If you are a child of the 80’s and 90’s like I was, you remember watching such shows as Ducktales, Chip n’ Dale, Resue Rangers, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, Bonkers, Quack Pack, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Marsupilami, Gargoyles, and many more. If you are not familiar with the Disney Afternoon Shows, they were produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and aired between 1990 and 1997. The sad thing about these great shows is not all of them are available for purchase to have in your own home collection.

I recently got in contact with Jason Martin Schlierman, creator of the popular site Open Vault Disney. His mission is to petition Disney to release these great titles and others such as One Saturday Morning cartoons and the 1983-1997 Disney Channel Original Series shows.

SIGN HERE: Sign the Disney Afternoon Petition!

SIGN HERE: Sign the Disney Channel Original Series Petition!

SIGN HERE: Sign the One Saturday Morning Petition!

 
The Disney Afternoon shows, (All together, these 18 animated shows and 13 animated specials represent the original years of production at Walt Disney Television Animation.) including:

-Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985-1991) – Final 48 episodes
-Ducktales (1987-1990) – Final 25 episodes
-Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989-1990) – Final 14 episodes
-TaleSpin – (Region 2 & 4 Releases)
-Darkwing Duck (1991-1992) – Final 39 episodes
-Goof Troop (1992-1993) – Final 25 episodes
-Bonkers (1993-1994) – All 65 episodes
-Aladdin: The Series (1994-1996) – Proper volume sets for all 86 episodes
-Gargoyles (1994-1997) – The final 13 episodes
-The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (1995) – All 13 episodes
-The Lion King’s Timon and Pumbaa (1995-1999) – All 85 episodes
-Quack Pack (1996) – Proper volume sets for all 39 episodes
-Mighty Ducks (1996-1997) – All 26 episodes
-The Wuzzles (1985) – All 13 episodes
-Fluppy Dogs (1986)
-Sport Goofy in Soccer Mania (1987)
-DuckTales: The Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987) – The movie cut
-The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-1991) – All 50 episodes
-DuckTales: Time is Money (1989) – The movie cut
-Super DuckTales (1989) – The movie cut
-Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers: To the Rescue (1989) – The movie cut
-TaleSpin: Plunder and Lightning (1990) – The movie cut
-Darkwing Duck: Darkly Dawns the Duck (1991) – The movie cut
-Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991) – The tv special
-The Little Mermaid: The Series (1992-1994) – All 31 episodes
-Raw Toonage (1992) – All 12 episodes
-Marsupilami (1993) – All 13 episodes
-Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken (1994) – The movie cut
-Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996) – The tv special original version
-Mighty Ducks: The Movie (1996) – The movie cut
-A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998) – The tv special original version
 

Some good news that not everyone knows of, is that the Disney Movie Club has released some never before released on DVD sets such as Goof Troop box set 1 and 2, and the final episodes of Gargolyes and Talespin. Be sure you pick these great titles up! http://www.disneymovieclub.go.com


Links to get involved:
http://www.openvaultdisney.com
http://www.facebook.com/OpenVaultDisney
http://www.facebook.com/DisneyAfternoonForever

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Lavalle Lee

Lavalle Lee

Lavalle Lee has been creating animated cartoons online since 1999/2000 for his website flashcartoons.org. Many cartoons on the site have gained viral video status reaching millions of viewers online. In 2009, Lavalle started learning hand drawn animation from Don Bluth in his animation classes, as well as attending his Masterclasses in Arizona. He has also personally studied animation and visual effects from Veteran Disney animators in Orlando, FL.

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His partnership with Don Bluth began when he championed the Dragon's Lair Indiegogo campaign as lead project manager, editor, voice actor and in-betweener. The campaign reached $730,000 dollars to produce a 7-minute pitch video. In 2017, Lavalle brought the idea of creating a school to Don Bluth, and Don Bluth University was born. After a decade of learning from Don Bluth and working together on multiple pitches and business ventures, Lavalle accepted the position as Vice President of Don Bluth's new company Don Bluth Studios.

6 Comments

  1. figment34786
    September 21, 2013 at 9:18 pm — Reply

    Anything to get these old shows released!

    I also hope they finally release all those MouseWorks shorts at some point too. Those were fantastic!!

    • September 21, 2013 at 10:00 pm — Reply

      Agreed! Mickey Mouse Works is one of the titles we list on our One Saturday Morning petition.

  2. frank
    September 29, 2013 at 9:29 pm — Reply

    i videotaped all of the Marsupilami episodes as well as the Bonkers shows. what i didn’t get was most of the Raw Toonage, nor most of the Shnookums and Meat shows. the local station didn’t carry the “Disney Afternoon” block, they aired each series as stand alones. the opening themes to the stand alones were a bit different than the block formatted shows. i noticed this when i taped the DA blocks from an affiliate 100 miles to the north of where i lived (thanks to an excellent UHF tv antenna).

    • December 11, 2013 at 11:59 pm — Reply

      I agree with Marsupilami. He was an awesome Disney character. I loved him and his gorilla pal, Maurice. Marsupilami is my favorite 90’s Disney character.

  3. Tom
    October 20, 2013 at 11:45 pm — Reply

    I’d like to point out Soccermania had already been released through things like the “Extreme Sports Fun” DVD, but I hold no objection.

  4. Matthew Poulin
    September 9, 2017 at 1:19 am — Reply

    I would like to see complete season sets of Timon and Pumbaa get released in the United States of America

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