poster art for the Fantasmic! evening water show, featuring Mickey Mouse dressed as a wizard and battling a host of cartoon characters

Fantasmic!

Fantasmic! Evening water show presented on the south end of Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, beginning May 13, 1992. Mickey Mouse appears and uses his magical powers to bring beloved characters to life in his imagination—until such classic Disney villains as Ursula and Maleficent threaten Mickey’s fantasy world. To prepare for Fantasmic! the Rivers of …

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Famous Jett Jackson, The (television)

Famous Jett Jackson, The (television) Half-hour series on Disney Channel, debuting October 25, 1998, and airing through 2001. Jett Jackson, a 13-year-old television star, longs to have a normal life, so he leaves Hollywood and his television-star mother behind, to go live with his father, the town sheriff in Wilsted, North Carolina, where he was …

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Family Tools (television)

Family Tools (television)  Television series, debuting on May 1, 2013, on ABC, and ending July 10, 2013.  When Jack Shea’s father has a heart attack and is forced to hand over his beloved handyman business to his son, Jack is eager to finally step up and make his father proud.  Unfortunately Jack’s past career efforts …

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Fanelli Boys, The (television)

Fanelli Boys, The (television) Television series on NBC, from September 8, 1990, to February 16, 1991. Four grown brothers from a boisterous Italian family in Brooklyn move back in with their strong-willed, widowed mother when their lives go awry. Stars Joe Pantoliano (Dominic), Ann Guilbert (Theresa), Christopher Meloni (Frank), Ned Eisenberg (Anthony), Andy Hirsch (Ronnie), …

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Family PC

Family PC Magazine published by Disney beginning August 15, 1994, and ending with the issue for January 1998.

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Family Planning (film)

Family Planning (film) Educational film; produced in association with the Population Council; released in December 1967. The film explains that the ultimate goal of family life is the enrichment not the restriction of life.

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Family, The (television)

Family, The (television) Reality series on ABC, debuting on March 4, 2003, and ending on September 10, 2003. Ten members of an extended blue-collar, Italian-American family are moved to a luxurious Palm Beach mansion where they compete for $1 million, with the mansion’s staff doubling as a board of trustees to vote one person off …

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Fall Varieties (film)

Fall Varieties (film) Cartoon compilation; released by RKO in 1953.

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Family Band, The (television)

Family Band, The (television) Television title of the feature The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band. See under that entry.

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Fallberg, Carl

Fallberg, Carl (1915-1996) He went to Disney in 1935 as an assistant director on cartoons, and later became a storyman and writer of comic book stories. It was he who was given the assignment of scouting out Hollywood costume shops to find a pointed sorcerer’s hat for the live-action model to wear for Fantasia.

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