Best Children's/Family Films of 1964

Mary Poppins

Long resistant to film ... special "sing-along" edition with subtitles added to the musical numbers so audiences could join in with the onscreen vocalists. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

This stop-motion animagic version ... twist when Rudolph encounters an abominable snowman. This was made for TV and features Burl Ives as the narrator. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Alien invaders kidnap everyone's ... following over the years, and yes, it's true, Kimar's daughter Girmar really is played by a ten-year-old Pia Zadora. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Flipper's New Adventure

This 1964 sequel to ... Chuck Connors as Ranger Porter Ricks, a role he'd continue to play in the long-running (1964-67) Flipper TV series. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Jonny Quest [TV Series]

The fourth of Hanna-Barbera's ... 1965, Jonny Quest was rerun on Saturday-morning television -- over all three major networks -- from 1970 through 1981. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Pinocchio in Outer Space

Pinocchio meets Nurtle the ... and battle the alien white whale Astro in hopes of saving the Earth from attack by the menacing space-mammal. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

The Golden Goose

Part of the Tales ... tale involving a young man who is rewarded a golden goose in return for his kindness to a stranger. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

Return to Oz

Re-discover a long lost ... ongoing adventures with Socrates the Strawman, Rusty the Tinman, Dandy the Lion, and, of course, her beloved dog Toto. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]

A Tale of Time Lost

In a case of ... kids have only one chance to reverse the effects of time before they are stranded in these bodies forever. [ best children's/family films - 1964 ]