The Original Mickey Mouse Club Show

In December 2005 the Disney Company issued this entry in their popular Treasures series of DVDs. Like the rest of the series, this DVD comes in a two-part metal tin, that opens to reveal a standard size black plastic case with a silver-gray wraparound paper cover. Inside are two discs, a numbered certificate of authenticity signed by Leonard Maltin and Roy E. Disney, a small reproduction of the cover of a Spin and Marty comic book, and an eight-page color booklet on the disc contents.

The discs contain twenty-five eleven minute episodes from the show's most popular serial, and some bonus material. The episodes have been taken from re-mastered originals, and are clean, bright, and far better-looking than anything you could have hoped to see on a black and white television screen in that era. Each episode opens with the Mickey Mouse Club emblem and the Spin & Marty theme music, but ends abruptly without credits.

Bonus features include the full-length hour-long Mickey Mouse Club episode that introduced the serial, Tim Considine's original screen test for the role of Monty Markham, still photo galleries of the serial's production and associated merchandise on the first disc. On the second disc are reminisces with Tim Considine and David Stollery at the ranch location where the serial was filmed, and an interview with Harry Carey, Jr. Each disc also has introductary comments by Leonard Maltin, though his presence here is much less intrusive than on the Mickey Mouse Club Treasures DVD.

There's no phony bonus option to register your DVD, like there was for the Mickey Mouse Club Treasures DVD, and the contents listed inside the booklet match what's on the discs. Credits for the serial, including cast, are only present at the end of the bonus Mickey Mouse Club episode. That episode has no scene selections, so you'll have to fast forward or use the "Next Chapter" button to find the credits.