The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was an American Saturday morning cartoon television series produced by The Walt Disney Company, which was inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories for children and people of all ages.

Overview
The series first aired from 1988 to 1991 on ABC. After production was over, reruns continued to air until January 23, 1993. In 1997, when Disney's One Saturday Morning was introduced on ABC, 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 until September 1, 2006. Playhouse Disney then began airing the series from (1999-2006). It also aired on Toon Disney from the channel's launch in 1998 until 2004 (returning briefly in early 2007). In the UK, the program continues to air daily on the Playhouse Disney channel.

Prior to the TV series
Prior to the 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).

Characters
Main characters


 * Pooh (Jim Cummings)
 * Piglet (John Fiedler)
 * Tigger (Paul Winchell, later Jim Cummings)
 * Rabbit (Ken Sansom)
 * Eeyore (Peter Cullen)
 * Gopher (Michael Gough)

Secondary characters


 * Kanga
 * Roo
 * Owl
 * Kessie

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, 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.