# Has the Mickey Mouse Club ever been shown in repeats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 17, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819 "2023-04-17T21:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/1 "2023-04-17T21:38:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/2 "2023-04-17T21:44:07Z")
When I was a kid in the 70s some local channel ran the Mickey Mouse Club from the early 60s or late 50s. Annette and all the other classic ones. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/3 "2023-04-17T21:45:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/4 "2023-04-17T21:54:26Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/5 "2023-04-17T21:58:54Z")
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. > [Getting a big residual depends a lot on what the stars of the show negotiated during their time on the series.](https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/can-tv-actor-live-off-royalties-forever.htm) In 2016, Dawn Wells, star of '60s hit and perennial rerun “Gilligan’s Island” said that a “misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough, because we got residuals. We didn’t really get a dime. Sherwood Schwartz, our producer, reportedly made $90 million on the reruns alone” [source: [Farrow](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-jennifer-aniston-other-actors-090200975.html)]. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/6 "2023-04-17T22:19:49Z")
Same here. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/7 "2023-04-17T22:25:27Z")
Bolding mine: > [@What\_Exit](#): > > 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. > > > [Getting a big residual depends a lot on what the stars of the show negotiated during their time on the series.](https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/can-tv-actor-live-off-royalties-forever.htm) In 2016, Dawn Wells, star of '60s hit and perennial rerun “Gilligan’s Island” said that a “misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough, because we got residuals. We didn’t really get a dime. **Sherwood Schwartz, our producer, reportedly made $90 million on the reruns alone”** [source: [Farrow](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-jennifer-aniston-other-actors-090200975.html)]. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/8 "2023-04-17T22:25:32Z")
All the Mickey Mouse Club incarnations (original, 1977 and 1989) were shown on Disney at one time or another, mostly in off-off hours. I remember seeing the original on local TV in the early 1960s, several years after it went off the air. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/9 "2023-04-17T23:09:46Z")
Me too. I watched all the old Mickey Mouse club episodes after school in the 1970s (Spin and Marty!) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/10 "2023-04-18T00:05:11Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I watched all the old Mickey Mouse club episodes after school in the 1970s (Spin and Marty!) Ditto! I also remember them from the original run back in the '50s and early '60s. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/11 "2023-04-18T00:10:21Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > … (Spin and Marty!) \ > But wait! Whatever happened to those … > Gold doubloons and pieces of eight, > Pieces of eight, pieces of eight? \ Just don’t ask me what I had for lunch yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/12 "2023-04-18T00:27:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/13 "2023-04-18T00:46:04Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > _But wait! Whatever happened to those …_ > _Gold doubloons and pieces of eight,_ > _Pieces of eight, pieces of eight?_ 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. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/14 "2023-04-18T00:49:22Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Why, they all belonged to Applegate. Actually, that was from the Hardy Boys “Tower Treasure” adventure, though Tim Considine was in both series. Yep. I loved both Spin & Marty and the Hardy Boys. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/15 "2023-04-18T02:34:45Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > it was cut down to 30 minutes. Those were the shows that ran in syndication in the 1970s as well. Those are the ones I saw as a kid, I was too young to have seen the originals. I didn’t know they used to be an hour. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/16 "2023-04-18T02:47:29Z")
They used to be on a local station sandwiched between Father Knows Best and some other insipid black and white rerun. ETA: The other show was Family Affair. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/17 "2023-04-18T03:27:02Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Why, they all belonged to Applegate. Well, I’ll be a blue nose(d) gopher! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/18 "2023-04-18T04:11:55Z")
> [@susan](#): > > The other show was Family Affair. Never in B&W. It debuted in 1966, the year everything switched to color. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/19 "2023-04-18T07:47:58Z")
Maybe they were watching on a B&W set. In the 70s we only had one color set. Then there was 2 B&W sets. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819/20 "2023-04-18T10:58:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > It debuted in 1966, the year everything switched to color. 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-mickey-mouse-club-ever-been-shown-in-repeats/982819.md?page=2)