Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air - Episode 7: Mother Goose Land (February 13, 1938)

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The Mother Goose characters appeared in several Silly Symphonies cartoons including Mother Goose Melodies (1931), Old King Cole (1933), and Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) In the early 20th century the Mother Goose characters were also a staple in American pop culture including storybooks and films and plays such as Babes in Toyland. The characters were used a few more times in Walt Disney comics as well as merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with their connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Walt revisited the Mother Goose characters in live action with 1961's Babes in Toyland.

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