Walt disney presents songs from the mickey mouse club serials various artists. Indeed, many actors filmographies list these serials as movies, rather than as ongoing tv series. One of the most famous variety shows in american history, the mickey mouse club initially aired in 1955, and has since been reimagined several times the main show was made up of several sketches performed by the mouseketeers. This episode is titled the explosion and originally aired on february 25, 1958. While many viewers have fond memories of the former, the latter are largely forgotten today. The serials feature jiminy cricket, pinocchios conscience, providing general education and science information in an entertaining and accessible manner. The show began as an hourlong show monday through friday and introduced 24 talented kids, known as mouseketeers, who performed skits, musical numbers, and introduced special guest stars, serials, and disney cartoons. The usual content includes instudio comedy and musical acts by those kids, classic as well as original cartoons and dramatic serials like spin and marty and the hardy boys. Mickey mouse club television one of the most popular childrens television series of all time, aired on abc from october 3, 1955, to september 25, 1959. Its great to be able to catch up with the onscreen brothers and witness their genuine reflections on something they made 50 years ago. The more famous second revival, the allnew mickey mouse club, was. The most popular part of the mickey mouse club was the third quarter hour, given over to serials. This is the first of two hardy boys serials that originally appeared in the mickey mouse club.
The project was conceived in may 1955, filmed in october of that. Unique among the mickey mouse club serials, spin and marty went on to a third season of 29 episodes, the new adventures of spin and marty, broadcast in 1957. The teenaged annette got to narrate the 5part travel serial italian correspondent on the first season of the mickey mouse club. It is hard, in this day and age, to imagine the overwhelming impact. Simultaneously, all things considered, the mickey mouse club.
The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. At least four cast members from the mickey mouse club were latterday saints, not surprising given the wholesome nature of the series. The original mickey mouse club television show the. Mickey mouse club mmc serials, disney channel, 19891995.
It was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by abc, featuring a regular but everchanging cast of teenage performers. Walt disney presents songs from the mickey mouse club. The first week of the show was released onto dvd as part of the disney treasures series a. The serials also have a strong focus on the importance of books and learning on ones own. The themes for each week were changed as well for the first revival show. Pages in category the mickey mouse club serials the following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Annette serial mickey mouse club episode eleven youtube. The first of the serials, the mystery of the applegate treasure, was aired on the mickey mouse club in 1956 during the shows second season. Annette serial mickey mouse club episode one youtube. Mickey mouse is the host of this variety show with a club attended by a variety of kids being the mouseketeers. Next to howdy doody which it helped unseat, the mickey mouse club was the defining childrens television program of the 1950s. Disney child actor kevin corcoran, who played the irrepressible moochie in the spin and marty serials on the mickey mouse club and went on to play roles in films such as old yeller, died tuesday at providence saint joseph medical center in burbank. The first mickey mouse club serial to feature a mouseketeer was this slight western story of a young girl and her dog, who help her father the sheriff capture two bank robbers. Spin and marty three serials, starring tim considine and david stollery in the title roles. Like many classic disney properties, the show was released as part of the walt disney treasures line. Annette was joined by other mouseketeers, such as darlene gillespie and don grady who would later play robbie on the popular tv comedy of the 1960s, my three sons.
Annette serial mickey mouse club episode seven youtube. Karen pendleton, who charmed young baby boomers in the 1950s as one of the original mouseketeers on walt disneys television series the mickey mouse. The new mickey mouse club syndication, 197778 the original show was syndicated again in 1975and proved so popular that disney created the new mickey mouse club. One set includes the first week of the show, while subsequent sets included the serials spin and marty, the hardy boys, and annette the first revival was the new mickey mouse club, which aired in syndication from 1977 to 1979. Funicello made her acting debut on the mickey mouse club serial adventure in dairyland. The mickey mouse club was a very mixed bag of new musical numbers, guest stars, talent contests, circus acts, liveaction serials and documentariesand most of all, it brought disneys earliest sound cartoons to audiences, often for the first time. The nature of the serials also attracted latterday saint talent. The mickey mouse club cast annette funicello as the. The mickey mouse club is an american variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996. This episode is titled the missing necklace and originally aired on february 19, 1958. This is a list of all five jiminy cricket educational serials that originally aired on the mickey mouse club tv series. The serials include emil and the detectives, tonka, third man on the mountain, and toby tyler. Before the theme songs memorable spelling became an audio icon, before the series even aired, the mickey mouse club was the most anticipated childrens programming ever. You will not get the mickey mouse club on this dvd, just the hardy boys segments.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Mickey mouse club featuring the hardy boys dvd, 2006, walt disney treasures limited edition tin at the best online prices at ebay. Mickey mouse club songs from walt disneys tv serials. Producers searched schools looking for kids with that.
The mickey mouse club was featured on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, and walt disneys adventure time, featuring reruns of the mickey mouse club serials and several reedited segments from disneyland and walt disney presents, appeared on tuesdays and thursdays. The mickey mouse club allowed younger viewers enthralled with the disney universe to experience their favorite mouse on television once a week instead of only when mom and dad would take them to the cinema. Although the mickey mouse club tv series premiered on october 3, 1955, the mouseketeers made their first television appearance on july 17, 1955 on the abc broadcast special celebrating the opening of disneyland. She also appeared in two of the popular spin and marty serials about a. The show was created by walt disney and produced by the walt disney company and was shown on the abc television network from october 3. The mickey mouse club tv series 19551958 the mickey. This show marked kevin corcorans first disney appearance. This episode is titled the newcomer and originally aired on february 11, 1958. List of jiminy cricket educational serials wikipedia. There are the complete mickey mouse club episodes that accompanied the first and last segments of the annette serial, the 1993 disney records special musically yours which charts the success of annette via her musical career at disney and beyond. It could be the fact that rather than creating brandnew serials, the new mickey mouse club simply cut down old disney movies into seriallength snippets.
Walt disney and his studio gradually developed annette funicello from the most popular mouseketeer into a fullfledged film star. Walt disneys contract with abc provided him the money needed to finish building his first park. Filmed in the town of verona, adventure in dairyland appeared as a serial for the 19561957 season of the mickey mouse club. Simultaneously, all things considered, the mickey mouse club was a good childrens show with merit. In honor of mickey mouses birthday november 18, 1928, this post will be about the original mickey mouse club television show. They cover their costars including each other, the directors they worked with, and, not limiting themselves to their mickey mouse club serials, the atmosphere of the disney studio in the 1950s. Throughout the shows run, several mouseketeers have made it big, including annette funicello, justin timberlake, britney spears, christina aguilera, and jessica simpson. Walt disney was adamant that the mouseketeers be regular kids, not actors. The mickey mouse club is an american variety television show produced by walt disney productions that ran from 1955 to 1996. In the mid 1990s the disney channel cable tv removed some of the mmc serials from the shows and created new halfhour shows of just those stories. His staff came up with the perfect vehicle for her, a part that would do much to mold the public perception of her as a shy, sweet, gentle young lady, beloved of gals and guys alike. The same year that disney invited the world to tour his main street, he discovered a 12yearold annette funicello at a dance recital in burbank and personally cast her in his new abc afternoon series, the mickey mouse club.
And disneyland fans, you truly have mickey mouse club to thank. In 1955, the very first episode of the mickey mouse club introduced the world to the merry mouseketeers. Whatever the reason, the new mickey mouse club was released in firstrun syndication in january 1977 and canceled in june of that same year. The show, which aired daily, featured a true variety of entertainment.
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