The Mouse Factory
The Mouse Factory is an American syndicated television series produced by The [Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions] and created by Ward Kimball, that ran from 1972 to 1973. It showed clips from various Disney cartoons and movies, hosted by celebrity guests, including Charles Nelson Reilly, Jo Anne Worley, Wally Cox, Johnny Brown, Phyllis Diller, Joe Flynn, Annette Funicello, Shari Lewis and Hush Puppy, Lamb Chop, Dom DeLuise, Don Knotts and many more visiting the Mouse Factory and interacting with the walk-around Disney characters from the Walt [Disney Parks and Resorts|Disney theme parks]. The series was later rerun on the Disney Channel in the 1980s and 1990s.
The theme played over the previews of each episode was a fast instrumental version of "Whistle While You Work" from Snow White and [the Seven Dwarfs |Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs].
Ending credits
To start the ending credits, the series depicts Mickey Mouse in a biplane. He flies across the screen carrying a banner that reads "the end". A large ape, resembling King Kong, promptly swipes said plane as well as Mickey out of thin air, dropping them in his mouth and devouring them. In season 2, this was changed to Donald Duck uttering the phrase "it won't work".The song played over the end credits is "Minnie's Yoo Hoo", the theme song from the original Mickey Mouse Clubs that met in theaters starting in 1929. The version used in the series originated in a 1968 episode of The [Wonderful World of Disney] celebrating Mickey's birthday.