Thursday, January 12, 2012

Day 5 - What was your favorite show from the 90s Disney Channel?

Now we're getting into the fun part!!!

Movies:
Chips, The War Dog
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Airborne (I hate to admit it, but I'll still watch this if I catch it on TV.  I had a thing for Shane McDermott)
The Whipping Boy (based on one of my all-time favorite books, The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman)
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
The Thirteenth Year
Smart House
Johnny Tsunami
Genius

Series:
I watched all of the following:
Flash Forward
Bug Juice
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Jersey
So Weird
The Mickey Mouse Club
Jeff Corwin show
Spellbinder
Ocean Girl
Ready or Not
The Torkelsons
DuckTales
Good Morning, Mickey!
The Ink and Paint Club
Gummi Bears
The Adventure of Rin Tin Tin
Aladdin
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Donald's Quack Attack
Mickey's Mouse Tracks
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
TaleSpin
The Magical World of Disney/Walt Disney Presents
Eerie, Indiana
Danger Bay

But my two absolute favorites during the 1990s were Mousterpiece Theater and Avonlea.

Mousterpiece Theater was a parody of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre.  Hosted by George Plimpton, who background information on each part, the show featured classic Disney cartoons.  The show ran in the evenings, as it was geared toward older cartoon enthusiasts, as opposed to children.  I still have strong memories of sitting in my livingroon after the sun had gone down, and settling in for an evening with George and Mickey.


Avonlea (or Road to Avonlea) was a Canadian series produced in association with the Disney Channel, based on a series of books by L.M. Montgomery.  Set in the fictional town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, the show focused on the King family and those they interacted with.  The show had several characters from the original Anne of Green Gables movies (and was produced by the same company, Sullivan Entertainment), and took place after the character of Anne Shirley left PEI.  Like the Anne series, Avonlea was filmed in soft-focus, taught lessons without over-emphasizing them, and highlighted the innocence of life in the early 20th century, while still allowing the characters to discover their own independence and to be affected by the changing times.

As you can see, I was a Disney Channel girl!

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