My Hero

Piglet rips through the air whilst attached to a kite. Tigger is also screaming for help, thinking he's drowning. Piglet falls in on Tigger and Tigger proclaims Piglet an his k-night in shining armor. Tigger decides to become Piglet's servant. Piglet wakes up to an enormous break-feast in bed. However Piglet says he has to clean his house and Tigger says that's servant work, however Piglet isn't too thrilled with his servant. Piglet tried to escape, but Tigger washed him with the shirts. Piglet manages to escape to Pooh's place. He hides in Pooh's shirt. Pooh can't help giggling when Tigger bounces in, because Piglet is tickling him. Piglet tries to put himself in danger so Tigger can save him and they'll be even. The whole gang ends up saving each other. Eeyore is happy that someone bothered to save him. However Tigger is still Piglet' servant. Owl calls for a celebration for all this heroism. Piglet is bringing a huge hunny cake to the party. The bees come after him. Piglet really screams for help now! Tigger saves him and he doesn't have to be his servant anymore. Piglet is ecstatic, but when Tigger still offers to be his servant and Piglet runs off in terror.

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Rabbit, Gopher, Owl

For its second season, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was combined with Gummi Bears in the show Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour. The series returned to a stand-alone show in its third season.

Welcome to Pooh Corner...

Winnie the Pooh, prized playmate of human boy Christopher Robin, has also become one of the most beloved honey-eating, life-pondering cartoon bears of all time. Pooh lived in the Hundred Acre Woods along with Christopher Robin's other stuffed animals, who all had lives of their own with or without the boy.

Pooh's best friend was little Piglet, who was the worrier and the conscience of the two. They would often head over to the overly chatty Rabbit's for tea, usually with disastrous results (e.g. - Pooh got stuck in Rabbit's narrow doorway and had to sleep there overnight until the gang could push him out. Silly old bear...)

Wise old Owl and motherly Kanga were the mature ones of the group, while rambunctious little Roo and bouncy Tigger were clearly the more hyperactive members. The lisping Gopher was the sarcastic one, while Eeyore, a donkey who was constantly losing his tail, was easily the most depressed.

Pooh and company started off as characters in a series of 1920's children's books by British author A.A. Milne. In the mid-sixties, Walt Disney created a series of theatrical featurettes featuring the Milne creations (later packaged into the feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), and by 1970, the Pooh crew had a series of primetime TV specials. It wasn't until 1983 that the animals got their own series, with the characters played by actors in costumes on the Disney Channel's Welcome to Pooh Corner.

In 1988, the gang returned to cartoon format in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. After a year, the show was combined with Gummi Bears, then continued for three more years of new episodes (the last two as a stand-alone program... again!). This new Pooh made a few changes (most notably, Christopher Robin now spoke with an American accent), but the sweet-natured spirit of Milne's original remained intact. A hit with young Pooh fans, the show was also appreciated by older viewers, who rewarded The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh with two Emmy Awards for Best Children's Program.

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh left the air after the 1992-93 season, but the show returned later in the decade as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning lineup.