“Here I come to save the day!” Mighty Mouse is coming this November, joining the Sunday afternoon lineup for MeTV Toons, the only TV network dedicated exclusively to classic animation. Mighty Mouse and Friends will air every Sunday for a two-hour block 3-5pm ET/PT beginning November 2.  ”Heckle and Jeckle” and other Terrytoons will also be featured prominently in the block, airing for the first time on broadcast television in decades.

The block will showcase the shorts from the Mighty Mouse Playhouse, which debuted as a Saturday morning show on the CBS television Network in 1955 and aired until 1967, and the later cartoon series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which was produced by legendary animator Ralph Bakshi and ran from 1987-1989. Featured cartoons will include “Mighty Mouse,” “Heckle and Jeckle,” “Terry Bears,” Mighty Heroes” and “Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.”

Originally debuting in 1942 as a series of theatrical shorts created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox, Mighty Mouse is a superhero mouse with extraordinary powers. The mouse later went on to delight TV audiences watching Saturday morning cartoons for decades. In 1987, acclaimed film animator Ralph Bakshi revived the Mighty Mouse franchise, with higher quality production compared to animated series of the time. Animation historian Jerry Beck said Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse “Foreshadowed the higher quality animation boom coming in the next decade.” The series was also one of the first Saturday morning cartoons to be broadcast in stereo. 

The Sunday morning and afternoon programming schedule for MeTV Toons is as follows:

Sunday Mornings & Afternoons on MeTV Toons
Beginning November 2; All Times ET/PT

6-7am – Inspector Gadget

7-8am – Baby Looney Tunes

8-9am – Casper and Company

9-10am – The Tom and Jerry Show

10-11am – The Woody Woodpecker Show

11am-12pm – Popeye and Pals

12-1pm – Bugs Bunny and Friends

1-3pm – House of Hanna-Barbera

3-5pm – Mighty Mouse & Friends

MeTV Toons is available around the country on over the air broadcast TV stations, streaming on Philo, Frndly TV and Fubo, and now available on DirecTV and DirecTV Stream. Find out where to watch at MeTVToons.com.