An animated TV special was planned for screening in the UK on ITV. To date, very little details have emerged about the production other than Pleasence and Starr's involvement. However, due to a strike in 1978, the special was delayed and ultimately shelved. [2] Since its initial announcement and cancelation, the special has never been screened or released in any home video format. To date, no footage leaked of the special and details about its production remain extremely vague. An animated television version of the story was planned for airing on ITV, but it was delayed due to a strike and ultimately shelved.

Scouse the Mouse is a children's album released in the UK in 1977. It featured the vocals of Ringo Starr and others. The story involves Scouse emigrating from Liverpool to New York City to perform live at Carnige Hall. The album completed a three-album deal Starr had with Polydor Records in the UK and was never released outside of that country. The album was written, directed and narrated by Donald Pleasence, with songs mostly composed by Roger Brown. Scouse The Mouse was released on 9 December 1977 in the UK. With it Starr concluded his three-album deal with Polydor. The album was not issued in the USA. When you’re doing something that is supposed to make people laugh, you have to make yourself laugh. If you don’t laugh at it, then you haven’t done your job. You want people to laugh out loud if possible so you have to at least amuse yourself. You can’t expect people to laugh at something you don’t find funny.He told the ECHO: “Sometimes it was hard work, You think to yourself ‘I’ve drawn hundreds of these how can I do another one’ - but there’s always something. You have to get your own feel for the character and the situations. Even for a newspaper strip, you’ve got to figure out who the character is and why he is funny. So the whole thing was to put Scouse Mouse in a situation and make it a joke.” An animated television version of the story was planned for the UK, but was delayed and uktimately shelved after trade union disputes and industrial action. Scouse the Mouse is a children's album, released in the UK in 1977, that featured the vocals of Ringo Starr and others.

Beginning life as an illustrated children’s book written by British actor Donald Pleasance (who also narrated the album), the story concerns a young Liverpudlian mouse (hence the Scouse Mouse of the title) who starts his life in a pet shop before being adopted by a young family. Here’s where the magic happens, after spending time with the family the young mouse learns ‘human’ from watching TV, yearning for a better life and dreaming of being a star (all run-of-the-mill stuff for a mouse you know) he eventually escapes, hops on a cruise ship, nearly gets eaten by the ship’s cats, jumps overboard before being rescued by a friendly seagull who takes him onto to New York where Scouse eventually gets to live out his dream by appearing at the Carnegie Hall – as-you-err-do! Scouse the Mouse was released on 9 December 1977 in the UK by Polydor. [nb 1] [3] The album, which was the third and final release in Starr's three-album deal with Polydor Records, was not issued in the United States. An animated television version of the story was planned for airing on ITV, but it was delayed due to a strike and ultimately shelved. [2] Unfortunately for Scouse Mouse fans the writers became too busy with other projects and the adored character was eventually phased out.

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