The Mouse Factory - Season 1

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Vacations

1 - Vacations

Air Date: 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.

Women's Lib

2 - Women's Lib

Air Date: February 2, 1972

Jo Anne Worley hosts how women have been improving their positions in life.

Folk Tale Favorites

3 - Folk Tale Favorites

Air Date: February 9, 1972

Johnny Brown looks at many songs and stories written about folk heroes.

Spooks and Magic

4 - Spooks and Magic

Air Date: 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.

Physical Fitness

5 - Physical Fitness

Air Date: 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

The Great Outdoors

6 - The Great Outdoors

Air Date: 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.

Water Sports

7 - Water Sports

Air Date: March 8, 1972

Joe Flynn shows some of the ways that people enjoy life on or near the water.

Man at Work

8 - Man at Work

Air Date: 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.

Music

9 - Music

Air Date: 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.

Interplanetary Travel

10 - Interplanetary Travel

Air Date: 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.

Homeowners

11 - Homeowners

Air Date: 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.

Spectator Sports

12 - Spectator Sports

Air Date: April 12, 1972

Charles Nelson Reilly returns to discuss the various types of sports one could enjoy by simply watching.

Horses

13 - Horses

Air Date: 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.

Aviation

14 - Aviation

Air Date: 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.

Back to Nature

15 - Back to Nature

Air Date: 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.

Bullfighting to Bullfrogs

16 - Bullfighting to Bullfrogs

Air Date: May 10, 1972

Pat Buttram, dressed as a matador, starts by speaking of bullfights as he tries to sell tacos.

Sports

17 - Sports

Air Date: 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.