Career
Television other than The Mickey Mouse Club In addition to his small role in Adventures of Superman, mentioned above, Dodd appeared as a deputy in the 1955 episode "Sontag and Evans" of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century. The segment was based on the California train robbers Chris Evans and John Sontag. The Mickey Mouse Club The Mickey Mouse Club aired each weekday.
Dodd always wore "Mouseke-ears", played his "Mouse-guitar", and sang self-composed songs.
His tunes contained positive messages for kids. In addition, among his other musical contributions is a song that a generation of kids has used for nearly a half century to spell "encyclopedia".
He performed a regular segment on the show singing "Proverbs Proverbs they"re so true"..and then would expound on a Proverb from the Bible and give an explanation of its value in everyday life. He wrote some themes for Zorro and performed songs in several of his movies.
The original Mouseketeers, frequent guests at the Dodd home for backyard barbecues and sing-alongs, said Dodd treated them as part of his own extended family.
Dodd died of cancer on November 10, 1964, in Honolulu, Hawaii, aged 54. Cheryl Holdridge was the last Mouseketeer to see Dodd alive. They came to the hospital before Dodd died.