The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

**The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh** is a late 1980s American Saturday morning cartoon television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, which was inspired by A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

## Overview

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh first aired in 1988 on Disney Channel. The show moved to ABC in the fall of that same year. After production was over in 1991, reruns continued to air on ABC until September 4, 1993. In 1996, when Disney took over ABC's One Saturday Morning programming, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was brought back in reruns, in which it aired until One Saturday Morning became ABC Kids in 2002. The Disney Channel began airing the series on October 3, 1994, and continued to air until September 1, 2006. The show also aired on Playhouse Disney from 1999 to 2006, as well as on Toon Disney from the channel's launch in 1998 until 2008. In the UK, the program aired from 2000 to 2011 on Playhouse Disney.

The show was airing on the Disney Channel in Czech Republic (in the Disney Junior block), Germany, India (also in the Disney Junior block), Russia, and Turkey, as well as on Disney Junior in Turkey and Poland.

In 1989, this show was paired with Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and titled Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour.
In some countries outside of the US, notably Denmark, Poland, Russia, have aired this show on their versions of The Disney Afternoon (known as Disney Sjov in Denmark). It's one of the various shows not to air on the Disney Afternoon block in the US but has aired in Disney Afternoon blocks in other countries.

The complete series is available on Disney+, remastered in high-definition but retaining the program's original 4:3 aspect ratio. The high-definition remaster was previously made available in some non-U.S. markets prior to the Disney+ release.

## Cast and characters

* Pooh (voiced by Jim Cummings)
* Piglet (voiced by John Fiedler)
* Tigger (voiced by Paul Winchell in seasons 1 and 2 (except in King of the Beasties episode in season 1), 3 episodes of Season 3 and later returns in Christmas Too, and later Jim Cummings in the episode King of the Beasties in seasons 1, 3, (except in Oh, Bottle, What's the Score, Pooh? and Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore episodes in season 3) and 4 (except in Christmas Too)
* Kanga (voiced by Patricia Parris)
* Roo (voiced by Nicholas Melody)
* Rabbit (voiced by Ken Sansom)
* Eeyore (voiced by Peter Cullen)
* Owl (voiced by Hal Smith)
* Gopher (voiced by Michael Gough)
* Christopher Robin (voiced by Tim Hoskins, later Edan Gross in Christmas Too in 1991)

### New characters

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

In the television program, Christopher Robin speaks with a distinctly American accent, for the first time since the Pooh short Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. In the more recent shorts, he had a British accent.

## List of episodes and videography

### List of episodes

*Main article: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode list*

## Trivia

* Early seasons have the original intro with a synthesized theme song and later seasons have the intro with different clips and a calypso version of the theme song. The opening credits consisted of clips from various episodes.
* Most of the series takes place in the Hundred Acre Wood.
* This is the last *Winnie the Pooh* media with the involvement of Hal Smith (who voiced Owl since the character's debut in *Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree*) before his eventual death in 1994.
* This marks the debut of Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, and Michael Gough providing the voices of Pooh (and Tigger in some episodes), Rabbit, Eeyore, and Gopher respectively.
* This is so far the only Pooh series where Christopher Robin is a regularly-recurring character. He was absent in the previous Pooh series, *Welcome to Pooh Corner* (though he was mentioned in the special, *Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure*) and only made either small or rare appearances in *The Book of Pooh* and *My Friends Tigger and Pooh*.
* This is the first animated television series to be based on a Disney animated feature.
* This is the first animated TV series in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and the first Winnie the Pooh TV series to have a videography.
* This TV series has 2 ending themes. One of them is semi-instrumental version of Pooh Bear while the other is orchestral-instrumental version of the same song.
* Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are the only characters to appear in every episode of the series. Besides them, Tigger is the only character to appear in every episode from the second and fourth seasons and Rabbit in the second and third seasons.