Editing Mighty Mouse (section)

===Television===
====''Mighty Mouse Playhouse''====
{{Main | Mighty Mouse Playhouse}}
Mighty Mouse had little theatrical impact, but became Terrytoons' most popular character and a cultural icon on television. In 1955, Paul Terry sold the Terrytoons studio to [[CBS]], which repackaged the theatrical cartoons as a popular Saturday morning show, ''Mighty Mouse Playhouse''. The show aired from December 1955<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Robert|title=The 1950s' most wanted the top 10 book of rock & roll rebels, Cold War crises, and all-American oddities|year=2006|publisher=Potomac Books|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-1-61234-030-2|url=https://archive.org/details/1950smostwantedt0000rodr|url-access=registration|quote=mighty mouse.|edition=1st|access-date=May 14, 2012|page=[https://archive.org/details/1950smostwantedt0000rodr/page/219 219]}}</ref> through September 1967, using the existing film library. Only three new cartoons were produced after the sale. The final season also included a new feature, entitled ''[[The Mighty Heroes]].''

Tom Morrison of Terrytoons provided the speaking voice of Mighty Mouse in the show's new framing sequences.

The show's theme song was credited on some early [[Gramophone record|records]] to "The Terrytooners, [[Mitch Miller]] and Orchestra". However, writer [[Mark Evanier]] credits a group called The Sandpipers (not the [[The Sandpipers|1960s easy listening group of the same name]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Evanier|first=Mark|title=Sandpiper Stuff|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2004_01_18.html#007948|work=News from Me (Archive)|access-date=March 9, 2013|date=January 18, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524043713/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2004_01_18.html#007948|archive-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>

====''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle''====
{{Main | The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle}}
In 1979&ndash;1980, [[Filmation]] made television cartoons starring Mighty Mouse and fellow Terrytoon characters [[Heckle and Jeckle]] in a show called ''[[The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle]]''. The show introduced two new characters: a vampire duck named Quacula (not to be confused with [[Count Duckula]]), and Oil Can Harry's bumbling, large, but swift-running, henchman Swifty. The show premiered in 1979 and lasted two seasons. In the Filmation series and movie, Mighty Mouse and Oil Can Harry were performed by veteran voice artist [[Alan Oppenheimer]], and Pearl Pureheart was voiced by [[Diane Pershing]]. [[Frank Welker]] played Heckle, Jeckle and Quacula, and [[Norm Prescott]] played Theodore H. Bear.<ref name=Scheimer>{{cite book |last1=Scheimer |first1=Lou |last2= Mangels |first2=Andy |title=Creating the Filmation Generation |date=2012 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1-60549-044-1 |page=164}}</ref>

Each episode included two traditional ''Mighty Mouse'' cartoons, as well as an episode of a Mighty Mouse science-fiction serial, "The Great Space Chase". The hour was rounded out with two ''Heckle & Jeckle'' cartoons and one ''Quacula'' cartoon, plus short bumpers with tips about safety and the environment. The total cartoons produced for the series were 32 ''Mighty Mouse'' cartoons, 32 ''Heckle & Jeckle'' cartoons, 16 episodes of "The Great Space Chase" and 16 ''Quacula'' cartoons.<ref name=Scheimer/>

The "Space Chase" episodes were edited together into a theatrical matinee movie, ''[[Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase]]'', which was released on December 10, 1982.

====''Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures''====
{{Main | Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures}}In 1987 and 1988, animation producer [[Ralph Bakshi]] (who began his career at Terrytoons in the late 1950s and worked on the last Mighty Mouse shorts filmed by that company) created a new series of Mighty Mouse cartoons entitled ''[[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' for the [[CBS]] Saturday morning children's lineup. In this series, Mighty Mouse has a real identity, Mike Mouse (both identities voiced by [[Patrick Pinney]]), and a sidekick, [[Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures#Cast|Scrappy Mouse]] (voiced by actress [[Dana Hill]]), the little orphan. Though a children's cartoon, its heavy [[Satire|satirical]] tone, risqué humor and adult jokes made the Bakshi Mighty Mouse series a [[Collectable|collector's item]] for collectors of older television series.

The best-remembered episode of this series featured a crossover with Mighty Mouse and another Bakshi creation, the Mighty Heroes (Strong Man, Tornado Man, Rope Man, Cuckoo Man and Diaper Man). In the 1988 episode "Heroes and Zeroes", the Mighty Heroes were middle-aged men (except for Diaper Man, who was 36) and were all accountants with the firm of Man, Man, Man, Man, and Man.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hero-A-Go-Go: Campy Comic Books, Crimefighters, & Culture of the Swinging Sixties|first=Michael|last=Eury|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|year=2017|page=117|isbn=9781605490731}}</ref>

====Later years====
[[Marvel Comics]] produced a 10-issue comic book series (set in the ''New Adventures'' [[Continuity (fiction)|continuity]]) in 1990 and 1991. Since then, little else new has been produced using the Mighty Mouse character except for a 2001 "The power of cheese" television commercial.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Power of Cheese, Mighty Mouse|url=http://adland.tv/commercials/cheese-mighty-mouse-2001-030-usa|publisher=America's Dairy Farmers|access-date=May 11, 2012|year=2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403115609/https://adland.tv/commercials/cheese-mighty-mouse-2001-030-usa|archive-date=April 3, 2015}}</ref> That commercial shows Mighty Mouse dining calmly on cheese in a restaurant, utterly unconcerned with a scene of chaos and terror visibly unfolding in the street outside. The commercial was later removed from air following the [[September 11 attacks]].

The character appeared in the 1999 pilot ''Curbside'', voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/101602-Curbside|title=Curbside (Nickelodeon)|last=DataBase|first=The Big Cartoon|website=Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB)|language=en-US|access-date=November 28, 2018}}{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Until 2019, the rights to Mighty Mouse were divided as a result of the 2006 corporate split of [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]] (the former owner of the Terrytoons franchise) into two separate companies. CBS Operations (a unit of the [[CBS Corporation]]) owns the ancillary rights and trademarks to the character, while Paramount Home Entertainment/[[CBS Home Entertainment]] holds home video rights. The first official release of Mighty Mouse material has been announced and what is now [[CBS Media Ventures]] has television syndication rights (the shorts are currently out of circulation). On December 4, 2019, CBS Corporation and Viacom re-merged into a single entity, ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]), officially reuniting the rights to Mighty Mouse under the same company.

In 2017, during his 75th anniversary, Mighty Mouse made his return with a 5-issue comic book series produced by [[Dynamite Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comicsalliance.com/dynamite-mighty-mouse-fisch-lima/|last=Collins|first=Elle|title=Here He Comes: Dynamite Unveils New 'Mighty Mouse' Comic|website=[[ComicsAlliance]]|date=March 28, 2017|access-date=July 28, 2024}}</ref>