Disney Afternoon

This is for discussing Disney Afternoon shows and anything related to them.

A blog dedicated to the behind the scenes aspects of Disey Afternoon. I don't know how this guy was able to get all this info but he did. Entire recordings of actors doing episodes of Gummi Bears and Duck Tales, auditions for Gurffi Gummi, song demos for A Goofy Movie, the original series promo for Tales Spin, and I found out that the name Darkwing Duck came from Alan Burnett (before he left for WB to work on Batman the Animated Series) as a winner in a naming contest.

This guy is trying to pulbish all of this in a book and is using both Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to fund it.

Great day in the morning...that's a lot of impressive stuff to have amassed.

Good news. The campaign was successful!

Other good news. Duck Tales, Tale Spin, and Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers are now on iTunes! Oh, and Jungle Cubs too.

P.S. They are missing one Duck Tales episode (the one where Donald is mistaken for a reincarnated pharaoh).

edited 6th Jun '16 11:39:45 AM by DS9guy

Awesome!! I'm assuming it costs though of course to download the episodes?

"That's a to-go order. See! It's already gone!!"

Does anybody wish that the Disney Afternoon shows were released on Netflix, or Hulu, or Amazon? I remember during the early 2000's I would stay up all night to watch reruns of these shows on Toon Disney, and then whenever You Tube isn't so protective on copyright, I'd watch the episodes on You Tube.

I think about that a lot with Netflix since I have that. Those cartoons would be big for both the kids and the adults who grew up with them if they were on streaming services.

edited 7th Jun '16 5:43:02 PM by diyedas

"That's a to-go order. See! It's already gone!!"

Does the One Saturday Morning / ABC Kids also count? That's what I remember from when I was little.

Speaking of streaming, I do wish that they had shows like House of Mouse or Recess on Netflix. But it seems we've got some stingy executives who just wouldn't bother with that.

We got both the Recess movie and some House of Mouse special, but not the shows from them which is a shame.

"That's a to-go order. See! It's already gone!!"

Yeah, most movies Disney'll trot out again and again, but most TV shows are considered disposable.

Did anyone ever see a Disney Afternoon live show at Walt Disney World? This is probably the one my family saw...

...But I just saw that there was an older version with Ducktales, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, and... Roger Rabbit?! And the Gummi Bears were included in this other musical show at the castle. Wow, they really hadn't perfected the Winnie-the-Pooh costume yet in the 1990s.

I am someone who likes to keep track of crew members who worked on my favorite cartoons, so I looked at the writers of Ducktales, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, and Goof Troop. Here were the names I could recognize:

• Fred Wolf. Supervising producer of the first 65 episodes of Ducktales. Went on to make his own studio and produce the first TMNT cartoon.

• Carl Barks. Aside from the Duck Tales episodes obviously based on his comics, he did actually write one episode for the cartoon as far as I can tell.

• Alan Burnett. He worked at Disney between his Hanna Barbara and Warner Brother years. Aside from coming up with Darkwing Duck's name, he also wrote episodes for Duck Tales (including the movie), Rescue Rangers, and Tale Spin.

• Rich Fogel. Wrote one episode each for Duck Tales and Goof Troop. Would later to go on to be one of the major DCAU writers.

• Jeffrey Scott. Wrote episodes for Duck Tales, Tale Spin, and Goof Troop. One of the most prolific cartoon writers.

• Bruce Talkington. Wrote for a ton of Disney shows including the 5 episode pilot of Ducktales. He was the visual inspiration◊ for Professor Nimnul on Rescue Rangers. His specialty seemed to be Winnie the Pooh because not only was he a story editor of the New Adventure of Winnie the Pooh but he also wrote a LOT of Pooh tie-in books for Disney during the 90s. Sadly, he died in 2000 at the age of 41.

• Buzz Dixon. Wrote one Rescue Rangers episode. His most notable credit was story editor of G.I. Joe.

• Tad Stone. Wrote a few Rescue Rangers and was basically the guy in charge of Darkwing Duck. He would go on to produce the TV versions of Aladdin and Hercules plus Buzz Lightyear of Star Command before leaving Disney to do other works.

• David Wise. Wrote a few Rescue Rangers episodes. He was most notable for writing some memorable Transformers episodes and being the story editor for the first TMNT cartoon.

• Linda Woolverton. Wrote one Rescue Rangers episode. She wrote for a lot of 80s cartoons before switching to movies with Beauty and the Beast in 1991.

• Don Rosa. Believe it or not, he wrote two episodes for Tale Spin.

• Doug Langdale. His first credit is a writer and a story editor for Darkwing Duck. I'm guessing Tad Stone saw this newbie's potential and shot him straight to the top. Doug would go on to have a prolific career including creating The Weekenders, one of the most subdued yet funniest kid's cartoon ever made.

edited 14th Jul '17 11:31:51 AM by DS9guy

To add to the writers for the Disney Afternoon

Greg Weisman, of course, did Gargoyles for Disney. Prior to Gargoyles, he was actually a production executive for Disney. Is known for his bad luck with cartoons he develops, with them only lasting two seasons (with Young Justice only now getting a third*).

• fingers crossed for Netflix being the broadcaster

"You can run, but you can't hide from the Buzzinator!"

Sooo, is anyone hoping the new DuckTales show will mark the beginning of a new Disney Afternoon-based Shared Universe thing?

Actually, Fred Wolf didn't go on to form his own animation company; he'd had his own animation company since the 60's. His partners were Jimmy Murakami (resulting in Murakami-Wolf) and later Charles Swenson (which resulted in Murakami-Wolf-Swenson). Swenson and Murakami left in 1992, which left the company as Fred Wolf Films. They were an animation company that was frequently contracted by larger studios to handle their nuts-and-bolts animation chores. They worked on loads of projects (one of their first being part of the original run of The Flintstones), among them being pretty much everything that would eventually comprise The Disney Afternoon.

Is Jimmy Murakami related to Glenn Murakami of Batman TAS and Teen Titans 2003 fame?

Not that I'm aware of. Jimmy Murakami had a pretty distinguished career, though. He directed an Oscar-nominated animated short in 1968, and would go on to direct the animated adaptations of Raymond Briggs's The Snowman and When the Wind Blows.

edited 3rd Apr '17 7:17:42 AM by Robbery

An Oral History of the Disney Afternoon.

I have to say the resources of what Barks had to do with Duck Tales are pretty inconsistent.

Some say he directly helped with the show in areas, others say he hated it and wanted no part in it, others say he liked it but didn't consider it his own take so still wanted no part in it, others say he barely said a word about it.

Don Rosa is at least still with us and recently set the record straight about his own opinion (the third one) but we might never know the truth about Barks.

Edited by Psi001 on Nov 4th 2018 at 11:06:48 AM

A Goof Troop reboot probably wouldn't be as good as the Duck Tales reboot but I'd love to see the reboot do an Amadeus parody

I can see it now: Goofy shouting "Petey! I confess! I Killed You! Petey forgive your assassin!"

Naturally Pete would be next door shouting "I'm not dead, you idiot"

The show largely focused on the relationship between Goofy and Max but I thought the best Goof Troop episodes focused on the Goofy-Pete relationship.

No, Mr. Bunker, "this here" is justice

I really want a Detective Mickey and Goofy series. And they could even incorporate Goof Troop stuff into it, with Max being either kid or in college during the show.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I posted this over in the main Disney/Pixar thread, and I think it'd fit over here too:

https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2018/04/19/chip-and-dale-art-becky-and-frank-disney/

No plans for a Rescue Rangers reboot that I'm aware of, but I think the artist here did a great job. Monty's the only one who looks radically different, but I think it still works.

Well, Michael Peraza, who was the art director on Ducktales has a story that, when he redesigned Scrooge's mansion for the show he put dollar signs on everything (like on the front gate), thinking it would be an emblematic "S" for Scrooge and also get across Scrooge's love of money. He was a bit leery about it when he showed the designs to Barks, but when he saw them Barks said "I wish I'd thought of that."

Peraza, as well as the show's head writers, all say that Barks was not directly involved in the show, though they were in contact with him and showed him their work during development. Barks apparently liked the first season, but didn't care for the rest of it, when they introduced Gizmo Duck and Bubba Duck.

Edited by Robbery on Dec 9th 2018 at 11:50:16 AM

@ amadeussyracuse

I dunno. As long as a Goof Troop reboot keeps the core theme of father-and-son legit (without trying to cynically deconstruct it and make jokes about the fallacies of classic characters), as well as not hype up the expectations of its episodes, it may well turn out to be better than the Ducktales reboot.

Well room for improvement, but at the very least Disney has a lot of the shows on Plus.

Not to mention Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck back again via Dynamite Comics.

Also Disney through Fantagraphics is letting a lot of their DA properties and even One Saturday Morning get a chance for reprints:

1. Disney Afternoon Adventures: Tale Spin - Flight of the Sky-Raker (Just came out)

https://www.amazon.com/TaleSpin-Flight-Sky-Raker-Afternoon-Adventures/dp/1683965701

2. Disney Afternoon Adventures: Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers - The Count Roquefort Case

https://www.amazon.com/Chip-Dale-Rescue-Rangers-Adventures/dp/1683967658/

3. Disney One Saturday Morning Adventures https://www.amazon.com/Disney-One-Saturday-Morning-Special/dp/1683966481/

Volume 1 of the DA stuff questiably was titled Darkwing Duck - Just Us Justice Ducks. It had an old comic adaptation of episode among other unadvertised comics that were a nice surprise (Gummi Bears and Bonkers).

But it's biggest claim to fame is reprinting the Chaos God stuff which was the crossover of sorts between Tale Spin, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troops Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16104243270A34144300