Christmas at Walt Disney World (1978)

<p><strong>Day 9:</strong> It’s mime time at the Most Magical Place on Earth in the 1978 TV special, “Christmas at Walt Disney World,” featuring Shields and Yarnell as the most 1978 couple imaginable, Pablo Cruise and their indifference to help a screaming woman escape from pirates, Phyllis Diller in the world’s poofiest princess dress, the Doritos guy as a wildly off-model Geppetto, Dee from “What’s Happening” as an ungrateful passenger in a magical pumpkin coach, and Broadway’s original Annie singing Christmas carols with surprisingly reverent Disney villains.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), a wooden toy soldier who somehow qualified for foreign combat despite being unable to stay in formation.</li> <li><strong><a href="http://www.pizzanaut.com">Drew Crowley</a></strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/pizzanautgo">@pizzanautgo</a>) of <a href="http://www.thehourchive.com/">The Hourchive</a>.</li> <li><strong><a href="http://www.johndedeke.com">John Dedeke</a></strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/johndedeke">@johndedeke</a>), also of <a href="http://www.thehourchive.com/">The Hourchive</a>, and <a href="https://longweekend.simplecast.com/">Long Weekend</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and tangents</h4> <ol> <li>A <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xOIgKjs4Zl0/TfUh90aKfMI/AAAAAAAAFjs/_Ul9wGshWSU/s1600/1978-your-complete-guide-to-walt-disney-world_map_001.png">map of what Walt Disney World looked like in 1978</a>.</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ol79UVo6c">Vault Disney</a>.”</li> <li>Mystery solved: <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/holiday/8078515/my-favorite-things-christmas-sound-of-music">How “My Favorite Things” became a Christmas song</a>.</li> <li>The opening music, “The Great Gate of Kiev,” part of Modest Mussorgsky’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition#No._10_%22The_Bogatyr_Gates_%28In_the_Capital_in_Kiev%29%22">Pictures at an Ex