The Book of Pooh (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2001-2004)
The Book of Pooh is a show that originally aired on Disney Channel's former Playhouse Disney programming block from 2001-2004. Despite the mass popularity of the Winnie the Pooh franchise, the show was considered one of the rarest Winnie the Pooh shows with 51 episodes produced and only 12 of them released on home video. Although the direct-to-video movie Stories From the Heart recycles three episodes, the order of the individual stories is switched around and differs from the actual episodes. Additionally, the original English versions of several songs have been released on compilation albums. But apart from these releases and the recordings of the very few people who taped the show when it was still on Playhouse Disney, the show floundered in obscurity until recently.
The entire series, save for one episode, had been recorded in German and was previously available for download. However, due to a change in policy for the site the episodes were uploaded to, the links no longer work, and the original uploader has yet to replace them.
When Disney+ launched in North America on November 12th, 2019, all 51 episodes of The Book of Pooh were included as part of the initial line-up of shows. [1] However, Disney+ used the original versions of the Season 1 episodes (with no recaps and an extended credits sequence), thus resulting in a few recaps that are still missing. Currently, the recaps for episodes 4, 9, 10, 20, 25, 26, 30, 37 and 47 appear to be lost.
Simply put, the whereabouts of The Book of Pooh are unusually confusing and elusive for a Disney show.
VHS Compilations
Most VHS tapes have been found and uploaded to YouTube, by Tommy Sapphire, including "A Valentine for Eeyore", "Fun with Friends", "Fun with Make Believe","Fun with Manners", "Fun with Words", and "Just Say BOO". Another YouTuber, Phineas0And0Ferb, uploaded the special "Stories From the Heart".
A Japanese DVD of "The Wishing Tree" has also been found and ripped by a Wiki user KristoHam. However, the DVD only contained the Japanese language track, so the English version remained missing until it was uploaded to YouTube by another user.
Availability
A great number of episodes have been uploaded, by a Playhouse Disney fan channel and are featured down below.
In addition, another fan with multiple recordings of the show posted more of the episodes on Google Drive and Google Photos (including some from CDCB); these are also featured below.
On November 12th, 2019, Disney made the whole show available on its streaming service, Disney+, on its launch day.[2]
# | Episode Titles | Status |
---|---|---|
1 | Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh / Double Time | Found |
2 | Are You Me? / Rabbit's Happy Birthday Party | Found |
3 | Circumference = Pirate's 'Arrr' Squared / Pooh's to Do | Found |
4 | Pigletry / Dinosnores | Found (recap
missing) |
5 | My Gloomy Valentine / Mr. Narrator | Found |
6 | Whooo Dunnit / Biglet | Found |
7 | I Could Have Laughed All Night / X Spots the Mark | Found |
8 | I Came, I Sowed, I Conked It / I Get a Cake Out of You | Found |
9 | Vegetable of Contents / A Welcome to Beat the Band With | Found (recap missing) |
10 | Owl's Book / Tigger's Autobiography | Found (recap missing) |
11 | You Can Lead Eeyore to Books / The Spice of Life | Found |
12 | Mr. Narrator / Honey Glazed Hamlet | Found |
13 | Bee-Friended / The Nightmare | Found |
14 | A Win Who Won Situation / Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh | Found |
15 | Biglet / Home Very Sweet Home | Found |
16 | Don Pooh-Xote / Beastly Burden | Found |
17 | It's a Bird? Yes! / A Breezy Little Story | Found |
18 | The Small Wonders / Are You Me? | Found |
19 | Night of the Brussels Sprout / I Could Have Laughed All Night | Found |
20 | Kessie Wises Up / Eeyore's Tailiversary | Found (recap missing) |
21 | The Words Are Out / Brain Drain | Found |
22 | Pleas and Thank You's / The Rumor Millstone | Found |
23 | Busy as a Spelling Bee / Up in the Air Junior Bird Donkey | Found |
24 | Tigger's Replacement / Over the Hill | Found |
25 | Take Me to What River? / My Gloomy Valentine | Found (recap missing) |
26 | Greenhorn with a Green Thumb / Night of the Waking Tigger | Found (recap missing) |
27 | The Wood Without Pooh / Friends of a Different Stripe | Found |
28 | Mothers of Invention / Once Upon a Happy Ending | Found |
29 | Piglet's Perfect Party / A Wood Divided | Found |
30 | Day of the Knights / Come as Eeyore | Found (recap missing) |
31 | Bravehat / Scaredy Cat | Found |
32 | On a Clear Day You Can Bounce Forever / The Best Day Ever | Found |
33 | Roo Sticks / The Hundred Acre Scrapbook | Found |
34 | Where the Heffalumps Roam / And a Good Time Was Had By All | Found |
35 | What's News, Tigger Cat? / Pooh's 24 Hour Bug | Found |
36 | Blue Ribbon Bunny / Under the Pig Top | Found |
37 | The Best Laid Planets / Happy Harvest Hare | Found |
38 | Bounce of a Lifetime / Hare and Share Alike | Found |
39 | The Terrific Talking Tomato / Kessie Flies for a Spell | Found |
40 | The Book of Boo | Found |
41 | Kessie Gets the Message / Map of the Wood | Found |
42 | The Stickiest Glue of All / A Smackeral in Every Pot | Found |
43 | Do the Roo / Buck-a-Roo | Found |
44 | Could it Be Magic? / Diary of a Mad Gardener | Found |
45 | I Was King of the Heffalumps / Tigger's Club | Found |
46 | Chez Piglet / Pandora's Suggestion Box | Found |
47 | Enter Braying / Weather or Not | Found |
48 | The Case of the Disappeared Donkey / The Littlest Dinosnore | Found |
49 | Piglet's Inadvertent Adventure / Power of the Pencil | Found |
50 | The Wishing Tree | Found |
51 | The Great Honey Pot / Paging Piglet | Found |
Gallery
Behind the Scenes
See Also
Winnie the Pooh
- Disney's Learning Adventures: Winnie the Pooh: "Good Day, Good Night" and "Time to Rhyme" (partially lost cancelled episodes of educational DVD series; 2006)
- My Friends Tigger & Pooh (partially found test pilots of Playhouse Disney CGI animated series; 2005/2006)
- Welcome to Pooh Corner (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1983-1986)
Disney Channel
- 101 Dalmatians: The Series (partially found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series based on animated film; 1996)
- The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (partially found revival of Disney variety TV series; 1989-1994)
- Amazing Animals (found Disney Channel educational animated series; 1996-1999)
- Amphibiland (found pitch pilot of "Amphibia" Disney Channel animated series; 2018)
- Arwin! (partially found pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" Disney Channel sitcom; 2007)
- Bonkers "Fall Apart Bomb Squad" (found episode of Disney Channel animated series; 1993)
- Country Club (partially lost test pilot of "Big City Greens" Disney Channel adventure-comedy animated series; 2015)
- Disney Channel Interactive (lost Dish Network game channel; late 2000s)
- Disney Channel "Disney's One Too" (partially lost "Recess" gags of TV channel block; 1999-2003)
- Disney Channel "Wand Idents" (partially found bumpers from TV channel; 2003-present)
- Disney's Coyote Tales (found Disney Channel extended version of "The Coyote's Lament" animated short; 1991)
- Disney's Doug (found episodes of animated TV series; 1996-1999)
- Dreamfinders (unproduced Disney Channel series based on "Journey Into Imagination" Epcot ride; 1983)
- Dumbo's Circus (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1985-1986)
- Fish Hooks (partially found test pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2009)
- Going Wild with Jeff Corwin (partially found Disney Channel documentary series; 1997-1999)
- Gravity Falls (found Comic Con 2012 promo of Disney Channel animated mystery comedy series; 2012)
- Gravity Falls (found pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated mystery comedy series; 2010)
- Hannah Montana (lost production material of cancelled anime adaptation of Disney Channel teen sitcom; 2009-2010)
- Herbie the Lovebug (lost Disney Channel animated pilot; late 1990s-2000s)
- The Jersey (partially lost Disney Channel sports-themed comedy series; 1999-2004)
- J.O.N.A.S. (partially found original pilot of "Jonas" Disney Channel comedy series; 2007)
- Katbot (partially found unreleased Disney Channel animated series; 2005)
- Lizzie McGuire "Season 3" (lost production material of cancelled season of Disney Channel comedy series; 2020)
- Minnie Takes Care of Pluto (found Mickey Mouse Works animated short; 2000)
- Mousercise (partially found Disney Channel exercise series; 1983-1996)
- Mouseterpiece Theater (partially found Disney Channel cartoon compilation series; 1983-1990)
- The Owl House (found test animation of Disney Channel animated series; 2017)
- Pepper Ann (found Disney animated TV series; 1997-2000)
- Pepper Ann (partially found Nickelodeon pitch pilot of Disney animated series; 1996)
- Phineas and Ferb "Delivery of Destiny" (partially found Simon Pegg version of Disney Channel animated series episode; 2013)
- Phineas and Ferb: Spot the Diff (found Disney Channel animated special; 2008)
- The Proud Family (partially found Nickelodeon pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated sitcom; 1999)
- Recess "The Break In" (partially found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series; 1996)
- Shooting Star Milkshake Bar (found full version of "Phineas and Ferb" song; 2008)
- Star and the Forces of Evil (found pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2011)
- Talespin (lost Phil Harris audio recordings from Disney Channel animated series; 1990)
- Teen Angel (partially found Disney Channel serial drama; 1989)
- What's Stevie Thinking? (lost pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "Lizzie McGuire" Disney Channel comedy series; 2005)
Playhouse Disney
- Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos (found Playhouse Disney animated short series; 2004-2007)
- Bear in the Big Blue House (found unaired pilot of Disney Channel puppet series; 1997)
- Bear in the Big Blue House (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 1997-2006)
- Breakfast with Bear (partially found spin-off of "Bear in the Big Blue House" Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2005-2006)
- Handy Manny (partially found DKP Studios pilot of Playhouse Disney CGI animated series; 2005)
- Imagination Movers (found pitch pilot of Playhouse Disney series based on children's music group; 2006)
- JoJo's Circus (partially lost Playhouse Disney stop-motion animated series; 2003-2007)
- Little Einsteins (partially found British dub of Playhouse Disney animated series; 2005-2010)
- Little Einstein (partially found pitch pilots of Playhouse Disney animated series; 2003-2004)
- Out of the Box (partially lost Playhouse Disney children's series; 1998-2004)
- PB&J Otter (found original credits sequences of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1998-2000)
- Playhouse Disney UK (partially found interstitial material of TV channel block; 1999-2006)
- Stanley (found pitch pilot of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1999)
Disney Junior
- Beverly Hills Chihuahuas (found pitch pilot of cancelled Disney Junior animated adaptation of film series; 2012)
- Jake's Team Pirate (found pitch pilot of "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" Disney Junior animated series; 2009)
- Jungle Junction (lost pitch pilots of Disney Junior CGI animated series; 2003-2008)
Toon Disney
- Teamo Supremo (partially lost Toon Disney animated series; 2002-2004)
- Toon News (partially found Toon Disney CGI animated interstitial series; 2004/2005)
Disney XD
- The 7D (found pitch pilot of Disney XD animated series; 2012)
- Billion Dollar Freshmen (lost pitch pilot of "Lab Rats" Disney XD live-action comedy series; 2010)
- Commando Crash (lost pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "Crash & Bernstein" Disney XD sitcom; 2014)
- DXP (partially lost Disney XD video game block; 2017)
- Power Rangers Animated Series (lost Disney XD pilot of animated adaptation of live-action superhero series; existence unconfirmed; 2007-2009)
- Very Important House (found Disney XD animated pitch pilot; 2016)
Other
- Green Monkeys (lost Disney animated pitch pilot; 1999)
- Kingdom Hearts (found animatic of cancelled Disney animated TV adaptation of game series; 2003)
- La Chambre Folle (lost French Disney children's TV block; 1998)
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (found English dub of anime series; 2015)
- The Mouse Factory (found Disney live-action/animated TV series; 1972-1973)
- Robodz (partially found Disney Toei animated TV series; 2008)
- The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (found episodes of Disney animated TV series; 1995)
- X-Heart (partially found unreleased English dub of "X-Coração" Brazilian animated TV series; 2014)