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• Actors: Willam Windom, Celeste Holm, Devon Ericson, Slim Pickens
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0001FSLWS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,382 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 episodes from The Wonderful World of Disney! "Bluegrass Special" - A heart-tugging story about a young girl with a very special dream. Woodhill, a beautiful race horse, has a bad reputation...he threw and injured his rider in a race in Tijuana. Penny, a teenage horse trainer, dreams of becoming a jockey...and she picks Woodhill to race in the upcoming Bluegrass Special.... "Runaway on the Rogue River" - Barney, a runaway circus elephant, gives truck driver Bucky an experience he'll never forget. Barney's frolic on the banks of the Rogue River turns into a rescue operation that makes him the hero of the elephant world....

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sunday night on Disney, in color!, March 22, 2005

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This review is from: The Wonderful World of Disney - Bluegrass Special/ Runaway on the Rogue River (VHS Tape)

This video has 2 separate adventure episodes from "The Wonderful World of Disney" television show that played on Sunday nights from 1953 to 1983. The first is "Bluegrass Special", originally aired in 1977. This is a story about horse racing, and believe it or not features Davey Jones of "The Monkees", who actually was a racing jockey in Britain before joining the Monkees in the 1960's. The horse is the story is named Woodhill, and he is beautiful but very difficult to work with. He has a bad reputation for hurting his own riders. But a young girl named Penny wants to be a jockey and sees the horses potential and knows he needs a special touch, and convinces her aunt to buy the horse to race in the Bluegrass Special. Nice family fare and I and my 9 year old son really enjoy it.

This next episode first aired in 1974. "Runaway on the Rogue River" is a story about a. Slim Pickens plays a trainer who is transporting circus elephants by truck when he gets a flat tire. After unloading the elephants to work on the truck, one simply wanders away. Hijinks develop when this elephant named Barney is discovered by a father and son on a fishing trip, much to their suprise. Barney is called in for a Herculean rescue and saves the day. I highly recommend this video and others in the series. In 2008, Disney released a stand alone DVD of the Bluegrass Special episode on this tape.