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MICKEY'S 90th SPECTACULAR
November 4, 2018  | By David Bianculli

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

SPECIAL PREMIERE: The cartoon character Mickey Mouse turning 90 is a big deal – especially on ABC, since the network has been owned by Disney for quite a while now. And as cartoon characters go, there are few whose history goes back that far on TV, when Mickey and his cohorts helped launch ABC’s Disneyland in 1955, and the daytime Mickey Mouse Club shortly thereafter. (Okay, maybe you can count TV’s first video test, Felix the Cat, but that’s a blurry stretch.) Disney’s arrival on TV in the Fifties changed television’s relationship with Hollywood studios, and thus changed the medium. But changing media is nothing new for Walt Disney’s centerpiece rodent: It was in 1928, a full 90 years ago, that Mickey took center stage, whistling and steering, in the pioneering sound cartoon Steamboat Willie (pictured).

 

 
 
 
 
 
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