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Mouseterpiece Theater
Mouseterpiece Theater is an American television show that ran on The Disney Channel that premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983, and continued with reruns into the 1990s. It was a parody of the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre", presenting Disney animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. Like "Masterpiece Theatre", it used a section of Jean-Joseph Mouret's Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1 as its theme music, but the Disney show used the
also a contributor to Michael O'Donoghue's "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video" (1979), which included Kriegman's shorts, "Cleavage" and "This is a Man in a Dog Suit". A third piece, "The Dancing Belly Button", was not televised but was included in the Anthology Film Archives collection. After leaving "Saturday Night Live" his work turned markedly toward children's and young adult television programming.
Mouseterpiece Theater (1983), hosted by George Plimpton, was directed by Kriegman and