I was weaned on the original Mickey Mouse Club. We were one of the few families to have a TV in our neighborhood and the kids I played with would come over to watch. I was just 4 years old the first year it aired. We didn't have favorites at that age. We just wanted to be members. Of course Annette was highlighted so we envied her and I was also drawn to Cubby and Karen because they were little like me. I didn't have a favorite Disney cartoon character. A couple years later when I learned to read I do recall buying a lot of Donald Duck comics with his nephews and Uncle Scrooge. But I do remember always looking forward to the Spin and Marty segments on the Mickey Mouse Club. My favorite cartoons were Mighty Mouse and Popeye when I was little. Favorite Disney show was Zorro. My two main playmates in the suburbs we moved to were boys so I ran around the neighborhood with them reenacting westerns, Mighty Mouse, Superman and the like. One of them was a couple years older than me and was always coming up with creative schemes and adventures based on the popular tv shows of the time.

We had a lot of local children's programing. I grew up watching the Brother Buzz Show, Captain Satellite and Mayor Art featuring Popeye Cartoons. I also watched the Ding Dong School and the Howdy Doody Show.

Chip n Dale.

I also watched Ding Dong School with Miss Francis and the Howdy Doody Show, although HD was not one of my favorites.

I grew up on a farm, and so we did not have a "neighborhood," at least no one could walk to our house without going at least a mile, and even then, there were no children my age within three miles or so. As a child, I had to ride my horse to visit neighbors, if I wanted to go by myself.

First I ever heard of Mouseketeers was when I learned that Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera had been them. Disney never really appealed to me. I’ve been to Disney World a few times as an adult and do enjoy that, although save for Splash and Space Mountains, Magic Kingdom is not my favorite day. I‘d list Flintstones, Munsters and Brady Bunch as my favorite shows as a kid.

I began collecting the Disney Movies when they were first put on VHS. I loved the Disney artistry of the fairy tales and the music. By the time I had my own children to show them too no one wanted to watch. They found them frightening. Witches/evil step moms etc. The Mouseketeers were waaaaay before my time. Any re-runs I see I do not comprehend how anyone could watch, soo saccharine for me. I would agree with Lars on Mickey's voice. Can't think of a "favorite" character certainly not Donald with his hard to understand speech. Perhaps I will choose Chip and Dale. I always like the Merry Melodies where there was not talking...just action.

I never saw the Mickey Mouse Club as a child. I grew up in a small northern town with one local TV channel. Captain Kangaroo was on in the mornings but I rarely watched it as the TV was not on at that hour. I have never been a fan of the Disney movie as I disapprove of the strong messages they send through anthropomorphism of animals. I might have been fine with animal characters but their agenda was always very clear to me even as a child. My children only saw them with their Grandparents.

I never watched Mickey Mouse. I guess I was too old.

Sue

It never was my thing. I liked the Looney Tunes cartoons. Daffy Duck by far was my favorite. I also loved Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Totally different. I was teased and bullied a lot as a child. I think watching Mr R was therapeutic for me.

No Mickey Mouse fan here either.

I liked Elmer Fudd being fooled by Bugs Bunny, but other than that all I can recall liking from Looney Tunes was The Tasmanian Devil.

I did used to watch Top Cat and was quite fond of Benny. I couldn’t stand Officer Dibble though, and Steven Colbert reminds me of him.

Of the Disney characters, my favorite was probably Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie. I did watch the MMC and liked Annette. It seems like there were a couple of others I liked a lot too but I can’t recall their names.

I have 2 younger brothers, so when they started watching Saturday morning cartoons, I watched with them. I always enjoyed Mighty Mouse, Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote and Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Looney Toons were my favorite along with Rocky & Bullwinkle. I wasn't into the Disney cartoons although we rarely missed an episode of the Wonderful World of Disney.

No, Rox, my guess is either the dashes got interpreted as masking, Coal Bear is poly tickle, or the U’s in favorite and neighbor tipped them off that you’re Canadian.

Thanks FOAS. That’s probably it. :)

Anyone remember King Leonardo and his Short Subjects?

I was a total tv hound

LOL, poly tickle had me confused for a while. I’m fully awake now and laughing at FOAS’ post.

I never watched Mickey Mouse show, I don't recall it being available. We lived in the country with a tv antenna.

I did love some cartoons though......Space Ghost with his little monkey was a favourite! Bugs Bunny, The roadrunner and coyote.

It was driving me crazy who used to say “Well, I’ll be a blue nosed gopher.” I did a bit of searching and it was from the ‘Spin and Marty’ episodes that were shown on the Mickey Mouse Club Show.

I definitely watched reruns, as I wasn’t even born yet in 1955.

Oh, my older brother and I loved the Mickey Mouse Club show. I especially enjoyed Spin and Marty — horses! Like wildchild, Cubby and Karen were my favorites because they were little like me. I thought they were my age, but they must have been older, much much older, like 8! I rather liked that kids of different ages could be in a club, guided by adults that weren’t their parents. That didn’t happen in my community! Everything was by age, and if it wasn’t (like Brownies when I started school) it was let by a parent. And while there were the stars, everyone was included and supported, no one outright excluded. That didn’t happen in real life either.

I liked Chip and Dale because they were cute and little (like Cubby and Karen!) But our favorite cartoon was Rocky and Bullwinkle. Probably still is.

We had a local program called Garfield Goose and Friends. We enjoyed that, but we really enjoyed a serial they showed, called Journey to the Beginning of Time, I think. Not the Czech movie! But probably inspired by it.

Loved Mickey Mouse Club when I was a kid. My favorite Mouseketeer was Darlene, I don’t know why., except I admired her long braids. Evidently she went on to have a sad life. My brother had a crush on Annette and had a scrapbook with her pictures. We tease him about it to this day.

There was a serial called Corky and White Shadow about a girl and her white German shepherd. She were very adventurous, at least for a girl in the 1950s. Darlene played the role of Corky. I think they solved crimes.

I also liked Tinkerbelle. I think I was drawn to the mischievous type!

MMC was slightly before my time, Mr Rogers (and Sesame Street) slightly after. I watched all the standard cartoons, but Daffy Duck was my favorite. I liked the funny way he talked and that no matter what he tried, he always lost. Guess I've always been for the underdog. Oh yes, I liked Underdog as well! Didn't care for Top Cat much. Rocky and Bullwinkle were the best.

In all honesty, we only watched cartoons on Saturday morning and most of the time it was the Bugs Bunny Road Runner hour. *IF* we were allowed to watch tv at all. My parents never liked the tv on during the day. It never used to get turned on until the 6 o'clock news. If we managed to watch cartoons on Saturday morning the volume had to be down so much that my dad couldn't hear it in his bedroom. If the tv woke him up, the tv was turned off. They're in their mid to late 80s now and still the tv never goes on until after supper.

I watched the Mickey Mouse Club, but not on a regular basis. My favorite was Darlene tho. She had long braids like me. I got a horse for my birthday in 1957 and I quit watching TV. For years, until I moved up here, I watched only news mostly. I did watch The Office reruns. Most series that everyone else is familiar with....I never watched.

Houzz is wonky today. I can’t see anyone’s screen names.

When I was of the age for Mickey Mouse there were only Mickey and Minnie. I did like the other cartoons that were available that apparently some above think were Disney Characters such as Daffy Duck and Donald Duck. What I did like were for want of a better term black cutouts that would move to classical music. Sometimes when I hear a few notes I can visualize the cartoons that I heard first heard it in.

I liked The Flintstones, especially Barney Rubble. I've always had a thing for short guys.

I thought MMC might have been shown in syndication, but I guess that did not happen. Perhaps it was too dated for reruns to be relevant. My sister and I did watch if faithfully as children, and I think Darlene was my sister's favorite. She also liked the Spin and Marty episodes. We both watched a lot of westerns as children, especially when visiting our grandparents in west Texas, which seemed liked the settings of a lot of the shows.

I was nine when the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show started and knew enough to understand most of the sophisticated puns, but I did have to look up the phrase "hoisted by his own petard," as that was a new one for me at that age.

I don't think I watched a lot of cartoons as a child, other than Bullwinkle, but I did watch quite of few of the Merry Melodies cartoons. We saw Bugs Bunny in the theater either before or after movies. When I was older, I watched Max Fleischer and Tex Avery cartoons, but not so much as a child, although I did like Felix the Cat. A lot of the cartoons were too violent to appeal to me.

The Flintstones reminded me of The Honeymooners, and I found that show depressing as a child.

Did anyone watch Romper Room? I wasn't crazy about it, but watched once in a while. The teacher would look through her "magic mirror" and mention names of the kids she "saw" watching the show. Once she said my name -- scared the #&%! out of me! Never watched it again.

I vaguely remember Romper Room, but it was a bit too unstructured for me, and I remember thinking that it was silly. I did watch Captain Kangaroo in the morning, and I especially liked the Tom Terrific cartoons. I was not a fan of Mighty Mouse (too violent), but I did like Underdog.

My favorites from Rocky and Bullwinkle were the Fractured Fairytales and Mr. Peabody.

I had just turned 6 when my cousins downstairs moved and my siblings (16 and 14) lost interest in tormenting me. At that point my parents moved downstairs. They turned the first and second floor into a duplex and rented out the third floor.

I’d always ask to take my tray of food upstairs to watch tv in my parents room while I ate. My father was a chef. He wasn’t home for dinner Monday-Saturday. My mother let me! I myself wouldn’t have allowed that. I liked being by myself so much better.

In any event, I watched a great deal of tv, besides the Saturday morning cartoons. Really pretty strange memory.

Oh, Fractured Fairy Tales and Mr Peabody, those were so funny! Do they and Rocky and Bullwinkle seem a little sophisticated compared to today’s children’s animation? I think we only see the cartoons on PBS, some of which are good but have a different purpose. The Rocky show cartoons had so many interesting and worldly, and funny, punny, references. I think they really appealed to my love of words and wordplay.

I loved the Mickey Mouse Club. Thank you, roxsol, for the video of Tim Considine’s screen test!

ad then there was foghorn leghorn and Henery hawk ...

Not a Mickey fan. I thought the club was a group of dweebs. My mother watched so it was on when we came home from school. Reruns. They showed the same stuff over and over and over. To this day I can sing the Applegate mystery song...gold doubloons and pieces of eight handed down to Applegate....

I am a also a Rocky and Bullwinkle fan. I used to have them on video tape. I watched Captain Kangaroo as a very small child in New York. My favorite was Grandfather Clock. Every day I waited breathlessly for him to say something significant. He didn't. I despised the stupid Rabbit and Moose. I didnt even like the Captain. Mr Greenjeans on the other hand was nice. I loved magic drawing board and knew it was a person writing backwards. My mother tried to spoil it for me by telling me. I was even more impressed. Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog...

The real great adventures of ME......Tom Terrific!

The MIckey Mouse club is on the Disney Channel.

Cinderella was my favourite Disney character. My Dad was a Quality Control Auditor for Chrysler and flew to California quite a bit. He once brought me home a Cinderella watch which I still have without the band.

I remember being terrified by the witch in Snow White as a child, but I don't remember being scared by other Disney villains.

I also remember reading in the newspapers in the 1960s that Disney would fire any employees that were discovered to be gay. I think Tommy Kirk (an early Mouseketeer) ended up being one of those, although he had other problems as well. Anyway, the employees I read about in the 1960s worked for Disneyland, and so I lost interest in going there. My grandparents refused to take me there when we visited Long Beach in 1968 because they said that they had been there and didn't like it and therefore I would not like it either.

My favorite Disney show was Fantasia (1940), saw it at the theater late 1950's. That is the only time I liked Mickey Mouse, as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Night on Bald Mountain gave me nightmares for months.

I watched the original MMC in reruns in the early 60's. I liked the show, and especially the serials especially the Hardy Boys and Spin and Marty (although I don't remember seeing the one with the dog). I liked Mickey, Chip & Dale, and Huey, Dewey and Louey (better than Donald). For some reason though I disliked Goofy, Pluto, and Clarabelle - probably the way they were drawn.

I never particularly liked any other cartoons, and recall thinking that 'The Flintstones' was just stupid. So on Saturday mornings I watched the live action shows (Sky King, My Friend Flicka, and so forth), never cartoons. Eventually I much preferred reading my older brothers' comic books.

Does anyone remember Davey and Goliath? I remember thinking it was weird but I watched it anyway.

I remember being so scared of the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. I was also terrified of clowns and robots. I couldn't stand when they'd watch Lost in Space or Red Skelton. I was a mess...what do I mean "was"? hee hee

Mickey Mouse wasn't born yet when I was a child. But then--neither was TV!!!

Wow, Seniorgal! you just keep on trucking, don’t you? I love to see you post!