Lights Out

Rabbit is mad. He bashes on Pooh's door, to get his shovel back. He needs it to plant his carrots at the stroke of twelve so they will grow up to become midnight snacks. He gets the shovel amongst a closet full of stuff. Rabbit trips when he's planting his carrots in the dark and borrows Gopher's light helmet so he can see to plant his midnight snacks... In the morning, Gopher thinks he's been robbed. He's embarrassed to admit he's scared of the dark. Tigger makes it worse by suggesting that there may be Jagulars, Woozles and Heffalumps living down there. Pooh thinks he may have lost Gopher's helmet. Rabbit runs off ti get it and realizes he buried it. Pooh wants to go down to down into the tunnel with a candle to find Gopher's helmet which he can't remember taking Gopher's helmet or losing it, because if he did remember, it wouldn't be lost. Now which way would a lost helmet go? Gopher and Piglet are freaking out. Rabbit, Tigger and Eeyore go down to help Pooh in the d... dark... They gang get frightened by each other. Piglet decides to go down and so does Gopher. Terribbible... lost in the dark gazillions of miles away. Rabbit confessed and Pooh says it's all right- he's feel bad in the helmet lost itself. They find their way to Rabbit's house. Rabbit tells Gopher and finds the helmet under his pillow. Gopher says he's not afraid of the dark, however poor Piglet is! Rabbit doesn't want Pooh to borrow his honey after all the kerfuffle, so he gives it to him.

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

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.