Question: Annette Funicello and her acting career rose in popularity because of which American variety television show?

Context articles: Adventure in Dairyland
Walt Disney Presents: Annette
Bikini Beach
Dick Clark's Live Wednesday
Tall Paul
The Mickey Mouse Club
Annette Funicello
Caravan of Stars
Lots of Luck
Bikini in popular culture

Adventure in Dairyland is a television serial that aired in 1956 on ABC as part of the second season of The Mickey Mouse Club.
 The serial starred Mouseketeer Annette Funicello and Sammy Ogg of Spin and Marty and featured Kevin Corcoran in his first Walt Disney production.
Walt Disney Presents: Annette is a television serial that ran on "The Mickey Mouse Club" during the show's third season (1957–1958).
 It starred Annette Funicello as Annette McCleod (pronounced mik-clowd), a poor, orphaned country girl who moves into town with her upper-class aunt and uncle.
 The serial also starred Richard Deacon as Uncle Archie McCleod, Sylvia Field as Aunt Lila McCleod, Mary Wickes as Katie the housekeeper and prolific Disney child stars Tim Considine, David Stollery and Roberta Shore as Annette's friends.
 The story was adapted by Lillie Hayward (who also worked on "Spin and Marty") from the book "Margaret" by Janette Sebring Lowrey.
Bikini Beach is a 1964 American teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.
 The film belongs to the beach party genre of movies, popular in the 1960s.
 This is the third in the series of seven films produced by American International Pictures (AIP).
Dick Clark's Live Wednesday is a 1978 NBC variety television series, sometimes called simply Live Wednesday.
 Hosted by Dick Clark, it was a musical show much like Clark's "American Bandstand".
 Guests included musical artists and actors such as Frankie Avalon, Bo Diddley, Connie Francis, Annette Funicello, Melissa Gilbert, Bobbie Gentry and Andy Kaufman.
 Most episodes also included a live stunt, designed to emphasize the aspect of the telecast, which was seen live in the eastern US.
"Tall Paul" is a song recorded by Annette Funicello and written by the Sherman Brothers.
 It marked the first time that a female singer reached a top ten slot for a rock and roll single.
 It also spotlighted Annette from amongst the other Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club and paved the way for the movie career which followed.
 Walt Disney personally took notice of the string of chart toppers which the Sherman Brothers were writing for Annette and subsequently asked the songwriters to work for him exclusively.
 The Sherman Brothers went on to win two Oscars for "Mary Poppins" several years later.
The Mickey Mouse Club (now known as Club Mickey Mouse) is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned 2017 to social media.
 Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised from 1955 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of mostly teen performers.
 Reruns were broadcast by ABC on weekday afternoons during the 1958–1959 season, right after "American Bandstand".
 The show was revived after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 for first-run syndication, and airing again exclusively on Disney Channel from 1989 to 1996.
 Then revised in 2017 airing exclusively on social media.
Annette Joanne Funicello (October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013) was an American actress and singer.
 Funicello began her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve.
 She rose to prominence as one of the most popular "Mouseketeers" on the original "Mickey Mouse Club".
 As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful career as a singer with the pop singles "O Dio Mio", "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess", as well as establishing herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon during the mid-1960s.
In 1959, Dick Clark formed the Caravan of Stars, a road show featuring some of the most popular stars and musical groups of the day.
 Chubby Checker, Duane Eddy, Bobby Darin, Fabian, Buddy Holly, Annette Funicello and Bo Diddley toured with the Caravan.
 Chuck Berry joined the tour as well but chose to drive his pink Cadillac.
Lots of Luck is a 1985 American made-for-television comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television starring Martin Mull and Annette Funicello, directed by Peter Baldwin.
 The film originally aired February 3, 1985 on the Disney Channel.
The modern bikini made its debut in 1946, and since then it has caught the popular imagination becoming probably the most popular women's swimsuit, and not necessarily for swimming.
 Today, bikinis appear in competitions, films, magazines, music, literature, magazines and even video games.
 Despite the easy availability of more revealing glamour imagery, bikini modeling remains popular and can still create controversy.
 Portrayals of the bikini in popular culture led, to a large extent, to its acceptance by Western society at large.
 In 1960, Brian Hyland's pop song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" inspired a bikini-buying spree.
 The white bikini worn by Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond film "Dr. No" has been cited as one of the most famous bikinis of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history.
 By 1963, the movie "Beach Party", starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, led a wave of films that made the bikini a pop-culture symbol. "
Playboy" first featured a bikini on its cover in 1962.
 The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue debuted two years later.
 This increasing popularity was reinforced by its appearance in contemporary movies like "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" featuring Annette Funicello and "One Million Years B.C." (1966) featuring Raquel Welch.
 Raquel Welch's fur bikini in "One Million Years B.C." gave the world the most iconic bikini shot of all time in that period and the poster image became an important iconic moment in cinema history.
 Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Gina Lollobrigida and Jane Russell helped the growing popularity of bikinis further.
 Pin up posters of Monroe and Mansfield, as well as Hayworth, Bardot and Raquel Welch distributed around the world contributed significantly to the popularity of the bikini.