Greg, Macy, Indiana

You may be thinking of the three-hour television movie Sky High (1990), starring Damon Martin, Anthony Rapp, and James Whitmore. There was a similar 1975 TV show entitled The Sky’s the Limit, about a boy and his grandfather fixing up and flying an ancient airplane. The grandfather and grandson were played by Pat O’Brien and …

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Matthew, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

It has been on VHS (in the 1980s) and is available on Video on Demand.

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Kim, Natick, Massachusetts

According to the premiere issue of the Disney Channel Magazine, the very first show to air was Good Morning Mickey, followed by Mousercise, Welcome to Pooh Corner, and You and Me, Kid, in that order.

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David, Fairfield, California

This LP record album was released in 1979, and it is indeed a Disney product, created for Kraft Foods to use as a promotion. The catalog number was DL-3518.

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Dave, Torrance, California

We do not know which ones you have, but supposedly Knickerbocker, Ideal, and Crown toy companies all made composition figures from that film.

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Darryl, Steger, Illinois

This is indeed a fake; the fire extinguishers have been around for about 40 years. The plaque was made up without the Disney Company’s permission from various sources, and can also be found separate from the fire extinguisher.

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Darcy, Rangeley, Maine

The numbers are simply stock numbers assigned by Walt Disney Home Entertainment to identify their videos.

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Daniel, Pevely, Missouri

There was an Oswald stencil set, a candy bar, and a pin-back button, all licensed through Universal, who owned and distributed the Disney Oswald cartoons. The first Mickey Mouse item was a writing tablet.  Supposedly Walt was walking though a hotel lobby in New York and a man offered him $300 if he would allow …

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Cynthia, Davis, California

Disney had a Storyteller (ST) series of 12-inch LP records, including booklets, beginning in 1957 and lasting into the 1980s. Another series, the Little Long Playing (LLP) 7-inch records, began in the 1960s; most were labeled “SEE the pictures, HEAR the record, READ the book.”

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Carla, Stoutsville, Ohio

These are shortened, retitled versions of Disney cartoons, which were released as home-movie versions by Hollywood Film Enterprises in the 1940s and 1950s. 1566A was titled Mickey Performs, but we are unsure which cartoon it is from. 1525A is Jealous Mickey, taken from The Whoopee Party (1932), and 1755A is Mickey’s Giant Rabbit, taken from …

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