Talk:The Mickey Mouse Club

Odd Sentence

"When TV Actress Countess Vaughn did not make it was not join the cast." - what the heck does this mean? It doesn't make any sense.

how many episodes

How many episodes were made for the 1st NMMC season?

(sorry, I thought you said original MMC!) Difficult to say. Five a week starting October 3, 1955 until, I don't know... March or April? I certainly can't imagine them going year-round, and since they were hour-long episodes the first two years, I find it difficult to imagine them going more than 26 weeks - 130 episodes. I would expect that they did reruns in the spring and summer, and perhaps even around Christmas time. It must have been absolutely grueling for the actors. I imagine that Walt Disney looked upon the show as one of his two flagship programs, and the studio went all out. The Mouseketeer segments did not even make up a whole hour, probably no more than 20 minutes worth with the whole cast, and perhaps another 10-20 minutes with a small number of them. The rest of the show used stock cartoons, footage shot by roving camera crews (like for the Newsreel), and other guest segments (like Professor Wonderful).

The New Mickey Mouse Club of the 1970s I can say for sure: 130 in the first year, another 130 in the second year. Again, there was use of stock cartoons and movies, and anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes of Mouseketeer involvement. (Some of the second batch of episodes had a serial segment and a cartoon, leaving very little time for the Mouseketeers themselves to appear in, and much of that was already taped and simply reused.)

Unless the episodes were "re-cut" for any of the scanty reruns after 1979, you can tell a first year and second year apart: the first year has a longer opening title sequence: two rocket trails, "he's our favorite mouseketeer we know you will agree, take some fun and mix in love our happy recipe" is among the additional lyrics.

Now, if you mean the 1980s-90s New Club, I couldn't tell you. I'd suspect no more than 130 per season, allowing one set of reruns. GBC 03:41, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

New Post

The following was restored from history. Please do not remove someone else's comments from Talk pages. Karen | Talk | contribs 04:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Each season had a different set number of shows. The numbers are approximate.

 The 1st and 2nd seasons had about 45 episodes.
 The 3rd and 5th seasons had about 55 episodes.  
   Celebrated episode 100 in season 3 and episode 200 in season 5   
   There was actually a break in between these seasons. They ran the first
   half of the season then reran it before showing the second half.
 The 4th and 6th seasons had about 35 episodes.
 The 7th season had about 54 episodes.

In between seasons, the reran the season they just showed and reruns of previous seasons. I hope I'm right. :) - User:Toxicgal 19:45, 3 April 2005 (UTC) - (not by GBC - I have no interest in and no counts for the 1989-96 series)

(Have combined twice-restored section, with Toxicgal sig.) Karen | Talk | contribs 21:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Have restored this section YET AGAIN after blanking. Please do not remove the remarks of others from Talk pages, even if you disagree with them. The exceptions are forum-like comments that have nothing to do with the article, or the removal of personal attacks, neither of which apply to the text above. Thank you. Karen | Talk | contribs 04:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea why it keeps vanishing like that. If it seems to be me its not as Im at a library and they all have the same ISP —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.195.3.11 (talk) 18:17, 7 December 2006 [UTC]

MMC Credit Clipping

If the 90's MMC were to air on the credit-clipping ABC Family, where would they clip? While I know they would wait until after the "Now it's time to say goodbye..." part, would they show the Disney-MGM Studios bumper? What would probably happen? 206.211.69.253 12:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think they would edit the credits out completely. I think they will go to that annoying split screen. You know where the credits roll on one half (extremely small and hard to read) and ABC Family will show promotions for other shows on the other half (meaning you wouldn't be able to hear the closing rap).

Moosketeer maybe

It say here the name is not mouseketeer, why? Lincher 16:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

It was just an endearing term for Roy because he was such a big guy. He's not mouse size, he's moose size.

FOR THE ####### SLOW AND RETARDED

MMC ran from April 1989-March 1996. They had 315 episodes:

• Season 1/2-45 episodes
• season 3-55
• season 4-35
• season 5-55
• season 6-35
• season 7-54

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.185.125.101 (talk) 18:23, 2 November 2006 [UTC]

First of all, there is no need to come in here and insult people. Please see Wikipedia's policy on civility. Second, please do not remove someone else's comments from this page, even if you disagree with them. Third - yes, the dates given for this incarnation of the show keep getting changed back and forth, and it would be nice to settle the issue. However, to do so requires something more than a claim that this is what it was. We need to find a reliable source that establishes which dates are correct, preferably something a little more reliable than IMDB, tv.com etc. Do you have a published source for the schedule above? If so, please provide it. Thanks. Karen | Talk | contribs 04:53, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

This is a family article on a publicly-accessible web resource. There is no call for such vulgarity to be shown. Most mature people would agree that profanity should not be used around children, and as for me, I could live to be 999,999 and I still would consider myself too young to use profanity. I felt very strongly compelled to excise the vulgarity. Those who want to use the excised word can do so between their eyes and their brains. I do not apologize for sparing people such vulgarity. GBC 06:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't delete anything. Don't look at me! Also the dates I have came from the official website that ran through 2002. WWW.MMCONLINE.COM its probably down now. I apologize for my ulgarity. I hope you two can forgive me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.185.125.101 (talk) 06:44, 3 November 2006 [UTC]

Series ended in 1996

Yes, it did, wuit friggin changing it.16:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC) Added more info about the series.21:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

The series did not friggin end in October 1994 nor aired on Saturdays. 74.195.3.199 19:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Matt Morris

I'm new here so could someone PLEASE correct the Matt Morris link? It directs you to a baseball player! Matt Morris is a song writer and has released an (awesome) album back in 2002 entitled UnSpoken. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kimothy614 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

No thats correct.74.195.3.199 19:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure? The ballplayer's bio says he was born in '74, which would have made him 20 at the end of his run, if the date range on this entry is right ... I would think a pro baseball player would have been pretty focused on playing by that point...

Nope. JDF was 20 when he started power rangers and had a son so what's your point? Roque played in the NBA for 6 months while doing the show.74.195.5.83 10:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Official MLB bio says ballplayer morris graduated from a high school in podunk New York; show was shot in LA or Florida, yes? Deleting link for the time being...

Aha! IMDB sez: Mouseketeer was Matthew Burton Morris; ballplayer is Matthew Christian Morris. Problem solved --12.47.123.121 23:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

That doesn't mean shit. I was from Utah and managed to fly to every show for a year, ok and? Not EVERYone was friggin from FL, dude. Thats like saying the actors on Disney PR are all from NZ.74.195.5.83 10:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Unique Show Item

The article states "MMC is currently the only show on television to this day that celebrated its 200th episode about Racial Unity, a none-show importance. It featured Rev. Jesse Jackson, Tracie Spencer, Young Nation and Tevin Campbell."

Okay, so they had this show about racial unity with all this fine people. Great! God bless them! But ...

It is unclear to me just what makes this so special. Was the 200th episode about racial unity? Did the show have 200 episodes about racial unity? Or did they have a special celebration episode? What, please, does 'a none-show importance' mean? For that matter, what is a 'none-show'?

Apparently, they did something special about racial unity, and the author wanted to make a point of it. Fine. Please rewrite it so that it would be clear to a three year old.

Thank you.

--Wbfairer2 15:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I've now cleaned it up as best I could, based on what little I've been able to find out about this. Karen | Talk | contribs 08:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.

--Wbfairer2 14:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Stereotypical, redneck, assinine response.199.80.117.24 22:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Show's ending date

IMDB lists last episode airing in 1994. TV.com lists last episode airing in 1995. Anon's recent edit lists last episode airing in 1996.

Can someone please explain to me which (if any) of these is correct? Please list references and edit article's infobox accordingly. — Eric Herboso 23:28, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Here is the problem in a nutshell: IMDB doesn't have the ending dates, and there does not appear to be a reliable source online anymore to confirm things. (I don't remember offhand what it says on tv.com, but since it's basically a wiki it's kind of moot anyway.) I strongly suspect 1996 is correct, but it seems hard to prove. At one time there was an official website that supposedly give the information, but it's long gone. The only reliable source I know of offhand is the Bill Cotter book, The Wonderful World of Disney Television, which lists the 1990s revival in the Disney Channel section at the end. Cotter gives no ending date for the show, but does list cast members by year. Let me check at home whether he shows some of them as working on the show through 1996. If so, then we can cite that. If not, that is itself evidence for the earlier date. Unfortunately, those who keep changing it to 1994 never discuss or cite anything, which makes it a little frustrating for the people who are passionate about the 1996 date. Karen | Talk | contribs

I have to be rude, negative, or disparaging, but the show frickin' ended in Spring 1996, a couple months before KI reruns ended as well. The show ENDED in 1994, as far as production. However there's so many episodes they made, they decided to skip the 1994-1995, that and Power Rangers now had most of their viewers so....Anyways, IMDB doesn't need ending dates, perse. That's not their personality or responsibility. 1989-1996 was enough, on their part. MMC and its editors had episode guides up which listed 3-7-1996 as the ending date which is true. Britney Spears and Marc Worden interviews also have the same thing.02:30, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove the comments of others from talk pages, even if you disagree with them. (And please do not deny having done so. The history is clear.) The point of my comment above is not to refute the 1996 date, but that it is hard to find anything in print to support that date. Under Wikipedia standards, it's not enough that you know it to be true. It has to be backed up by a reliable source, especially if there is disagreement. I have been trying to do this, so that nobody will change your 1996 dates any more. But getting angry with people who are trying to help prove that you're right is of no value to anyone. As for the Cotter book: I did look it up, and it gave the cast participation by season number, not year, and gave no end date. Perhaps if Disney Channel is about to rerun this era of the show, it will put the information back online, and then we can cite it and put the issue to rest. Meanwhile, if you can point to those interviews (are they online, or in the DVD extras, or a magazine, or what?), perhaps we can cite those instead. Thanks. Karen | Talk | contribs 21:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

What are you talking about Karen? I don't delete anything here because its not my page so please don't sit there and tell me I have, point or no point. DVD extras and those ran out of print by November 1999.74.195.5.83 23:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I have to agree with 74.195.5.83; they didn't delete your comments Karen. That was done by 165.139.138.1. Since they didn't add anything, I just undid their removal. Saratoga Sam 00:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I didn't mean to specifically address the IP user in the comment below mine, but rather the IP user who made that particular edit.[1] I was in a rush, and didn't pay close attention to the IP addresses. I didn't even notice that Saratoga Sam had already reverted the blanking! (Oops!) My apologies, 74.195.5.83! Karen | Talk | contribs 06:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Now I feel stupid. lol. Sumimasenka74.195.5.83 10:17, 17 March 2007 (UTC)