Mouseterpiece Theater

Mouseterpiece Theater is an American animated television show that ran on the Disney Channel. It premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983,^[1] and continued with reruns into the 1990s.^[2]

Mouseterpiece Theater
Written by	Robert Cunniff Mitchell Kriegman
Directed by	Mitchell Kriegman
Presented by	George Plimpton
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	60
Production
Producers	Robert Cunniff Mitchell Kriegman
Production company	Walt Disney Television
Original release
Network	Disney Channel
Release	April 18, 1983 (1983-04-18) – 1990 (1990)

The show is a parody of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, presenting Disney animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. Like Masterpiece Theatre, it used a section of Jean-Joseph Mouret's Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1 as its theme music, but the Disney show used the third movement rather than the first. George Plimpton hosted and gave commentary and background information before and after each cartoon. Each show tended to have a theme; Goofy's emergence as the staid everyman character for example. It usually ran later in the evenings.^[3]

See also

• Good Morning, Mickey!, another Disney Channel show featuring Disney shorts
• List of programs broadcast by Disney Channel
• "Monsterpiece Theater," a recurring segment on Sesame Street