Mickey's 60th Birthday on YouTube

[musicradio77]

If you love Mickey, I just come across YouTube and I found a TV special as shown on WNBC-TV as part of the "Magical World of Disney" entitled "Mickey Mouse's 60th Birthday". This special was from 1988. This special was about Mickey where he was disappearing and everyone was trying to search for them. It has lots of celebrities from TV shows like "Family Ties", "Cheers" and many others with stars like John Ritter from "Three's Company", Carl Reiner, Cheech Martin and many others. Thanks to OpieAnthonyXMRadio at YouTube for this great find. This is an 8-part clip.

I remember a long time ago, I used to watch "Mickey's 60th Birthday" when I was 10 years old in my room with my 13-inch black & white TV and I started using my tape recorder to record stuff from the TV using the entire "Mickey's 60th Birthday" show. I used to watched it when it was WNBC-TV (channel 4) in New York City when we used to live in the Red Hook projects at 93 Centre St. in Brooklyn. My Mom & Dad used to livd there until we moved in 1992 back to 543 Henry St. right where they started after my dad died back in 1991.

I missed the "Mickey's 60th Birthday" show. I hope YouTube would do great with these ones. Enjoy!

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[totallyminnie86]

That is such a great special. Luckily I still have my original copy from 1988! Now if only we could manage to find some of the other mid-80s tv produced disney specials. Many of them seem to be quite hard to find.

[Razor Roman]

sweet! something I posted on YouTube is getting views

[musicradio77]

sweet! something I posted on YouTube is getting views

If you watch this 1988 special, that brings back so many memories. I hope Aaron is watching if you haven't seen it, give it a try.

[slave2moonlight]

I love this special! I posted these links on the YouTube thread some time back. At the time it originally aired, we had removed our cable in an attempt to save some money. Of course, we eventually got it back, because I was suffering at the loss of my precious Disney Channel (for about a year or two there). Anyway, so, our reception of NBC was awful at the time, and VCRs weren't great either. I ended up with a horrible, pretty much unwatchable recording of it. I am desperate for Disney to release this and its other great shows from the 80s in some sort of 80s Disney Treasures collection or something (Fluppy Dogs, Return of the Shaggy Dog, the Disneyland Anniversary Specials, Sport Goofy in Soccermania, Totally Minnie, Muppets At Walt Disney World, etc...).

This particular program, like similar ones (Totally Minnie is a great example) had great cameos, weak animation (for Disney), and some really...weird stuff (like a bizarre new character design for the Sorceror from Fantasia). The humor and acting were often extremely corny, but so charmingly 80's (in proper doses). They're a major part of my childhood, and from a time when Disney was at a major highpoint, as were my trips to Disney World in the summers! I love this stuff! Wish more would get posted! If anyone finds more stuff like this, please post! Highpoints of this show for me are, most notably, Roger Rabbit's animated appearance with Mickey, Mickey on Cheers, and the late, great John Ritter, to name a few.

[musicradio77]

I love this special! I posted these links on the YouTube thread some time back. At the time it originally aired, we had removed our cable in an attempt to save some money. Of course, we eventually got it back, because I was suffering at the loss of my precious Disney Channel (for about a year or two there). Anyway, so, our reception of NBC was awful at the time, and VCRs weren't great either. I ended up with a horrible, pretty much unwatchable recording of it. I am desperate for Disney to release this and its other great shows from the 80s in some sort of 80s Disney Treasures collection or something (Fluppy Dogs, Return of the Shaggy Dog, the Disneyland Anniversary Specials, Sport Goofy in Soccermania, Totally Minnie, Muppets At Walt Disney World, etc...).

This particular program, like similar ones (Totally Minnie is a great example) had great cameos, weak animation (for Disney), and some really...weird stuff (like a bizarre new character design for the Sorceror from Fantasia). The humor and acting were often extremely corny, but so charmingly 80's (in proper doses). They're a major part of my childhood, and from a time when Disney was at a major highpoint, as were my trips to Disney World in the summers! I love this stuff! Wish more would get posted! If anyone finds more stuff like this, please post! Highpoints of this show for me are, most notably, Roger Rabbit's animated appearance with Mickey, Mickey on Cheers, and the late, great John Ritter, to name a few.

Thanks for reminding me about the special that I do remember since I was 10 years old. I remember Mickey made appearences on TV sitcoms like "Cheers" and "Family Ties". John Ritter (from "Three's Company" and "8 Simple Rules") played Dudley Goode, a news reporter where he was trying to find where Mickey was missing somewhere before he gets too late. That was the one I remember. I used to record on my home tape recorder years ago since I watched it on my old black & white TV.