A Disney Christmas Gift is a 47-minute Christmas television special that aired on December 4, 1982 on CBS' Walt Disney Presents television program. It's a Christmas compilation of animated shorts featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck combined with excerpts from Disney feature films, made as a result of Disney being forced to delay the original premiere of Mickey's Christmas Carol due to an animator's strike. The opening and closing numbers, featuring the song "On Christmas Morning", showcased Christmas at Disneyland. It was nominated for the 1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour); however, it lost to Garfield on the Town.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the original full-length and shortened versions of the special were rebroadcast on CBS and the Disney Channel.
Featured segments
- "On Christmas Morning"
- "Once Upon a Wintertime" segment from Melody Time (1948) featuring the titular song
- Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952)
- Bambi and Thumper ice skating from Bambi (1942)
- Peter Pan teaching the Darling children to fly from Peter Pan (1953), featuring "You Can Fly"
- The Clock Watcher (1945)
- Merlin, Arthur and Archimedes the Owl from The Sword in the Stone (1963)
- The Fairy Godmother's scene from Cinderella (1949) featuring "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
- The Night Before Christmas (1933)
- "On Christmas Morning" (Reprise)
Home video releases
December 6, 1984
December 9, 1990
December 6, 1984
December 9, 1990
See also
External links
Disney Wiki: A Disney Christmas Gift
A Disney Christmas Gift at the Internet Movie Database