The very first Winnie the Pooh television series, the 1983 premiere of Welcome to Pooh Corner predates the premiere of the much more well-known and influential The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by approximately five years. Welcome to Pooh Corner was broadcast on Disney Channel as a full half-hour series before the addition of commercials to this network. The series has been largely forgotten by most fans of Pooh, due to having been removed from the air entirely in 1997 following the addition of commercial breaks to the Disney Channel and the scant availability of VHS releases (six were released in the U.S. and six in the U.K.), some of which retail on Amazon for as much as $100. Nevertheless, the series is fondly remembered by some fans.
The series presented the characters via both humans in costumes and puppetronics. The narrator was Laurie Main. Hal Smith was the only regular Pooh performer to provide voices for any of the characters, voicing both Pooh and Owl in the series.
Voice Characters cast
- Hal Smith - Winnie-the-Pooh and Owl
- Will Ryan - Rabbit and Tigger
- Ron Gans - Eeyore
- Phil Baron - Piglet
- Diana Hale - Kanga
- Kim Christianson - Roo
TV Episodes
- Eeyore's Costume Party
- Rabbit Learns to Share
- Tigger Finds a Hobby
- Piglet's Slumber Party
- Holiday for Pooh Bear
- Handyman Tigger
- Doing What I Do Best
- Piglet Pride
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Almost Perfect Picnic
- You Need a Friend
- Pooh Builds a Bee House
- Brighten Your Corner
- Safety First
- Surprise, Surprise
- Roo's Great Adventure
- Snow Falls on Pooh Corner
- Pooh Learns to Remember
- Eeyore Joins the Band
- Carrots, Carrots and More Carrots
- The Pooh Scouts
- The Great Outdoors
- Hello, Hello There
- Pooh Makes a Trade
- A Bicycle Built for Five
- Wishing
- Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti
- Fine Feathered Friend
- Song of Eeyore
- Tale of a Tail
- It Must Be Summer
- The Iceboat Cometh
- Pooh Goes Boom
TV Special Episodes
- Christmas at Pooh Corner
- Too Smart for Strangers
- Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure
- Christmas is For Sharing
- Pooh Corner Thanksgiving
- Because it's Halloween
- Responsible Persons
- One and Only You
- Pooh's Funny Valentine's Day
TV Episode Songs
- Welcome to Pooh Corner Theme Song
- Try a Little Something New
- Just Say, 'Yes I Can'
- You're the Only You
- The One And Only One
- I Hum to Myself
- The Right Side
- Responsible Persons
- Be a Friend
- Please and Thank You
- Tiggers Go Up and Down
- Welcome to Pooh Corner Ending Theme