1/4/2024 0 Comments Tim considine spin and marty![]() Though he had produced live-action adventures with boy heroes such as Treasure Island, Walt Disney had never before created anything with two diametrically opposed leads. Tim’s charisma was so evident that the Spin role was expanded, and Marty Markham was transformed into “The Adventures of Spin and Marty.” Tim Considine was originally cast as Marty, but the young actor balked, preferring to play “cool guy” Spin. ![]() The Disney adaptation, however, broadened the story to double the character dynamic. Martin Markham III was characterized as “a rich spoiled kid who arrived at the Triple-R with a limousine, a chauffeur and Perkins, an English butler.” The original book-written by one of Walt’s favorite screenwriters ( Treasure Island, Darby O’Gill and the Little People) Lawrence Edward Watkin-was entitled Marty Markham, and as the title indicates, focused on the spoiled kid. ![]() To be on your own and have adventures, and I think that’s what made our part of the show so popular.”Īnother element that made the trailblazing TV serial the most popular part of The Mickey Mouse Club: the titular young wranglers themselves “Meet Spin Evans, the most popular fellow at the Triple-R,” was the way the serial’s introductory narration described the self-confident buckaroo. Spin Evans himself, Tim Considine, has observed, “It was this fantasy land that was for kids, to go to a dude ranch and have your own horse, to be away from your parents. Any member of the Mickey Mouse Club audience, whether a city mouse or a country mouse, could enter this rural world of horse play through the magic of Disney’s TV show. Thus “The Adventures of Spin and Marty” rode into view on the early television scene. And as a self-professed country boy who in reality spent the majority of his life in the city, it made sense that Walt would regard a rustic place where boys could turn into cowboys as the perfect place for any kid to visit for a life-changing summer experience. A horse lover from way back-Walt had nineteen ponies in his stable at the height of his polo passion in the 1930s-Disney knew that the ropin’ and ridin’ backdrop of “The Adventures of Spin and Marty” would appeal to the kids (and many adults) who would be watching The Mickey Mouse Club. “It’s a mistake,” Walt Disney once said, “not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.” With that philosophy, it only follows Walt would be attracted to the colorful, chaotic (of the carefully controlled-in other words, safe-sort) setting of a dude ranch for a TV serial starring kids. So saddle up boys (and girls) and saddle up well…and listen to the story that I have to tell. In using, as he put it, “the story technique we all knew and loved as kids-the continued story, or as it was known then, the serial,” Walt Disney was back in the storytelling saddle again, with a well-told tale of two very different dudes who find a way to finish first together. That fresh-faced television Western “The Adventures of Spin and Marty” was the most popular component of Walt’s multi-faceted new show. ![]() When TV Guide published an issue celebrating the Octodebut of Walt Disney’s The Mickey Mouse Club, the cover featured Mickey and Jiminy Cricket…and two young cowboys wearing the sign of the Triple-R Ranch. Disney Historian, Author, and Friend of the Museum Jim Fanning wrote this story about “Spin and Marty” exclusively for Storyboard. ![]() Our Movie of the Month for November is actually a collection of chapters from the beloved Mickey Mouse Club serial, “The Adventures of Spin and Marty,” showing daily at 1:00 & 4:00pm (except Tuesdays, and November 11,12,19, and 24). ![]()
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