The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh |
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| Background Information | |
| Genre |
Children's television series |
| Starring |
Jim Cummings |
| Opening theme |
"Pooh Bear" (The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Theme Song)" sung by Steve Wood |
| Composer |
Steve Nelson |
| Country of Origin |
United States |
| Language |
American English |
| Seasons |
4 |
| Episodes |
50 (82 segments) |
| Production | |
| Running time |
22 minutes |
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| Broadcast | |
| Series run |
January 17, 1988 - October 26, 1991 |
| Network |
The Disney Channel (1988, 13 episodes) |
| Status |
Ended |
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American animated cartoon TV series produced by Disney that aired from 1988 to 1991. The series follows Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends throughout their adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Characters[]
- Winnie the Pooh (Voiced by Jim Cummings (Soft Anglicized American with a Soft Anglicized American accent))
- Tigger (Voiced by Paul Winchell in most of Seasons 1 and 2, as well as "Oh, Bottle", "What's the Score, Pooh?", "Eeyi Eeyi Eeyore" and Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too; Jim Cummings in "King of the Beasties", some lines in "Things That Go Piglet in the Night", "My Hero" and "The "New" Eeyore" and the rest of Seasons 3 and 4.)
- Eeyore (Voiced by Peter Cullen)
- Piglet (Voiced by John Fiedler)
- Rabbit (Voiced by Ken Sansom)
- Kanga (Voiced by Patricia Parris (Australian with an Australian accent))
- Roo (Voiced by Nicholas Melody (Australian with an Australian accent))
- Owl (Voiced by Hal Smith (Strong Southern English with a Strong Southern English accent))
- Gopher (Voiced by Michael Gough)
- Christopher Robin (Voiced by Tim Hoskins, later Edan Gross in Christmas Too)
Episodes[]
Special episodes[]
- Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (Christmas) - 1991
- Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (Halloween) - 1996
- A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving) - 1998
- Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (Valentine's Day) - 1999
- Winnie the Pooh: The Seasons of Giving (Christmas) - 1999
- Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (New Year) - 2002
Videography[]
Theme Song[]
See: Pooh Bear
The program's theme song was written by Steve Nelson and Thom Sharp. It was generally aired at the beginning of most episodes, but was replaced by other music or songs on some video releases.
Lyrics[]
Gotta get up, I gotta get going
I’m gonna see a friend of mine
He’s round and he’s fuzzy
I love him because he’s just
Pooh Bear, Winnie the Pooh Bear
Lookin' for fun, chasing some honey bees
Pooh bear, I know he's out there,
rumbly tumbly, climb in a honey tree
Fun never ends for us, we're so adventurous
at least every now and again
and when we're alone and there's nobody home
it's nice to be able to count on a friend like
Pooh bear Winnie the Pooh bear
wherever you go, oh won't you take me please
pooh bear I gotta be there
It's me and it's you
my silly ol' Winnie the pooh.
Trivia[]
- This marks the first of several things:
- The first fully animated Winnie the Pooh television series.
- The first Winnie the Pooh series to feature Christopher Robin.
- The first Winnie the Pooh series to have a videography.
- The debuts of Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen and Michael Gough as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Rabbit, Eeyore and Gopher in Winnie the Pooh franchise.
- John Fiedler's first role as Piglet in a Winnie the Pooh television series.
- The first appearance of Tigger's House.
- The debut of Kessie in the Winnie the Pooh franchise.
- The first series that does not take place in a book and or feature the characters interacting with the narrator.
- The first series to feature real heffalumps.
- This series has two 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 appears in every episode from the second and fourth seasons and Rabbit in the second and third seasons.
- This is the only Winnie the Pooh television series of several things:
- The only series to feature Winnie the Pooh's full name in the title.
- The only series where Christopher Robin is a main character.
- The only series where Gopher appears and is a main character.
- The only series where Paul Winchell, Tim Hoskins, Patricia Parris and Nicholas Melody voice Tigger, Christopher Robin, Kanga and Roo respectively.
- The only series with real antagonists and villains.
- The only series to feature real woozles.
- This marks the last involvement of Hal Smith in a piece of Winnie the Pooh media, who voiced Owl since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and passed away in 1994. Following his death, Andre Stojka would take over the role of Owl and Paul Winchell and John Fiedler would be the last 2 active members of the original Winnie the Pooh cast.
