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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Disc 1: (Click title to view that portion of the review) Monday: 'Fun With Music Day', Tuesday: 'Guest Star Day', Wednesday: 'Anything Can Happen Day' Disc 2: (Click title to view that portion of the review) Thursday: 'Circus Day', Friday: 'Talent Round-Up Day' Video and Audio Bonus Material: 'The Leader of the Club', Galleries, Mouseke-Memories, The Mouseketeers Debut at Disneyland, Opening Sequence in Color Closing Thoughts Running Time: 270 Minutes (4 hours, 30 minutes) (235 - programs, 5 - introductions, 30 - extras) 1.33:1 Fullscreen (Original Ratio) / Dolby Digital Mono (English) Rating: Not Rated / Originally Broadcast between October 3 and October 7, 1955 Subtitles: English; Closed Captioned / DVD Release Date: December 7, 2004 Two single-sided, dual-layered discs (DVD-9); Suggested Retail Price: $32.99 |
In the fall of 1955, just one year after his weekly 'Disneyland' series met with positive reception, Disney tried his hand at a daily television show. That show was The Mickey Mouse Club, the lone television entry of Wave 4's Treasures. The Mickey Mouse Club began quite ambitiously as a one-hour variety show for children, to air on ABC at 5:00 each weekday afternoon. Head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd was joined by more than a dozen charismatic kids (not child actors) who went by their real first names, which were printed on their Mouseketeer shirts. The first five episodes, having aired the week of October 3, 1955, are included in this 2-disc set. A pretty standard format emerges in the show's first week on the air. Each day has a different theme, from Monday's 'Fun With Music Day' through Friday's 'Talent Round-Up Day.' Every other day, the show would open up with the Mickey Mouse Newsreel, which was pretty much like the newsreels that once played in theaters, only focused on and targeted to children. The Newsreel covers 'local news' stories (such as profiles of individuals, events, or communities) on an international scale, and often looked at what was going on for the Disney Studio. Next, there would generally be entertainment from the set as the Mouseketeers would sing (Jimmie Dodd wrote a number of songs for the show), dance, or welcome a guest for some type of performance. Following this would be a serial adventure, with a single storyline carried through the entire week in roughly 10-minute daily installments. The serial in these first shows is 'What I Want To Be', a career-exploring journey for children that devotes its first week to being an airline pilot or hostess. Rounding out the episode (which without commercials, runs about 46-48 minutes) each day is a cartoon short from the 'Treasure Mine', generally featuring Mickey Mouse or his peers Donald Duck, Goofy, or Pluto. After the 'Mousekartoon', Jimmie Dodd would stand before his 12 young co-stars, hands in his pockets, and deliver a message of some kind, which often linked to some other Disney venture. Stars would emerge out of the Mouseketeers, and indeed, the original cast included a 12-year-old girl named Annette. The world would come to know her, sometimes with her last name Funicello, in Disney films and a variety of beach-themed musical comedies. This set keeps the brief sponsor messages intact, which mention familiar names like Coca-Cola, Betty Crocker, and Wheaties, as well as extinct products like TVTime Popcorn and Sugar Jets. Likewise, the commercial break transitions are retained, making reference to the ABC network the show aired on. (On a side note, Walt Disney was not a big fan of commercials. He considered constant interruptions 'bad showmanship' and word is that his dislike of commercials led to the show's end after three seasons of original episodes.) PACKAGING This December's batch of Treasures sees a few packaging changes made to the series. While still presented in double Alpha keepcases (now white, not black) and housed in nice-looking silver tins, there are no wraparound bands on the outside. These featured the signature of Walt's nephew, Roy Disney, who is no longer at the company which bears his name. Much of the well-known information that was on the bands ('2-Disc Set', 'Limited Series') has been relegated to stickers on the outside plastic wrapping. As with Wave 3, inside the keepcase, you'll find a certificate of authenticity which lists the number of your individual copy out of the 130,000 Mickey Mouse Club Treasure sets produced. In addition, the usual collectible card is present; this set's card features the cover artwork from the sheet music folio for 'Mickey Mouse March', the show's opening song. Lastly, there is the standard 8-page booklet with information on Walt, Leonard Maltin's introduction to this set, a listing of contents, and colorful cover art from the 'Musical Highlights from the Mickey Mouse Club TV Show' record. More on the DVD / Buy from Amazon.com Now Available on DVD: Coming to DVD Soon: |
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Review posted December 4, 2004. |