WDW 15th Birthday Celebration 1986 with Bea Arthur and Betty White

[5thGenTexan]

Hosts Bea Arthur and Betty White celebrate Walt Disney World's 15th Anniversary in both Magic Kingdom and EPCOT Center.Guest Starring Dolly Parton, Diahann Carroll, Michael Eisner, Ray Charles, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Monkees, Air Supply, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Everly Brothers, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Monkees, Air Supply with Charlton Heston, Ted Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Harry Shearer, Jack Wagner, Dick Wesson, Warren Burger, Walter Edminston, Mark Elliott, Rex Allen, Robert Cummings, Art Linkletter, Gary OwensThe Wonderful World of Disney November 9, 1986 - ABC WBRC6

 

[MagicRat]

Don’t get me wrong, I love the golden girls show and Ray Charles but 86’s group of “Headliners” actually looks worse than the A-listers the parks bring in now.

When I was a kid I would look at the hand prints around the Chinese Theater and found it funny of the talent enshrined in concrete, it is even more hilarious to look at the black&white polaroids that still exist in Mama’s.

I can say at least, they are all better than NPH. His tasteless use of Amy Winehouse as a charcuterie board corpse should be grounds to keep him out of the parks.

 

[Richie248]

I actually watched this today! Such a great program!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

This was my go to video when I needed a little cheering up..

I'm still wondering about the so called Walt Disney World Skaters..Were they prominent throughout the parks during that time? I was there in 86 and never saw them..

Also, the fact that during the ending where Betty White mentions about the Mt Fuji coaster that never happened. Plus, you see a bit of final rough animation being done for the Atlas of the World short for the living seas..Which became this..