''Mouseterpiece Theater'' is an American animated television show that ran on the

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. It premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983, and continued with reruns into the 1990s. The show is a

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of the

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show ''

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'', presenting

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animated shorts instead of showing dramatic works. Like ''Masterpiece Theatre'', it used a section of

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'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.

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hosted and gave commentary and background information before and after each cartoon. Each show tended to have a theme;

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'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

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