Mouseterpiece Theater

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Mouseterpiece Theater
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Written byRobert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman
Directed by Mitchell Kriegman
Presented by George Plimpton
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes60
Production
ProducersRobert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman
Production company Walt Disney Television
Original release
Network The Disney Channel
ReleaseApril 18, 1983 (1983-04-18) 
1990 (1990)

Mouseterpiece Theater is an American television show that ran on The Disney Channel that premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983, [1] and continued with reruns into the 1990s. [2]

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The show is a spoof of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre , presenting Disney animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. Like Masterpiece Theatre, it used a section of Jean-Joseph Mouret's Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1 as its theme music, but the Disney show used the third movement rather than the first. George Plimpton hosted and gave commentary and background information before and after each cartoon. Each show tended to have a theme; Goofy's emergence as the staid everyman character for example. It usually ran later in the evenings. [3]

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References

  1. The Disney Channel Magazine, April/May 1983 (Premiere Issue), page 14
  2. Cotter, Bill (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. Hyperion Books. pp. 296, 582. ISBN   0-7868-6359-5.
  3. Various issues of The Disney Channel Magazine, 1983 to 1991