Disney Channel Original Movie Marathon on Memorial Day Weekend!

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by kevin87

according to that wikipedia page, the first DCOM was "Northern Lights" which I never heard of until now, and "Under Wraps" was the 2nd which I do remember... and movies like prior to that like Escape to Witch Mountain with Erik von Detten, Susie Q with Amy Jo Johnson, and Wish Upon a Star with Katherine Heigl are classified as "Disney Channel Premiere Films." Wish Upon a Star has been on Netflix for over a year at least.

Apparently Disney stopped airing Susie Q sometime after 2000, but I remember they used to air it a ton and I'd always watch it lol

In looking through the list again, the earliest ones I remember are indeed Susie Q, Wish Upon a Star, and Escape to Witch Mountain.

-queues up Wish Upon a Star on Netflix, though...and wonders if any others are on it-

But the first real DCOM I remember seeing was Under Wraps. Otherwise, a lot of the movies in the list were regular watches when they came out until the mid to late 200s. That's about when my Disney Channel watching tapered off.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

In looking through the list again, the earliest ones I remember are indeed Susie Q, Wish Upon a Star, and Escape to Witch Mountain.

-queues up Wish Upon a Star on Netflix, though...and wonders if any others are on it-

But the first real DCOM I remember seeing was Under Wraps. Otherwise, a lot of the movies in the list were regular watches when they came out until the mid to late 200s. That's about when my Disney Channel watching tapered off.

yeah those are the ones I remember but my best geuss is they weren't made FOR Disney, but Disney aired them.

I just got a Roku today, was going through signing in with my cable provider on the apps that needed it and it seems like the Disney Channel app has a bunch of them, including some that aren't airing on tv...

[Show spoiler]Alley Cats Strike!
Avalon High
Brink
Buffalo Dreams
Can of Worms
Cloud 9
The Color of Friendship
Dadnapped
Den Brother
Descendants
Don't Look Under The Bed
Double Teamed
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off
The Even Stevens Movie
Full-Court Miracle
Genius
Get A Clue
Go Figure
Going to the Mat
Gotta Kick it Up!
Halloweentown
Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's Revenge
Halloweentown High
Hatching Pete
Horse Sense
Hounded
How to Build a Better Boy
The Jennie Project
Jett Jackson: The Movie
Johnny Kapahala: Back On Board
Johnny Tsunami
Jumping Ship
Kim Possible: So The Drama
Life Is Ruff
The Luck of the Irish
Minutemen
Miracle in Lane 2
Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire
Motocrossed
Now You See It...
The Other Me
Phantom of the Megaplex
Pixel Perfect
The Poof Point
The Proud Family Movie
Quints
Radio Rebel
Ready To Run
Return To Halloweentown
Right On Track
A Ring of Endless Light
Rip Girls
The Scream Team
Smart House
Stepsister from Planet Weird
Stuck In The Suburbs
The Suite Life Movie
Teen Beach Movie
The Thirteenth Year
Tiger Cruise
Tru Confessions
'Twas the Night
Twitches
Twitches Too
The Ultimate Christmas Present
Under Wraps
Up, Up, and Away
You Lucky Dog
You Wish!
Zapped
Zenon
Zenon the Zequel
Zenon: Z3

this is only 73, and some that are airing on TV aren't on the app which is weird, but atleast people have a way to see the ones left out, or able to catch them when they want. I obviously didn't check them all, but the Zenon movies appear to be in HD, or at least widescreen.

on tv but not app:

[Show spoiler]Bad Hair Day
Cadet Kelly
Camp Rock
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
The Cheetah Girls
The Cheetah Girls 2
The Cheetah Girls: One World
Cow Belles
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
Jump In!
Lemonade Mouth
Princess Protection Program
Read It and Weep
Teen Beach 2
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie

that brings it to 90, leaving 9 (

[Show spoiler]Starstruck, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Phineas and Ferb movie, Geek Charming, Good Luck Charlie It's Christmas, Frenemies, Let It Shine, Girl vs Monster, Invisible Sister

)not on TV or app... the 100th will be the new one and seems like they're not counting that Northern Lights movie as a DCOM after all lol

It would be nice if they'd add them all to the app, or at least keep the ones there up forever

[TheLaughingMann]

Looks like today's the last day for the marathon. And of course, they save a lot of the earlier movies for this day, so if anybody watched the sequels to potential movies airing today, enjoy.

Also, AutomaticDriver gets props for this call out. Looks like Disney Channel is also going to show back to back movies starting Tuesday night around 12am/11pm CST. AND...if it's to be believed, they will be airing the movies that did NOT get added into the marathon. Right up until the Adventures in Babysitting remake airs.

Here is the link:

https://ohmy.disney.com/news/2016/05/24/192479/

On the one hand, yay for more...but really? Midnight? Why the frick would you not put it earlier in the schedule? You got people to get on board with this epic marathon, which aired all day...now you want to show a bunch of the really great and obscure DCOMs in a time slot your viewerbase may not be able to make?

Shame, Disney...shame.