On this day in 1963, when Inside Outer Space took to the air on Walt Disney’s Wonderful of Color, viewers got an inside look at outer space. And the best host to lecture on the subject, make no mistake, was Ludwig Von Drake. The far-from-featherbrained professor is an expert on, well, most subjects, which makes him the perfect spokesperson, or spokesduck, for the topic. This program used footage from Disney’s space shows of the 1950s, such as Man in Space and Mars and Beyond, with new narration by Von Drake in addition to new kooky lectures on the topics of space travel and living in space, which meant everything from space housing to cocktail hour.
