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- 1955–19581hTV-G7.7 (26)TV EpisodeHarvey Corbett and his bear puppet Sooty star in the first segment. Sooty gets a parcel with a gift television set from Mickey. It has some problems. Another guest is Wally Boag who is both a balloonologist (who does balloon sculptures) and a bagpipe player. Part 2 of the serial "What I Want to Be" has Alvy and Pat watching Duncan fly his gas-powered model airplane in several competitions - a carrier landing challenge and a tail ribbon cutting contest. The Mousekartoon is "Mickey's Kangaroo". A friend from Australia sends a package with a boxing kangaroo and it joey, who also boxes. Both Mickey and Pluto have their hands full with these speedy punchers.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Lennon sisters performed three songs from the Disney film 'Perri', released August 1957, with help from Linda, Doreen, Annette, Tommy, and their future co-star on 'The Lawrence Welk Show' - Bobby Burgess.
- Episode: (1955)1955–19581hTV-G7.7 (40)TV EpisodeIn the Mickey Mouse Club Newsreel, two cub scouts get an air boat ride through the Everglades with an Oceola Indian guide, a group of Italian kids perform Bibbity-Bobbity-Boo and updates on various Disney projects are given - the "Spin and Marty" serial and the keel boat race between Davy Crockett and Mike Fink. The Mouskateers and Jimmy Dodd do a tap dance roll call. "The Friendly Farmers" song involves a lot of animal sounds with rapidly switched cutouts. "The Shoe Song" has Roy Williams drawing live sketches of anthropomorphic footwear for each verse. Part 1 of the serial "What I Want to Be" has a young girl, Pat, hoping to be an airline hostess and a young boy, Duncan, hoping to be an airline pilot. Alvy Moore and personnel from TWA are involved. The Mouskartoon is "Pueblo Pluto" in which Pluto fights with a pup over a buffalo bone.
- Episode: (1955)1955–19581hTV-G7.3 (20)TV EpisodeThe Mickey Mouse Club Newsreel shows boys racing power boats on Lake Sammamish in Washington state, boys in Africa's Cape Province doing the Leopard as a rite of passage, a Kentucky Future Farmers of America boy who is the Boy of the Week, a two-year-old baby girl who swims and a youth rodeo in Loveland, Colorado. The Mouseketeers create a "gaget band" from a variety of household objects. Part 3 of "What I Want to Be" takes Pat to airline hostess school and Duncan into the control tower at the airport. The Mousekartoon is "Mickey's Service Station". A thuggish dandy leaves his car for Mickey and his crew to find a squeak. They completely disassemble the car looking for it.
- 1955–19581hTV-G7.5 (17)TV EpisodeJiminy Cricket presents "I'm No Fool (with a Bicycle)". He describes bikes through the ages starting with the hobby or dandy horse in France about 1810. He goes on to use a fool and a smart rider to illustrate points of bicycle safety - show-off moves, too much of a load, and riding backwards. "Here Comes the Circus" includes the Mouseketeer roll call. Guests are the DeWaynes Circus Troupe of acrobats. In part 4 of the serial "What I Want to Be", Pat continues her lessons in hostess school on make up, hair styling, balance and poise. Duncan learns about weather balloons and maps that pilots use in planning their flights. He has a daydream about piloting an airliner toward New York City in a storm. The Mousekartoon is "The Wise Little Hen". She keeps asking Peter Pig and Donald Duck for help in sowing and reaping her corn crop. They complain of belly aches as an excuse to not help.
- Episode: (1955)1955–19581hTV-G7.8 (19)TV EpisodeThe Mickey Mouse Club Newsreel showcases a boxing match between two 8-year-old Boys Club members, the University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor that uses animals to help child patients recover more rapidly, kids getting tips from the New York Giants baseball team, an English boy from Middlesex that has three pet sables and Boy Scouts rock climbing in Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs. Annette introduces her musical guest, young trumpeter Larry Ashurst. Then Cubby O'Brien, his father and brother demonstrate their prowess in playing drum sets. Part 5 of "What I Want to Be" has Duncan learn that TWA pilots have to live in one of eight US cities that are crew bases. Pat is tested in a cabin mock-up for her ability serve lunch to a surly guest who is complaining about the flight being an hour behind schedule. She gets a uniform and a set of wings. The Mousekartoon is "Two-Gun Mickey". His prowess as a shooting and roping cowboy are needed to rescue Minnie from a hoard of bandits who are after the money she withdrew from the bank.
- 1955–1958TV-G6.6 (8)TV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-G4.7 (10)TV EpisodeShooting gallery operator Darlene laments her single condition until Bobby shows up. The Mellomen provide singing voices for the four guys who serve as targets in the gallery. The second season opener was a surprise for touching on teen romance and even more so for celebrating a non-Disney amusement park.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeChristopher Fair appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club for several "Talent Roundups", where he performed magic tricks. He was voted the "Juvenile Magician Champion"of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in 1958. If you visited Fantasyland at Disneyland in the 1950's and 1960's, you might have been lucky enough to see a Court Jester, juggling and performing magic on his unicycle. Christopher Fair was that jester.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeDarlene as Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and Tommy as Little Boy Blue lead two other Mouseketeers in this swinging big-band take on Mother Goose.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeCarl Davis and 'I'm a Friend of Davy Crockett' and 'Do What the Good Book Says' with the Mousketeers joining in on the latter. Philip Olvera and Louise de la Torre are teen folk dancers.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe fourth number filmed, it had very simple staging combined with voiceover vocals provided by The Mellomen. The quartet also doubled as on-camera performers playing circus bandsmen. The giraffe costume had an adult male in it, possibly Bob Amsberry. Dallas Johann is inside the drum, which has a clear plastic front, allowing his name to be seen on his shirt.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJimmie and the kids give clues, then Roy draws the answer while the Mouseketeers sing Roy, Roy, Quick on the Draw. Uses sight gag of Jimmie appearing on both ends as the camera pans along the Mouseketeer line-up.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode'Old Betsy' was the name Davy Crockett gave his rifle. Mary Espinosa does the usual title card intro, then Roy Williams "carves" a message on a tree. Jimmie sang the song, as each of the Mouseketeers played an adversary dealt with by Davy's shootin' iron. Also, Jimmy and the Mouseketeers sing each stanza of "The Little Cow" while Roy draws a scene to match.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe first of a series of Disneyland ride promotion skits. These took the form of two groups of three Mouseketeers riding for several minutes, with short dialogue breaks before and between excursions. The rides were stationary props on a sound stage that could be rotated and tilted by off-camera stagehands. A back-projection film of stock footage was used to provide a sense of movement.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJimmie and his wife Ruth performed this song in voiceover, while six mice danced in cat costumes. Jimmie's predeliction for cats ran counter to Walt Disney's usual feelings about felines. This was the seventh Fun With Music number filmed, the last in which Dallas Johann would appear, though some numbers filmed earlier with him were broadcast later.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJimmie, Karen, and Johnny sing the title song, then Jimmie explains the game. A Mouseketeer tries to guess what Roy drew while five others give hints. Bob provides on-camera sound effects.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeBill Henry and son, Bill Henry, Jr. were a tumbling and balancing act, with Junior even getting a chance to hold up his dad. At the end of the act, the Mouseketeers themselves try a tumbling run. Most go sprawling, landing on their rumps, losing their caps, with the girls' careful hairstyles falling apart. A lot of fun for all involved.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeFrances Archer and Beverly Gile were folk singers who performed songs from many countries, including this Japanese children's ditty about a tanuki, called a raccoon-dog in English, but for this song dubbed simply a raccoon. Archer and Gile usually performed the song only in Japanese. For the show Bill Walsh wrote a few loosely translated lyrics in English. Later that same year, Eartha Kitt did a full-blown treatment of the Mickey Mouse Club version. Jimmie, Bonni, and Sharon sing about Simple Simon's adventures with characters at the fair. Those Mouseketeers playing solo characters had their voices dubbed by Bob Amsberry and the Mellomen.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeRoy shows the kids how to draw Disney characters.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe California Ramblers were the winners of the Talent Roundup Day but the real stars of the piece were the Mouseketeers trio of Darlene Gillespie, Mary Sartori and Judy Harriet.
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeBig Bear Roy makes six smaller bears clean-up the woods while he naps. The bears start dancing to music; as the dance progresses the smallest two exit off stage. When big bear wakes, he growls at the unfinished chore. Instrumental dance number, with a few voiceover lines at start and end. During filming the crew reportedly broke for lunch and left the kids trapped in their costumes. By the next season the producers realized it made no sense to hire photogenic kids then stick them into full body costumes with masks. Bobby and Bonni do a fast acrobatic swing dance while filling bushels in the orange grove before raising the ire of Farmer Roy.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis was a crossover from Guest Star Day, with vaudeville/nightclub comedian Lionel Kaye and his wife Kathleen. For the first half seven Mouseketeers do Swanee River on bells. The second half had Bobby, Lonnie, Don, Mark, and Dennis exchanging hats upon command, a staple gag of the Kaye's live act.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Episode: (1955)1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe story of the Little Dutch Boy who saved the Netherlands as told by the Mouseketeers. Jimmie as Tom Sawyer gets the other boys to pay him for the privilege of white-washing Aunt Polly's fence. All-guy or all-gal numbers were equally rare on the Mickey Mouse Club; the show's writers tried to balance the genders. Where the storylines called for only masculine characters it was common practice to dress some of the girls up in male attire. The opposite situation never occurred with Mouseketeer guys; there was no drag on the Mickey Mouse Club.
- Episode #37 (Year 3, #A-12). Taped July 30, 1955. Originally 1 hour long, later cut to 1/2 hour for 1959 rebroadcast. The Bell Sisters (Cynthia and Kay Strother) performed "Bermuda" and "Little Boy Bullfighter." On the 1/2 hour cut, only "Little Boy Bullfighter" performance remains; announcer voice-over indicates the Bell Sisters will sing "two songs they recorded when they were youngsters."
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- Mouseketeer Karen Pendleton sings 'Gee, It's Hard to be Eight' from the window of the Dry Gulch Hotel.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe scene opens at the docks of the Vodoo (sic) Banana Company at an unnamed port in the Caribbean. There are a number of barrels and boxes in the foreground, from which the band emerges doing a mambo step to the front of the Banana Company building. This is a music and dance-only number taking place at the docks of a Caribbean port. The Mouseketeers dance to the music provided by an unlikely looking Caribbean band. The band consists of Jimmie Dodd on piano, Roy Williams on flute, Bob Amsberry on trumpet, George Bruns on bass, Pietro Deiro, Jr. on maracas, and Jimmy MacDonald on wood blocks. Palace sentry (Bob Amsberry) sings while he stands guard. Prentice lads and lasses try to make him smile, but it takes an obnoxious tourist (Roy Willaims) to accomplish it.
- The Mickey Mouse Club Show: Guest Star Day was on Tuesdays and featured Disney contract players, voice-over artists, or employees who were vital to the Disney Television Shows or motion pictures.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeLes Philmer and his wife Mary were veterans of the 1930's vaudeville and international music hall circuits who did a juggling and balancing act. Anything Can Happen Day shows would occasionally contain material originally devised for other days of the week. This program was likely meant to be a Circus Day show.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe show focuses on the terrific talents of Mouseketeers Darlene Gillespie and Judy Harriet.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe scene opens in the darkened bedroom of a young boy (Dennis). A window throws subdued light on the walls and the boy who is asleep in his bed. The shadows of the window sashes create a dramatic contrast in the room. On a wall are hung a stick horse, a lasso and a guitar. A cowboy hat rests on the foot of the bed, and a pair of boots are on the floor, close to the owner. A male/female chorus (the same used in the animated short) begins singing softly a simple song of cowboy dreams. Most people today will not think much of the number. However, anyone who has ever owned a felt cowboy hat, or loaded Greenie roll caps into a Mattel Fanner 50, will understand.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- We begin on the Great Plains by the Gates of the Mountains, where the Missouri River flows through a spectacular gorge. To the south is Montana's Capital, Helena, with a fine cathedral and state house built at the end of the 19th century. Huge numbers of visitors head for Montana for the beautiful and varied landscape, and the city of Bozeman stands surrounded by mountains, rivers, and forests.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- The winner of the Talent Roundup Day this week is Sandy Black. She was a trick horseback rider. Her horse, a Paint, was brought onto the Dry Gulch stage, Bobby held the reins for her while Sandy did a dance with a lariat to the tune of a Davy Crockett song. After the commercial break, everyone ran into the Dry Gulch theater and watched home movies of Sandy performing her riding tricks.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode'Get Busy' was a song about helping out your parents by getting involved with doing household chores. Six Mouseketeers plus Jimmie provide a verse for each day of the week. Jimmie does the lead and each Mouseketeer gets to solo a verse. The spotlight follows Jimmie as he steps right to where the Mouseketeers are seated on stools with hands wrapped around their knees. Jimmie seats himself on an empty stool at the end of the row as the Mouseketeers join in the song.
- Comedian Morey Amsterdam performs his version of 'Fractured Fairy Tales' for the Mouseketeers.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeIn "Be Sure You're Right" the scene opens with Jimmie, dressed in the buckskin jacket and leather pants he wore in 'Old Betsy'. Judy wears a long dress with a large bow in her hair. The pair walk side-by-side from the camera to a bench in front of a log cabin as Jimmie plucks his banjo. A song about Davey Crocket and his maxim to have the confidence to go ahead without fear when you know you're right. Jimmie and Judy sing a duet while the other Mouseketeers play Davey Crockett and the obstacles he faced. In "Hi. To You", the scene opens with the camera approaching two mounds of snow with a frozen pond in the background, skirted by some frosted trees and other foliage. There is a sign on the pond marked "Tunn Is". Artificial "snow" falls from the sky, and onto the pond. As Jingle Bells plays, Jimmie, Karen and Johnny pop up from behind the larger of the two mounds waving their arms and yelling "Hi!" Sleigh bells can be heard in the background, which segues into a quiet version of Jingle Bells. The Introduction is by way of title cards with Christmas ornaments and holly: "The Mouseketeers present", "Hi to You", "A Greeting from Denmark".
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeGiven the short time allotted (four minutes) the introductory song used in the first skit of this type was cut. The Blue Team Mouseketeers play only two rounds of the game, then it shifts without explanation to the Red Team for a very quick final round.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJimmie, dressed in western garb and sporting a badge, nails an "unwanted poster" to the wall of the pokey with the butt of his pistol. The poster features a caricature of Roy, reading: "Unwanted: Roy Roy, $5000 Reward if NOT caught." Jimmie is the local sheriff, Roy is an "unwanted" bad man/artist, and the Mouseketeers lend their faces for Roy's artwork. Ten Little Indians is a two part skit, with Annette and Jimmie doing an unrelated opening, possibly tacked on to the original number as an early acknowledgment of Annette's fan mail. Focus then shifted to the number, before returning to Jimmie and Annette for the closing with a brief rendition of Roy, Roy, Quick on the Draw.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeIn the 'Cooking with Minnie Mouse' segment, Jimmie and Ruth come on stage dressed as chefs and sing the prologue. The camera then shifts to Chef Bobby and the four girls who dance and bake cookies while Ruth continues to sing in voice-over. Terrific little number, well-staged by director Dik Darley. Choreographer Burch Mann and arranger Buddy Baker threw touches of "An American in Paris" (1951) into the action. As with so many of these numbers Buddy Baker's musical arrangements really made the whole thing come alive.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode'The History of Drums' from Prehistoric Times forward, courtesy of Cubby and Roy. A Fun with Music number that was switched to 'Anything Can Happen Day' because there really wasn't much music. The scene opens at the front of a cave dwelling. Cubby, dressed in leopard skin as a caveboy, is at the right, gnawing a bone. Roy, also dressed in leopard skin as a caveman, is to the left, fast asleep. Cubby strikes Roy on the belly with his bone and it makes a "boing" sound. Cubby continues to strike Roy on the midsection, delighted by his discovery. Roy wakes up, annoyed. The scene changes to Cubby, still dressed as a caveboy, sitting at his drumkit, playing a drum solo.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeWhen the children come home from school, the village blacksmith knows it is time for fun and replaces his anvil with a small piano, and everybody boogies. The camera opens on Jimmie, dressed in a full-body "pencil suit" with a hat shaped like the sharpened end of a pencil. Jimmie is standing on a large platform that looks like an open three-ringed binder loaded with lined filler paper. As Jimmie sings, the camera dissolves into various scenes in which the Mouseketeers act out Jimmie's lyrics.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJanice Crowe and Peter Lee Palmer were young musicians who played several folk-romantic songs while dressed in elaborate Gypsy costumes, For their finale, Mousketeers Bonni and Mary Sartori danced while playing tambourines.
- Episode: (1956)1955–1958TV-GTV Episode'When I Grow Up' was Darlene Gillespie's signature song and was one of only two Fun With Music Day numbers throughout the show's entire run to feature a solo performer. In the Mixed-up Mother Goose segment, Jimmie appears singing a refrain of sorts, which he repeats after every Mouseketeer's segment, then introduces each new Mouseketeer by name. The set consists of a cottage from which each Mouseketeer appears. The Mouseketeers are dressed as the nursery rhyme characters they talk about. The Mouseketeers cut up commonly-known children's nursery rhymes in the same way kids would have done on the playground.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe live studio orchestra plays variations on the theme song, each style being interpreted in dance by two Mouseketeers. Sharon and Nancy are '20s flappers, Karen and Cubby do a minuet, Sharon and Don glide thru a comic tango, Lonnie and Annette give us the old soft shoe, Darlene and Doreen are en pointe, while Bonni and Bobby first perform a swing-tap routine then finish with a Lindy Hop.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeErwin Klein and Mike Ralston were two of the top U.S.A. ping pong players in 1955. Erwin Klein would go on to be selected as a member of the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame. The four Pike Brothers were accordionists.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeIn Mousekedance, the scene opens at a malt shop counter with a cut-out figure of a Dutch girl stage right of the counter. There is a jukebox stage right of the Dutch girl. Don and Mary sit at a table at the right of the screen. Lonnie and Annette are doing a slow foxtrot at the left of the screen to low level music playing. Jimmie, dressed as a soda jerk, glides around the dancing Lonnie and Annette to deliver a tray of ice cream sodas to Don and Mary. The girls are dressed in satin party dresses, the boys in coats and ties. A dance number with just enough dialogue and song to hold it together, it is one of the fastest and most complex dances of the First Season. Tie-in to re-release of Song of the South (1946) during 1956. Johnny introduces each act. Mike, Sharon, Doreen, and Bobby handle the first song, Karen and Cubby do a soft-shoe dance to the second, while Jimmie and Mouseketrio of Darlene, Judy and Annette sing the third, being joined on the final reprise by all the other Mouseketeers.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeDr. Samuel Hoffman was an early developer of the theremin. As an adult, Bob Brunner joined the Disney Music Department and wrote some of the songs used on "The New Mickey Mouse Club" in 1977.
- The set consists of six large alphabet blocks forming something of a pyramid, on which are seated (from left) Judy, Tommy, Karen, Darlene and Dennis, with Jimmie at floor level seated in the middle. The presenting Mouseketeers run down the alphabet from A to M, stepping to the camera one at a time.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits. Judy was the air hostess for Flying Toad Airlines, Lee and Tommy the mechanics.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeFun With Music - Jimmie with his Mouseguitar are backed by the Mouseketeers and a band; they invite us to have fun with music. The Mouseketeers include Doreen as a nightingale and Sharon as an owl (with facemasks), Mary Espinosa and Nancy in cat outfits, Cubby with a stalk of bluebells, Bonni standing behind a full moon, Bronson and Johnny in beaver outfits, Mark, Bobby, Lonnie and Don as a barbershop quartet, Mary Sartori and Lee as Mambo dancers, with Roy holding a trumpet and Bob Amsberry on a keyboard that looks like a typewriter. Mouseguitar Music Lesson - This is something of a "day in the life" segment. There is no introduction, but an opening overhead view of the Mouseketeers to the left, with the band on the stand playing at the top right, and Dik Darley in suit at the front of the band. The Mouseketeers are positioned by height: Karen, Cubby and Bronson are sitting on the floor. All the Mouseketeers, except Mike Smith, are present.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother in the series of Disneyland ride promotion skits.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeGlen Derringer and Brenda Derringer, brother and sister act, from Philadelphia who recorded several albums of pop standards in the 1950's and 1960's.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Mouseketeers, portraying woodland animals, follow Hiawatha (Jimmie) asking to join him as he goes out hunting. The scene is in a forest with trees in the background. Generic "Indian music," heavy on the tom-toms, begins playing. Three pairs of Mouseketeers dance into the screen "disguised" by the animal masks they hold in front of their faces. First to enter are Annette as a squirrel and Darlene as a bear; they dance a jig of sorts. They are joined by Lonnie as a chipmunk and Mike as a skunk, and finally Judy as a mouse and Tommy as a beaver. Johnny Appleseed: several brief songs and two scene changes make this a skit as opposed to the usual standalone numbers. The songs all come from the Disney animated short of the same name.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Joe Baggi was a "sculptor" whose preferred medium was pipecleaners and other mundane materials.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Jimmie pairs up couples at a party circa 1910; there's square dancing and four boys demonstrate their moves. Later Lonnie and Dennis compete for Doreen, who favors the latter.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother educational series, this followed four kids as they trained to be rookie firemen. Walt Disney himself hosted this series. Filmed at the Disneyland Firehouse and at local Fire Department training facilities. Because of the physical exertions required the kids replaced their "ears", slacks, skirts, and dress shoes with helmets, jeans and sneakers instead.
- This talent round up has young Bo Wagner performing as Bobby Wagner.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeA true ensemble piece with everyone getting in on the action. The kids wander into the Sound Effects room and try out the equipment. Later Jimmie leads the Mouseketeers in a rendition of a von Suppé overture. The first song had lyrics by Cliff Edwards (aka Ukelele Ike/ also the voice of Jiminy Cricket) while the special effects soundtrack for the second number was by Jimmy MacDonald from a 1930's Mickey Mouse cartoon.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThird in a five-part occasional series with photographer Earl Theisen from Look magazine teaching the kids how to use a camera. Filmed on location at various sites including the San Diego Zoo and Disneyland. This series was Kevin Corcoran's first Disney work. Throughout it he is referred to as "Kevin". He wouldn't be tagged with the nickname "Moochie" until after June 1956 when he did the serial Adventure in Dairyland. His work on that serial interrupted the filming of this series, which resumed in July 1956.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- Starts off in the Mousekamusic room with Jimmie as teacher and Cheryl reading the lesson then goes to a 19th Century Irish village for songs by Darlene and Tommy. Bobby plays a rather demonic and over sized leprechaun, while Roy is a gruff shillelagh shop owner.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeFor the second episode of this series the kids trained with an Los Angeles Fire Department Ladder company, learning the team work necessary for handling the hoses. Mouseketeer Charley Laney was used for this series because, while a bit weak in dancing skills, he was a strong athletic kid. It's to the producers credit that they not only used Sherry and Eileen, but had them doing the same tough work as the boys.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeFive-part occasional series with photographer Earl Theisen from Look magazine teaching the kids how to use a camera. Filmed on location at various sites including the San Diego Zoo and Disneyland. Jack Jackman was not a Mouseketeer, but was used for two 'Anything Can Happen Day' series. He was likely related to Bob Jackman, then head of the Disney Music Department.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe tap-dancing Steiner Brothers were Talent Round-Up winners in the second season. Middle-brother Ronnie joined the Mickey Mouse Club as a Mouseketeer during the first season as a dancer. Placed on the Mouseketeer Blue Team, Ronnie soon missed performing with his brothers, and declined to renew his option and left at the end of the first season.
- Jimmie and the Mouseketeers bop to the first song, then Cubby plays his drums to pay his soda fountain bill. Terrific staging and choreography, and the kid's own feel for the music, made this a real treat. Introduces two elements common to other skits in Season 2: Bob's Sweet Shoppe, with Bob Amsberry as the elderly sodajerk, and the choreography built around three or four couples. There would be no more character or story type dancing as in the first season.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis series was shot on film without sound. Voice-over narration by Eileen and sound effects were added later in the studio, as was commentary by photographer Earl Theisen. There were no titles, theme song, credits, or continuity between episodes. It was just a bare bones newsreel style feature that was inexpensive and quick to make.
- The Boginos were a three person family balancing circus act.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAt the opening Darlene also sang a few lines from a jazzy version of One Song, from Snow White. The skit takes place in her bedroom, going to a dream sequence in which she portrays Ed Sullivan, Red Skeleton, and herself performing on Sullivan's show.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeNewsreel Special: Inside Report on Washington. Dirk Metzger, host of English Correspondent in the earlier seasons, does the introduction and narration, and is also the on-camera visitor to the various locales around the capital.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe boys' basketball team and girls' ballet club vie for use of the gym. The first song was an entertaining number, one of the best staged pieces of the second season. After it finishes, the other kids leave, and Eileen, who has been playing the piano for them, is left alone in the gym. She beautifully renders Beethoven's piece in a dream sequence.
- The skit starts in Bob's Sweet Shoppe in 1955 then has flashbacks to 1925 and 1895 for the songs. Margene as a flapper, and Bob Amsberry waltzing with Doreen are highlights. The whole point of the skit was each generation has its own music that seems "too wild" to their parent's generation.
- Skit starts off in Mousekemusic class. Roy draws a caricature of teacher Jimmie on the board, then obliges the mice when they sing "Draw a Picture" to the tune of Aloutte. The second song has Roy as the mayor of Scribble Town, where drawings come to life. Jimmie, wearing glasses and a suit, enters the Mousekemusic class room as the noisy mice quickly fall silent. Glancing at the whiteboard he spots the caricature of himself. "I see" he says ominously. "Which one of you did this" he demands. The class remains silently cowed. Suddenly Roy pops thru the classroom door and says "Teacher, I cannot tell a lie, I did it". Jimmie praises the drawing as the best he's ever seen then asks the class to sing Alloutte.
- A swinging jazz dance number by the three guys was the highlight. The other half was a song by the three younger girls while fishing from the pier. (Jimmie Dodd played a small part as a fish vendor).
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeJay-Jay has a new horseless carriage but after it malfunctions he has to supply the horsepower himself. His friends enjoy being entertained by Herman's German Band and its vocalist Fraulein Darlene.
- The Mouseketeers take their pig Lulu Belle to the county fair. Darlene, Jimmie, and Bob play judges. This wasn't broadcast until eight months after it was filmed.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeEach Mouseketeer gets to do their specialty in this variety piece, which introduced the third season replacements to the viewing audience. Their television debut actually occurred several weeks earlier on the Disneyland show's 4th Anniversary episode, where they appeared with other Mouseketeers and Walt Disney.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis skit featured guest Virginia Lee in the title role. Bob Amsberry was the storyteller, Don the handsome Prince, Roy the Fairy Godfather. The three older girls were wicked step-sisters, the younger ones a singing trio. The first half was really a standalone number making a play on the flood of cheap consumer goods then entering the US from Japan. The second half was the Cinderella skit, with just spoken narration by the storyteller.
- The ferocious Captain Cubby commands this jolly crew. Weak skit has pirate Mouseketeers looking for treasure in a spooky cave. Voice-overs for the pirates were provided by the Mellomen.
- As geeky Darlene waits for her blind date, happy couples waltz by, and a waif importunes her. No dialogue or dancing, until near the end when Darlene sings.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Mouseketeers take a trip to Mexico, where Señorita Doreen greets them. Choreographer Tom Mahoney does a flamenco dance atop a table.
- The first number featured Bobby singing and dancing with his own "shadow" (choreographer Tom Mahoney). The second had Bobby and Annette dancing in silhouette, then in shadows, while Darlene sang.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe first half has the four older kids singing and dancing on the boardwalk while an elderly sidewalk photographer (Bob Amsberry) looks on. The second part has Doreen and Don Agrati (Don Grady) join in; the scene dissolves to an old time silent movie with jerky motion and rinky-tink music. Bob Amsberry plays a Keystone Kop, with Bobby as the villain, Roy as the victim and Don Agrati (Don Grady) as the hero.
- Song and dance numbers built around Jimmie and Bobby resembling one another. First half is a soft shoe duet, followed by Jimmie doing a banjo solo while Bobby does some scene stealing.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe first half of the skit has the Mouseketeers visiting Wally Boag in his new Boagy Shoppe, where he does some fast one-liners and an array of balloon tricks. The second half is a song and dance by Wally with a few impressive tumbling moves, to which the four girls join in at the end. Very entertaining by all, especially Wally Boag.
- Linda, Karen, and Bonnie play a trio of librarians who sing "Put Away Your Books, Put Away Your Dreams" while musing over romantic heroes. When the other two leave for the evening, Linda encounters Don, who asks for help with the dictionary. He sings the Johnny Mercer song "Too Marvelous for Words" to Linda, who in turns performs the George and Ira Gershwin song "S Marvellous" for him; both pretend to forget the lyric "Amorous". The skit ends with a cute sight gag that hints at an uncompleted move to kiss behind the bookshelves.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeA Mexican version, with Karen as Goldilocks, Bob as the narrator, Roy as Papa Bear, Doreen as Momma Bear, and Cubby as, well, the cub. A Fun with Music Day with little music and less fun.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeKaren and Cubby sing the first song while nursemaid Cheryl pushes Linda around in an oversized pram. For the second song, Darlene and the rest put on an impromptu fashion show using a backyard clothes line.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeLonnie and Tommy are barbers in 1900 who form a quartet with customers Lynn and Don for the first number, with voice-over singing by the Mellomen. Cubby as another customer and Jimmie as Mighty Casey lead the second number.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Encyclopedia Special: Roaring Midgets was hosted and narrated by Tommy Cole. The title refers to one-quarter sized race cars for kids at a private track in Glendale, California.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe 'Inside Washington' segment has Dirk visiting the FBI Identification Division.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeNewsreel Special: Inside Report on Washington (Money - Part 1). Dirk Metzger does the introduction and narration, and is also the on-camera visitor to the various locales around the capital.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeSharon, Karen, Lynn, and Cubby sing a song as other Mouseketeers waltz by. The action then shifts to a music shop whose outdoor speaker broadcasts snippets of different styles of music. Mannequins from a nearby store window dance to the music, abruptly shifting to each change of style.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnnette is invited to a party at Val's home, given in honor of Moselle's house guest, Laura Rogan, who will attend Old South High with the other kids this year. Through a mix-up, Annette's escort to the party turns out to be a perpetually-hungry, smart-aleck kid named Olmstead Ware. "Steady" takes Annette to the local malt shop first, and introduces her to another country kid, soda jerk Mike Martin. Despite her shy manner and quiet voice, Annette catches the eyes of the boys at the party, annoying the snobby Laura.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeIn this third season segment, the Mouseketeers are at summer camp. Campers Cubby, Karen, and Linda sing their own version of "Heigh Ho" about their summer perils. Camp counselors Tommy and Bonnie sing "Who Knows?," a romantic duet.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeSteve Abernathy decides to have a barbecue at his parent's country house. He invites Annette, but she declines, since she and Uncle Archie are going to visit Jet Maypen and her father at their farm. The kids ride a hay wagon out to the Abernathy place. Laura is happy to have Mike and Steve to herself, but gets miffed when they stop the wagon at the Maypen farm. The boys persuade Jet and Annette to come along with them, sending Laura into a funk. At the barbecue Steve pays attention to Annette, ignoring Laura, who throws a fit.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeSharon sings, then does her famous tap-dance/jump-rope routine. The boys do a drum and tap duet which Sharon tops with a solo.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeDon, as a Trinidad native, teaches the mice calypso singing, while they take him on a tour of Disneyland.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe first half is a straight-forward drill, the second half has Cubby trying to masquerade as a rifleman. This was filmed at the Burbank Studio just one month before it was broadcast.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis had Annette hosting scenes from the first "True Life Fantasy", about a female pine squirrel called Perri.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeA mainly female choir founded in 1949 in then West Germany, the Oberkirchen Children's Choir performed three songs in German, then both German and English choruses of their trademark hit Happy Wanderer. Annette introduced teen spokesman Karleen Reinhekamp, who described the songs.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeA rerun of the featured preview of 'Perri' two weeks after its original broadcast. The rest of the day's show was different, so it was not a true rerun.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe short travelogue English Correspondent had originally been created by Perce Pearce for the show's first season, and was returned for the second with new episodes. For the third though, the series was retitled and given a US based hosting and narration by Annette. Robbie Serpell, who had replaced original host Dirk Metzger, continued to be the in-country lead.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeWith the budget cut in half and key personnel and equipment reassigned to Zorro, recycled material from earlier seasons was used to fill up the schedule. A new musical intro was filmed with the younger third season girls posing as switchboard operators. This was one of the first season's best numbers, but it was still a rerun.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother terrific number from the first season, recycled to fill out the budget-impacted schedule.
- Episode: (1957)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis episode in the third series of the renamed English Correspondent travelogue has Robbie Serpell visiting the famous wax museum of Madame Tussaud.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe PianoCade, led by Mr. E. S. Thompson, featured sixteen spinets (each manned by two players) and from one to three grand pianos for performances. The PianoCade had thirty-five performers, but the kids sat two to each spinet, so there were only seventeen pianos on stage. The group that was eventually filmed had six boys (including Phil Odom) and twenty-six girls. The PianoCade first appeared on national television on The Ed Sullivan Show from New York City, Christmas evening, December 25, 1955, playing a selection of Christmas favorites. Walt Disney watched the performance, and along with others in Hollywood, sent telegrams of congratulations and indicated interest in having them appear on the Mickey Mouse Club.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Ribuca Twins were ten year old sisters Yvonne and Linda who would appear on Broadway in the musical "Flower Drum Song" as well as several television shows including "My Three Sons" co-starring Mouseketeer Don Grady.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeMouseketeer "Bonnie" performs as a Talent Round-Up Day winner with dancing partner Maxine Grossman. A third season replacement Mouseketeer, Bonnie Lynn Fields had strong dancing and singing skills, but no real experience before joining the show. After her time as a Mouseketeer had ended, she became a professional dancer, appearing in Broadway musicals, on television, and in films during the sixties.
- Episode: (1957)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe third season opener was again a Darlene showpiece, with a solo song and dance for the first number, followed by a group effort on the second.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe final episode of the 'Rookie Fireman' series had the kids complete their training and receive certificates from a Los Angeles Fire Department battalion chief and Walt Disney himself.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeTwo short first season 'Anything Can Happen Day' features were reused in what was otherwise a new show. So far as is known this was the first time feature content from an earlier season was recycled, as opposed to full reruns as was the case through most of January, 1957.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodePromotional show for the re-release of the 1950 Disney animated feature "Cinderella".
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeRobert Lamouret's act for the show included using an early version of Donald Duck as a manic sidekick. His "Donal" was incoherent since Lamouret's heavy French accent precluded any effective ventriloquism.
- Dr Irving P. Krick was a famous meteorologist who pioneered the science of long-range forecasting and in 1938 started the first private weather business in the United States. He demonstrated weather events and how to predict them in the studio, with the help of some Mouseketeers.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThis was an exhibition of gymnastic events by interscholastic athletes and their coaches. It is not known whether any Mouseketeers participated, though Charley Laney, whose background included gymnastics, may have taken part.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Bill Dedrick's Pranksters (dog and pony act) later performed at a mini Disneyland Circus with some of the Mouseketeers at Portland's 1956 Rose Festival.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodePromotional show for the Disney live-action film 'Johnny Tremain' starring Hal Stalmaster.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeNewsreel Special: Hawaiian Adventure - Interest in the island territory was building with impending statehood and the arrival of commercial jet travel. This serial was introduced by Annette, who also provided the voice-over narration. Pamela Bornemann, Barbara Olin, and Paul Roelofs were the three youngsters who traveled by steamship from California to Oahu, then explored the islands using the custom MMC station wagon seen in earlier serials.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeMouseketeer Don Agrati (Don Grady) hosted and narrated this short science focused serial (3 Parts), which followed three youngsters, Mike Blye, Johnny Green, and Jerry Goldenson, as they learned about modern mining and how to find uranium ore.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeSpin and Marty arrive at the Triple R in a hot rod driven by Perkins. Marty's grandmother let him buy the jalopy over the winter, and Spin came out to help work on it before camp started. The boys' reunion with Ambitious, Joe, Speckle and Moochie is interrupted by the revelation that the latter has smuggled his pet rabbits into camp. The boys find that wrangler Ollie is away on a trip, and his cousin Hank is filling in for him. Perkins, too, is surprised to find a new cook in place of his old friend Sam. Hank tells Col Logan that the rogue stallion Dynamite has stampeded some Triple R mares again. Logan sends Burnett, Perkins, Spin, and Marty out to try and recapture the mares. Moochie, disappointed at being left behind, decides to saddle his horse and sneak after them. The next morning Dynamite suddenly appears and the boys chase after him. Back at the Triple R, the other boys wash Marty's jalopy, then start the engine, not knowing the car was still in gear. It takes off, and crashes into the side of the cookhouse, wrecking Col Logan's new stove. Burnett, Spin, and Marty round up the stray mares after Dynamite gets distracted by Perkins on his mule. The stallion chases Perkins straight into the Triple R corral, and is captured. When Spin and Marty return with the mares, they are dismayed over the wreck of the jalopy and the stove. Even pooling all their cash, the boys can't come up with the $200 needed to pay for a stove. The new Lakeview Lodge girl, Darlene, suggests that the Triple R boys and Circle H girls put on a show together to raise money for the cookhouse repairs. The kids turn an old barn into a theater, and begin rehearsing musical numbers and a Robin Hood skit. With Annette as Maid Marian, Spin and Marty clash over the role of Robin Hood, until at last their tempers result in a fight that wrecks the barn. Fortunately, Perkins calls Marty's grandmother, who readily coughs up the money for the repairs. The two camps have a joint campfire, where Darlene and Annette, instead of being mad at the wasted work, hold hands with Marty and Spin.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother recycled bit, this time from a first season 'Talent Roundup Day'. Karen performed a song by Bob Amsberry and Muzzy Marcellino called "Gee It's Hard to be Eight".
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeEpisode 23: "The Ghost of Anne Bolyn" (sic): The gang receives ticket orders for their show from relatives. Perkins performs his "The Ghost of Anne Bolyn" number for an appreciative Darlene and she decides he'll be the curtain-raiser for the production. Spin and Marty quarrel as they rehearse their duel for the Robin Hood skit and even Annette admits Skip's fencing needs a lot of practice. Marty confronts Spin after the run-through and tells him he thinks Spin is still upset because Darlene gave Marty the role of Robin Hood. Spin tells Marty to dry up and heads into the barn, where he sees clouds of smoke coming from behind a wall. Spin grabs a bucket of water and hurls it at the smoke, only to find he's doused Ambitious, who was practicing puffing on his corncob pipe in preparation for the snowman dance scene. Ambitious tells Spin he enjoys the pipe and Spin says he'd like to try smoking, but Ambitious tells Spin he'd probably turn green.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV Episode
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother episode in the third series of the renamed 'English Correspondent' travelogue.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeNine part series had each episode introduced by Tommy Cole, whose in-studio co-host/narrator was Billy Almeida. The storyline followed two young brothers living on a ranch in the Pampas as they learned the Gaucho way.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodePreview of the soon to be released Disney live-action drama with Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeNine part series had each episode introduced by Tommy Cole, whose in-studio co-host/narrator was Billy Almeida. The storyline followed two young brothers living on a ranch in the Pampas as they learned the Gaucho way.
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- Another recycled bit from the first season.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Encyclopedia Special: Japan series were a very loose continuation of the Japanese Correspondent series from previous seasons. All four episodes were hosted and narrated by Tommy Cole. The first aired on December 27, 1957 and was entitled "Cormorant Fishing".
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeAnother rerun production number from the first season.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Mickey Mouse Club 14-episode serial, "The Adventures of Clint and Mac", takes place during the course of one Saturday in London. Fifteen-year-old Clint Rogers, an American whose USAF father is stationed in the UK, has formed a friendship with his neighbor, a slightly younger English boy, Alastair "Mac" MacIntosh. Mac's father is a Scotland Yard Inspector, who will be in charge of security for the Royal Birthday Party of young Prince Charles. The boys decide to get their own present for Prince Charles. They agree to buy a tortoise at an outdoor Market, but can only put down half the money. Mac, meanwhile, notices one of his father's plain-clothes men nearby. Seeing a sign asking for an errand boy at a bookstall, they are interviewed by an elderly man who calls himself the Bookworm, and a customer of his named Smith. The Bookworm offers the boys money to deliver a parcel to Camden Town for Smith, who warns them not to give it to anyone else but him. Clint and Mac are unaware the parcel contains the original manuscript of Treasure Island, stolen from the British Museum. Reaching Camden, Clint and Mac have a running tussle with three teddy boys. Arriving at Smith's lodgings, they are greeted by Toby Jug, who describes himself as Smith's secretary. Refusing to give up the parcel, the boys settle in to wait for Smith. Toby Jug then suggests they spend the time touring the London Zoo. He drives them there and gives them a shilling for the entrance fee, reminding them to return in fifteen minutes. The slightly dim-witted boys entrust the parcel to Toby, who promises to wait right there. While looking at the zoo's tortoises, Clint chats up a young girl, Pamela Stuart, who is there with her chaperon. The boys inform her they have a tortoise too. She and Clint take a shine to each other, but the boys have to hurry back to Toby's auto. Naturally it isn't there, but on the sidewalk nearby Mac finds a business card for Breckinridge and Sons, a leather goods shop. The boys visit Breckinridge and Sons, where a man named Kurt says Toby Jug is on his way to Brighton. The boys return to Camden Town, where they spot Toby climbing into his car. Jumping on the back platform, they cling on for a ride across London. At a traffic light they hear Toby ask a lorry driver for directions to Rennie's Wharf in Limehouse. The lorry driver, however, tips Toby to his unseen riders. Toby stops and starts the auto in a jerky fashion, shaking off the boys. The boys hurry on foot to the wharf. Meanwhile, Pamela asks her father, General Sir John Stuart, to locate Clint's father, so she can invite Clint and his tortoise to tea the next day. Sir John telephones the American General Gibson, who tracks down Captain Rogers, Clint's father, on a golf course. Back at the Shepard's Bush Market, the Bookworm is taken into custody by the plain-clothes man, and brought to Scotland Yard. There, Inspector MacIntosh is informed that his son and an American boy were seen earlier talking with the Bookworm. The boys haven't been seen since, so a radio alert is put out for them. Arriving at the deserted wharf, Clint and Mac are accidentally locked in underneath it by a watchman. Unable to swim the powerful Thames this far down river, they investigate a small rowboat, but discover it has a hole in its side. Meanwhile, Inspector MacIntosh and his superior Inspector Atkins are questioning the Bookworm, who tells the police how the boys got involved, and about the man named Kurt, who is also picked up. Back under the wharf, a forty-foot launch pulls up to the dock. The Irish skipper meets Toby Jug, who climbs down a ladder from the wharf above. The boys are captured trying to regain the parcel from the launch. Smith arrives and orders the boat to head down river for the English Channel. Kurt has told the police that the manuscript will be smuggled out of the country on a forty-foot launch. Pamela arrives at Scotland Yard with her driver, Sergeant Mulvaney, and joins the Inspectors aboard a river police launch hunting for the boys. Clint show Mac how to send Morse code with a flashlight, then distracts the gang. Alerted by Mac's signaling with the flashlight, the harbor police stop and board the launch. Smith tries to fight it out, but is quickly overcome, while the skipper flees and Toby Jug surrenders. The manuscript is recovered, the boys are freed, and in the concluding scene, accompany Pamela to the Royal Birthday Party with their present for Prince Charles...a tortoise with birthday greetings painted on its shell.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeRerun from first season has a Bob Amsberry-Muzzy Marcellino comical song and a delightful little bit of muggery from Doreen.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeRerun two-part number from a first season 'Fun with Music Day'.
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- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe Encyclopedia Special: Japan were a very loose continuation of the Japanese Correspondent series from previous seasons. There were a total of four specials hosted and narrated by Tommy Cole.
- Episode: (1958)1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeEncyclopedia Special: Lobsters was a standalone special hosted and narrated by Doreen Tracey.
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeIn the Encyclopedia Special: Japan, Tommy Cole hosted and narrated a segment entitled "Shooting the Rapids".
- 1955–1958TV-GTV EpisodeThe 'Inside Washington' segment has Dirk visiting the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia for a crime scene search and to see the examination of evidence.