I’ve never really spent much time looking at the Disney Channel schedule, but I’ve never seen the Mickey Mouse Club on there. I also don’t think I’ve seen it on Disney +.
In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a repeat of the Mickey Mouse Club. I’m definitely not old enough to remember it first time around. I think I’ve seen a few excerpts from the old Sunday Night Wonderful World of Disney.
Any particular reason that the show seems to have disappeared? I do realise kids won’t find it at all of interest, but I’d figure adults would.
I remember seeing episodes with the 1950s Annette cast after school in the 70s. Some of the first season was also available on Disney+ less than a year ago.
Airing those old shows means giving residuals for those actors. That’s why HBO Max removed a bunch of shows recently that they already had the rights to.
That probably isn’t accurate. Residuals are probably non-existent for shows that old. I remember reading most of the Star Trek & Gilligan Island cast got nearly no residuals and then they stopped completed at some point.
Well someone is still making money off reruns. I know there’s a lot of Hollywood accounting when it comes to pre-streaming eras shows now streaming, but I think in general is based more on overall subscribers vs actual views. So having something on Disney+ can actually lose them money if they aren’t getting more subscribers for having it.
They had five episodes of the original Mickey Mouse Club on Disney+, but they have disappeared. Spin & Marty is still there, though.
Growing up, from the early 1980s we had the Disney Channel on cable. They played reruns of MMC, even when the ‘All New’ show came out. I remember marveling at Cubby playing the drums.
Why, they all belonged to Applegate. Actually, that was from the Hardy Boys “Tower Treasure” adventure, though Tim Considine was in both series.
The original MMC was an hour long five days a week, but when it was syndicated in the early 1960s it was cut down to 30 minutes. Those were the shows that ran in syndication in the 1970s as well. They were tremendously popular at the time…with adults. Tom Snyder even had the whole gang on the “Tomorrow” show to talk about it.
In my record collection I still have a 78-rpm record from my childhood of the whole Spin & Marty crew singing “The Triple-R Song.” Yippie-yaaay Yippie-yo. It was a long song. It’s on both sides of the record.
Disney+ used to have a few episodes of the original MMC available. I saw an episode of Spin & Marty in which they were both teenagers, and they were engaged in a very heated argument. Like they were arguing over a girl. (“But I saw her first!!!” “Sorry buddy, she’s mine now.”) It was kinda weird because the subject of their mutual affection wasn’t a girl, it was a horse.
I was going to dispute this because I recall the switch to color being slow and gradual,occurring over the course of some fifteen years. As indeed it was, but it turns out that 1966 was the year that all prime-time shows were in color for the first time. But there were still low-budget daytime productions that remained B&W for another six years or so. Wikipedia says Family Affair was filmed and broadcast in color.