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| The Mickey Mouse Club | |
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 The title card used in 1955–1959 | |
| Also known as |
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| Created by | |
| Presented by |
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| Theme music composer | Jimmie Dodd |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 14 |
| No. of episodes | 620 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Bill Walsh (1955–1959) |
| Running time | 22–44 minutes |
| Production company | Walt Disney Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | October 3, 1955 – 1959 |
| Network | Syndication |
| Release | 1977 – 1979 |
| Network | The Disney Channel |
| Release | 1989 – 1996 |
The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised for four seasons, from 1955 to 1959, by ABC. This original run featured a regular, but ever-changing cast of mostly teen performers. ABC broadcast reruns weekday afternoons during the 1958–1959 season, airing right after American Bandstand. The show was revived three times after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 for first-run syndication as The New Mickey Mouse Club, then from 1989 to 1996 as The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (also known to fans as MMC from 1993 to 1996) airing on The Disney Channel, and again from 2017 to 2018 with the moniker Club Mickey Mouse airing on internet social media.
The character of Mickey Mouse appeared in every show, not only in vintage cartoons originally made for theatrical release, but also in the opening, interstitial, and closing segments made especially for the show. In both the vintage cartoons and new animated segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney (Disney had previously voiced the character theatrically from 1928 to 1947 before being replaced by sound effects artist Jimmy MacDonald).
Before the TV series
The first official theater-based Mickey Mouse Club began on January 11, 1930, at the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, California, with 60 theaters hosting clubs by March 31. The Club released its first issue of the Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club on April 15, 1930.[1] By 1932, the club had one million members, and in 1933 its first UK club opened at Darlington's Arcade Cinema.[2][3] In 1935, Disney began to phase out the club.[4]
The original: 1955–59 show
Members
The Mickey Mouse Club was hosted by Jimmie Dodd, a songwriter and the Head Mouseketeer, who provided leadership both on and off the screen. In addition to his other contributions, he often provided short segments encouraging younger viewers to make the right moral choices. These little "homilies" became known as "Doddisms".[5] Roy Williams, a staff artist at Disney, also appeared in the show as the Big Mouseketeer. Williams suggested that the Mickey and Minnie Mouse ears should be worn by the show's cast members. Inspired by a visual gag in The Karnival Kid,[6] he helped create these ears, along with Chuck Keehne, Hal Adelquist, and Bill Walsh.
The main cast members were called Mouseketeers, and they performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, as well as some informational segments. The most popular of the Mouseketeers constituted the so-called Red Team, which was kept under contract for the entire run of the show (1955–1959). Its members included:
- Sharon Baird
- Bobby Burgess
- Lonnie Burr[7]
- Tommy Cole
- Annette Funicello
- Darlene Gillespie
- Cubby O'Brien
- Karen Pendleton
- Doreen Tracey
Other Mouseketeers who were Red Team members but did not star on the show for all three seasons included:
- Cheryl Holdridge (second and third year)
- Nancy Abbate (only first year)
- Johnny Crawford (only first year)
- Dennis Day (first and second year; was in the blue team for most of the first year, but he moved to the red team at the end of the first year)
- Mike Smith (only first year)
- Jay-Jay Solari (only second year)
- Don Underhill (only first year; joined the blue team by the end of the first year)
The remaining Mouseketeers, who were members of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati (who was later known as Don Grady when he starred as "Robbie" on My Three Sons), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd (not related to Jimmie Dodd), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields,[8] Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Sartori, Bronson Scott, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, and Mark Sutherland.[9] Larry Larsen, on only for the 1956–57 season, was the oldest Mouseketeer, being born in 1939, and Bronson Scott, on only the 1955–56 season, was the youngest Mouseketeer, being born in July 1947. Among the thousands who auditioned but did not make the cut were future Oscar-winning vocalist/songwriter Paul Williams and future Primetime Emmy Award-winning actress Candice Bergen.
The 39 Mouseketeers and the seasons in which they were featured (with the team color which they belonged to are listed for each season):
| Mouseketeers | Years | Seasons | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Bobby Burgess | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Annette Funicello † | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Darlene Gillespie | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Cubby O'Brien | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Karen Pendleton † | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Doreen Tracey † | 1955–1959 | ||||
| Sharon Baird | 1955–1959 | * | |||
| Tommy Cole | 1955–1959 | * | * | ||
| Lonnie Burr | 1955–1959 | - | |||
| Dennis Day † | 1955–1957 | * | - | - | |
| Nancy Abbate | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Johnny Crawford † | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Mike Smith † | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Don Underhill | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Bonni Lou Kern † | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Tim Rooney † | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Mary Sartori | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Bronson Scott † | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Mark Sutherland † | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| John Lee Johan | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Billie Jean Beanblossom | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Mary Espinosa | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Judy Harriet | 1955–1956 | - | - | - | |
| Dallas Johann | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Paul Petersen | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Mickey Rooney Jr. † | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Dickie Dodd † | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Ron Steiner | 1955–1956 | * | - | - | - |
| Cheryl Holdridge † | 1956–1958 | - | - | ||
| Jay-Jay Solari | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Sherry Alberoni | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Eileen Diamond | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Charley Laney † | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Larry Larsen † | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Margene Storey | 1956–1957 | - | - | - | |
| Don Grady † | 1957–1958 | - | - | - | |
| Bonnie Lynn Fields † | 1957–1958 | - | - | - | |
| Linda Hughes | 1957–1958 | - | - | - | |
| Lynn Ready † | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=The_New_Mickey_Mouse_Club|||||