Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color makes its debut in color and on NBC (for the series' 8th season on television). Hosted by Walt himself, the episode consists of "An Adventure in Color," "Donald in Mathmagicland," and a brand new character called Professor Ludwig Von Drake - voiced by Paul Frees. The episode is sponsored by RCA, who runs commercials during the show promoting their new RCA color television. (Before this, the series had been called Disneyland and the Walt Disney Presents - but both broadcast on ABC and in black & white.) The Walt Disney anthology television series moved to NBC on September 24, 1961 to take advantage of that network's ability to broadcast in color. In a display of foresight, Disney had filmed many of the earlier shows in color, so they were able to be repeated on NBC, and since most of Disney's feature-length films were also made in color, they could now also be telecast in that format.
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