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The Mouse Factory - Season 1

The Mouse Factory: Season 1 - 17 Episode s

1x1 - Vacations
January 26, 1972
Vacations are a custom appreciated in the world. Yet though most workers look forward to them all year, they usually end disastrously. Host Charles Nelson Reilly is the victim of such holidays, and Donald Duck agrees with him that a safe picnic would be a better idea.
1x2 - Women's Lib
February 2, 1972
Jo Anne Worley hosts how women have been improving their positions in life.
1x3 - Folk Tale Favorites
February 9, 1972
Johnny Brown looks at many songs and stories written about folk heroes.
1x4 - Spooks and Magic
February 16, 1972
Among other things in this Halloween-themed episode, Phyllis Diller owns a rooming house full of unwanted boarders. The house is full of ghosts and she hires Mickey, Donald and Goofy to remove them.
1x5 - Physical Fitness
February 23, 1972
Don Knotts, the unlikely proprietor of a fitness club, tries to explain his techniques to Goofy. Knotts demonstrates his theories with the help of Donald Duck and Snow White
1x6 - The Great Outdoors
March 1, 1972
Host Dom DeLuise hosts a spoof of recreational pursuits to prove that life in the great outdoors is not all it's reputed to be.
1x7 - Water Sports
March 8, 1972
Joe Flynn shows some of the ways that people enjoy life on or near the water.
1x8 - Man at Work
March 15, 1972
Everyone needs a job, even Donald Duck and Goofy. So host John Byner comes to their assistance by opening up an employment agency and sending Donald to a construction site that needs a steam-shovel operator and Goofy to a moving company that needs a piano mover.
1x9 - Music
March 22, 1972
Skiles and Henderson show how important sound effects and music can be. They visit the Disney Studios' sound effects department, where strange gadgets are used to make different sounds.
1x10 - Interplanetary Travel
March 29, 1972
Jonathan Winters appears in a variety of roles to present the spoof of space travel, including Prof. Eric Antiquity, the alleged inventor of rocket propulsion and the world's oldest astronaut.
1x11 - Homeowners
April 5, 1972
Host Jim Backus proves that owning a house is no easy task by showing how salesmen attempt to lure unsuspecting buyers with outrageous claims on the comforts and attraction of available properties, which very often need repairs.
1x12 - Spectator Sports
April 12, 1972
Charles Nelson Reilly returns to discuss the various types of sports one could enjoy by simply watching.
1x13 - Horses
April 19, 1972
Jo Anne Worley claims that horses are a cowboy's best friend, in spite of the creature's often intimidating size. However, Worley says that despite this, it can be easy to ride a horse, as Goofy demonstrates.
1x14 - Aviation
April 26, 1972
Mankind's interest in flight is the subject of this episode and host Johnny Brown sets the mood by dressing up as a World War I flying ace. Footage from cartoons involving flight are featured.
1x15 - Back to Nature
May 3, 1972
Although civilization has its advantages, more people are longing to return to nature. Host Wally Cox shows that nature, like the "good old days", isn't all it's reputed to be.
1x16 - Bullfighting to Bullfrogs
May 10, 1972
Pat Buttram, dressed as a matador, starts by speaking of bullfights as he tries to sell tacos.
1x17 - Sports
May 17, 1972
Pat Paulsen teams up with Goofy to look at the skills used to master sports, each with their own set of problems, though Goofy tries valiantly, against all odds and a reasonable dose of physical abuse.

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