Back here I promised more on Disney's TV series The Mouse Factory so here's a publicity still from the thirteenth episode of the show starring guest-host Jo Anne Worley. Underrated and underused over the years, the wacky Ms. Worley made a splash as an original cast member on NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Having guest hosts (or Mickey's Friends, as they were billed) such as Jo Anne was only appropriate as The Mouse Factory was Disney's own sort-of version of Laugh-In. As you can see, this episode focused on horses in Disney animation. I love that zany costumed horse, a character called Cyril, who was supposedly the original horse of a different color. I don't know if Cyril was named in honor of (or was perhaps even supposed to be) Cyril Proudbottom, Mr. Toad's horse pal, pictured here in the lower right-hand image from the "Wind in the Willows" segment of Walt Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).
Friday, July 3, 2009
Horse Laughs On The Mouse Factory
Back here I promised more on Disney's TV series The Mouse Factory so here's a publicity still from the thirteenth episode of the show starring guest-host Jo Anne Worley. Underrated and underused over the years, the wacky Ms. Worley made a splash as an original cast member on NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Having guest hosts (or Mickey's Friends, as they were billed) such as Jo Anne was only appropriate as The Mouse Factory was Disney's own sort-of version of Laugh-In. As you can see, this episode focused on horses in Disney animation. I love that zany costumed horse, a character called Cyril, who was supposedly the original horse of a different color. I don't know if Cyril was named in honor of (or was perhaps even supposed to be) Cyril Proudbottom, Mr. Toad's horse pal, pictured here in the lower right-hand image from the "Wind in the Willows" segment of Walt Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949).
Thanks for posting about this. I wasn't around in the '70s but I do remember watching it on The Disney Channel in the '80s. I was starting to think nobody else remembered this show and I've had a hard time finding anything about it online.
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