The Mickey Mouse Club

1955

The Mickey Mouse Club

7.6 | en | Kids

A variety show featuring a cast of child performers.

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EP103 To Annette, With Love

Mar. 07,1958

Mickey Mouse Club dedicated to Annette part 2

EP102 Musically Yours, Annette

Feb. 11,1958

Mickey Mouse Club dedicated to Annette part 1

EP101 Episode 101

Jan. 01,0001

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EP100 Circus Day

Mar. 01,1956

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EP99 Anything Can Happen Day

Feb. 29,1956

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EP98 Guest Star Day

Feb. 28,1956

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EP97 Fun With Music Day

Feb. 27,1956

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EP96 Talent Round-Up Day

Feb. 24,1956

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EP95 Circus Day

Feb. 23,1956

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EP94 Anything Can Happen Day

Feb. 22,1956

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EP93 Guest Star Day

Feb. 21,1956

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EP92 Fun With Music Day

Feb. 20,1956

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EP91 Talent Round-Up Day

Feb. 17,1956

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EP90 Circus Day

Feb. 16,1956

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EP89 Anything Can Happen Day

Feb. 15,1956

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EP88 Guest Star Day

Feb. 14,1956

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EP87 Fun With Music Day

Feb. 13,1956

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EP86 Talent Round-Up Day

Feb. 10,1956

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EP85 Circus Day

Feb. 09,1956

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EP84 Anythng Can Happen Day

Feb. 08,1956

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EP83 Guest Star Day

Feb. 07,1956

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EP82 Fun With Music Day

Feb. 06,1956

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EP81 Talent Round-Up Day

Feb. 03,1956

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EP80 Circus Day

Feb. 02,1956

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EP79 Anything Can Happen Day

Feb. 01,1956

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EP78 Guest Star Day

Jan. 31,1956

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EP77 Fun With Music Day

Jan. 30,1956

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EP76 Talent Round-Up Day

Jan. 27,1956

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EP75 Circus Day

Jan. 26,1956

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EP74 Anything Can Happen Day

Jan. 25,1956

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EP73 Guest Star Day

Jan. 24,1956

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EP72 Fun With Music Day

Jan. 23,1956

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EP71 Talent Round-Up Day

Jan. 20,1956

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EP70 Circus Day

Jan. 19,1956

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EP69 Anything Can Happen Day

Jan. 18,1956

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EP68 Guest Star Day

Jan. 17,1956

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EP67 Fun With Music Day

Jan. 16,1956

Jeremy Jordon performs the songs "Right Kind of Luv" and "Wannagirl". There is also an environmental skit.

EP66 Talent Round-Up Day

Dec. 30,1955

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EP65 Circus Day

Dec. 29,1955

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EP64 Anything Can Happen Day

Dec. 28,1955

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EP63 Guest Star Day

Dec. 27,1955

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EP62 Fun With Music Day

Dec. 26,1955

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EP61 Talent Round-Up Day

Dec. 23,1955

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EP60 Circus Day

Dec. 22,1955

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EP59 Anything Can Happen Day

Dec. 21,1955

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EP58 Guest Star Day

Dec. 20,1955

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EP57 Fun With Music Day

Dec. 19,1955

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EP56 Talent Round-Up Day

Dec. 16,1955

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EP55 Circus Day

Dec. 15,1955

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EP54 Anything Can Happen Day

Dec. 14,1955

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EP53 Guest Star Day

Dec. 13,1955

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EP52 Fun With Music Day

Dec. 12,1955

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EP51 Talent Round-Up Day

Dec. 09,1955

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EP50 Circus Day

Dec. 08,1955

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EP49 Anything Can Happen Day

Dec. 07,1955

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EP48 Guest Star Day

Dec. 06,1955

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EP47 Fun With Music Day

Dec. 05,1955

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EP46 Talent Round-Up Day

Dec. 02,1955

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EP45 Circus Day

Dec. 01,1955

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EP44 Anything Can Happen Day

Nov. 30,1955

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EP43 Guest Star Day

Nov. 29,1955

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EP42 Fun With Music Day

Nov. 28,1955

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EP41 Talent Round-Up Day

Nov. 25,1955

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EP40 Circus Day (Thanksgiving)

Nov. 24,1955

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EP39 Anything Can Happen Day

Nov. 23,1955

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EP38 Guest Star Day

Nov. 22,1955

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EP37 Fun With Music Day

Nov. 21,1955

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EP36 Talent Round-Up Day

Nov. 18,1955

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EP35 Circus Day

Nov. 17,1955

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EP34 Anything Can Happen Day

Nov. 16,1955

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EP33 Guest Star Day

Nov. 15,1955

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EP32 Fun With Music Day

Nov. 14,1955

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EP31 Talent Round-Up Day

Nov. 11,1955

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EP30 Circus Day

Nov. 10,1955

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EP29 Anything Can Happen Day

Nov. 09,1955

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EP28 Guest Star Day

Nov. 08,1955

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EP27 Fun With Music Day

Nov. 07,1955

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EP26 Talent Round-Up Day

Nov. 04,1955

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EP25 Circus Day

Nov. 03,1955

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EP24 Anything Can Happen Day

Nov. 02,1955

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EP23 Guest Star Day

Nov. 01,1955

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EP22 Fun With Music Day (Halloween)

Oct. 31,1955

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EP21 Talent Round-Up Day

Oct. 28,1955

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EP20 Circus Day

Oct. 27,1955

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EP19 Anything Can Happen Day

Oct. 26,1955

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EP18 Guest Star Day

Oct. 25,1955

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EP17 Fun With Music Day

Oct. 24,1955

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EP16 Talent Round-Up Day

Oct. 21,1955

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EP15 Circus Day

Oct. 20,1955

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EP14 Anything Can Happen Day

Oct. 19,1955

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EP13 Guest Star Day

Oct. 18,1955

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EP12 Fun With Music Day

Oct. 17,1955

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EP11 Talent Round-Up Day

Oct. 14,1955

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EP10 Circus Day

Oct. 13,1955

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EP9 Anything Can Happen Day

Oct. 12,1955

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EP8 Guest Star Day

Oct. 11,1955

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EP7 Fun With Music Day

Oct. 10,1955

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EP6 Talent Round-Up Day

Oct. 07,1955

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EP5 Circus Day

Oct. 06,1955

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EP4 Anything Can Happen Day

Oct. 05,1955

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EP3 Guest Star Day

Oct. 04,1955

Sooty gets a brand new TV set from Mickey Mouse, and takes it apart to make it work; Wally Boag, from Disneyland's ""Golden Horseshoe Revue"", makes animal baloons, and plays (ok, more like murders) the bagpipes; In Part 2 of ""What I Want to Be"", Duncan crashes his model airplane at a school competition, and re-thinks his being part of the TWA crew; Jimmie introduces the 1935 cartoon, ""Mickey's Kangaroo"".

EP2 Fun With Music Day

Oct. 03,1955

The Mickey Mouse Newsreel features an all-childern band performing ""Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"" in Italian; The Mousketeers perform ""The Friendly Farmer"", and ""The Shoe Song""; In Part 1 of ""What I Want to Be"", Mickey Mouse Club Roving Reporter Alvy Moore recruits two childern, a girl named Pat, and a boy named Duncan to be part of a TWA crew, for a flight from LA to New York; Karen introduces the 1949 cartoon, ""Pueblo Pluto""

EP1 Opening Day

Jul. 17,1955

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Released: 1955-10-03 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

A variety show featuring a cast of child performers.

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Patricia Morrow , J. Pat O'Malley , Judy Nugent

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Cast

Patricia Morrow

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Peyton Place The Mickey Mouse Club I Led Three Lives

J. Pat O'Malley

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The Gumball Rally A Touch of Grace Willard Hello, Dolly! The Jungle Book Gunn Wendy and Me The Cabinet of Caligari Frontier Circus

Judy Nugent

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Beartooth Annette There's Always Tomorrow The Mickey Mouse Club Magnificent Obsession Down Laredo Way

Reviews

IAMNola6015 I had a very dysfunctional early childhood, bouncing from place to place after my birth, to an orphanage for a few years and finally to an adoption at around age eight. The ONLY show I remember that I faithfully watched once I got into my permanent home, was the Mickey Mouse Club. Yes, I too, had those funny looking Mickey-Mouse ears--in fact, I had an entire Mickey Mouse Club uniform which I remember donning proudly for the first Mardi-Gras in my new home. Even had my name across the chest, I loved it! There are many from this younger and more cynical generation who will view the MMC with a jaded perception; but for those of us lucky enough to have come up through the 1950's and on into the 1960's-- that was what we plopped down in front of the television set each day to watch. Monday, if memory serves me right, was Fun With Music Day, Tuesday was "Guest-Star Day", Wednesday was "Anything Can Happen Day" Thursday was "Circus Day", and Friday was the best of all, in my opinion, "Talent Roundup Day". The show had a lot of song and dance stuff, but the singers and dancers--were kids: like the rest of us, or at least so we would dream. The show always began with that incredible Mickey Mouse Club March, which just about every kid in America had memorized. "Whose the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E." Then came the Mickey Mouse short to introduce the show... his donning a straw hat and playing an upright Piano one day, his spinning a lasso and lariat on another... donning a cowboy hat and six shooters still another... just to introduce the show. The there was the introduction song and dance routine... I can remember almost all of them verbatim, so attached to this show I was. After would follow a hodge-podge of so many things: newsreels, (yes more than a few featuring the grand opening of Disneyland)--but many others--I seem to remember a couple of kids getting to tour the great nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, then whatever was the serial of the time (Spin and Marty, The Hardy Boys, Corky and White Shadow, The Boys of the Western Sea, The Adventures of Clint and Mac, Annette, and there were others, which evade my waning memory, sigh!) But they were all marvelous, and all featured... kids. They were fun, wholesome,they focused on fair-play, decency, and just about everything that most societal norms of today would consider old- fashioned and unrealistic which is, in itself, a sad testimony to a decline of society, in my humble opinion. You had Jiminy Cricket on many shorts from Encyclopedia (where so many of us learned how to spell e-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-e-d-i-a,) to "I'm no Fool"... which always taught great lessons in life. There would also be shorts in which we'd get insights into how things worked at Disney, from watching Roy draw so many cartoon characters on that large drawing tablet he used, to an episode in the day in the life of one of the mouseketeers. So many great memories. Who could forget the eager anticipation for the cartoon, or the little jingle with the mousketeers that preceded it: "Now we twist our Mouskedial to the right and the left with a great big smile. This is the way we get to see, a mousecartoon for you and me: Meeska, Mooska, Mouseketeer, Mousecartoon time now is here"... the run up to the door that would creak open, a drawer would push out and the mouseketeer of the day would run up, pull out an index card and read: "Today's cartoon is..." And then there was Jimmie Dodd. Much maligned by many for his corny ways--he was the life's blood of the show. He wrote the vast majority of ALL of the music for the show, including the wonderful Mickey-Mouse March. He was the father figure so many would later need. And from almost every kid who was an original on the show, he was, in real life, exactly what you saw on the TV show: a man of deep spiritual conviction, who tried his best to set a great example for kids, having a family and several children of his own. He was taken from us at far too young an age; but his impressions on me, and my own children, will last forever through us, and our progeny. I have NEVER forgotten the wise advice he gave when he sang about proverbs and told us the one: "I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." and closed off with, "and now, I'll be going my way..." You were great Jimmie! I grew up with this show, my kids grew up watching reruns on VHS, and I only wish Disney would release the entire series--uncut full length on DVD. Now it's time to say good-bye, to all our company: M-i-c, (see you real soon) K-e-y (Why? Because we like you!) M-o-u-s-e. Fade to credits!

John T. Ryan AS THE STORY goes, when Mr. Walt Disney need some cold ca$h, with which to help in paying for the completion of his then pet project, his Disneyland theme park in sunny, Southern California, he negotiated with ABC for a deal to bring a second Disney Production to the airwaves. Inasmuich as he already had his weekly DISNEYLAND being telecast for an hour, every Wednesday, another approach would be in order.INSTEAD OF PRIMETIME, Walt's attention turned to the mid to late afternoon time period; being the province of the kids. Rather than one hour at a crack, Mr. Disney opted for 5 daily shows of an hour each.IN ORDER THAT the voracious programming appetite of such an ambitious an undertaking would be constantly satiated, it was decided that this show would be of the variety nature. Because music, song and dance would be an important element of this package, singer/dancer/actor Jimmy Dodd was hired to put that part of the show together.STAFFING THE PROGRAM with young the youthful performers that would be Dodd's charges was accomplished with tryouts (aka "cattle call" on Broadway). A chosen few made he cut; all destined to answer that command of: "Mousketeer Roll Call, count off now!"* IN ADDITION TO the musical aspect of the show, the running time was filled by other features, such as: the Mickey Mouse Club Newsreel ("Dedicated to you, the Leaders of the 21st Century@!"), Special Guests, Serials (SPIN & MARTY, CORKY AND WHITE SHADOW, THE BOYS OF THE WESTERN SEA, etc.) and let us not forget Mouse Cartoon Time! ADDITIONALLY, EACH DAY had its own theme. Fun With Music, Guest Star Day, Anmything Can Happen Day (a cheater topic), Circus Day and Talent Round-Up Day. Disney Animator/Cartoonist, Roy Williams was added to the cast to add some gravitas.AS MUCH AS we hate to say it, being that it is surely a mortal sin to criticize anything that is Walt Disney, we hated all of that musical stuff! We mean, just what young boys want to watch is a lot of singing and dancing! (Well, we got past all that to watch the serial, newsreel, cartoon, etc.WHEN THE MONETARY goal was reached, Walt Disney unilaterally ended THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB; which may well be the one and only time when it wasn't the Network giving the ax to a program! And before that event, there was already a third Disney series on ABC, ZORRO starring Guy Williams.NOTE: * After all of the Mouseketeers had been chosen, Mr. Disney himself spotted a young girl at his daughters ballet recital, whom he thought would be a good candidate for the show. The girl was the Late, Miss Annette Funicello!

bkoganbing For the five years of the run of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club it was the most exclusive club in the world for the cool kids. So what if you had to wear those dorky ears and in front of millions of viewers to be a member. You got to wear those cool cowboy clothes at the end of the week on Talent Roundup Day. And wouldn't you like to leave the world you knew behind just to hang out with everyone from Annette and Bobby to the little ones Karen and Cubby.Kids who grew up watching this show faithfully when they learned the world according to Disney wasn't exactly the truth were the ones that tuned in, turned on and dropped out in the next decade. I wasn't one of them, but I sure knew where they were coming from. These kids in the Disney movies, in the serials on the Mickey Mouse Club and in their singing and dancing and all around talent were the role models of a generation. It seemed like if you put on those Mousekeears you could dance like Bobby Burgess, sing like Darlene Gillespie, or even play the drums like Cubby O'Brien. Millions like me wished they were good enough to join.The show had two big Mooseketeers as they were called, Disney cartoonist Roy Williams who should have gotten a lot more money for looking so ridiculous and singer/actor Jimmy Dodd.In fact Dodd I believe was a big part of the reason for the show's success. As an adult he looked right at home with the kids and I'm not talking about Michael Jackson kind of at home. Dodd had a middling career as a journeyman character actor, mostly in western roles. Mainstream movie fans might remember him for his small bit in Yankee Doodle Dandy calling young George M. Cohan out to greet his public, the public being a group of tough kids who took literally his boast to lick any kid in town in Peck's Bad Boy.Dodd reached real stardom in the Mickey Mouse Club. He set a respectful tone to the show, told the kids at home to mind their parents and lead an upright life. Dodd according to contemporaries was a religious man, but never overtly proselytized. According to many of the now grownup Mouseketeers Jimmy Dodd was the real deal, exactly as you saw him on television In the hour you saw Disney cartoons, true life adventure films, good kid's serials like Spin and Marty and Corky and the White Shadow and the singing and dancing of the coolest kids on the planet. Those good enough to be members of the Mickey Mouse Club.

onerybeyle Current description of original MMC, verifiable by many published sources, are: 1) there was no Mouseketeer Bob (Robert Thornon); 2) Ruth Carell was not a Mouseketeer and did not "recur" on the show; 3)Tommy Kirk was not a Mouseketeer, although there is a photo of him in the outfit; 4) Dr. Miller, Julius Sumner, did a recurring science segment on the first two years; 5) R.G. Springsteen not a director-only Miller and first year Dik Darley directed the show;6) the show ran one hour the first two years, then half hour third year, half hour reruns fourth year 1958-59; 7) Paul Petersen, later of "Donna Reed Show" only lasted a few weeks of the first year.There were 39, only, kids on the first show 1955-59 and only 9 lasted the entire filming: Annette, Karen, Sharon, Doreen, Darlene, Cubby, Lonnie, Bobby, Tommy. First year there were 24 (+four fired)= 28. Only two lasted two seasons: Dennis years 1 & 2, Cheryl, 2, 3 & reruns. The others lasted only one season.MHB