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The Magical World of Disney Season 33 Episodes
Season 33 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 1988 - 1989
Episode 2
Disney's All American Sports Nuts
Sun, Oct 16, 198860 mins
Clips from Disney films are combined with real sports footage.
Episode 4
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
Sun, Nov 20, 198894 mins
Davy, a Tennessee volunteer, was called upon to crush a Creek uprising. He sympathizes with the Indians, but has to rescue a young settler, Ory Palmer. He refuses to support an Indian Affairs bill which President Jackson is proposing.
Episode 5
The Absent-Minded Professor
Sun, Nov 27, 198860 mins
Henry Crawford is the titular absent-minded professor busy at work in his laboratory. He has a girlfriend, but she is getting frustrated at his repeatedly missing their dates and spending more time with his experiments than with her. One day, Prof. Crawford makes an incredible discovery a form of rubber that defies gravity with each bounce, which he names Flubber. Hopefully, with this invention Crawford can prove to his love that he's not just a hopeless loser stuck doing dead-end research.
Episode 6
Disneyland's All-Star Comedy Circus
Sun, Dec 11, 198860 mins
The top comedians from television gather to participate in a circus at Disneyland.
Episode 7
Davy Crockett: A Natural Man
Sun, Dec 18, 198865 mins
Davy Crockett finds his uncle who vanished over 20 years previous after a deadly Indiana raid attacked, along the way his buddy George is attacked by a Grizzly Bear.
Episode 14
Mickey's Happy Valentine Special
Sun, Feb 12, 198960 mins
A collection of music videos on the subject of love interwoven with classic Disney cartoons.
Episode 15
Davy Crockett: Guardian Spirit
Fri, Jan 13, 198960 mins
Davy and George are sent to find a Creek meeting place but happen upon an Indian boy undertaking a coming-of-age ritual. Davy unwittingly shames him with his tribe. In order to get the tribe to take the boy back, Davy feigns blindness.
Episode 16
The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places
Sun, Feb 26, 198960 mins
Harry Anderson makes his second appearance as the nutty professor Henry Crawford in Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor: Trading Places. While working on yet another formula, Anderson is talked into temporarily trading jobs with his ex-roomate Ed Begley Jr., a research computer specialist. As usual, the professor gets in over his head, and before long he's chased around by all sorts of mysterious characters. The gimmick this time is a "mystery invention" disguised as a tennis ball.
Episode 18
Super DuckTales
Sun, Mar 26, 198997 mins
For their mother's birthday, the Beagle Boys secretly alter the city plans for a major roadway so that it runs directly through Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. With no alternative, Scrooge must have his Bin physically moved and he decides to hire an accountant to keep track of his assets for the move. This is where Fenton Crackshell comes in as a goofy but ambitious literal beancounter who wants a better job. He gets Scrooge's opening and proves to be a mixed asset with a tendency to goof up, but doggedly determined to make amends each time. When he stumbles on to a suit of power armor that inventor Gyro Gearloose made, he becomes Gizmoduck, a superhero that may not be the most competent, but he gets the job done.
Episode 21
The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening
Sun, Apr 30, 198960 mins
Commemorating the opening of the Disney-MGM Studios, which happened the very next day.
Episode 23
Davy Crockett: A Letter to Polly
Sun, Jun 11, 198960 mins
Missing his family, Davy tries to take a letter, but on the way happens upon a cabin where the family has all been slaughtered, except for a boy, Aaron, who can no longer speak. Davy takes Aaron with him and tries to calm his fears.
Episode 26
Davy Crockett: Warrior's Farewell
Sun, Jun 18, 198960 mins
During the Creek uprising, the soldiers are intimidated by a medicine man. Callahan attempts to kill the medicine man, but Davy saves him. This incident helps bring peace, and the Tennessee volunteers can head home to their families.