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American TV series or program
Mouseterpiece Theater
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Written by
| Robert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman
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Directed by
| Mitchell Kriegman
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Presented by
| George Plimpton
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of episodes
| 60
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Producers
| Robert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman
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Production company
| Walt Disney Television
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Network
| The Disney Channel
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Release
| April 18, 1983
(
1983-04-18
)
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1990
(
1990
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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]
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]
See also
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References
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- ^
The Disney Channel Magazine
, April/May 1983 (Premiere Issue), page 14
- ^
Cotter, Bill (1997).
The Wonderful World of Disney Television
. Hyperion Books. pp. 296, 582.
ISBN
0-7868-6359-5
.
- ^
Various issues of
The Disney Channel Magazine
, 1983 to 1991
External links
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