Mouseterpiece Theater

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| image = Mouseterpiece Theater.jpg

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| presenter = George Plimpton

| country = United States

| language = English

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| num_episodes = 60

| director = Mitchell Kriegman

| writer = Robert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman

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| producer = Robert Cunniff
Mitchell Kriegman

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| company = Walt Disney Television

| channel = Disney Channel

| first_aired = {{Start date|1983|04|18}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1990}}

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Mouseterpiece Theater is an American animated television show that ran on the Disney Channel. It premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983,The Disney Channel Magazine, April/May 1983 (Premiere Issue), page 14 and continued with reruns into the 1990s.{{cite book |last1=Cotter |first1=Bill |title=The Wonderful World of Disney Television |date=1997 |publisher=Hyperion Books |isbn=0-7868-6359-5 |pages=296, 582}}

The show is a parody of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, presenting Disney animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. Like Masterpiece Theatre, it used a section of Jean-Joseph Mouret's Suite of Symphonies for brass, strings and timpani No. 1 as its theme music, but the Disney show used the third movement rather than the first. George Plimpton hosted and gave commentary and background information before and after each cartoon. Each show tended to have a theme; Goofy's emergence as the staid everyman character for example. It usually ran later in the evenings.Various issues of The Disney Channel Magazine, 1983 to 1991