Disney's second TV series Mickey Mouse Club is launched on ABC. It is a daily series featuring the talents of 24 kids known as the Mouseketeers (though over the next 4 years the show will have a regular but ever-changing cast of preteens). Mickey Mouse Club also features cartoons, educational segments, singing, dancing, serialized adventures, and special guest stars. Led by adult leaders Jimmie Dodd and cartoonist Roy Williams, the show airs during the late afternoon/pre-dinner hour, primarily aimed at a pre-teen audience. (The Mouseketeers have already made their first TV appearance on the ABC broadcast of Disneyland's opening in July 1955.) Today is Fun With Music Day.
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