Inspired by the success of MTV, the Disney Channel began running short interstital music videos under the DTV umbrella in 1984. It wasn't long before Hanna-Barbera copied the concept for similar interstitals for their Funtastic World anthology block the next year.
Here, a collection of clips with Mickey Mouse and friends, plus "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves", frame Bobby Darin's 1958 hit, "Splish Splash":
DTV would spin off some primetime specials for NBC, the first of which introduced Tony Anselmo as the voice of Donald Duck, and one of the last jobs for the legendary Paul Frees, who not only voiced Ludwig Von Drake, but was the show's announcer. Subsequent specials featured Gary Owens and former MTV VJ JJ Jackson as announcers. Those specials will be up down the road.
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