My Friends Tigger & Pooh is an American computer animated television series, inspired by Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne. The television series features Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, including two new characters: a brave 6-year-old red-headed girl named Darby and her dog Buster. Although Darby appears to be the main human friend of Pooh and the gang and the leader of the Super Sleuths, her older college-bound best friend Christopher Robin still appears in two episodes.
Developed by Walt Disney Television Animation, the show premiered on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block on May 12, 2007. The show's theme song was written by Jellyfish lead singer Andy Sturmer and is sung by former Letters to Cleo singer Kay Hanley. In Season 2, Chloë Grace Moretz as Darby (replacing Kay Hanley) sing the theme. Also, beginning with this series Travis Oates assumed the role of Piglet, taking over for John Fiedler, who had died in 2005, two years prior to the debut of the series. This was also the final Winnie The Pooh media to feature Ken Sansom as the voice of Rabbit and Peter Cullen as the voice of Eeyore, prior to Cullen's return as Eeyore in the Doc McStuffins special "Into the Hundred Acre Wood!"
On July 4, 2010, the show started airing outside of Playhouse Disney, while three new episodes aired in October as the series finale, and since February 14, 2011, after Playhouse Disney has been re-branded into Disney Junior, this show went on hiatus for five years until returning on September 12, 2016, for Pooh's 90th anniversary.
In July 2016, Disney Junior made available all episodes from the show, as well as several music videos and the special Super Duper Super Sleuths through its Watch Disney Junior app. Some music videos not made available on the website were instead released by Disney Junior through YouTube. While some content on the Watch Disney Junior service requires a sign-in through a cable/satellite service to watch, the episodes of My Friends Tigger & Pooh were for a time made freely available, in widescreen HD. While this was eventually discontinued, some episodes are made available freely on a rotating basis, with complete archives available to those who sign in using a provider.
The first two seasons of the program were made available on Disney+ at launch.
Executive Producers - John Lasseter, Jeff Kline, and Brian Hohlfeld
Line Producer - Angi Dyste
Director - David Hartman
Director - Don MacKinnon
Composer and Songwriter - Andy Sturmer
Voice Director - Virginia McSwain
Story Editors - Brian Hohlfeld, Dean Stefan, and Nicole Dubuc
Staff Writers - Brian Hohlfeld, Dean Stefan, Nicole Dubuc, Eileen Cabiling, Erika Grediaga, and Kim Beyer-Johnson
Editor - Jhoanne Reyes
Production Manager - Craig Simpson
Episodes
Season 1
When Disney Junior The Channel rebroadcast this season's episodes, The theme song kept the old version in, compared to seasons 2 & 3 & old Playhouse Disney Reruns.
The airdates provided are the North American airdates, some of the episode had aired earlier outside the US before being aired in the US ("Darby's Tooth and Nothin' But the Tooth" / "Snow Problem Roo" being prime example, having aired on Playhouse Disney Europe and Playhouse Disney Asia in October 2007, almost two months prior to its North American premiere).
Season 2
The actual theme song is not changed, however Chloë Grace Moretz as Darby (replacing Kay Hanley) is now singing the theme, and a few animation pieces in the song is changed because of this, as well as a new song played occasionally called "The Question Song". The new version of the theme song and opening credits have been retroactively added to the repeats of Season 1 episodes, although the wording of old song was not replaced in the program's closed-captioning track. However "The Question Song" sung by Chloë Grace Moretz replaces the thinking song in most of season 2's episodes. One of the episodes was broadcast in the UK before broadcast in the US.
Number
Title
Original Air Date
201
"Darby Goes Woozle Sleuthin'"/"How the Tigger Lost His Stripe"
"Darby Gets Lemons, Makes Lemonade"/"Dancing with Darby"
October 3, 2010
318
"Tigger a Yo-Yo"/"Pooh Loses His Shirt"
October 6, 2010
319
"Pooh's Honey of a Problem"/"Darby's Favorite Place"
October 9, 2010
Owl and Gopher
Owl and Gopher have not made any appearances in the series at all, although the Beaver in the series loosely resembles Gopher. Beaver is a cameo character from Walt Disney's classic, Lady and the Tramp. However, in the direct-to-DVD film Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too, when Beaver guesses the right password to go to Tigger's side of the Wood, Tigger disappointedly says "I miss Gopher."
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