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Mickey Mouse Club (television)

Mickey Mouse Club (television) One of the most popular children’s television series of all time, aired on ABC from October 3, 1955, to September 25, 1959. The show began as an hour-long show Monday through Friday and introduced 24 talented kids, known as Mouseketeers, who performed skits, musical numbers, and introduced special guest stars, serials, …

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Mickey Mouse Club Headquarters

Mickey Mouse Club Headquarters Located in the Opera House at Disneyland in 1963 and 1964. During a period of syndication of the television series, Walt Disney opened up an area where children could sign up and get their own membership cards in the Mickey Mouse Club. At the time of the original run of the …

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Mickey Mouse Book

Mickey Mouse Book The first Disney book; published by Bibo-Lang in 1930.

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Mickey Mouse Club

Mickey Mouse Club In 1929, the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, California, began a Mickey Mouse Club. Soon there were hundreds of other Mickey Mouse Clubs associated with theaters all over the country. These were real clubs which kids joined. The children attended Saturday meetings where Mickey Mouse cartoons were shown, a Chief Mickey …

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Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse Walt Disney’s primary cartoon character and international personality who made his debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City. Walt once famously said, “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.” He told the story …

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Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show, The (television)

Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show, The (television) Television show; aired on December 22, 1968. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Dean Jones hosts a look at Mickey Mouse’s 40 years, through film clips, and the return of a group of Mouseketeers.

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Mickey, Donald and Sport Goofy Show (television)

Mickey, Donald and Sport Goofy Show (television) Limited series of three syndicated half-hour television shows featuring cartoons, aired first on September 7, November 17, and December 1, 1984.

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Mickey Cuts Up (film)

Mickey Cuts Up (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on November 30, 1931. Directed by Burt Gillett. Mickey is mowing Minnie’s lawn with Pluto helping to pull the mower. Playing a trick on Minnie, Mickey crawls into her birdhouse, pretending to be a bird, but a cat pounces on him. Pluto causes widespread destruction with the …

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Mickey and the Seal (film)

Mickey and the Seal (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on December 3, 1948. Directed by Charles Nichols. Pluto finds a baby seal in Mickey’s basket when he returns from a visit to the zoo, but does not get a chance to tell him until the seal is in the bathtub with Mickey. They return it …

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Mickey in Arabia

Mickey in Arabia Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on July 18, 1932. Directed by Wilfred Jackson. Mickey and Minnie are tourists when an evil sheik, Pete, kidnaps Minnie. Mickey’s attempted rescue of Minnie is complicated by a drunken camel. After a furious battle with Pete and his soldiers, a rooftop chase ensues. Mickey and Minnie fall …

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