The Disney Afternoon Block: A Nostalgic Deep Dive | Re-Cut

[@harleyhuskey]

Man, it seems like being a Disney kid in the early 90s was peak. I have watched quite a bit of these shows though. I love Darkwing Duck.

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

There was also a Disney Afternoon CD released the same year (1990) with music and the theme songs from the then 4 Disney Shows Duck Tales, Gummi Bears, Chip N' Dales Rescue Rangers and Talespin! Talespin also had a now rare promo only CD released with the score from the pilot movie!💽🦆🧸🐿

[@frankreads8618]

The best thing Gargoyles did was introduce a generation of kids to the magnificence that is Keith David. He has the best voice in the business!

[@melissacooper8724]

I remember watching The Disney Afternoon every day after school. I would be visiting Grandma, have some cookies for an after-school snack, and watch the cartoons.

[@olleselin]

I can't wait for the official artbook "The Disney Afternoon: The Making of a Television Renaissance" to be released!

[@Gabe-z8o]

When is that coming?? Sounds cool!

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

That book has been delayed countless times times , it was meant to be out when the DuckTales reboot was airing

[@drewcook1985]

Ducktales, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Mighty Ducks the animated series, Darkwing Duck, Talespin, and Bonkers are my favorites growing up, but Gargoyles is my all time favorite. I have met Keith David, the actor who plays Goliath and Spawn at a comic convention. Gargoyles has the best intro ever: “One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are Gargoyles!” -Goliath

[@johnwebb2442]

My favorite childhood shows.

[@veronicado1016]

Mine too.😊

[@joeherrera8826]

This is back when Disney was at their absolute best. To me Gargoyles was like the best thing they ever did.

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

Truer words were never spoken!

[@olleselin]

Yeah!

[@rodrickadamginsburg8960]

Good old days 😎🥰🤓

[@frankreads8618]

It's kinda surprising how well most of these show hold up after so much time. I remember really enjoying the Aladdin show back then, because it did a really great job of expanding on the fantasy world we saw in the movies. I always liked how it introduced a reoccurring villain who was essentially an evil version of Aladdin.

[@salamander337]

Duck tales, Tailspin, & Darkwing Duck had the best intro theme song ever.

[@sailorearth2007]

I grew up watching so many of these…memories…sadly many of the shows still haven’t been put on D+ and episodes are still edited

[@bluejedi723]

I loved disney afternoon.

[@bunnysb2587]

I used to love these shows as a kid. After the two hours after that I did my homework

[@seankidwell8208]

Too bad shows like Aladdin are not on Disney +

[@Jowilliams1749]

👍🏾👍🏾A Wave of Nostalgic Memories of our Youth.

[@sammylane21]

At 7:30, did he refer to Bushroot as a "femfatal"?? (I know I misspelled it). Bushroot is a male not female.

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

I remember The Disney Afternoon! I watched it every now and then. I remember when several of the shows that were on TDA were moved to the Disney Channel and aired on a block branded as Block Party during 1995 and 1996.

[@saccage]

I vaguely remember Disney Channel being one that you had to buy from your cable operator. I didn't get to experience it as often at home but at a babysitter's or my cousin's house I did; this video brings back a lot of memories that I DID get to experience. Thank you for uploading this!

[@LetsRunItBack]

You're welcome, I'm happy you enjoyed the video!

[@ladynikkie]

This is true nostalgia grew up watching each and every one of these cartoons depending on where you live some of them did are in the afternoon and the others aired on Saturday mornings like I said it depends on where you live.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

When you get a chance, please do the Warner Bros. afternoon block. Batman: The Animated Series is one of the most phenomenal cartoons of all time.

[@LetsRunItBack]

I plan to cover the Kids WB block someday hopefully soon. I did however cover Batman: The Animated Series in my Fox Kids video if you would like to see what I said about it there.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

You’re right, I was mixing up some things because in the early years Tiny Toons aired on Fox

[@frankreads8618]

Bonkers was originally going to be a continuation of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it was changed due to rights issues. The whole "real people and toons coexisting" thing is kinda lost when all of the characters, including the humans, are animated. But props for trying, I guess.

[@notthegreatestdetective]

this is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels, i love looking back at my favorite shows and hearing about one i never watched or even heard of

[@LetsRunItBack]

Thank you, I'm happy you're enjoying my videos!

[@teamsteed1]

Thank you for posting the video.

[@LetsRunItBack]

You're welcome!

[@chandlerharrison5061]

It sucks that Mickey Mouse never got his own Disney Afternoon show cause Mickey deserved to be in a lot of things in the 90's i wish Michael Eisner had realized that

[@chandlerharrison5061]

I agree with you 100 percent

[@bluejedi723]

I also remember ABC afterschool special. It was shown from 3-4 pm or 4-5 pm. An hour of very special episodes. The after school special covered everything from drugs to dating violence, shoplifting, AIDS, death, racism. Prime age range was school age kids/young tweens. Love to see your take on some of the memorable episodes and some of the stinkers.

[@LetsRunItBack]

I plan to cover that someday 😎

[@Gabe-z8o]

Loved the video, my favorite of the block was definitely chip n dale rescue rangers, but the whole block was def my childhood

[@LetsRunItBack]

I'm happy you enjoyed it 😎

[@MichaelN1994]

Childhood Memories from Disney!

[@averymerrick]

Why did the Disney Afternoon end? By August 1996 (owing to decreasing business in the syndicated children's television market (Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon) and the new networks (The WB and UPN) with having children's blocks of their own), *Buena Vista agreed with the Leo Burnett agency to market and distribute a revamped version of the block for the 1997-98 and 1998-99 television seasons.* Buena Vista established a partnership with Leo Burnett and Kellogg's-who had been a major sponsor of The Disney Afternoon-to purchase an amount of dedicated advertising inventory. *The new block did not carry any blanket branding, but was referred to internally as the "Disney-Kellogg Alliance."*

[@kerrygligorovic9758]

I wished my favourites past Disney animated series like The Gummie Bears, Darkwing Duck, Mighty Ducks, Wuzzles, Gargoyles, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, House of Mouse, Kim Possible and American Dragon Jake Long are onto a complete Blu- Ray (with the entire episodes)at last just like they did for Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and Tangled the animated series. Because some of the Disney films like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules for examples have their own animated series which is why I still think that the past Disney animated series deserved to be released onto Blu-Ray at last more than the Disney films.

[@keithtorgersen9664]

A couple of unresolved plot lines in Aladdin. Malcho the feathered serpent swore revenge on Aladdin but we never saw him again. The blind seer revealed to the audience that he and Mirage were once lovers and he implored Mirage in a monologue to come back to him. Genie and the female green genie were boyfriend/girlfriend but she only appeared in a few episodes and then was never mentioned again. Some people deride Dan Castellaneta for portraying Genie while he was also Homer Simpson, but he deserves a lot more credit than that, he truly was a great Genie next to Robin Williams. A minor correction, too: in Gargoyles, Demona wasn't an immortal sorceress per se, but she was another gargoyle who was Goliath's former lover, and she was bound to a curse with the man MacBeth and they weren't completely immortal as the curse would be broken if they killed each other.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I never missed that block

[@jamesstutz-c5o]

Love a lot of the cartoons in this lineup. I have Gummi Bears, Goof Troop and Chip n Dale. Wish they did a reboot of Goof Troop showing Max going through middle and high school. It all got skipped when I saw A Goofy Movie.

[@LetsRunItBack]

That could be a good way to reboot it, of they ever do.

[@fenrichvega6166]

I remember that one of the key reasons for this block failing near the end after it did so well, was the fact that the cartoons were losing ratings due to them just being either boring or really bad. Shoonkums and meat started it with how bad it was which led to that show being pulled quickly. And quack pack was the worst of all the shows. Nobody and I mean nobody liked that show when it aired. It was so garbage. Mighty ducks could of done well had it came out earlier like the early to mid 90s but at the time it did come out, people were tired of the whole duck stuff and wanted something different. Mind u this is all info I remember that circulated in the 00s to mid 2010s. Idk if any of this is said now a days, especially since u urself didnt mention this in the video. Great video nonetheless

[@LetsRunItBack]

Thank you, I didn't really like the later shows neither. None of them had the charm or quality as the earlier shows just like you said unfortunately.

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

You should have covered how big of a risk Gummi Bears was, the executives from competing studios like Hanna Barbera and Filmation mocked Disney for investing millions more into the animation for the show ( done by TMS who would later work on a majority of WB shows ) and told them they’d be out of the business in 2 years. They got the last laugh and shows started getting huge budgets thanks to it

[@LetsRunItBack]

Thanks for mentioning that, I will look into that and maybe make a video talking about just the creation of the block adding more details like that.

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@@LetsRunItBack Disney's Gummi Bears was also the longest running Disney cartoon! 1985-1991 Disney's Ducktales comes in at second place. Most other shows including Talespin only ran for one season!📺📼🤗👍

[@chrisrosadonyc]

darkwing duck based off dan akroyd and the boy and girl are the kids from my girl. can't convince me otherwise 😂

[@a.m.theshinyjohtohunter4287]

You gonna cover the history of Saturday mornings? Including Disney's (one with what they called the Master Control, some big computer and a host to operate it) And Disney's One Saturday Morning?

[@LetsRunItBack]

I did a short video on Saturday Morning Cartoons around when I 1st started the channel a few months ago. I will be remaking it eventually since I feel I have gotten a lot better at editing since then, and I want the remake video much longer so I go way more in detail about them. I plan to cover Disney's One Saturday Morning also. 😎

[@restionSerpentine]

I know I would rush home to watch gummie bear, ducktales, and Rescue rangers. Though Bushroot was not a fem fatale. He was not a lady, before his mutation he was Reginald Bushroot. Gargoyles was in my humble pinion the best of the block, Demona was not a sorceress

[@bradyanderson6311]

Most are demanded for ABC.

[@powerpup97]

Didn't you already upload this video?

[@LetsRunItBack]

It's a edited re-upload since the original video was copyrighted.

[@MrShortWhiteGuy]

I kind of disagree that the popularity of afternoon cartoons killed it as Pokemon and similar style cartoons took off in the early 2000s. Even though I see in your video that several Fox stations carried the Disney Afternoon, I think in most markets it was independent stations that aired it. In 1995, the WB and UPN bought a lot of TV stations and they seemed to have their own cartoon blocks. Some markets had network switches and the new Fox stations were showing talk shows instead of cartoons. By the late 90s, most markets didn't have a station that had time to air the Disney afternoon as I recall.

[@LetsRunItBack]

For my area I honestly forget what channel aired it. I believe it was ABC though. My Area has always had 2 different Fox affiliate channels so it could have been on the 2nd Fox channel, while Fox Kids aired on the other.

[@SogekingFirebirdStar]

Bushroot was a guy. Really not a femme fatale.

[@olleselin]

The Disney Afternoon was my childhood! So much nostalgia is kicking in! 🥲❤❤ My favourite ones are "DuckTales" and "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"