On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends

"On Vacation", also titled "On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends" on video releases, is an episode of Disneyland that aired on March 7, 1956, featuring Jiminy Cricket and the Fabulous Five.
==Synopsis==
Jiminy Cricket gets a call from "the boss" to produce his own show with Mickey Mouse and his friends, but is warned to "watch the budget". Jiminy tries to phone Mickey, who is out golfing with Pluto at the country club. Mickey is called upon to answer the phone, so he gives Pluto a ball to play with while he answers, but Pluto gets in a sticky situation with a pesky bee.
Later, Jiminy tries to call Goofy, but he is out fishing with Jiminy's nephew, Wilbur the grasshopper. Jiminy then tries to contact Donald Duck, who is vacationing at a dude ranch. At his wit's end, Jiminy calls up the Marines, the fire department, the police, etc. to bring Donald over to the studio. Mickey and Goofy also show up, and Jiminy tells the three a script he wrote, depicting them living in a traveling trailer.
When Jiminy finishes telling them the story, Goofy objects that Minnie Mouse isn't in it. Jiminy tells him that Minnie is on vacation in Hawaii, giving Mickey, Donald and Goofy inspiration to rewrite the script and have them down in Hawaii with Minnie. Finally having enough, Jiminy gives the three control over the show and decides to go on vacation himself, to Catalina, but not before telling them to "watch the budget".
===Featured shorts===
*Canine Caddy
*Bubble Bee
*Goofy and Wilbur
*Dude Duck
*Mickey's Trailer
*Hawaiian Holiday
==Voice Cast==
*Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket
*Jimmy MacDonald - Mickey Mouse
*Pinto Colvig - Goofy, Pluto
*Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
*Dick Wesson - The Boss
==Additional crew==
*Animation: Jack Boyd, Bob Carlson, Al Coe, Phil Duncan, Hugh Fraser. Volus Jones, Bill Justice, George Kreisl, Dan MacManus, John Sibley
*Layout: Yale Gracey, Karl Karpé
*Background: Brice Mack, Art Riley
*Music: Paul Smith, Oliver Wallace
*Art Director: Marvin Davis
*Production Supervisor: Harry Tytle
*Set Decorator: Emile Kuri
*Photography: Charles P. Boyle
*Film Editor: Tom Acosta
*Special Processes: Ub Iwerks
*Sound: Robert O. Cook
*Sound Engineer: George Lowerre (uncredited)
*Assistant Directors: Edward Hansen, Gordon McLean
==Airdates==
===Disneyland===
*March 7, 1956
===Walt Disney Presents===
*August 19, 1960
===Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color===
* July 28, 1968
===The Wonderful World of Disney===
*August 7, 1977 (As On Vacation With Mickey Mouse and Friends)
*April 11, 1979 (As NBC Special, As On Vacation With Mickey Mouse and Friends)
===Disney Summer Classics===
*June 29, 1986 (As On Vacation With Mickey Mouse and Friends)
==Trivia==
*A few clips from this episode were used (with some redubbed dialogue from "the boss") for The Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol.
*The linking segment between Canine Caddy and Bubble Bee was used in the episode "Pluto and His Friends".
*After Walt Disney's death, subsequent showings had Dick Wesson dub over Walt's voice as "the boss". Because of this, lines mentioning of the name "Walt" were muted.
*During the search for Donald, the "tribal chant" sound from African Diary is heard in the background.
==Gallery==
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Category:Television specials
Category:Walt Disney anthology series episodes
Category:Mickey Mouse
Category:Donald Duck
Category:Goofy