Mickey (TV series)

Mickey
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Bob Fisher Arthur Marx
Directed by	Richard Whorf
Starring	Mickey Rooney Emmaline Henry Tim Rooney Bobby Van
Composer(s)	Robert Hammack
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17
Production
Producer(s)	Bob Fisher Arthur Marx
Cinematography	Fleet Southcott
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company(s)	MGM Television Selmur Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16) – January 13, 1965 (1965-01-13)

Mickey is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1965. Created and produced by Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx, the series stars Mickey Rooney.

Synopsis

Rooney stars as Mickey Grady, the owner of the luxury Newport Arms Hotel in Newport Beach, California. The program costarred Emmaline Henry as Mickey's wife, Nora, and Rooney's second son, Tim, as 17-year-old Timmy Grady. Brian Nash played the younger son, Buddy Grady. Sammee Tong played Sammy Ling. Alan Reed was cast as Mr. Swidler.

Rooney won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor in a Television Series" at the 21st Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremonies in 1964.^[1]

Notable guest stars

• Dina Merrill
• Frank De Vol
• Keith Andes
• Walter Burke
• Peter Deuel
• Parley Baer
• Jesse White
• Burt Mustin
• Donald Barry

Reception and cancellation

The series failed to sustain ratings to survive the full season in its 9 p.m. Eastern time slot on Wednesdays. Its principal competition was another sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS. NBC ran television movies at the time.^[2] Another reason, according to Arthur Marx, was that the network was willing to renew the series for a full season because they liked Sammee Tong. But Tong found out that Mickey was in danger of being cancelled, and was depending on his salary to pay off heavy gambling debts. Distraught, Tong committed suicide on October 27, 1964, effectively ending any further discussion of the show's future.^[3]

References

1. ^ The 21st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1964), Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Accessed October 25, 2008.
2. ^ 1964-1965 American network television schedule
3. ^ Marx, Arthur. The Nine Lives Of Mickey Rooney (1986). New York: Stein & Day

External links

• Mickey at the Internet Movie Database