29 episodes

The Wonderful World of Disney - Season 31

First aired Sep 21, 1986Season 31

Browse all 29 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Pete's Dragon

NR
Sep 21, 198660 min

This is an airing of the 1977 musical, in which an orphaned boy and his only friend, an animated green dragon named Elliott, escape from the abusive family who took him in as a farm hand and cause trouble in a small fishing village in Maine.

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Episode 2

Hero in the Family

NR
Sep 28, 198660 min

Digger Reed, the most famous American astronaut, sets out on a dangerous mission with Orville, the extraordinary chimpanzee. While in space Reed is exposed to strange crystals. He returns to Earth a changed man...he now has the brain cells of his chimp, and vice versa...

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Episode 3

Little Spies

NR
Oct 5, 198660 min

A group of youngsters become involved in a confrontation with a street gang who catch dogs and sell them to a medical research clinic. The odds are against them until a recluse, who happens to be a World War II hero, joins forces and trains them commando style.

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Episode 4

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

NR
Oct 26, 198660 min

Exciting tale of a group of kids who cause chaos wherever they go. Their adventures start when they discover that weapons are going missing from a military base. They decide to go into action to foil the crime despite army officials disbelief that anything is wrong.

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Episode 5

Ask Max

NR
Nov 2, 198660 min

Max is a lonely, brilliant kid trying to get through school without too many hassles. Trouble is, he keeps on using his intellect for small rewards, and doesn't apply himself...until he gets a little incentive.

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Episode 6

Walt Disney World's 15th Anniversary Celebration

10.0
Nov 9, 198660 min1 votes

A 15th anniversary celebration of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It features a description of the World Showcase at Epcot, archival film footage of Walt Disney describing the park in 1965 and scenes of Roy O. Disney opening it in 1971.

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Episode 7

The Leftovers

NR
Nov 16, 198660 min

A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max (John Denver), try to keep their home from being shut down. Helping them out are a single mom (Cindy Williams) and the elderly butler from Max's aunt's mansion, where Max grew up.

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Episode 8

The Thanksgiving Promise

NR
Nov 23, 198660 min

A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agreement to fatten and kill it for an approaching Thanksgiving dinner for his neighbors. also known as ""Chester I Love You"".

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Episode 9

Sunday Drive

NR
Nov 30, 198660 min

Two identical cars pull up to a restaurant, one belonging to a childless couple who are taking care of their niece and nephew while their parents are away, who are out on a Sunday drive. The other belonging to a guy who is on his way to meet his fiance and to begin working for her father. In his car is his dog, whom the couple mistake for the children, when they get into his car and drive. While he goes into their car and the children are under a blanket and he mistakenly assumes it's his dog. When they discover the mistake they are both so far away from each other that they don't know what to do.

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Episode 10

Swiss Family Robinson

NR
Dec 7, 198660 min

A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge treehouse) and explore the island and it's wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival, pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future

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Episode 11

The Christmas Star

NR
Dec 14, 198660 min

A christmas movie about an old convict who learns to feel again after his run in with a young boy.

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Episode 12

Tiger Town/Star Tours

NR
Dec 28, 198660 min

Roy Schneider plays an ageing all-star for the Detroit Tigers, who are seriously slumping.

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Episode 13

Herbie Goes Bananas

NR
Jan 11, 198760 min

America's favorite VW Beetle is back for a final fling in ""Herbie Goes Bananas""! Set in lovely Mexico, friends Pete Stanchek and Davie Johns arrive to enter in a race. Pete's uncle is Jim Douglas from The Love Bug. The car Pete and Davie would be driving is sent ahead: the car, of course, was Herbie. Pete and Davie don't think much of it until he takes them for a fast spin! A little boy, Paco, tries to buddy up with these guys. He's actually a little pickpocket! Hey, the kid's got no family and no place to live. Can you blame him? He steals some photo negatives from two bad guys, Prindle and Quinn. The negatives reveal crucial information to the heist they're planning. While Davie and Pete aren't looking, Paco climbs into Herbie's trunk and when the car is loaded onboard the ship, Paco comes along. The ship is under the command of surly Captain Blythe. Pete and Davie meet Aunt Louise and her niece, Melissa Drake. Pete falls in love with her and Louise offered to sponsor them in the rac

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Episode 14

Great Moments in Disney Animation

NR
Jan 18, 198760 min

A look at Disney animation through the years.

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Episode 15

Double Switch

NR
Jan 25, 198760 min

Teeny bopper rock star Bart Holton is pushed around by his manager for maximum profit and longs for a normal life. Through a look-alike contest he meets Matt, a student who looks exactly like him and can imitate his dancing style perfectly. Bart proposes to switch roles for a week. At first Matt enjoys being chased by hysterical groupies and Bart enjoys hitting on the highschool girls, but of course both learn quickly that the other's life is quite different from what they'd expected.

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Episode 16

You Ruined My Life

NR
Feb 1, 198760 min

A man who fails to pay up his gambling debt, finds himself taking care of the casino owners's niece Manerva (a delightfully spoiled brat) until his debt is paid off.

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Episode 17

The Liberators

NR
Feb 8, 198760 min

A young boy helps runaway slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.

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Episode 18

Parent Trap II

NR
Feb 22, 198760 min

Hayley Mills returns in her role of Susan and Sharon -- only this time they have grown up and are dealing with a pair of mischevious girls who want their parents to marry. Sharons Daughter wnats her best friends dad to fall in love with her mom -- this way the two girls can be real life sisters, the problem - The two are always to busy to ever meet! The girls decide to be resourceful and call aunt Susan in on the deal. They send her on a few dates with this man, as she pretends to be Sharon. Caous ensues and eventually the truth has to come out.

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Episode 19

Big Foot

NR
Mar 8, 198760 min

A family goes camping in the mountains. They encounter a bigfoot creature, the little girl gets captured leaving the rest to search.

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Episode 20

Young Harry Houdini

NR
Mar 15, 198760 min

This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, too.

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Episode 21

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

NR
Mar 22, 198760 min

This is an airing of the 1971 musical, in which an Englishwoman studies to be a witch so that she can fight off the invasion of England by Nazi Germany.

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Episode 22

Double Agent

NR
Mar 29, 198760 min

Jason Starr is an international spy. While on a mission there was an altercation and Jason disappears. His boss Vaughn then goes to his twin brother Warren Starbinder, a veterinarian, and asks him to pose as Jason so to complete his mission. Which he agrees to but won't be easy since he is not a spy. And he also can't tell his wife and family what he's doing. Which makes it hard for him to explain the peculiar way he is now behaving.

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Episode 23

Bride of Boogedy

10.0
Apr 12, 198760 min1 votes

Mr. Boogedy returns to once again plague the Davis Family, this time to retrieve his lost love, whom he has kept in eternal torment.

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Episode 24

The Devil and Max Devlin

NR
Apr 26, 198760 min

When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts, and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. However his task is harder than expected, especially when 7 years old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.

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Episode 25

Mary Poppins

NR
May 3, 198760 min

This is an airing of the 1964 theatrical musical, in which a magical nanny changes the lives of an English family.

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Episode 26

North Avenue Irregulars

NR
May 10, 198760 min

concerns a newly-arrived minister(Edward Herrman)who suggests that his flock look for ways to increase the church budget. When the ne'er-do-well husband of one of the church ladies bets the church funds on a fixed horserace, the minister sets out to recoup the funds and uncovers an illegal betting racket in his town. At the prompting of the local authorities, the good reverend and a group of church ladies go undercover to catch the crooks. What ensues is equal parts car chase.

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Episode 27

Spot Marks the X

NR
May 17, 198760 min

A great movie about a boy who gets a pet dog from a local shelter.He dosn't know however the dog is a key to a huge amount of stolen money. His previous owner was a bank robber, who stole 1 million in cash, he then buried it in a park site area called Shadow Mountain. He trained his dog to learn the smell of the cloth bags of cash. The dog would help him find it later. When the felon escapes from prison and comes after the dog , it's all the kid can do just to stay alive,let alone stop the thief.

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Episode 28

Down the Long Hills

NR
May 24, 198760 min

A father is desperate to find his two chilren after they survive an indian raid.

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Episode 29

Disney's Fluppy Dogs

NR
Aug 30, 198760 min

A band of humanoid dogs who are dimension hopping for adventure arrive on Earth in a North American city and into big trouble. They become separated and must hide their true nature by passing as the native dogs. Their only chance of returning home is with the help of a human boy and girl they befriend. However, a wealthy collector of rare animals is after them and the key that creates the portals necessary to travel has almost lost its power.