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| The Best of the Mickey Mouse Club : 3 of 5 | |
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9.14.2005
11:30 PM | Link |
 This is yet another item produced as part of the Disneyland 50th anniversary merchandise, which includes five episodes of the original black & white Mickey Mouse Club television show. There's one show for each day of the week (since each day had a different theme), but they're taken from several different years, ranging from 1957-1964. It's always fun seeing the Mouseketeers, especially when they perform musical numbers (I think Darleen was the most talented, in spite of Annette's stardom), and watching Jimmie Dodd play guitar is amazing - he's always making complex chords on that little Mickey Mouse guitar like it was nothing! There are some great segments in these episodes that make them special, including a long segment with the Firehouse Five Plus Two (the famous Dixieland jazz combo made up of Disney employees), an olympic ice skater, and a newsreel segment that visits the USS Arizona site at Pearl Harbor before the memorial was built! Most of the episodes include a classic cartoon, including Ferdinand the Bull, which I hadn't seen in a long time. There's a Hardy Boys episode that's a little boring, but I guess it captures the adventure serial aspect of the show. There are absolutely no bonus features on the DVD, but I think it's worth it to just pretend to be a kid in the 50s watching fun entertainment in the Disney style.
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