"The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show" is an episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. It aired on December 22, 1968.
Synopsis[]
In celebration of Mickey Mouse's 40th birthday, we take a look back at Mickey's long showbiz career; from his debut in Steamboat Willie, his immense popularity in the 1930s, a look at the Mickey Mouse Club television show to becoming the official host of Disneyland. Dean Jones provided the introductory narration prior to the episode starts.
Cast[]
Voice Cast[]
- Jimmy MacDonald - Mickey Mouse
- Pete Renaday - Narrator
Live Cast[]
- Dean Jones
- Bobby Burgess
- Bonnie Lynn Fields
- Cubby O'Brien
- Dennis Day
- Tommy Cole
- Sharon Baird
- Jay-Jay Solari
- Darlene Gillespie
- Lonnie Burr
- Karen Pendleton
- Don Grady
- Annette Funicello
Production Credits[]
- Robert Stevenson - live-action director
- Ward Kimball - producer, writer
- Paul Cameron - assistant director
- Robert O. Cook - sound
- George Bruns - music
- Jack Bruner - program coordinator
- Ron W. Miller - vice president: in charge of television
Friends of Mickey Mouse (Special Thanks)[]
- Les Clark
- Larry Clemmons
- John Emerson
- Otto Englander
- Jay J. Gould
- Joe Hale
- Dick Huemer
- Nick Iuppa
- Eustace Lycett
- Kendall O'Connor
- Art Stevens
- Jim Swain
Trivia[]
- This episode has been theatrically released overseas:
- Denmark: June 20, 1970
- West Germany: July 9, 1970
- Sweden: August 15, 1970
- France: August 19, 1970
- Finland: October 30, 1970
- United Kingdom: December 19, 1971
- The overseas theatrical version was the version used when the program was aired on The Disney Channel.
- This was the last major project to feature James MacDonald as Mickey Mouse, though he continued to voice Mickey sporadically until his retirement in 1977, when Wayne Allwine, an apprentice of his, took over.
- A portion of this program was featured in the opening of the "Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions" line of videos.
- Part of the sequence where Mickey meets the original Mickey was also used in The Spirit of Mickey.
- The program was released on laserdisc in Japan on July 28, 1987.
- This special showed rare footage of Walt in the 1920s such as archive footage of Alice's Wonderland with Virginia Davis in the Alice Comedies.
- While she did not appear with her fellow Mouseketeers, Doreen Tracey appeared in archive footage from various episode clips of Mickey Mouse Club.