The Wonderful World of Disney/Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?

Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?
Season 18, Episode 19
Airdate	April 9, 1972
Written by	Ted Berman
Directed by	Ward Kimball
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The Wonderful World of Disney — Season Eighteen

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Dad, Can I Borrow the Car? is the nineteenth episode of the eighteenth season of The Wonderful World of Disney, and the four hundred forty-fifth episode overall.

Cast: Kurt Russell (Narrator), Spencer Quinn (Car Salesman), Jesse White (Father), Pete Renoudet, June Foray, Larry Gloege

Plot Overview

An expanded version of the 1970 theaterical featurette of the same name, this is a humorous look at America's love-hate relationship with the automobile. Merging live action and animation, this episode begins with an unusual trip on a highway where cars change shape and take on individual personalities. The scene then shifts to a hospital where a baby boy is spanked to "start his engine" and taken to the nursery in his first wheeled device - a simple cart. From this inauspicious beginning grows an ever-increasing onfatuation with wheeled transportation, bicycles, skates, toy cars and finally the automobile.

Credits

• Producer: Ward Kimball
• Assistant to the Producer: Louis Debney
• Film Editor: Lloyd L. Richardson
• Music: George Bruns
• Theme Song "Wheels" by The Kaleidoscope
• Animation: Art Stevens
• Layout: Joe Hale
• Graphic Design: John Emerson, Ed Garbert
• Sound: Robert O. Cook
• Program Coordinator: Jack Bruner
• Field Producers: John O'Connor, Walter Perkins
• Additional Photography: Rolf Darbo, Nick Iuppa, John Kimball, Jim Talbot
• Acknowledgements: State of California, Department of Motor Vehicles, California Show Cars, Creative Playthings, Inc.

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