My all-time Disney favorite growing up in the 60's - The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh! My sister and I memorized the song and sang it while we played. It is the perfect combination of action/adventure, atmospheric shivers and good triumphing over evil. Patrick McGoohan was the perfect Dr. Syn. R.I.P. Thank you, Walt!
Absolutely..a superb talent who exuded strength, authority and charismatic charm. As a child I was mesmerised by his performances in Danger Man and The Prisoner and Dr Syn then later in the film Ice Station Zebra. His contributions to the TV series Columbo were always excellent. He really should have been a cinematic megastar....
Thanks for this. Loved this movie. There was something about it being set in the English countryside that really made it feel authentic. It was well cast and the theme song was perfect!! I'm in my 60's now and seeing this takes me back to my childhood, what a great memory. Edit: It's a shame Disney won't do another release on DVD.
I love this show when it first came out on Disney and I still do. Matter of fact I loved all of Disney's shows. Swamp fox, zorro all of them. It's too bad Disney today has gotten away from all these great shows. Thank you. What great memories these bring back. God bless.
I can't even begin to describe my excitement to the three part series when, as a fifth grader in 1970, my elementary school did a Friday afternoon after school movie and over three such Friday's presented the three parts in sequence. I was instantly glued to the experience and the Vicar of Dimchurch became my very first literary-film hero! Even today fifty years later I get a ripple up my spine when I hear the opening music play.
An awesome memory of watching these three episodes as a young child with my family. It made me go to the community library to check out the original novel for reading - and much later to purchase the dvd to show my children!
We made a scarecrow out of some of our Dad's old clothes one Halloween . Used a trash bag as the cape. And drew his face on a stuffed pillowcase. Everyone , even the grownups loved it. Used a rocker for a horse. A couple more trash bags and cut outs . Ta-Da. It was great fun. 😊😊😊 16:13
I was 9 when this came out and it was my favorite Disney show! Even then I had a crush on the scarecrow! I'm 68 now and seeing this again brought back everything I felt then. Patrick was so gorgeous.
I was lucky enough to be asked by Disney in 2008 if I would allow Disney to use my Dr syn art for this part of the Dr syn release Disney Classics's , I was honoured , and very pleased with the finished work . Terry Anthony . Dr syn artist .
Consider yourself lucky they asked before using it. Normally, if they see something they like, they take it and claim they created it. Any claim for residuals or other compensation for use will be denied.
In 1976, I went out on Halloween as the Scarecrow. One of the best costumes I ever had, especially the mask. My Dad and I made a paper mache mask of my face and painted it, then Dad shellacked it, super glued it to a white hood my Mom made, along with the rest of the costume. With the exception of being only four and half feet tall, I really looked like I had stepped out of the movie. One of my favorites to this day.
Thank you for this compilation and history of my STILL All-time favorite film Disney or other film maker(s). Have never forgotten it and have all the original TV Guide pictoral/descriptions cut out and saved from the 1960's. Got to see it in a theatrical rerelease in 1976 in Honolulu HI
Thank you for sharing! Disney's Scarecrow still is one of my favorites. I have watched it more times than I can count. Now after hearing some of the background, it is even more interesting! Love watching Patrick McGoohan.
LOVE THIS.. I LOVED this back in the 60's when Walt Disney made this movie... I was talking to someone about this and they told me to go on UTube here which I never thought too. Now learning all about this..
I had the Scarecrow theme on 45 record when i was very young! It was one of my favorite songs! As a little girl, the scarecrow face was a bit unsettling to me! lol what memories.... Thanks for the upload!
I have loved the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh since it debuted on TV in the 1960's. I also cut out all the TV Guide's advertisement sized information leaders and have them in my album for my Grandson. Also, this started my lifelong interest in Patrick McGoohan, as he went to make many films/shows for Disney before making The Prisoner.
"Scare crow, scare croooowwww, the soldiers of the king feared his name...Scare crow, scare croooowwwww, the country folks all loved him just the same....." like Francis Marion in Swamp Fox, Dr. Syn is based on more than one person...I miss those Disney live action movies from the sixties, the original "Incredible Journey", "Old Yeller" and "Charlie the lonesome Cougar" were some of my fondest childhood memories, the colors, and Walt himself hosting....keep on justasinger54
I remembered every word to the song and sang along when I saw The Scarecrow recently. My hubby was a little taken aback, as I sang that song as passionately as I did as a kid. And I am 73!
This was a positively magnificent series. I remember watching it as a teenager and becoming completely engrossed. This character was so much more plausible than other such icons, e.g. Batman, Superman, or Captain Marvel. And of course, the stellar Patrick McGoohan in the title role was perfect. I’m very anxious to watch this with my grandchildren and great grandchildren. I believe they will be suitably impressed.
The interview with Patrick McGoohan took place only a year or so before his untimely death. Many people are not aware that, although he SOUNDS English, he was, in fact, a native-born American actor, who spent much of his life abroad, returning to the land of his birth only a few years before he passed away. Sean Scully, who played John Banks in the Disney Scarecrow series, as well as in the Disney films "Almost Angels" and "The Prince and the Pauper," is an Australian actor. Now in his early 70's, he retired from performing in 2010.
He was born in New York but soon after he was born his parents returned to Ireland, and later moved to England. He died in 2009 at age 80. Tom, is there an interview on RUclips?
Mr. McGoohan, born in Astoria section of Queens, NYC, but was raised in Ireland and England (his parents were Irish and moved back to their homeland when he was still a baby). He actually lived in the US for the last 30-something years of his life. There was considerable uproar in England due to the controversial ending of his show, The Prisoner. After he and his family were actually being harassed because of it, he moved them to Switzerland for a while, then to America in the early 70s (first to Santa Fe I think, then to the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, where he settled and remained until his death in 2009).
At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn became "the Scarecrow", the feared head of the smugglers. Together with Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter, he organized the smugglers into a well-organized band of "Night Riders", also called "The Devil Riders" with macabre disguises and code-names. Syn's cunning was so great that the smugglers outwitted the government forces for many years. A hidden stable watched over by Mother Handaway, the local "witch" (who believed the Scarecrow to be the Devil in living form), was the hiding place for the horses of the Scarecrow and his lieutenants, Mipps and the local highwayman Jimmie Bone (who, being as a good horseman as Syn and of similar build, was sometimes called to impersonate the Scarecrow when Syn either had to be somewhere or seen in the same place.)
@@musicman201047 I have no idea what you looked up, but it was incorrect. "Dr. Syn, the smuggler known as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, was a fictional character created by British author Arthur Thorndike. In 1964 Walt Disney falsely claimed that Thorndike's literary creation “was a real person… who lived 200 years ago.”"
I thought Dr Syn, et all, was generally based upon a real character in history. But, as many books and movies, stories aren't and really can't be 100% accurate. Regardless, fictional, factual, or a combination, it is a great movie with excellent acting to watch and enjoy!
I am 73, but after watching Dr. Syn, as a girl, dressed up as the Scarecrow. My brother and sister dressed as well. We spent hours running around our neighborhood having such adventures. Wonderful memories. What a wonderful show on Disney. I wish Disney made movies like they used to.
One of the nice things about Doctor Syn aka The Scarecrow, is that the character is still around, echoing like a ghost in popular entertainment. Alan Moore made The Scarecrow one of the members of an early League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and despite the mess that is the film made from the first book, you can see Doctor Syn in one of the paintings of earlier Leagues up on the wall of the League's underground lair. There is much yet to be done with the Scarecrow, if someone can summon up the cojones to do it.
That would be even greater and in modern times he could be given a robotic horse that could rum 200 miles and hour. He would be going after bad politians that cheat th3 people and get there money and gold and share it with the poor.
Please reissue Dr. Syn on DVD/Blu Ray Disney!! Used copies of the old dvd selling for $400.00 is too rich for my blood (Dr. Syn would be outraged!). Looks like over 25K of us would agree!!
WOW!! that much. I have a used VHS copy of the movie. Spotted it on a bookshelf at a Half Price bookstore in San Antonio. When I saw it, I grabbed it and wouldn't let go lest someone might want it to.
Back when Disney meant good writing, good family entertainment. I watched the series as a young child with my older brothers. We had the comics. My brother wore an official Scarecrow Halloween costume. We played games based on the scarecrow, running around cackling. What a great gift this miniseries was!
2:05 Zorro was created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, four years AFTER Dr. Syn. Not an inspiration for it. 5:20 - We ALL have had affection for the Disney version, which is why we are here. Disney always had the smarts to use "adult" actors for his "children's" movies. That is why they have endured so long.
I remember watching this Zorro, and The Swamp Rat on reruns when we first got the Disney Channel in the 80s. Really brings back memories. Wish I would have picked up the discs when they were released briefly several years back.
This was absolutely tremendous and utterly fascinating. Thank you so much for this backstory. I never missed Scarecrow when it came on Disney Wonderful World of Color. It's one of my all time favorites. Seeing him ride through the English countryside in the dead of night I was totally captivated. Young John and Mims the sextant as Curriyou and Hellspite was superb casting and acting. I bought the recording by the Wellingtons and when I saw the comic book I bought it immediately. I watched Patrick McGoohan as Secret Agent Man and always considered him a superb actor but I feel he outdid himself as Scarecrow. This was fantastic so thanks again.
I was 5 when this aired back in February of 1964. I loved it then and still do. One question: did Walt Disney really believe that the Scarecrow existed? That seems to be the case.
Smuggling bands certainly existed at the time and were hunted down by the redcoats before they had to go to the Colonies and try to quell rebellious Americans ?! " These ungrateful wretches ! " as King George always referred to them !! I think George Washington was a Colonel at one time in the British Army ? Anyway , we've forgiven you ! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
I remember seeing the scarecrow on the cover of those old Disney adventures digest. Remember those they were all over the place at grocery store check out lanes. I saw him on the cover and was like omg what a weird looking guy. I was a kid then but the look of the character really interested in in finding out more about the character. Then I found out about the novels and the movies.
i saw this in the cinema as a support film for i think, 'Lady and the Tramp' My favourite Disney film ever .from a time where they made great films . Not the nonsense the churn out now
You know this interview with Patrick McGoohan HAD to have lasted longer than this, and, typical for Disney, we got bare minimum. If only Disney could have convinced McGoohan to sit for a commentary of at least one of the episodes or even the movie. At least he seemed more willing to talk about Scarecrow than he ever did about The Prisoner. Truly a shame. [but nothing to Disney's cynical tactic of making its rarities available on DVD/Blu Ray for less than a month, then locking it away for another 7 years. Amazon usually sells this set for $300!!]
This is the first Disney picture I saw that I never seen Walt Disney got into and it’s a great flick. It’s a match to Robin Hood, Zorro and Batman in the 18th century but Dr. Syn is a Sherlock Holmes like Character till he became a Robin Hood smuggler to a Zorro type Batman hero. I’ve never experienced Dr. Syn before and I loved it as a Disney treasure. I would love to see a remake of the tale and I choose Hugo Weaving to play the main protagonist hero.
I wish that the European movie production companies can make a modern version of the Scarecrow it would do very good I grew up watching this show many moons ago he was like Europe's first superhero way before James Bond only this time in modern day times they give him a robotic horse that can run 150 mph that will be awesome
Yes. If it was to be remade it would have to be a small, independent, European company. The modern Disney/ Hollywood would destroy it. Can you imagine what a dog's dinner would be left by the time everyone had pulled it apart to insert their own agendas? The fake bosoms and teeth everywhere for the ubiquitous love scenes? Urghhhh... shudder!
Dr. Syn is one of my favorites. Taking the tax money from the King and giving it back to the farmers. A movie that was a remake in 1982 is "The Scarlet Pimpernel" where an English Lord tries to save as many French Royalists from the Reign of Terror, and spirit the Dauphin out of France. Roughly the same time period in history, not a Disney movie, but still worth watching!
The Scarlet Pimpernel Isn't a "remake". It was originally a novel that predates Dr Syn by ten years. There have been at least half a dozen movies based on the book. It's considered a classic, and is far more famous that Dr Syn.
The Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour version is the absolute best of The Scarlett Pimpernel. It may not be Disney, but it is also inspiring. I saw that as an adult.
@@sdushdiu That is so true! The entire run was sold out before I had even been made aware of its release! I was not happy. I think something like only 40,000 sets was made. Why Disney keeps such a tight lid on its archival releases baffles me to no end! Once this generation passes away, who would even be interested in purchasing them?
@@stephenclark6499 I totally agree. But the case for me was… I saw copies of the DVD available in a store, but didn’t buy one. Figured I’d pick one up later. Oof.
I was born in 1955 and watched it as a child. I believe Dr. Syn was my first crush! I still love to watch it today. After all these years, it remains one of my favorites.
This was made back before Disney became”DEIsney “ . When they had writers, directors & actors with genuine talent. So they were able to portray far superior morality tales than today!!
Someone needs to do a remake of this Classic, look at all Marvel Hero Movies that are Out Now. with the Movie Magic We have now Scarecrow would be as Epic as the Star Wars Trilogy.
The only one i saw of the Scarecrow videos was the one with the trial shame they had them on so late at night that was the only i saw when disney showed them and Zorro
Loved the Disney flick, first saw it when it was new! The 1937 film version was downright dull. Disney mistook this story as being based on a real person, but to the best of my knowledge, it was completely fiction. And Patrick McGoohan, of course, was fantastic in everything he did.
They kind of left out ---No doubt inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. The SHADOW by Walter Gibson may owe a debt the this character
I loved this story of local defiance and resistance against an oppressive and overbearing government system. A great and inspiring story that we desperately need.
Brings back great memories . I am thinking that it aired on Sunday nights . When it was over , off to bed. We need a modern day scarecrow to deal with politicians. this day and time .
Like Robin Hood, yes a good simile, but it is also like Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. What if the law is wrong? The king or queen of course is the head not only of the state but of the church. So it is interesting that scarecrow is a clergy of the the church of England. Of course I am a American who ancestors fought in the American Revolution so I have no fondness of the crown. Even less so now that Chuck is the king and horse face the queen. Now Dianna I liked and I like Harry and William, so maybe I will come around when he is on the throne.
The only good thing to come out of a new version is more people would learn about the original version from the 60s. And they would probably cast Lashana Lynch as Dr Syn.
Not in the current environment at Disney. It would be a major disappointment and a barely tolerable copy of the original. Dr Syn would probably be female, Mips African and John Banks homosexual, even though some of the changes would not be appropriate for the time period.
Not that anyone could do a better job than Patrick McGoohan, but I'd go see a modern movie about Dr. Syn, creating the Scarecrow identity and getting the local men to help him
My all-time Disney favorite growing up in the 60's - The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh! My sister and I memorized the song and sang it while we played. It is the perfect combination of action/adventure, atmospheric shivers and good triumphing over evil. Patrick McGoohan was the perfect Dr. Syn. R.I.P. Thank you, Walt!
Oh yes, this was one of my favorites as a kid. I searched for the title when I went to video stores. I finally found a copy in DVD form when I was 50.
This and Zorro were my favorite.
I still sing along…
Here’s a fascinating documentary that deserves to be aired on a regular basis on TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
McGoohan's Scarecrow inspired me deeply as a boy. This was REAL adventure!
McGoohan was really one of the greats.
I agree! I need to go back and revisit The Prisoner BCNU!
Absolutely..a superb talent who exuded strength, authority and charismatic charm. As a child I was mesmerised by his performances in Danger Man and The Prisoner and Dr Syn then later in the film Ice Station Zebra. His contributions to the TV series Columbo were always excellent. He really should have been a cinematic megastar....
bCNU!
One of my very favorite memories from childhood. We never missed the Wonderful World of Color on Sunday evenings.
Always loved this movie and Patrick McGoohan. Really loved him in the Disney movie Thomasina as well.
Thanks for this. Loved this movie. There was something about it being set in the English countryside that really made it feel authentic. It was well cast and the theme song was perfect!! I'm in my 60's now and seeing this takes me back to my childhood, what a great memory. Edit: It's a shame Disney won't do another release on DVD.
I love this show when it first came out on Disney and I still do. Matter of fact I loved all of Disney's shows. Swamp fox, zorro all of them. It's too bad Disney today has gotten away from all these great shows. Thank you. What great memories these bring back. God bless.
There are no Disneys guiding Disney. That's the problem.
I can't even begin to describe my excitement to the three part series when, as a fifth grader in 1970, my elementary school did a Friday afternoon after school movie and over three such Friday's presented the three parts in sequence. I was instantly glued to the experience and the Vicar of Dimchurch became my very first literary-film hero! Even today fifty years later I get a ripple up my spine when I hear the opening music play.
An awesome memory of watching these three episodes as a young child with my family. It made me go to the community library to check out the original novel for reading - and much later to purchase the dvd to show my children!
I live in a small village 1 1/2 miles from dymchurch to this day we still have our day of syn. 2024 will be it’s 60th anniversary on 24 of August
We made a scarecrow out of some of our Dad's old clothes one Halloween . Used a trash bag as the cape. And drew his face on a stuffed pillowcase. Everyone , even the grownups loved it. Used a rocker for a horse. A couple more trash bags and cut outs . Ta-Da. It was great fun. 😊😊😊 16:13
I was 9 when this came out and it was my favorite Disney show! Even then I had a crush on the scarecrow! I'm 68 now and seeing this again brought back everything I felt then. Patrick was so gorgeous.
My dad's sister also loved Patrick lol
I am 73 and even tho I insisted on being The Scarecrow, I had a major crush as well.
I was lucky enough to be asked by Disney in 2008 if I would allow Disney to use my Dr syn art for this part of the Dr syn release Disney Classics's , I was honoured , and very pleased with the finished work . Terry Anthony . Dr syn artist .
Amazing art sir
@@JosephV19 thank you joseph
Consider yourself lucky they asked before using it. Normally, if they see something they like, they take it and claim they created it. Any claim for residuals or other compensation for use will be denied.
@@drmayeda1930Disney was a cut above. A man who inspired loyalty and liking.
In 1976, I went out on Halloween as the Scarecrow. One of the best costumes I ever had, especially the mask. My Dad and I made a paper mache mask of my face and painted it, then Dad shellacked it, super glued it to a white hood my Mom made, along with the rest of the costume. With the exception of being only four and half feet tall, I really looked like I had stepped out of the movie. One of my favorites to this day.
Cool Dad. He got it! Your Mom as well. Great time to grow up.
Thank you for this compilation and history of my STILL All-time favorite film Disney or other film maker(s). Have never forgotten it and have all the original TV Guide pictoral/descriptions cut out and saved from the 1960's. Got to see it in a theatrical rerelease in 1976 in Honolulu HI
Love this movie still . Iam 65 yrs remember watching this movie several times when l was a child Thank you for the memories
Thank you for sharing! Disney's Scarecrow still is one of my favorites. I have watched it more times than I can count. Now after hearing some of the background, it is even more interesting! Love watching Patrick McGoohan.
Movie was a real favorite of mine - Thanks for posting the background!
Incredible picture, Loved it when I first seen it as a child, loved its mystery and intrigue, and I still do, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇸♥️🎬
True classic
LOVE THIS.. I LOVED this back in the 60's when Walt Disney made this movie... I was talking to someone about this and they told me to go on UTube here which I never thought too. Now learning all about this..
I remember seeing The Scarecrow in the 60's. That laugh scared the bejesus out of me. Watching it again was amazing.
I had the Scarecrow theme on 45 record when i was very young! It was one of my favorite songs! As a little girl, the scarecrow face was a bit unsettling to me! lol what memories.... Thanks for the upload!
I have loved the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh since it debuted on TV in the 1960's. I also cut out all the TV Guide's advertisement sized information leaders and have them in my album for my Grandson. Also, this started my lifelong interest in Patrick McGoohan, as he went to make many films/shows for Disney before making The Prisoner.
dawn klug I'd love to see those cutouts it's great meeting fans
Will see about digging them out this weekend. Are you on Face Book?
dawn klug yes I am
"Scare crow, scare croooowwww, the soldiers of the king feared his name...Scare crow, scare croooowwwww, the country folks all loved him just the same....." like Francis Marion in Swamp Fox, Dr. Syn is based on more than one person...I miss those Disney live action movies from the sixties, the original "Incredible Journey", "Old Yeller" and "Charlie the lonesome Cougar" were some of my fondest childhood memories, the colors, and Walt himself hosting....keep on justasinger54
I loved those programs too how's about Davy Crokett but scarecrow was my favorite
I remembered every word to the song and sang along when I saw The Scarecrow recently. My hubby was a little taken aback, as I sang that song as passionately as I did as a kid. And I am 73!
Well, well. So much interesting info on one of my Disney favorites. The internet is a marvelous thing. Thanks for posting!!!!
Was eight years old when this came on tv. Have loved it ever since.
This was a positively magnificent series. I remember watching it as a teenager and becoming completely engrossed. This character was so much more plausible than other such icons, e.g. Batman, Superman, or Captain Marvel. And of course, the stellar Patrick McGoohan in the title role was perfect.
I’m very anxious to watch this with my grandchildren and great grandchildren. I believe they will be suitably impressed.
The interview with Patrick McGoohan took place only a year or so before his untimely death. Many people are not aware that, although he SOUNDS English, he was, in fact, a native-born American actor, who spent much of his life abroad, returning to the land of his birth only a few years before he passed away. Sean Scully, who played John Banks in the Disney Scarecrow series, as well as in the Disney films "Almost Angels" and "The Prince and the Pauper," is an Australian actor. Now in his early 70's, he retired from performing in 2010.
He was born in New York but soon after he was born his parents returned to Ireland, and later moved to England. He died in 2009 at age 80. Tom, is there an interview on RUclips?
I like your comment; but, Mr. McGoohan died at age 80 after a brief illness. Dying at 80 is not really "untimely".
Mr. McGoohan, born in Astoria section of Queens, NYC, but was raised in Ireland and England (his parents were Irish and moved back to their homeland when he was still a baby). He actually lived in the US for the last 30-something years of his life. There was considerable uproar in England due to the controversial ending of his show, The Prisoner. After he and his family were actually being harassed because of it, he moved them to Switzerland for a while, then to America in the early 70s (first to Santa Fe I think, then to the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, where he settled and remained until his death in 2009).
@kwebster62 For his obsessed fans, it is untimely!
Brings back a lot of nice memories about Disney TV series back in the 60's.
Well remember "The Scarecrow". It was my first introduction to Patrick, who I think is a most underrated actor.
2:19 that church is still there...opposite is a brilliant little pub called the star inn
I want to say thank you for re-uploading the entire series. My dad talked about this show a lot and I have always wanted to see this.
I adored this show as a kid (even if my parents thought it was "inappropriate" for a girl). Patrick McGoohan was perfect for the role.
At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn became "the Scarecrow", the feared head of the smugglers. Together with Mr. Mipps, a former Royal Navy carpenter, he organized the smugglers into a well-organized band of "Night Riders", also called "The Devil Riders" with macabre disguises and code-names.
Syn's cunning was so great that the smugglers outwitted the government forces for many years. A hidden stable watched over by Mother Handaway, the local "witch" (who believed the Scarecrow to be the Devil in living form), was the hiding place for the horses of the Scarecrow and his lieutenants, Mipps and the local highwayman Jimmie Bone (who, being as a good horseman as Syn and of similar build, was sometimes called to impersonate the Scarecrow when Syn either had to be somewhere or seen in the same place.)
Then Dr. Syn really existed a real person, that is what you are telling me, us? Always thought it was a fable and Dr. Syn was simply made up
@@markross2124 Nope,Syn was a real person,I looked it up myself.
@@musicman201047 I have no idea what you looked up, but it was incorrect.
"Dr. Syn, the smuggler known as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, was a fictional character created by British author Arthur Thorndike. In 1964 Walt Disney falsely claimed that Thorndike's literary creation “was a real person… who lived 200 years ago.”"
I thought Dr Syn, et all, was generally based upon a real character in history. But, as many books and movies, stories aren't and really can't be 100% accurate. Regardless, fictional, factual, or a combination, it is a great movie with excellent acting to watch and enjoy!
Patrick mcGoohan R.I.P.
Amen, Secret Agent Man!
The Prisoner.
The three lives of thomasina
Columbo
Silverstreak
I am 73, but after watching Dr. Syn, as a girl, dressed up as the Scarecrow. My brother and sister dressed as well. We spent hours running around our neighborhood having such adventures. Wonderful memories. What a wonderful show on Disney. I wish Disney made movies like they used to.
Fantastic! Thanks!
One of the nice things about Doctor Syn aka The Scarecrow, is that the character is still around, echoing like a ghost in popular entertainment. Alan Moore made The Scarecrow one of the members of an early League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and despite the mess that is the film made from the first book, you can see Doctor Syn in one of the paintings of earlier Leagues up on the wall of the League's underground lair. There is much yet to be done with the Scarecrow, if someone can summon up the cojones to do it.
Clayton George I would like a new 3 part movie
I never noticed the painting I'll have to go back and look
@@JosephV19 The books in the public domain so anyone could make it.
That would be even greater and in modern times he could be given a robotic horse that could rum 200 miles and hour. He would be going after bad politians that cheat th3 people and get there money and gold and share it with the poor.
Please reissue Dr. Syn on DVD/Blu Ray Disney!! Used copies of the old dvd selling for $400.00 is too rich for my blood (Dr. Syn would be outraged!). Looks like over 25K of us would agree!!
WOW!! that much. I have a used VHS copy of the movie. Spotted it on a bookshelf at a Half Price bookstore in San Antonio. When I saw it, I grabbed it and wouldn't let go lest someone might want it to.
to all my scarecrow fans enjoy
Joseph Vagasky thank you. As a kid this was really my first entry in the world of heroes. A cherished part of my childhood.
I've been a fan since I saw the 1937 film as a late night movie about 20 years ago. It's good to get the rich history of the story.
Love this Picture One of the Greats for me first seen it when I was a kid loved its mystery and intrigue,📽🎬
Thx.
Thank you for this! I remember this from "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color", and, while it scared me, I enjoyed it a lot.
Back when Disney meant good writing, good family entertainment. I watched the series as a young child with my older brothers. We had the comics. My brother wore an official Scarecrow Halloween costume. We played games based on the scarecrow, running around cackling. What a great gift this miniseries was!
So did we! I think every neighborhood full of kids has the same wonderful memories of playing the Scarecrow.
2:05 Zorro was created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, four years AFTER Dr. Syn. Not an inspiration for it.
5:20 - We ALL have had affection for the Disney version, which is why we are here.
Disney always had the smarts to use "adult" actors for his "children's" movies. That is why they have endured so long.
Thank you for providing us with the memories of my childhood!
I remember watching this Zorro, and The Swamp Rat on reruns when we first got the Disney Channel in the 80s. Really brings back memories. Wish I would have picked up the discs when they were released briefly several years back.
It's Swamp Fox.
@@musicman201047 Your right, my memory is a little fuzzy. Happy New Year.
This was absolutely tremendous and utterly fascinating. Thank you so much for this backstory. I never missed Scarecrow when it came on Disney Wonderful World of Color. It's one of my all time favorites. Seeing him ride through the English countryside in the dead of night I was totally captivated. Young John and Mims the sextant as Curriyou and Hellspite was superb casting and acting. I bought the recording by the Wellingtons and when I saw the comic book I bought it immediately. I watched Patrick McGoohan as Secret Agent Man and always considered him a superb actor but I feel he outdid himself as Scarecrow. This was fantastic so thanks again.
Thank you for the history. I was 12 when that came out. Good memories.
Watched this with my dad as a kid and I love the story till this day!
What a classic we loved this as kids.My favorite Disney's movie.My Halloween costume was the Scarecrow.
I saw it as a kid on the Wonderful World of Disney and remembered it all my life. I got the DVD Disney Treasure Vault release on my shelf
I was 5 when this aired back in February of 1964. I loved it then and still do.
One question: did Walt Disney really believe that the Scarecrow existed? That seems to be the case.
Smuggling bands certainly existed
at the time and were hunted down by the redcoats before they had
to go to the Colonies and try to
quell rebellious Americans ?!
" These ungrateful wretches ! " as
King George always referred to them !! I think George Washington was a Colonel at one time in the British Army ? Anyway , we've forgiven you ! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
I remember watching this as a kid.
I remember seeing the scarecrow on the cover of those old Disney adventures digest. Remember those they were all over the place at grocery store check out lanes. I saw him on the cover and was like omg what a weird looking guy. I was a kid then but the look of the character really interested in in finding out more about the character. Then I found out about the novels and the movies.
De pequeño estaba facinado con éste personaje, no me perdía ni un capitulo, y hasta ahora pude encontrár algo sobre tan fantastica historia.
Who had two thumbs and got the Disney mini series comics this guy right here
Thank you for posting this. I've never heard of this movie before someone posted about it on Facebook.
i saw this in the cinema as a support film for i think, 'Lady and the Tramp' My favourite Disney film ever .from a time where they made great films . Not the nonsense the churn out now
Living near Dymchurch watched the film many times great to watch.
You know this interview with Patrick McGoohan HAD to have lasted longer than this, and, typical for Disney, we got bare minimum. If only Disney could have convinced McGoohan to sit for a commentary of at least one of the episodes or even the movie. At least he seemed more willing to talk about Scarecrow than he ever did about The Prisoner. Truly a shame.
[but nothing to Disney's cynical tactic of making its rarities available on DVD/Blu Ray for less than a month, then locking it away for another 7 years. Amazon usually sells this set for $300!!]
This is the first Disney picture I saw that I never seen Walt Disney got into and it’s a great flick. It’s a match to Robin Hood, Zorro and Batman in the 18th century but Dr. Syn is a Sherlock Holmes like Character till he became a Robin Hood smuggler to a Zorro type Batman hero. I’ve never experienced Dr. Syn before and I loved it as a Disney treasure. I would love to see a remake of the tale and I choose Hugo Weaving to play the main protagonist hero.
I wish that the European movie production companies can make a modern version of the Scarecrow it would do very good I grew up watching this show many moons ago he was like Europe's first superhero way before James Bond only this time in modern day times they give him a robotic horse that can run 150 mph that will be awesome
Yes. If it was to be remade it would have to be a small, independent, European company. The modern Disney/ Hollywood would destroy it. Can you imagine what a dog's dinner would be left by the time everyone had pulled it apart to insert their own agendas? The fake bosoms and teeth everywhere for the ubiquitous love scenes? Urghhhh... shudder!
Thank you for posting this!!!
ronnola no problem you a fan lol
Absolutely love this show!!!!
I have introduced them to my 4 year old grandson.
"What News Of The North" . King Patrick McGoohan BraveHeart
Dr. Syn is one of my favorites. Taking the tax money from the King and giving it back to the farmers. A movie that was a remake in 1982 is "The Scarlet Pimpernel" where an English Lord tries to save as many French Royalists from the Reign of Terror, and spirit the Dauphin out of France. Roughly the same time period in history, not a Disney movie, but still worth watching!
The Scarlet Pimpernel Isn't a "remake". It was originally a novel that predates Dr Syn by ten years. There have been at least half a dozen movies based on the book. It's considered a classic, and is far more famous that Dr Syn.
The Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour version is the absolute best of The Scarlett Pimpernel. It may not be Disney, but it is also inspiring. I saw that as an adult.
OMG!!! this is the first i’ve heaed about this!!!!!!!
Why did I not purchase the damn DVDs when I had the chance?!
lol that's why as a fan i upload the features
Probably because few knew they were even released....
Purchased two when The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh was released as part of the Disney Treasures series. Watch those DVD's often.
@@sdushdiu That is so true! The entire run was sold out before I had even been made aware of its release! I was not happy. I think something like only 40,000 sets was made. Why Disney keeps such a tight lid on its archival releases baffles me to no end! Once this generation passes away, who would even be interested in purchasing them?
@@stephenclark6499 I totally agree. But the case for me was… I saw copies of the DVD available in a store, but didn’t buy one. Figured I’d pick one up later. Oof.
I was born in 1955 and watched it as a child. I believe Dr. Syn was my first crush! I still love to watch it today. After all these years, it remains one of my favorites.
Mine TOO NY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!
Before Zorro,Batman,Lone Ranger,The Shadow,Green Hornet.
The soldiers of the King feared his name.
This was made back before Disney became”DEIsney “ . When they had writers, directors & actors with genuine talent. So they were able to portray far superior morality tales than today!!
Dr Syn looks like the scarecrow from the long Halloween
Indeed you a fan
I LIke The Theme Song. I Like The Whole Thing I Do.
The book series are very well written
Someone needs to do a remake of this Classic, look at all Marvel Hero Movies that are Out Now. with the Movie Magic We have now Scarecrow would be as Epic as the Star Wars Trilogy.
This would make one hell of a great feature motion picture. At least by today's standards.
The only one i saw of the Scarecrow videos was the one with the trial shame they had them on so late at night that was the only i saw when disney showed them and Zorro
Disney should do something new with this
How faithful was the 37 film to the character
Loved the Disney flick, first saw it when it was new! The 1937 film version was downright dull. Disney mistook this story as being based on a real person, but to the best of my knowledge, it was completely fiction. And Patrick McGoohan, of course, was fantastic in everything he did.
WRONG...Dr. Syn WAS a real person.
@@musicman201047 Sorry, but no, he was a character from novels that were inspired by the very real smuggling trade.
Love the Scarecrow
I just ordered this from.ebay itll be cominh sometime this week if not early next
I Like To Play Scarecrow So I Can Go After Criminals Who Are Developmentally Disabled.I Really Would,Patrick McGoohan RIP,He Sure Would Of Been Proud,
They kind of left out ---No doubt inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. The SHADOW by Walter Gibson may owe a debt the this character
PhD. vicar by day, mask wearing outlaw/hero by night. Kind of an 18th century Batman. This is a really fun movie.
I loved this story of local defiance and resistance against an oppressive and overbearing government system. A great and inspiring story that we desperately need.
And it looks like there may be a lot of that in the future if things keep going as they are. Maybe an army of "Scarecrows" is needed.
Brings back great memories . I am thinking that it aired on Sunday nights . When it was over , off to bed. We need a modern day scarecrow to deal with politicians. this day and time .
Like Robin Hood, yes a good simile, but it is also like Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. What if the law is wrong? The king or queen of course is the head not only of the state but of the church. So it is interesting that scarecrow is a clergy of the the church of England. Of course I am a American who ancestors fought in the American Revolution so I have no fondness of the crown. Even less so now that Chuck is the king and horse face the queen. Now Dianna I liked and I like Harry and William, so maybe I will come around when he is on the throne.
Paintings by Terry Anthony
Terry Gilkyson Sing With The Chorus.
I'd love to see a new version. Hugh Grant would work as Dr. Syn.
The only good thing to come out of a new version is more people would learn about the original version from the 60s. And they would probably cast Lashana Lynch as Dr Syn.
Not in the current environment at Disney. It would be a major disappointment and a barely tolerable copy of the original. Dr Syn would probably be female, Mips African and John Banks homosexual, even though some of the changes would not be appropriate for the time period.
Or maybe Pierce Brosnan would be a good choice.
Russell Crowe!
Scarecrow was the Shadow and Batman in one body.
No comparison of Disney pictures during Walt's tenure and what's produced currently.
1:20 I believe that he's still alive - dawn diepietro
Not that anyone could do a better job than Patrick McGoohan, but I'd go see a modern movie about Dr. Syn, creating the Scarecrow identity and getting the local men to help him
my name is terry anthony all the paintings in this release i painted
Phenomenal work
Walt was a genius when it came to casting viz. Julie Andrews, Guy Williams, Brian Keith, Fess Parker, and Patrick McGoohan.
Bess Patrick brittant performance as the scarecrow !!!!
Someone should do a new series about the scarecrow, it’s in the public domain so anyone could do it....I’m just sayin’ he he