A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
Screenshot of the dinner scene
Directed by	Jun Falkenstein
Distributed by	Walt Disney Television Studios
Release date(s)	November 22, 1998
Running time	22 Minutes

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving is a 1998 made-for-TV special featuring the voice talents of Jim Cummings, Paul Winchell, and John Fiedler. The movie shows Pooh and his friends learning the true meaning of Thanksgiving. It was nominated for Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Broadcast
4 Home video
5 References
6 External links

Plot

It's Thanksgiving time in the Hundred Acre Wood and Winnie the Pooh and his friends bring food for the big dinner. Piglet brings haycorns(acorns), Pooh brings honey, Owl brings biscuits, and Tigger brings ice cream. But things change when Rabbit informs them that Thanksgiving is a special time of year that should include things special items, so Pooh and the gang set off to find those very items.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Cast

Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh / Tigger (singing voice)
John Fiedler as Piglet (voice)
Paul Winchell as Tigger (speaking voice)
Peter Cullen as Eeyore (voice)
Ken Sansom as Rabbit (voice)
Andre Stojka as Owl (voice)
Michael Gough as Gopher (voice)
Tim Hoskins as Christopher Robin (voice)

Broadcast

The movie originally aired Thanksgiving Day 1998 at 8 pm on ABC.^[5] It reaired every year on Thanksgiving for several years afterward; however, it has not been aired since 2003. According to TVTango.com's ratings database, the first airing brought in a 3.8 household rating.

Home video

The video has not been released by itself in the United States, with the exception of specially released tapes that were given to members of the Academy Awards for that year's show. It was released as part of the VHS tape Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving along with episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1999.

Further information: Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving

References

^ 1999 Primetime Emmy Awards from IMDB
^ New York Times Review (1998)
^ Spreier, Jeanne (November 22, 1998). "Pooh serves Thanksgiving dessert" (Fee required). Dallas Morning News. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3DB10F8558B41&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
^ Langdale, Joss (November 24, 1998). "Pooh and friends make Thanksgiving special" (Scanned image). Walker County Messenger. Georgia: Calhoun Times. pp. 1, 2. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xd4HAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tjwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6861,6986617&dq=a+winnie+the+pooh+thanksgiving. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
^ King, Susan (Nov 26, 1998). "Weekend TV; Parades, Specials Put Viewers on the Holiday Bandwagon" (Fee required). Los Angeles Times. p. 65. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/36303698.html?dids=36303698:36303698&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+26%2C+1998&author=SUSAN+KING&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Weekend+TV%3B+Parades%2C+Specials+Put+Viewers+on+the+Holiday+Bandwagon&pqatl=google. Retrieved May 22, 2009. "'Tis the weekend for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a new Winnie the Pooh special, the Hollywood Christmas Parade and several ice skating specials."

External links

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving at the Internet Movie Database
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving on tv.yahoo.com

Winnie-the-Pooh

Books	When We Were Very Young (1924) Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Now We Are Six (1927) The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (2009)

Characters	Winnie-the-Pooh Piglet Tigger Christopher Robin Rabbit Eeyore Kanga Roo Owl Gopher Heffalumps Woozles Other characters

Featurettes	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983)

Short films	Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons (1981)

Feature films	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) The Tigger Movie (2000) Piglet's Big Movie (2003) Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Direct-to-video films	Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) Seasons of Giving (1999) The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001) A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) Springtime with Roo (2004) Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) Super Sleuth Christmas Movie (2007) Tigger and Pooh and a Musical Too (2009)

Television	Welcome to Pooh Corner (1983–86) The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988–91) The Book of Pooh (2001–03) My Friends Tigger & Pooh (2007–10)

Specials	Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991) Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996) A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998) A Valentine for You (1999)

Video games	Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (1986) Tigger's Honey Hunt (2000) Pooh's Party Games (2001) Piglet's Big Game (2003) Winnie the Pooh's Rumbly Tumbly Adventure (2005) Disney Friends (2007) Ready to Read with Pooh

Songs	"Winnie the Pooh" (1966) "Up, Down and Touch the Ground" (1966) "Rumbly in My Tumbly" (1966) "Little Black Rain Cloud" (1966) "Mind Over Matter" (1966) "A Rather Blustery Day" (1968) "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" (1968) "Heffalumps and Woozles" (1968) "When the Rain Rain Rain Came Down" (1968) "Hip Hip Pooh-Ray!" (1968) "Tudo Passará" (1969) "House at Pooh Corner" (1970) "I Hum to Myself" (1983) "Just Say, 'Yes I Can'" (1983) "The Right Side" (1983) "You're the Only You" (1983) "Try a Little Something New" (1983) "Wherever You Are" (1997) "Ev'ry Season Has a Reason" (1999) "Someone Like Me" (2000) "Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce" (2000) "Pooh's Lullabee" (2000) "How to Be a Tigger" (2000) "Round My Family Tree" (2000) "Your Heart Will Lead You Home" (2000)

People	A. A. Milne Christopher Robin Milne E. H. Shepard Sherman Brothers Jim Cummings Peter Dennis Walt Disney Sterling Holloway Paul Winchell Yevgeny Leonov Shirley Slesinger Lasswell Stephen Slesinger David Benedictus Mark Burgess

Related articles	Disney's Winnie the Pooh Ashdown Forest Bother! The Brain of Pooh Hundred Acre Wood The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh attraction Methuen & Co. Ltd. More Songs from Pooh Corner Pooh's Hunny Hunt Poohsticks Return to Pooh Corner The Tao of Pooh The Te of Piglet Winnipeg the Bear

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