MARY POPPINS
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1964 Disney movie musical is a delightful little film treat, if decidedly oddball. There’s those weird animated penguins and lambs, and Dick Van Dyke’s crazy cockney accent – but there’s also Julie Andrews, who was only 29 years old when she starred as the parasol-sporting nanny and made a perfect musical companion piece to her cinematic starring role in another family musical, The Sound of Music. If you have young ones around, I’d highly recommend watching this as a collective viewing treat – but without the kids, before or after, I’d also recommend seeking out and watching Saving Mr. Banks, the 2013 movie starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, and Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books. It brings a new perspective, and poignancy, to the message and meaning behind the Mary Poppins movie.