Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday)

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:30:40 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:
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DR. SYN: THE HISTORY OF THE LEGEND (THE SCARECROW OF ROMNEY MARSH BONUS):
Historians and Disney personalities share some behind the scenes footage
and secrets of the making of the 3-part mini-series: The Scarecrow of
Romney Marsh.  Patrick McGoohan also appears and shares his memories of
making the pictures with Walt Disney and director James Neilson!
https://youtu.be/41Pdy4thpbY?si=kh1QpCSbqbSx_q4y
This appears to be a live action show set in the American Revolution
based on Zorro, except he disguises himself as a scarecrow (and shoots
people?).

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In my opinion this was the best ever work shown on the Wonderful World
of Disney and while it was in the same historical era as the
Revolution was  DEFINITELY in Kent in the UK. And showed in 1963?
1964? (I would have been 8 or 9 at the time and we watched The
Wonderful World of Disney faithfully in those years)
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The Scarecrow was McGoohan's next Disney lead a year after he played
the male lead in The Three Lives of Tomasina which was another Disney
flick showed on the WWoD but totally different and starred a cat
(Tomasina - if you think of it as a feline Black Beauty you'd not be
far off) and remains one of those shows I'd love to see again if it
were shown.

 Disney+ claimed they put all that stuff up to get us to get long-term
subscriptions but they were lying and then hit us with no refunds. So far
none of the world of Disney stuff is available as such and almost nothing
that’s in 4:3 is available.

The first exception was steamboat Willy,
although they put crap on the sides anyway, and the first real exception
was the first two seasons of the Zorro series. Season three, which aired on
world of Disney, is nowhere to be found except on DVD. All that vault
Disney stuff which is what we used to get the service for is being withheld
as well.
 Scarecrow was put out on a special edition treasures DVD, and for some
bizarre reason they only printed a handful of them, which were sold out
instantly, and then commanded ridiculously high prices on the secondary
market. I don’t understand why this does Disney any good.
 Tomasina is available on the gray in 856x480 although I have no idea what
the source is