Not as outdated as the 50s show, not as "modern" as the 90s version, but just right for me. I watched this show faithfully starting in the fall of 1977, though it was of some interest to me before that. I remembered watching the old show when I was five years old, back around 1964. The disco music wasn't my thing, but I liked the show anyway. I guess the disco theme doomed the show because disco had a short popularity (other than the captain in the movie "The Martian"). I really liked the sketches the Mouseketeers got to do, I liked when they went on location to check out assorted things (glider flying, antique household appliances), and I liked the musical numbers. I remember that some of their guests on Showtime Day later had independent following: singer Wendy Holcombe, the Keane Brothers, for example. After the show ended, I earnestly followed any work they were able to do after that: Julie on "Facts of Life", Kelly on "Alice" and an Orbit gum commercial, Lisa on "Facts of Life" as well as "Skyward" movies, "The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch" and an uncharacteristic part in an episode of "Family", Nita in "Fantasy Island", Pop in "Eischied", Shawnte in one "Facts of Life".
Truly, the show does seem to be forgotten, or even ignored! There is a small generation of viewers who liked it, and Disney is not being thoughtful by keeping the program in its vaults, the magnetic signals fading for all we know to be lost forever, sooner than decaying celluloid. We need a DVD release - maybe 40 or 50 episodes (not ones with recycled movies or cartoons already available on DVD). Is it they don't want to pay residuals to the cast? (Gosh, Mindy Feldman, who was just eight when they started, is now 48 years old!)
Truly, the show does seem to be forgotten, or even ignored! There is a small generation of viewers who liked it, and Disney is not being thoughtful by keeping the program in its vaults, the magnetic signals fading for all we know to be lost forever, sooner than decaying celluloid. We need a DVD release - maybe 40 or 50 episodes (not ones with recycled movies or cartoons already available on DVD). Is it they don't want to pay residuals to the cast? (Gosh, Mindy Feldman, who was just eight when they started, is now 48 years old!)