My Friends Tigger & Pooh

My Friends Tigger & Pooh
Format	Animated series
Created by	A. A. Milne (characters)
Starring	Chloë Moretz Dee Bradley Baker Jim Cummings Travis Oates Peter Cullen Ken Sansom Kyle Stanger Kath Soucie Max Burkholder
Opening theme	"My Friends Tigger and Pooh Theme Song" sung by Kay Hanley (Season 1) Chloë Moretz (Seasons 2-3)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	66 (including 3 films) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Disney Television Animation
Broadcast
Original channel	Playhouse Disney (2007–10) Disney Junior (2012–)
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV) 1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	May 12, 2007 – October 9, 2010

My Friends Tigger & Pooh is a 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 6-year-old red-haired girl named Darby and her dog Buster. Although Darby appears to be the main human friend of Pooh and the gang, Christopher Robin still appears sporadically.

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 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.

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 is no longer on the air, and was replaced with the original show Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

In the UK, My Friends Tigger & Pooh was cancelled in 2009.

Since February 14, 2011, after Playhouse Disney has been re-branded into Disney Junior, the official website is no longer online.

It it slated to return in February 2012 on the 24-hour channel for Disney Junior, along with some former series, like Bunnytown, Bear in the Big Blue House, Rolie Polie Olie, PB&J Otter, and JoJo's Circus.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

Main characters

• Chloë Moretz as Darby
• Dee Bradley Baker as Buster/Woodpecker
• Jim Cummings as Winnie-the-Pooh/Tigger/Beaver

Recurring characters

• Travis Oates as Piglet
• Peter Cullen as Eeyore
• Ken Sansom as Rabbit
• Kyle Stanger as Lumpy the Heffalump
• Kath Soucie as Kanga
• Max Burkholder as Roo

Minor characters

• Struan Erlenborn as Christopher Robin
• Tara Strong as Porcupine/Vixen/Holly
• Mark Hamill as Turtle
• Rob Paulsen as Raccoon
• James Arnold Taylor as Skunk
• Brenda Blethyn as Mama Heffalump
• Sydney Saylor as the Possums

Production crew

• Executive Producers - John Lasseter, Jeff Kline, Brian Hohlfeld
• Line Producer - Angi Dyste
• Director - David Hartman
• Director - Don MacKinnon
• Voice Director - Virginia McSwain
• Story Editors - Brian Hohlfeld, Dean Stefan, & 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

Main article: List of My Friends Tigger & Pooh episodes

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."

DVD releases

• Super Sleuth Christmas Movie - November 20, 2007

Super Sleuth Christmas Movie

Symphony for a Rabbit/Tigger Goes Snowflaky

• Friendly Tails - March 4, 2008

Darby, Solo Sleuth/Doggone Buster

Darby's Tail/Tigger's Delivery Service

Pooh-Rates of the Hundred Acre Wood/Tigger's Hiccup Pickup

• Hundred Acre Wood Haunt - September 2, 2008

Super-Sized Darby/Piglet's Lightning Fightening

Eeyore's Trip to the Moon/The Incredible Shrinking Roo

Eeyore's Home Sweet Home/Rabbit's Prized Pumpkin

• Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too - April 7, 2009

Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too

• Super Duper Super Slueths - April 6, 2010^[1]

Super Duper Super Slueths

Darby Gets Lemons, Makes Lemonade/Dancing with Darby

• Bedtime with Pooh - August 17, 2010

Pooh's Double Trouble/Eeyore Sleeps on It

Eeyore's Sad Day/Tigger's Bedtime for Bouncer

Buster's Bath/Once in a Pooh Moon

External links

• My Friends Tigger & Pooh at the Internet Movie Database
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh at TV.com
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh at TV.com
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh Review at KidsTVMovies.About.com

References

1. ^ http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/disney-my-friends-tigger-pooh-super-duper-super-sleuths.html

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