Disney Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Its #1 Film "Mary Poppins" With Two-Night ABC Celebration

 2024 marks the 60th Diamond anniversary of the film to end all Disney films, the five times OSCAR® Academy Awards record-breaker Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, based on the book series written and illustrated by P.L. Travers and featuring the silver screen debut of Julie Andrews and the music of the irreplaceable Disney Legends, the Sherman Brothers. This film also holds the record for the longest gap between sequels as Disney had the stupidity to wait 54 years to make a second film, in the end product of Mary Poppins 2 Returns, released in Deccember 2018.

To celebrate six decades of the film that critics everywhere have called "The Walt Disney Company's most crowning acheivement in motion picture masterpieces", Disney-owned ABC is celebrating with a special two-night program taking place over the Thanksgiving holidays.

On Wednesday November 27th, ABC will air the newest installment of its award-winning 20/20 news series The Untold Story of Mary Poppins which follows Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke as they give you their take on the making of this incredible film, which also includes never before seen behind the scenes footage from the film's original 1964 production process and archived conversations between the late men themselves, Walt Disney and P.L. Travers

Then on Thanksgiving Day, November 27th after you've finished getting hallucinated with the terrible balloons and floats designs of the annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, settle in with your kids to watch the classic film itself as part of the weekly anthology show The Wonderful World of Disney, simulcasted on Disney+ and sponsored by Target stores. This broadcast of the film along with an encore earlier this month as part of this year's second month of ABC Freeform's "30 Days of Disney Movies" programming stunt is dedicated to the two late stars of the film who we lost in 2024, Glynnis Johns who played Mrs. Banks who died at age 101 and Disney Legendary composer and songwriter Richard M. Sherman (The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh, Once Upon a Studio) who died at the age of 96 who we lost in January and May 2024 respectively.

It's a spoonful of sugar to help the nostalgia hype train go down. Tune in with your new generation of youngsters and watch the iconic Disney hybrid film that was practically perfect in every way and is still a supercallafragilisticexpialladocious jolly holiday of a Disney classic that has been putting smiles on Disney fans across the world all these years later.

Airs Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 9:00pm/8c on ABC. Check local listings.
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