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->''"There's so much to do, getting ready just for you,''\\
''Everybody's busy, bringing you a Disney Afternoon!"''

A made-for-syndication [[UsefulNotes/BlockProgramming programming block]] featuring many of Creator/{{Disney}}'s original television shows that ran from [[TheNineties 1990 until 1999]], though some of the shows that aired in the line-up (like ''Gummi Bears'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'') aired between 1987 and 1989 and weren't included in the ''Disney Afternoon'' line-up until they were syndicated.[[note]]Prior to that, ''Gummi Bears'' was seen on NBC, then ABC's, Saturday-morning blocks, and ''Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers'' was on the Disney Channel (then a premium service)[[/note]]

The block was two hours long, consisting of four half-hour shows. The lineup changed after every season, adding a new show to the end of the line up while the first show would be bumped off. Eventually, the block was shortened to ninety minutes in 1997. While the block was a hit, it eventually became impractical when Disney began producing more shows than could be featured in a two-hour block. It ended in 1999, after a successful ten year run (though for the last two years, it didn't have a name besides the internal name "Disney-Kellogg Alliance", as Kellogg's would be a large sponsor), though it did receive a SpiritualSuccessor in the form of ''Disney's One Too'', which supplanted the remnants of this block and served as a spinoff to ''One Saturday Morning'', airing on Creator/{{UPN}} stations until 2003.

During its run it spawned an attraction at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]], a stage show at [[Ride/WaltDisneyWorld Mickey's Birthdayland/Starland]], a soundtrack (still available on iTunes), a comic book published by Creator/{{Marvel}}, and a series of [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames very good]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] video games developed by Creator/{{Capcom}} (who re-released them[[note]]''VideoGame/DuckTales'' and its sequel, ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' and its sequel, ''VideoGame/{{TaleSpin|Capcom}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Darkwing Duck|Capcom}}''[[/note]] for Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/XboxOne, and Platform/MicrosoftWindows in 2017 as ''The Disney Afternoon Collection''). It also had a major comic event in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine called ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod''. A couple of shows received revivals in comics: ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' had an [[ScrewedByTheNetwork all-too-short]] (and yet [[ScheduleSlip too long]]) comic by Creator/SlaveLaborGraphics, while Creator/KaBOOMComics introduced ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' elements in the long-running ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]]'' comics, then launched new series for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''; though these all ended when Disney bought out Creator/MarvelComics and cut ties with Creator/BoomStudios. In addition, the international shows "Saturday Disney" and "The Disney Club" used an instrumental version of the show's theme song from the late '90's to the early 2000's.

While not originally conceived as a shared universe, modern incarnations occasionally make references to each other.

See also Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids, Creator/DisneyChannel, Creator/ToonDisney, and Creator/DisneyXD for other Disney television properties.
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!!Shows featured on the block, in the order they were featured:

[[index]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears''
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''
* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow''
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa''
* ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack''
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries''
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries''
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Brand Spanking New Doug]]'' (a.k.a. ''Disney's Doug'')
* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries''
[[/index]]

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!!The block is associated with the following tropes:
* BookEnds: ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' was on both the first season and the last season of the block.
* BorderOccupyingDecorations: ''The Disney Afternoon Collection'' by Creator/{{Capcom}} puts the selected game's box art (with a specific color filter for each) in the background.
* CreditsPushback: Instead of each show having its own credits sequence, the block had a single uniform credit sequence, that would display the credits on the left side, and [[OnTheNext previews for the next day's episodes]] on the right.
* CrisisCrossover[=/=]CrossThrough: ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'', a five part story which ran in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The opening would often include a sneak peak of a character or series being included in the following year's lineup. For example, WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck and Gosalyn appeared in the first year opening a year before their show debuted. In the second year opening, Goofy made an appearance a year before ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' was added.
** Some of the commercial bumpers featured WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}} and the frog mascots of ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' before those shows debuted, but they were never actually part of ''The Disney Afternoon''.
* ExcitedKidsShowHost: Not usually, but in Canada, Edmonton station CITV (currently a [[Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork Global station]], not to be confused with [[Creator/{{CITV}} ITV's kids' programming brand]]) [[https://youtu.be/HX0_Mwl_JZ4 had a host in the form of]] weatherman Mike Sobel (whose segments replaced most of the Disney-supplied interstitials except for the intro); this version also only aired once a week, on Saturday afternoons, and since CITV was (and still is) a satellite-fed superstation, this version could be watched on cable and satellite across Canada. Sobel himself was a type 3 host, typically pretty mellow and not too excitable.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: The rule of thumb was that villains and law enforcement were allowed to carry realistic guns, but main characters were not. Heroes would instead use other methods of defending themselves, such as AbnormalAmmo (i.e. [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck Darkwing Duck's]] gas gun) or evasive tactics (i.e. [[WesternAnimation/{{TaleSpin}} Baloo's]] use of the AerialCanyonChase).
* FiveEpisodePilot: Most of the shows in the block were known for this, and the block itself may have been one of the biggest influences for this sort of thing in animation.
* MusicVideo: Disney created rap music videos to promote ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', which interspersed clips of their respective shows with live-action footage of kids dancing.
* NetworkRedHeadedStepchild: ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' due to its [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] nature, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow Schnookums and Meat]]'' because of its GrossoutShow nature.
** ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' might count as OldShame due to the sheer weirdness of its premise (though ''The Wuzzles'' still has it beaten on that record) and partially due to the legal issues surrounding the originally unauthorized use of King Louie. That said, it was ''also'' the first in the lot to have all of its episodes on DVD, and has a large fanbase.
* RecycledSoundtrack: Many of the shows, ''Rescue Rangers'' especially, tended to reuse music cues and sound effects for every episode (high-quality hand-drawn TV animation doesn't pay for itself).
* {{Revival}}: ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' eventually got comic books that picked up where their shows left off (after a TimeSkip in ''Darkwing Duck''[='s=] case, and after season two in ''Gargoyles''[='=] case, rendering season three CanonDiscontinuity almost entirely).
** And then ''[=DuckTales=]'' got a [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 reboot]] that has been heavily referencing and including characters from almost every other other Disney Afternoon show, to the point of fans calling it the "Disney Afternoon-iverse" and many hoping that it will lead to proper revivals of other shows.
** ''And'', following the footsteps of ''[=DuckTales=]'', ''Darkwing Duck'' is set to get its own reboot as a Creator/DisneyPlus Original. Though whether they'll be set in the same universe (especially since the ''Darkwing Duck'' reboot will be handled by Creator/SethRogen and Evan Goldberg's production company Point Grey Pictures) is unknown.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: As per usual for a ''Disney Afternoon'' cartoon.
* TransplantedCharacterFic: ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' and ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' take beloved Disney characters and transplant them into radically different new settings.
* TruncatedThemeTune: On the block, the opening sequences for each show would be cut from 60 seconds to approximately 45. This was accomplished by speeding up the theme song, cutting out the bridge, or rewriting the lyrics.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' pretty much took over the Creator/{{Marvel}} comic.
* VanillaEdition: Pretty much all the shows lucky enough to get a DVD release.
** And of those, most of them used the episode cuts aired on Toon Disney, which utterly ruins some of the shows.
*** Also created a KeepCirculatingTheTapes scenario, as the five episode movies that started off some of the series never made it to DVD in their full, uncut form. This isn't entirely surprising, as almost none of them even made it to VHS either. It also means, unless you see the version of "Plunder and Lightning" taped during its first, uncut broadcast, you also won't see the scene in which Rebecca sings "Home is Where the Heart Is," which exists on the soundtrack.
* VillainTeamUp: The ''Disney Afternoon Live!'' show contained one between [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Don Karnage]] and [[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers Fat Cat]].
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