The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

*The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
	File:TheNewAdventuresofWinniethePooh.jpg The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh title card
Created by	Walt Disney Television
Starring	Jim Cummings; Paul Winchell; John Fiedler; Peter Cullen; Ken Sansom; Nicholas Melody; Patricia Parris; Michael Gough; Hal Smith; Tim Hoskins
Country of origin	United States ; Japan (Animated)
No. of episodes	83 (List of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 10, 1988 –; December 14, 1991

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company, and inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Overview

The series first aired from 1988 to 1991 on ABC. Reruns continued to air on ABC until Fall 2002 and then went on to air on Disney Channel, airing until September 4, 2006 and will return on August 23, 2009 replacing Dave the Barbarian. It also aired on Toon Disney from the channel's launch in 1998 until 2004 (returning briefly in mid-2007). In the UK, the program continues to air daily on the Playhouse Disney channel.

Prior to this TV series

Prior to this TV series, Disney had produced four Pooh short films (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore), one film which combined the first three shorts (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) and a TV puppet show (Welcome to Pooh Corner).

New characters

In addition to the characters who had already been established in the above media (Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Christopher Robin and Gopher), the TV series introduces a plethora of new characters including Christopher Robin's mother *whose face was unseen à la Nanny of Muppet Babies), Owl's cousin Dexter, Kessie the Bluebird, Junior Heffalump (and his parents), Skippy the Sheepdog, Stan Woozle and Heff Heffalump.

In the television program, Christopher Robin speaks with a distinctly American accent, the first time since the first Pooh short Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. In all other previous shorts, he has an English accent.

Other appearances

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger were two of the cartoon characters featured in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

Additionally, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Gopher, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Christoper Robin were featured in House of Mouse and Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.

Darker moments

This is a darker Winnie the Pooh than the film or Welcome to Pooh Corner. It occasionally has moments of peril, such as Piglet being caught alone in a thunderstorm, as indicated in the intro. There is one episode where the characters go under Christopher Robin's bed and are attacked by anthtropomorphic crayons. The intro itself has a few scary moments.

Episodes

Season 1: 1988

Pooh Oughta Be in Pictures (Pilot)
Donkey for a Day / Friend in Deed
There's No Camp Like Home / Balloonatics
Find Her, Keep Her
The Piglet Who Would Be King
Cleanliness is Next to Impossible
The Great Honey Pot Robbery
Stripes / Monkey See, Monkey Do Better
Babysitter Blues
How Much is That Rabbit in the Window?
Gone with the Wind / Nothing But the Tooth
Paw and Order
Hunny for a Bunny / Trap as Trap Can
The Masked Offender / Things That Go Piglet in the Night
Luck Amok / Magic Earmuffs
The Wishing Bear

Season 2: 1989

King of the Beasties / The Rats Who Came to Dinner
My Hero / Owl Feathers
A Very, Very Large Animal / Fish Out of Water
Lights Out / Tigger's Shoes
The "New" Eeyore / Tigger, Private Ear
Party Poohper / The Old Switcheroo
Me and My Shadow / To Catch a Hiccup
Bubble Trouble / Ground Piglet Day
Rabbit Marks the Spot / Good-bye, Mr. Pooh
All's Well That Ends Wishing Well
Un-Valentine's Day
No Rabbit's a Fortress / The Monster Frankenpooh
Where Oh Where Has My Piglet Gone? / Up, Up and Awry
Eeyore's Tail Tale / Three Little Piglets
Prize Piglet / Fast Friends
Pooh Moon / Caws and Effect

Season 3: 1990

Oh, Bottle / Owl in the Family
Sham Pooh / Rock-a-Bye Pooh Bear
What's the Score, Pooh? / Tigger's House Guest
Rabbit Takes a Holiday / Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore
Pooh Skies
April Pooh / To Bee or Not to Bee
A Knight to Remember
Tigger is the Mother of Invention / The Bug Stops Here
Easy Come, Easy Gopher / Invasion of the Pooh Snatchers
Tigger Got Your Tongue? / A Bird in the Hand

Season 4: 1991

Sorry, Wrong Slusher
Grown, But Not Forgotten
A Pooh Day Afternoon
The Good, the Bad, and the Tigger
Home is Where the Home Is
Shovel, Shovel, Toil and Trouble / The Wise Have It All
Cloud, Cloud Go Away / To Dream the Impossible Scheme
Piglet's Poohetry / Owl's Well That Ends Well
Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (Series Finale) (December 14, 1991)

DVD Release

In 2006, five DVDs were released as part of the "Growing Up with Winnie-The-Pooh" series. Each DVD would feature 4 episodes, sometimes it would include a double-length episode. These DVDs were made targeted for preschoolers.

Trivia

In the episode Goodbye, Mr. Pooh, after pooh gets home, he finds Eeyore living in his home.
In the episode The Great Honey Pot Robbery!, Pooh invents something that's after breakfast and not quite lunch and called brunchfast.
In the 1991 Christmas special Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too, Pooh makes a fake Christmas tree on the wall.
In the episode Un-Valentine's Day, Rabbit makes a law for no more Valentine's Day and puts up a sign that says "No More Valentine's Day!".
In the episode Ground-Piglet Day, Groundhog Day has no groundhog, so they use Piglet as the groundhog.

External links

[1] (x j a h) The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on OpenStreetMap