Josh Clark

But he personally went and pitched the idea to NBC.

And the reason why, again, is NBC was the first network to broadcast in color.

And so Walt Disney really kind of pushed this through because NBC would have broadcast in color either way.

But Walt Disney wanted to do it in like high style.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

And this is a TV show that launched in 1954 and ran for 34 seasons, obviously at first in black and white.

And like I mentioned earlier, you know, the name changes.

I guess they had one, you know, between my birth and your birth because it was initially called Disney's Wonderful World and then Magical World of Disney.

Yeah.

And then when the color debuted, he was like, we really want to be sort of obvious with this.

So let's call it Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

But we still haven't even said what this was.

I mean, you mentioned anthology series.

It was like a variety show, essentially.

They had cartoons and stuff.

I remember when I was a kid that the Davy Crockett TV show, and it says in this HowStuffWorks article, it launched the coonskin cap craze.

And I have a picture of little five-year-old me

with a musket and a leather vest and a coonskin cap on my head.

So I was into that.