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...summer shows were headed by Dateline Disneyland, a one-shot, Spectacular-sized look at Walt Disney's new amusement park at Anaheim, Calif...
...dazzling demonstration of what the name Disney can do. In the guise of entertainment, the show consisted of a 90-minute commercial for Disney's newest commercial enterprise. By comparison, CBS's Frankie Laine Time (Wed. 8 p.m., E.D.T.) was merely a minor, 60-minute disappointment. The summer replacement for Godfrey is a variety show, with Frankie singing and acting as host. But the acts were uniformly mediocre, and Frankie, whose singing is stylized, lacked style...
...TIME reassures Reader Wentworth that Davy Crockett was as real as Walt Disney is, regrets, however, that there is no historical evidence to support the song's claim. That crack appeared a year after Davy last visited Philadelphia...
Dateline Disneyland (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). A live, 90-minute preview of Walt Disney's new entertainment park at Anaheim, Calif...
...Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...