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The Magical World of Disney Season 30 Episodes
Season 30 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1986 - 1986
Episode 1
Help Wanted: Kids
Sun, Feb 2, 1986100 mins
When the Burkes lose their jobs in New York, they have to move to Arizona, where Tom has an job-offer in the management of a small company for children's clothing. Unfortunately Tom's new boss Sirus Lovelin turns out to be extremely fond of the traditional American family and automatically assumes Amanda to be housewife and mother - but the Burkes don't even have children! To not offend him, they "hire" two kids they met prowling the streets. When they turn out witty, but nasty and impertinent, the Burkes want to rid themselves of them, but are entangled already too deeply in their lie...
Episode 2
Time Flyer
Sun, Feb 9, 1986120 mins
A young boy travels back in time to meet his grandfather, a pioneer aviator.
Episode 3
The Last Electric Knight
Sun, Feb 16, 198660 mins
A young martial arts expert searches for a pretend guardian when a social worker tries to take him away from his elderly grandfather. The person he picks happens to be a detective.
Episode 4
2 1/2 Dads
Sun, Feb 16, 198660 mins
Two fathers and a bachelor decide to share a big house to lower expenses and help relieve loneliness, but their five children involved are less than happy about the arrangement as friction and humorous problems develop rapidly.
Episode 5
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Sun, Feb 23, 198690 mins
In the mid 1970's, a young girl's family must endure a nightmarish life in her native country of Cambodia under the domination of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. But things change for the better when an American family agrees to sponsor their immigration to the United States of America. They soon prove to have some difficulty adjusting to their new home as with language barriers and survival habits that are not necessary anymore, but are hard to break. While they are learning, one of the daughters struggles harder than the others and is personally driven to become a champion contender in spelling bees.
Episode 6
The Undergrads
Sun, Mar 2, 198660 mins
A 68-year-old enrolls with his grandson, Jody, at a local university after Jody spirits him away from a rest home to which he has been sent by his son. He finds his study skills have rusted over the years.
Episode 7
The Richest Cat in the World
Sun, Mar 9, 1986120 mins
Leo Kohlmeyer is a talking cat who inherits $5 million from his late owner and is looked after by the owner's in-laws whose two children, Bart and Veronica, learn Leo's secret that he can talk, while a bumbling, but devious, couple called the Rigsbys plot to kidnap Leo in order for them to gain the inheritance money for themselves.
Episode 8
Disney Goes to the Oscars
Sun, Mar 23, 198660 mins
Host Tony Danza takes a look at Disney films that won or were nominated for the Academy Award.
Episode 9
I-Man
Sun, Apr 6, 198696 mins
An ordinary single father, who can't seem to hold a job due to his stress ulcers, and his son are exposed to gasses brought back from another planet by a NASA space probe. The gasses allow them to heal at incredible speeds, but they are susceptible to passing out in full darkness. The father is recruited to stop a madman who has stolen laser technology that is imperfect and liable to explode. Teamed with a beautiful agent, and with his son tagging along, can he prevent the destruction of most of California and it's northern suburbs??
Episode 10
A Fighting Choice
Sun, Apr 13, 1986100 mins
Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.
Episode 11
Mr. Boogedy
Sun, Apr 20, 198646 mins
A novelty salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300 years previously.
Episode 12
Robin Hood
Sun, Apr 27, 198660 mins
The Disney animated feature Robin Hood (1973) edited for television. Story of England's legendary hero is told by traveling minstrel Allan-a-Dale. The story is enacted by an assortment of cartoon animal characters.
Episode 13
Young Again
Sun, May 11, 198685 mins
Michael Riley wishes to be 17 again and which comes true. He goes back to the high school where he fell in love with Laura and still be in love with her. Mick is very happy and excited to be 17 again, he finds Laura who is a widow having 2 children and then realizes the reason why they broke up years ago. Laura makes Mick understand that there is no way to go back. Finally Mick is willing to face who he is and has a new start with Laura when he turns back to a middle age man.
Episode 14
The Deacon Street Deer
Sun, May 18, 198647 mins
Neighborhood children protect a deer that has escaped from cruel carnival owners.
Episode 15
Fuzzbucket
Sun, May 18, 198646 mins
An invisible creature befriends a 12-year-old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.
Episode 16
Casebusters
Sun, May 25, 198645 mins
A brother and sister (Noah Hathaway, Virginia Keehne) are amateur sleuths who help their grandfather (Pat Hingle) run a security business. While digging around on their own, they accidentally stumble onto a major case.
Episode 17
My Town
Sun, May 25, 198660 mins
Wheelerville, Ohio, is a small town where people seeking to start new lives can get that chance. The idea came from Lucas Wheeler, the banker and descendant of the town's founder, and the unsold series was to relate incidents in the lives of the people who attempt to rebuild their lives as seen through the eyes of Amber Wheeler, Lucas's pretty granddaughter.
Episode 18
Candleshoe
Sun, Jun 22, 198660 mins
A tomboy from Los Angeles poses as the lost heiress to a stately English manor. A series of cryptic clues leads her on a wild search for a long-lost treasure. With help Casey outduels a greedy con man and his rowdies for the treasure.
Episode 21
Donald, the Star-Struck Duck
Sun, Jul 20, 198660 mins
John Candy has to team up with Donald Duck to star together in blockbuster movie.
