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The Mouse Factory

The Mouse Factory

S1 · E1

IMDB:

8.5
The Mouse Factory

Released

1/26/1972

Duration

0h 22m

Genre

Animation

Country

United States of America

Cast

N/A

Overview

The Mouse Factory is an American syndicated television series produced by Walt Disney Productions and created by Ward Kimball, that ran from 1972 to 1974. It showed clips from various Disney cartoons and movies, hosted by celebrity guests, including Johnny Brown, Charles Nelson Reilly, JoAnne Worley and many more, visiting the Disney studio and interacting with the walk-around Disney characters from the Disney Theme Parks. It was later re-run on the Disney Channel in the 1980s and '90s. The theme played over the previews of each episode was a fast instrumental version of "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The song played over the end credits is "Minnie's Yoo Hoo", the theme song from the original Mickey Mouse Clubs that met in theaters starting in 1929. However, due to low ratings, the series was canceled after its second season.

Episodes

VacationsEP 1Available

Vacations

22m10.0

Vacations are a custom appreciated in the world. Yet though most workers look forward to them all year, they usually end disastrously. Host Charles Nelson Reilly is the victim of such holidays, and Donald Duck agrees with him that a safe picnic would be a better idea.

Women's LibEP 2Available

Women's Lib

22m0.0

Jo Anne Worley hosts how women have been improving their positions in life.

Folk Tale FavoritesEP 3Available

Folk Tale Favorites

22m10.0

Johnny Brown looks at many songs and stories written about folk heroes.

Spooks and MagicEP 4Available

Spooks and Magic

22m10.0

Among other things in this Halloween-themed episode, Phyllis Diller owns a rooming house full of unwanted boarders. The house is full of ghosts and she hires Mickey, Donald and Goofy to remove them.

Physical FitnessEP 5Available

Physical Fitness

22m10.0

Don Knotts, the unlikely proprietor of a fitness club, tries to explain his techniques to Goofy. Knotts demonstrates his theories with the help of Donald Duck and Snow White

The Great OutdoorsEP 6Available

The Great Outdoors

22m0.0

Host Dom DeLuise hosts a spoof of recreational pursuits to prove that life in the great outdoors is not all it's reputed to be.

Water SportsEP 7Available

Water Sports

22m10.0

Joe Flynn shows some of the ways that people enjoy life on or near the water.

Man at WorkEP 8Available

Man at Work

22m10.0

Everyone needs a job, even Donald Duck and Goofy. So host John Byner comes to their assistance by opening up an employment agency and sending Donald to a construction site that needs a steam-shovel operator and Goofy to a moving company that needs a piano mover.

MusicEP 9Available

Music

22m0.0

Skiles and Henderson show how important sound effects and music can be. They visit the Disney Studios' sound effects department, where strange gadgets are used to make different sounds.

Interplanetary TravelEP 10Available

Interplanetary Travel

22m10.0

Jonathan Winters appears in a variety of roles to present the spoof of space travel, including Prof. Eric Antiquity, the alleged inventor of rocket propulsion and the world's oldest astronaut.

HomeownersEP 11Available

Homeowners

22m10.0

Host Jim Backus proves that owning a house is no easy task by showing how salesmen attempt to lure unsuspecting buyers with outrageous claims on the comforts and attraction of available properties, which very often need repairs.

Spectator SportsEP 12Available

Spectator Sports

22m0.0

Charles Nelson Reilly returns to discuss the various types of sports one could enjoy by simply watching.

HorsesEP 13Available

Horses

22m0.0

Jo Anne Worley claims that horses are a cowboy's best friend, in spite of the creature's often intimidating size. However, Worley says that despite this, it can be easy to ride a horse, as Goofy demonstrates.

AviationEP 14Available

Aviation

22m0.0

Mankind's interest in flight is the subject of this episode and host Johnny Brown sets the mood by dressing up as a World War I flying ace. Footage from cartoons involving flight are featured.

Back to NatureEP 15Available

Back to Nature

22m0.0

Although civilization has its advantages, more people are longing to return to nature. Host Wally Cox shows that nature, like the "good old days", isn't all it's reputed to be.

Bullfighting to BullfrogsEP 16Available

Bullfighting to Bullfrogs

22m0.0

Pat Buttram, dressed as a matador, starts by speaking of bullfights as he tries to sell tacos.

SportsEP 17Available

Sports

22m0.0

Pat Paulsen teams up with Goofy to look at the skills used to master sports, each with their own set of problems, though Goofy tries valiantly, against all odds and a reasonable dose of physical abuse.

Cast