The Mickey Mouse Club

The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 to 1959 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child performers. The series was revived, reformatted and reimagined after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first in 1977 for syndication, and again, from 1989 to 1995 on the Disney Channel.

Previous to the TV series, there was a theater based Mickey Mouse Club with the first one started on January 4, 1930 12 PM at the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, California with 60 Theaters hosting clubs by March 31. The Club has its first issue of the Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club published on April 15, 1930. By 1932, the Club has 1 million members and in 1933 its first British club opens at Darlington's Arcade Cinema. In 1935 with so many clubs around the world, Disney begins to phase out the club.