Mickey Mouse is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation. Featuring Disney cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto in contemporary settings such as Paris, Venice, Tokyo and New York, the series has the slapstick feel of the earliest Mickey Mouse shorts while providing a modern update, and "presents Mickey in a broad range of humorous situations that showcase his pluck and rascality, along with his long-beloved charm and good heartedness". The animation is provided by Mercury Filmworks. The series was developed by artist Paul Rudish, who was the co-creator of the Cartoon Network television series Sym-Bionic Titan and is also the series' executive producer and supervising director, while Joseph Holt is the series' art director. On September 15, 2013, Paul Rudish, Jenny Gase-Baker and Joseph Holt won three Emmy Awards for their work on the series. The third episode, "Croissant de Triomphe", was first released as a special preview on March 12, 2013, on Disney.com. The series officially premiered on June 28, 2013, on Disney Channel, followed by the releases on Disney.com and Watch Disney Channel. A total of 18 episodes aired in the first season while the second season, premiering on April 11, 2014, consisting of 19 episodes. The third season premiered on July 17, 2015, with 20 episodes aired. The fourth season premiered on June 9, 2017, with 19 episodes aired. The fifth season premiered on October 6, 2018, with 18 episodes aired.
Voice cast
Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse. Instead of the current voice actor for Mickey, Bret Iwan, Diamantopoulos voices Mickey in a characterization more like Walt Disney's original.
As of March 2014, a total of 100 million viewers in the United States had seen the series, and it was airing in 160 countries. As of June 2014, the show, translated in 34 languages, had reached over 135 million viewers worldwide.
On July 15, 2017, it was announced that a Mickey Mouse-themed attraction, titled Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway, would replace The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. Later, on April 19, 2019, the attraction was also announced to open at the Mickey's Toontown section of Disneyland at the Disneyland Resort for a planned 2022 opening date. The attraction is the first-ever Mickey Mouse-themed attraction at any Disney property worldwide, directly based on the series and involves guests watching the premiere of a new Mickey Mouse cartoon and then entering the cartoon itself. The show's creative team, including Paul Rudish, Joseph Holt and composer Christopher Willis, collaborated with Walt Disney Imagineering to create the attraction, which opened on March 4, 2020 at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
