Top Music Stars Cover Classic Disney Tunes on ‘Simply Mad About the Mouse’ (Mickey, of course)

It’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Simply Mad About the Mouse, that is!

Premiering Tuesday on the Disney Channel, the musical special combines computer and cel animation, live action and special effects with some of the top music talent of the day.

Five years in the making, “Simply Mad,” which was released last fall on home video, features colorful animated music videos starring the likes of Michael Bolton, who sings his heart and soul out to Cinderella with “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes.”

The mellow Harry Connick Jr. performs the jazzy “The Bare Necessities” from “The Jungle Book.” Billy Joel gives a high-flying rendition of the Oscar-winning “Wen You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio” while soaring around Neverland with Peter Pan.

And Ric Ocasek, former lead singer of The Cars, interacts with the centaurs and Bacchus of “‘Fantasia” while crooning a New Age version of the Oscar-winning “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” from “Song of the South.”

The Gypsy Kings, Bobby McFerrin, LL Cool J and Soul II Soul also are featured.

“Simply Mad About the Mouse , “ Tuesday 8:15-8:50 p.m. The Disney Channel. For all ages.

MORE KIDS’ SHOWS

Molly, a young Russian immigrant, teaches her classmates the real meaning of Thanksgiving on the the animated Special Delivery Molly’s Pilgrim (Sunday 3-3:30 p.m. Nickelodeon). For ages 6-12.

Renowned writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak created the story for Maurice Sendak’s Really Rosie (Sunday 8:30-9 p.m. the Disney Channel), an animated musical about a little girl named Rosie who has an idea for a show. When Sendak’s Nutshell Kids try out for the roles in a play, they turn the auditions into games of practical knowledge and teach everyone about counting, the alphabet and the months of the year. Pop composer Carole King (“I Feel the Earth Move”) performs her own compositions. For all ages.

The classic animated series The Bullwinkle Show, starring the intrepid duo Rocket Squirrel and his pal Bullwinkle Moose and the notorious badniks Boris Badanov and Natasha Fatale, returns to the airwaves Monday on Nickelodeon (weeknights 7:30-8). Nick also is adding the cool canine superhero Underdog (weekdays 4-4:30 ) to its toon lineup. For all ages.

In “Space, Geeks and Johnny Unitas,” the third installment in Nickelodeon’s Ace Award-winning series, The Adventures of Pete and Pete (Tuesday 6-6:30 p.m. Nickelodeon), Pete, his brother Pete and their friend, Ellen, can’t wait for summer. But when their narrow-minded science teacher, Mr. Porchman, assigns a deadly final paper, they fear they may have to spend the summer in school if they don’t get a passing grade. For ages 7-13.

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On June 14, 1942, a young Dutch girl named Anne Frank made her first entry in her diary. Though the Jewish teen-ager was murdered in a German concentration camp, her father, Otto, survived and published his daughter’s moving “The Diary of Anne Frank” 40 years ago. The Disney Channel pays tribute to the memory of Anne Frank with three specials:

Melissa Gilbert and Maximilian Schell star in the 1980 TV movie The Diary of Anne Frank (Wednesday 8-9:30 p.m., Thursday 3-4:37 a.m.).

The documentary The World of Anne Frank (Wednesday 10-10:28 p.m., Thursday 5-5:28 p.m.) explores Frank’s world and features rare footage of her father and the family which hid them in the Amsterdam attic.

The acclaimed 1988 TV movie The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (Thursday 8-9:39 p.m., Friday 3:30-5:09 a.m.) looks at Anne’s story through the eyes of Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered the Franks. Oscar-winners Mary Steenbergen and Paul Scofield star. For ages 10 and up.

The ABC “World of Discovery” documentary Survive Siberia (Thursday 8-9 p.m. ABC) takes a rare look at life today in the frozen wasteland and shows how the area has become a new frontier for settlers who are lured by gold and oil. Oscar-winner Linda Hunt narrates. For ages 10 and up.