-year-old man appears. It's all a bit of special effects, explains the Major, who is actually actor Joseph Bottoms (star of the studio's then-current theatrical releaseThe Black Hole). He introduces a wizard known as ""Bigger-Than-Life,"" who endows him with magical powers to explain how the effects are realized.

In this 1975 theatrical release, Tia and Tony are two siblings with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle so that he can claim them for his sinister boss, millionaire Aristotle Bolt.

Two kids get into real trouble when a dying man leaves a package in their toy sailboat.

This 1963 theatrical sequel to ""The Absent-Minded Professor"" finds Professor Ned Brainard inventing ""flubber gas,"" a gaseous form of his original concoction.

This retrospective installment highlights Disney films that have won or been nominated for Academy Awards.

Sultan, a gentle Bengal tiger who appears on a popular (but unnamed) television series, is taken to Sportsman's Island by Alec Frost, a disreputable gamekeeper, and tortured in an attempt to make him vicious. Several days later, he is turned loose to be the object of a hunting party led by the island's cruel owner, George McKinzie. Meanwhile, Paul Winters, a young pop singer on tour near here, becomes tired of his busy schedule and runs off from his mother and manager. He finds himself on Sportsman's Island and befriends Sultan.