TV & VIDEO - June 10, 1988

Did he or didn’t he? CBS is denying that the cartoon character Mighty Mouse snorted cocaine in a cartoon shown last April, but the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, longtime TV industry critic and head of the American Family Assn. in Tupelo, Miss., said the super-rodent did indeed use cocaine. The controversy involves an episode of “Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures,” titled “The Littlest Tramp” and broadcast April 23. The Wildmon group said the episode showed Mighty Mouse inhaling a powder he draws from his cape, but George Dessart, CBS vice president for program practices, said what Mighty Mouse was shown sniffing was a bouquet given him by a “poor but industrious little flower seller.”