In a preview piece published just before Disney+ went live earlier this month, I bewailed the apparent absence of “The Mickey Mouse Club,” Disney Television 101, with a particular mention of its signal serial, “The Adventures of Spin and Marty.”Well, it turns out not to be the case. (Not yet available are “The New Mickey Mouse Club,” from the late 1970s, and “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” which ran from 1989 to 1994 and gave the world Keri Russell, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Britney Spears.) Kevin Corcoran, far right, beside Walt Disney and other cast members, appeared on “The Mickey Mouse Club” series as “Moochie” starting when he was about 7 years old. (Walt Disney Archives)I first saw the original “Mickey Mouse Club” as a child, in some generation of reruns, well before its successor series came along. AdvertisementAntique gender roles are clearly delineated in “What I Want To Be,” a serial that runs through the opening “Mickey Mouse Club” episodes, in which a boy dreams of becoming an airline pilot and a girl can only imagine being a flight attendant.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 13:52 UTC