1991


 * April 26 - Dinsoaurs, a co-production between Walt Disney Televsion and Jim Henson Production, premieres on ABC.


 * June 21 - The Rocketeer premieres in American movie theaters. The film is directd by Joe Johnston, who previously helmed Disney's smash hit ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, though this film has no sequels or spinoffs that the aforementioned film does.


 * September 7 - Darkwing Duck premieres in syndication on The Disney Afternoon and simultaneously begins running a different block of episodes on Saturday mornings on ABC. The animated superhero spoof features mostly new characters, though Launchpad McQuack (a character originally introduced for DuckTales) is a main character.


 * November 15 - Beauty and the Beast premieres in movie theaters in the United States. The film becomes one of Disney's most successful and acclaimed features, eventually earning the first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Picture for an animated movie.