The Rise & Fall of The Disney Channel
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- Explore the untold history of The Disney Channel! From its origins in the 1970s, the channel’s near collapse in the 80s, the peak in the 90s & drastic changes into the 2000’s & Today.
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PRIMARY SOURCES:
The Disney Touch - Ron Grover
Prince of the Magic Kingdom - Joe Flower
www.infinitydish.com/blog/his...
TDC Opening Day & Countdown Launch - archive.org/details/tdc-launc... - waltsvault
A Report on the upcoming launch of The Disney Channel - Entertainment Tonight - archive.org/details/tdc-launc... - waltsvault
Uploader main page for Disney Channel Launch Pack footage- archive.org/details/@waltsvault
ADDITIONAL SOURCES:
J-BoZ61, SN9DA - DeviantArt.com (DC logos)
blog.bendbroadband.com/busine...
www.cablecompare.com/blog/the...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/lib...
lostmediawiki.com/Dreamfinder...)
www.mouseplanet.com/12387/Dre...
Dreamfinder Script:
archive.org/details/DREAMFINDER - Waltsvault
www.cablecenter.org/the-barco...
www.c-span.org/video/?88768-1...
www.c-span.org/video/?88713-1...
www.c-span.org/video/?599-1/h...
www.thetvratingsguide.com/2020...
Inside the Rise of HBO - Bill Mesce, Jr.
variety.com/1998/tv/news/disn...
d23.com/a-to-z/disney-channel...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_...
VIDEO & IMAGE CREDITS:
(In Order of Appearance)
(The rest are continued in a pinned comment)
90s Toy Commercials Vol. 2 - • 90s Toy Commercials Vo... - The Comic Coalition
Disney's Aladdin for SEGA Genesis - • Disney's Aladdin for S... - Genkisan
Disney Channel Pre-Launch 1983 - • Disney Channel Pre-Lau... - TooniFNT's Tape Trove
1991 Free Disney Channel Preview - • 1991 - Free Disney Cha... - TheClassicSports -
Dumbo’s Circus - A Lion Needs a Mane - • Dumbo's Circus- A Lion... - The DVD Hole’3’
Disney Channel Commercial Bloack 997 - • Disney Channel - Telev... - Analog Commercial Compilations & Blocks
Mousercise 1983 Episode 19 - • Mousercise 1983 TV Ful... - Mary Woodhouse
Welcome To Pooh Corner Intro - • Welcome To Pooh Corner... - HunnyPot
Disney’s Our Channel Music Video - • Video - RetroCommercialsGuy2000
Disney Channel Commercials June 28th 1985 signoff - • Disney Channel Commerc... - VideoRewind
The Disney Channel Freeview Winathon promos November 1987 - • The Disney Channel Fre... - Mickey’s VHS and Betamax Finds
TDC Opening Day & Countdown Launch - archive.org/details/tdc-launc... - waltsvault
Uploader main page - archive.org/details/@waltsvault
The Disney Channel Countdown Launch - April 18, 1983 - • The Disney Channel Cou... - Walt’s Vault
Dinosaurs: The Terrible Lizards - • Dinosaurs: The Terribl... - Stefan Grabowski
The History of Television - • The History Of Television - Tech Nerd
John Logie Baird and the Invention of Television - • John Logie Baird and t... - MIX iT
“TV is King” - BBC Film documentary - The rarest television technology on earth - 1994 - • “TV is King” - BBC Fil... - LEMAN PRODUCTIONS Ltd
Baird televisor(the first television)1926 - • Baird televisor(the fi... - Jawwwp
Texaco Star Theater video 1 - • Texaco Star Theater vi... - Classic Television
Vintage old 1950's Westinghouse 17" Lynwood Television TV Commercial - • Vintage old 1950's Wes... - Vintage Fanatic
Westinghouse Television Set - • Westinghouse Televisio... - suprnovadf2
Westinghouse 1956 TV Set commercial - • Video - Cria56 - Zábava
Hey all! So wow...I can't believe how long this episode took to get out! On top of the length of the video itself & complexity/number of all the video assets, I wound up catching COVID last month...it took weeks for my voice to recover to where I felt it wouldn't be incredibly distracting to continue narration, and even then, it was still a struggle to get through recording. So long story short, this episode would've come out quite a bit earlier, but alas...it's here now! I hope you enjoy this labor of love.
Mark
(Credits continued)
NEW 1964 LINE OF ZENITH TELEVISION SETS! - czcams.com/video/BGSBLcWAHV4/video.html - Steve Kosareff
GEC 405 Television factory Coventry 1960 - czcams.com/video/uGzu7vpowHY/video.html - Vintage 405 line Television
Save Free TV Promo 1970s - czcams.com/video/EBJGt5YW-d4/video.html - videoholic50s60s70s
Computer Image Corporation 1975 Demo Reel - czcams.com/video/tETXbPu73Zc/video.html - Big 13
The HBO Pennsylvania polka festival 1973 - czcams.com/video/mx75lPJSqKE/video.html - terry kline
Space Down to Earth - czcams.com/video/TNOfuQWJqNU/video.html - US National Archives - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ancient Showtime & HBO Graphics late 1970s - czcams.com/video/4YrFhcVigtU/video.html - videoholic50s60s70s
Wometco Home Theatre 1979 - czcams.com/video/YTqwR8rgyC0/video.html - Mike Rivest
SelectTV movie intro - czcams.com/video/wQ-WK-SdV0Q/video.html - The Media Hoarder
“Magician Mickey” - Walt Disney Company
A Report on the upcoming launch of The Disney Channel - Entertainment Tonight - archive.org/details/tdc-launch-pack-opening-day-countdown-1983-04-18 - waltsvault
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse ‘Giantland’ - Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse ‘Orphan’s Benefit’ - Walt Disney Company
The Mickey Mouse Club (1950s) - Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse ‘Hawaiian Holiday’ - Walt Disney Company
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes - Walt Disney Company
The Parent Trap - Walt Disney Company
3/7/1978 HBO Promos - czcams.com/video/df0TvQ8S_z4/video.html - EWJxn Media Archives
Ancient HBO Graphics and Previews from 1977 - czcams.com/video/eXZR3n8AihE/video.html - videoholic50s60s70s - Home Box Office INc
Snow White Live at Radio City Music Hall 1980 - czcams.com/video/AKmW5xxpXfk/video.html - Chris Johnson
Disney Channel Launch with James Jimirro - C-SPAN - www.c-span.org/video/?88768-1/disney-channel-launch
BDisney’s Wonderful World 1981 Intro - czcams.com/video/jTtk_h1BbjY/video.html - MemoryMuseum
Walt Disney (1981 Extended Opening Sequence) - czcams.com/video/ivvzZVuTD2g/video.html - K.J. Norman
Space Shuttle - Communications 1980 - czcams.com/video/gYcUBDlONAo/video.html - AIRBOYD
Disney Channel Promises squeaky-clean programming - The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1982
An Adventure In Color - Mathmagic Land - The Walt Disney Company
TDC Opening Day & Countdown Launch - archive.org/details/tdc-launch-pack-opening-day-countdown-1983-04-18 - waltsvault
Uploader main page - archive.org/details/@waltsvault
Star Tours Press Conference 1987 - czcams.com/video/qtLe78EfbRo/video.html - ProgressCityPublicTV
Disneyland 10th Anniversary - The Walt Disney Company
Walt Disney One Man's Dream (1981) - czcams.com/video/Ud2SbLXVwCI/video.html - Chris Johnson
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I'm surprise you didn't mention Defunctland's other videos about some of the other shows, i.e. Mousercise, Buzz Lightyear, Dumbo's Circus, etc.
Many CZcams personalities are getting sick from that lethal drug. And yet people still refuse to question the medical and healthcare industries, hmm...
Meanwhile those without it were healthy the whole time, acting as normal, except with newfound befuddlement.
This man rattled off disney movies for 4 minutes just to shut up the "you didn't mention" crowd and I respect it.
And how many of them would make decent adult film titles.
"Just to name a few" my ass; Mark literally listed the entire DCOM collection
I was sitting here wondering if all of them were real, since I had very little exposure to this era of Disney content
He repeated the same titles a few times like High School Musical, I assume this was meant as a joke and not an error?
I've never seen a network drop so many bangers month after month
That point in every story about Disney history: "And then Michael Eisner walked in"
You can blame Disneyland Paris for the change. It being on the red until the late 2010's meant that whatever plans Eisner have were scrapped for the get-rich-quick schemes aimed at keeping Disney as a company afloat. It was not until Bob Iger that it became profitable again... Through even more egregious methods than those used by Eisner...
Michael Eisner: I was so careful. I picked the Right Shows, the Right director, the Right cast. Where did I go Wrong?"
@@jaggerguth4391 Me: you showed up
At this point every Disneycentric CZcams channel should invest in a dedicated *EISNEEEEEEER!* button considering how *deep* this guy ran in the company.
Yep, just like how the Disney brothers and family kept the brand under their umbrella for so long. Then outside members came in, made Disney better and/or worse.
As a Disney+ subscriber, I actually get more joy from watching the Disney channels in my Disney resort hotel room than streaming. There is something to be said for just watching what's playing on TV at the moment versus scrolling through various options on streaming until finally landing on one that you might possibly want to watch.
God, I sound like a Boomer.
i don't blame you, everything is speeding up so fast you are basically a boomer for remembering things from 5 years ago.
I think that's because of the format these shows had
I don’t disagree. I think it involves the psychological strain from overchoice. There’s literally so much content, it becomes a task itself to simply choose, rather than be presented content.
On a straming service, you can choose. On a TV channel, you're bound to what it shows you, and I think that's much more magical.
Honestly, I'm with you. Actually I had much the same argument last year, about a completely different set of shows (that still boiled down to the same argument). Part of the nostalgic magic of Christmas, for me, is getting to watch all the old Rankin-Bass productions. They really don't get shown anymore, other than one or two. Friends were trying to help me figure out where to watch them online, and I appreciated the thought but it's nowhere near the same. As much as I hate commercials, there's just something really special about being like "Okay, this show is gonna be on Friday at 8pm! Set aside some time for it!"
The convenience of being able to watch anything I want, even if cable TV decided to abandon it, is still really nice. But it's nowhere near the same.
I remember every time a Disney Channel Original Movie would come on when I was at my dad's house (we didn't have cable at my moms) it felt like such a gift. So many good memories of all those movies, I don't care if they're good or not.
Product of divorce? Sorry that happened, man.
Same. DCOMS were magical when you were a kid. Sure you can watch then on Disney+ now, but kids are never gonna get the same enjoyment as they would've watching them in real time
The intro of the Disney Channel Original Movie was one of the most iconic moments in Disney Channel history. I remember they had three different intros with the first one popped up being the biggest at that time, first was High School Musical, second was Camp Rock, and third was Good Luck Charlie. That intro led me know that the movie is gonna be good and for the most part it is!!!!
It’s SO weird to hear Austin and Ally listed among shows like Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly place, in my mind it came WAY after those but really it didn’t, A&A started the same year Hannah Montana ended. It’s just odd how I feel like those were two completely separate “eras” of Disney Channel when they really weren’t
it really is insane! I grew up on both (I'm 19) but to me are completely separate but then it makes me remember that I never actually finished Austin and ally because I felt like I was too old for it?
Lol you unintentionally made a pun when you said So weird, which was an obscure Disney Channel series from the early 2000s
It’s surreal to think about that but you’re right! (I’m 25)
I always think of it as part of the gmw/l&m era but it’s really part of the ant farm transition era. Time is weird man.
Yeah i still mainly watching Hannah montana, wizard of waverly place, suite life and sonny with a chance. I stopped watching when shake it up came out (mainly because i didnt have disney anymore). I didnt even know the movie lemonade mouth was in that group let alone A&A
that clip of walt disney firing a gun at the ground and demanding that the singers perform is pure gold lol
I feel like it's meme material.
I gotta say, seeing Walt Disney himself on camera talking about his movies and theme parks felt amazing, it felt like he really cared about his company.
He must be rolling in his grave at the current state of it
too bad... 1 or two generations later.. they are burning disney to the ground.... corrupting the place with p. hedos ... forced inclusion.... bad acting... bad movies.. bad cgi.. bad remakes...
@@darkmistico that’s what happens when a company based around creativity stops being creative and only worrying about money. And They don’t have to try because anything they put that logo on is automatic money
That's because he truly cared about his company
@@princesspeachfan100 Nothing is wrong with 3d. Sure, 2d is beautiful and valuable and I wish more 2d was being made, and 3d can go wrong, but if we don't try we won't ever get better. Encanto was beautiful, and Moana and Rapunzel were pretty good. CGI just needs work, is all, it's a new technology. Though I agree, Frozen was kinda lifeless.
My Dad was an Imagineer for 30+ years, working mostly at Walt Disney World in Florida. We also lived in France briefly while he worked on the construction of Disneyland Paris. To say we were a Disney family is an understatement. My younger sister and I would watch The Disney Channel pretty much non-stop. You and Me, Kid was my favorite, while Welcome to Pooh Corner was my sister's. I discovered The Beatles from watching a documentary on them that aired on The Disney Channel late one night. I will always look fondly on those days, when we were still young enough to enjoy Disney entertainment without the cynicism that always seems to spring up once you become an adult.
My brother and I always saw the end of "You and Me, Kid" because I think it came on before "Donald Duck Presents." YAMK ended with a sappy song about "loving together, learning together, a smile and a touch, is all that we need" and my brother and I would either say "A smile and a PUNCH!" and pretend to hit each other or look at the other with a sappy, "loving" look and touch their arm as delicately (and annoyingly, like a mosquito crawling on you) as we could.
Read that as “My Dad was a teenager for 30 years” and wondered why I hadn’t heard of him before
Your childhood sounds awesome
15:52 Imagine your a kid in the 80's, falling asleep well watching Disney channel, your in the living room with al the light of, to then be awoken by this noise.
My mom let me stay home from school the day the Disney Channel premiered. I remember being so excited seeing the Mickey satellite for the first time!
Hearing all the different DCOM's being listed off, it was so interesting spotting the specific wave that helped definite my childhood. Somewhere between Halloweentown and as late as Wendy Wu is where the nostalgia lies.
The level of quality of this video is stunning, what the platform needs, amazing video, I remember watching Disney Channel from 2005-2014, I never knew the channel had such a long and amazing history.
Yeee Yesterworld is a champ and Disneyworld is top of the game. He did not disappoint.
It did. By 2002 and beyond, DC just got rid of it's past and became Zoog and Playhouse Disney 24/7. For better and worse.
@@Jushwa I started watching Disney channel since 2003-2015
I grew up watching Disney movies and the Disney channel and all of its various offshoots (e.g. Toon Disney, Playhouse Disney, Disney XD, Disney Junior... y'know all that good stuff) to say nothing of Pixar movies and ABC Kids
Never knew the whole thing was so interesting
Disney Channel does go back a long time. For people like me our parents never wanted to pay for it so we only got to see it during a free preview and we cherished it immensely.
I love the "just to name a few" right after Mark lists every single DCOM.
It won’t be the same for kids today. Back when I was younger, everyone watched the Disney channel. Like every single person in any of my classes in elementary school saw all of those old classics like Zack and Cody and Even Stevens. See, we didn’t get a choice of what show or movie to watch, they got chosen for us and so we all were watching the same stuff. I think that’s a big part of the nostalgia, too. These days, every kid will be watching something different and they won’t share that bond like we used to.
It was better before those shows you mentioned. I feel like even you missed out on some of the magic
@@randomanton nah man, I grew up on Lizzie mcguire, even stevens, kim possible, phil of the future, that's so raven, the proud family, suite life, and the countless amazing disney channel movies from the 90s and 2000s that they used to play literally every night at 8:00. Hannah Montana, wizards of waverly place and suite life on deck were when DC started its decline but that wasn't until like 2008. What shows do you think are more magical that I missed out on? I seriously grew up and watched DC when it was in its prime in the early 2000s, man. Nothing was lost on me.
I remember when I was in Kindergarten, my little sister & I would quietly turn on the tv in our room @ 4 in the morning and we would watch Kim Possible, Little Mermaid, and Lilo & Stitch for the rest of the night and keep the tv on throughout Playhouse Disney. Our parents never actually knew we used to do it. Good times 😂
@@aliangelettie5075 heck yeah, where my Rolie Polie Olie gang at?!?! lol if you want a big kick of nostalgia search for some of those segments between shows with that Clay character. Always takes me way back lol
@@randomanton You're right; it seems like every generation has a unique set of childhood memories that they associate with that particular time period content, even though they lost the chance to experience much of the popular pre-birth content. It appears that some of the legacies of the channel were disregarded in favor of a completely unrelated endeavor. For those who grew up and witnessed the channel transition and significant change, the lack of pre-late 90s and early 2000s content in the anniversary celebrations acknowledgment was absurd. Those who grew up in the previous era may have felt resentful, angry, and most of all, heartbroken as a result. I would too if I realize the channel I remember is being remembered now like nothing from its former self. It is all about following trends in the end.
I was an 80s kid. My parents got satellite and subscribed to the Disney Channel, and that changed my world. I loved everything Disney, old and new at that time. The most memorable (for me) were the holiday content, like Disney’s Halloween Treat, and a Disney Christmas, each consisting of old Disney cartoon shorts sewn together with a narrator, plus the respective seasonal movies. I thought I’d never see stuff like that again. Then CZcams came online and I’m able to find some of the old material (if it hasn’t been removed for ‘copyright’ violations). With Disney+ online I’m hoping they’ll bring back more of the late 70s/ early 80s stuff for us ‘old’ kids.
Gen X effin best! Kool Kids of 80s! Trash Millenials destroyed everything to the gutter! 🤬 ☠️
The modern equivalent of $45 a month for premium cable channels?? Holy cow!!! I didn’t realize how loaded my parents must’ve been back in the day to get HBO and Disney back in the 1980s!! (Of course, I was still jealous of my younger cousin, who got first-run copies of Disney movies on VHS, because her uncle was an engineer working for Disney).
My granddad, who was one of the first people in his town to get cable back in the 1950s, also must’ve been doing well in his graphic design/painting business at that time!
I love the fact that early cable TV movies were literally them filming live in the local movie theatre. 😂
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Get a job Larry.
What's funny about that
@@antonizajkowski9698 It's like a normal person showing up at a theater with a camera
You wouldn't just expect a guy to record the newest Marvel movie completely undisturbed
Yeah I think they didn’t know what LA was. They probably wanted people to be normal. But now we think that these shows are stupid because we had no idea that NO ONE knew that LA existed.
Why have I never seen that clip of Walt yelling SING before? That was gold!
I still reflexively think of 1980s Disney Channel when I hear the name.
I genuinely miss that wholesome family pay-TV channel that wasn't chasing after fads.
The free preview weeks felt like you were living the high life! It felt like pure class. So mature, safe, and wondeful.
My mom convinced my dad to get it back in the 80s at some point. I'm so glad she won out!
Oh my gosh YES! Growing up that was the only way I watched Disney Channel on a free preview and it was the best! Lol
Yeah... like Videopolis. Or DTV. It was always "chasing fads." you just never realized it.
@@sillygoose635 So out of an entire day's worth of programming, you seriously think THIS was some sort of "dunk" on my point? some 4-minute montage of Disney footage to old music?
i wasn’t alive in the 80’s so I mostly think of the start of the DCOM era, Under Wraps, Zenon, Halloweentown etc.
That 1997 rebranding was that gradual change that lost me so much. I loved back when they were playing stuff without commercials, tons on cool animation (The Last Unicorn? The animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings? The Dark Crystal?) the rebranding started to turn to all original, yet fewer and fewer classics shows and movies from the company.
“zombies 3 we’re running out of ideas” God the deadpan delivery 😂😂😂
WHOA!! Footage of The Dreamfinders?? As a self-admitted Journey Into Imagination (original) Devotee, this is HOLY GRAIL type stuff. I’ve only ever seen Dreamfinder’s appearance in the launch countdown. Wherever is this BTS footage from? Thank you for finding and sharing this!
I was pretty excited to show some of this, as to my knowledge there was no footage beyond the quick 'countdown' segment. I credit the footage source and original uploader in the description & end credits, but here's the link to the full thing: archive.org/details/tdc-launch-pack-opening-day-countdown-1983-04-18. (Archive.org user: waltsvault)
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This video was both a fantastic insight into the history of Disney Channel (the original Disney Plus), and a nice walk down memory lane. I have fond memories watching a lot of Disney Channel Originals through my childhood in the 2000s and early 2010s It's kinda sad to see it on its last legs.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:45 - History, P1
12:10 - Launch Content
15:35 - History, P2
23:10 - 90s Content
27:23 - Promos and Bumpers (80/90s)
28:15 - Changes of the 90s
35:15 - Changes/Content of Early 2000s to Early 2010s
39:02 - Every DCOM, Listed
40:05 - "Life is Ruff" rant
40:50 - Every DCOM (cont.)
42:12 - The end of Disney Channel/Disney Plus
43:04 - Credits
This took 46 minutes. Help me.
These comments are OUTSTANDING! Never change!
@@rebeccabarrington99 what
It always saddens me to know that future generations will never know how epic the Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana crossover was for us who grew up with all three of those shows
crossover episodes were the best
I remember even my parents watched that crossover special with me and my siblings!
Would've been more epic if two of those three shows weren't teen-baiting garbage.
@@1krani which out of those three shows aren't teen-baiting? genuinely can't tell lol
@@bridievinn
Wizards of Waverly Place was more in the style of family sitcoms like Full House or Family Matters, just with a supernatural element added.
90's Disney for me was always a great place, some terrific shows, original movies, old flicks, always a nice mixture, as a kid it was the triumvirate of Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney
Definitely and the 80s here in Canada 🇨🇦 we got the best Disney Channel cartoons and shows. We only had 3 channels then 13 when we got cable. By 1990 we had about 20 or 25
90’s for Disney animated shows but the early 2000’s was the best for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network
@@watchforever1724 agreed
I grew up on 90s and 2000s Disney Channel. Great stuff.
@@watchforever1724 90’s for Nick too 2000’s for CN
It's nice to have the history told so concisely. Excellent work, Mark! Also, I'd like to point out that the opening of Life is Ruff is basically the same setup for Oliver and Company.
And 'Oliver & Company' is A MILLION times better than that cheap crap.
It's not stealing if you took it from yourself
I came here to say this!!!
Except with dogs instead of cats, and no Huey Lewis song.
@@LogoMan7777 ... or Billy Joel
I never watched Disney Channel as a kid but funny enough I’ve now came to love many of their newer shows like Gravity Falls, The Owl House and Amphibia as an adult
Gravity Falls was never a new shows it aired in the early 2010 -2014
@@nancia24 it aired 2012-16, not 2010-14
If you want some older content to check out, I have a few recommendations
DuckTales (1987)
Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series (1996)
Darkwing Duck (1990s)
The House Of Mouse (1990s- early 2000s)
@kdawg1991 I never watched it,it was too scary
Disney channel been trash once 05... In my childhood the 90s was the best time for Disney channel Disney films and parks. Disney trash now
I never realized that the shows that I grew up with in the mid 2000s were seen and aimed at girls more. Everyone I knew watched what was on the Disney Channel.
It was basically *the* channel everyone watched as kids. Right up there with Nickelodeon.
It never really occurred to me either. But maybe I didn't notice because I was the demographic? I actually only recently realized some of my male friends didn't care for Lizzie McGuire growing up because it was a "girl show"
I definitely remember thinking it was odd I was watching so much content about teen girls as a young boy, but hey, it was entertaining
Yep, and you can thank Lizzie McGuire, Kim Possible, and That's so Raven for that. For better and/or worse.
@@Kirbychu1 Don't sweat it dude, those shows were written in a way that could appeal to everyone regardless of your age or gender. As a kid, I didn't care that the main characters in Lizzie McGuire and That's So Raven were girls, they were still engaging shows all-around
I remember back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid, we didn't have The Disney Channel. But every once in awhile, we would get a trial of it for a couple weeks more or less and it would be a great time when it happened.
Now since the 2000s, we finally get it freely...when I became a full grown adult in my 20s.
My dad did something *vaguely illegal* in the early 90s so we could get premium cable channels. Idk what that was but it was made VERY CLEAR to me we shouldn't talk about what channels we get at school.
I remember that. I also remember there constantly being ads where a woman was like “Hi, I’m Nancy, an operator here at The Disney Channel . . .”
Same, plus I could actually watch it at the YMCA while I was waiting for my mom to pick me up.
@@brandielee7971 Ah, the descramblers sold in the black market. And I bet ya he got the playboy channels too.😅
Yes, they would have free weekends. And if you had one of those big satellite dishes that moved, you could pick up the west coast channels on the east coast, basically having 2 different Disney channels since the show line up was different. Sometimes one would be playing a movie while the other was playing cartoons, for example.
35:10 Not mentioned here is that while Disney kept their channel as pay-only for almost 15 years, Viacom's Nickelodeon had been included on basic cable since 1979, growing and becoming more and more influential all that time. When Nick came out with the first Nicktoons in 1991, they cemented the channel as the most influential force with kids at that time, which was only further cemented as Nick developed new hit game shows and more Nicktoons as the 90s went on. Though Disney was still hugely influential to kids through feature films, by the time 1997/98 rolled around, Nickelodeon was *way* more influential on the TV side (and even the movie side was fading by that point for Disney).
Put simply, Nick ate the lunch of the way more powerful Disney in large part because Disney didn't see the writing on the wall and the need to compete all those years. What's even more astonishing is that Nick was floundering for the first 5-7 years of its existence and only really survived because TDC was pay-only and most of the country didn't get it even if they did have cable. That meant that Nick really didn't have much competition at all during that period. Had Disney Channel been added to basic cable and the programming changes that were made 5-7 years earlier than they actually were, it could have nullified Nick's success and influence and made Disney Channel way bigger than it was at the time. Disney Channel's growth was stunted due to a lack of vision and lack of willingness to invest in it during most of the 90s, and it would harm the parent company's influence and control of the kids media market during that time period.
Are you perhaps suggesting that if The Disney Channel had gone to basic cable (with commercials and all), it might have been more successful than Nick at some point?
@@LogoMan7777 yep…not guaranteed of course, but certainly possible.
I didn't get cable channels until 1999, but I often remember watching stuff like Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel at a friend's house or at the office that my dad ran. Personally, I always preferred the older Disney Channel (80s, 90s, and early 2000s) over the one that catered to tweens with all of those Disney Channel Original Movies. Either way, still an interesting coverage of The Disney Channel's history and a nice nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Also, by the time you finished describing the opening for "Life Is Ruff", all I was thinking was, "Did they rip off the opening of Oliver & Company?" Talk about stealing from oneself!
Always makes me feel old when someone references something as nostalgic even though it happened after I graduated high school 🏫🤣
15:36 R.I.P. Jerry Bishop (1935-2020). Most people remember him as the original announcer for Judge Judy, but I will always remember him best as the original announcer for the Disney Channel from its launch in 1983 up until its basic cable rebrand in 1997.
Jerry Bishop was the voice of the Disney Channel from 1983-97. Mark Elliott succeeded Bishop as the cabler's announcer.
Actually, Bob Bergen, aka the current voice of Porky Pig, took over from Bishop in 1997 and stayed there until 2001. Mark Elliott didn’t do any promos for the Disney Channel that I know of, but he did do some for ABC’s 1997 revamp of the Wonderful World of Disney anthology show up through 2000. That’s probably what you’re thinking of.
@@jdude9365 Thank you.
I just remember summers, off from school, coming inside from the heat etc… and my little brother and sister were just sitting there… transfixed on the Disney Channel… all summer long.
To be honest, Disney Channel in the 1980s was very diverse, especially since it included non-Disney movies like The Slipper and the Rose, D.A.R.Y.L., and Snoopy Come Home.
Who else is old enough to remember the "free preview weekends" cable providers did once or twice a year? I was crushed that I could only watch Under the Umbrella Tree so infrequently.
Naming every DCOM ever in one video?
"Carefully, he's a hero."
In a way, this was really sad to watch. We originally subscribed to Disney Channel in 1983, supposedly because of our two-year-old, but the truth was I watched it all day long. It had all the old Disney things I had grown up with as a kid and a lot of the new stuff was still fun and directed at children( and me). I think we subscribed for about 10 years and then it was already starting to change enough that it wasn't fun to watch anymore for myself or my daughter. I remember seeing exact faces, even the people that were on screen doing the pledge week drives. The Winnie the Pooh episode about stranger danger was an important part of my child's upbringing, because sadly, Adam Walsh and Eton Patz had disappeared and been murdered by their abductors around the time my little girl started school, so a lot of schools were showing this in the classroom and my cousin who was a pastor actually showed it to his Sunday school class and their parents. I know you said it was creepy, but Ithink that it probably saved more people than you would think.
Living in Brazil, our history with Disney channel is completely different. Interesting to hear about the original one.
As someone who grew up in the mid to late 2000s, the disney channel was a huge part of my childhood. Looking at this video feels like i'm going through a time travel machine. Great job!
I have very special memories of the Disney channel. Grew up poor so we had cable off and on. When we had it it meant that there would also be plenty of food on the table. When we didn't it meant hunger. If I watched Kids Inc before school it meant I would have a good dinner. If I was watching berenstain bears on pbs it meant enough food for nutrition and no extra.
32:50 It’s disappointing that Under Wraps (1997) isn’t on Disney+ but they have the 2 new ones from 2021 and 2022
As an 80's baby & 90's teen...this hits hard
lilo and stitch the series.. and everything it crossed over with... actually the crossover episodes of Disney kind of deserve their own history. They've been doing the multi-character crossover thing for years before marvel.
I loved that series. Also this isn't disney but im pretty sure jimmy timmy power hour still occupies a small part of my brain.
Yeah about that, I have a theory that when it came to animated crossovers, Disney Channel must've had this rule that only Lilo and Stitch were allowed to do them, why? Because at the time they NEVER let the other animated shows crossover with each other, it's as if the other shows were told they could ONLY crossover with Lilo and Stitch. Also of the 4 crossovers Lilo and Stitch did, the one with Recess makes the least amount of sense lol
The Disney Channel left Australia almost as soon as they lunched Disney+. When you said that the channel was a stand alone Pay TV offering, it got me thinking about the early days of Foxtel (Aus Pay TV). When Foxtel was created in the late 90's the original content structure allowed you to buy The Disney Channel as a stand alone channel well into the 2000's. It was available as an add on packages with other channels.
Does anyone remember when the channel would show behind the scenes parts of the WDW parks? This was in the early to mid 90s, but I have a very clear memory of a short on how they choreographed the fireworks and another one that showed them maintaining the rides. Also, Mother Goose Rock n Rhyme was absolutely real!
Yeah, Madonna's former boyfriend as a square? I grew up on Rock 'N' Rhymeland (the TV version).
I remember this channel from when I was a little girl. And my favorite disney channel shows were Good Morning Mickey, Mousercise, Welcome to Pooh Corner and Donald Duck Presents.
Disney not respecting the fans of the classic content? Dull surprise.
It's like saying water is wet at this point
@@KaminoKatie Or grass is green. Lol.
So back in the late 90’s when Time Warner Cable had taken Disney Channel off of its lineup, my dad put three year old me on the phone with a TWC phone rep to sob about how they had taken Bear in the Big Blue House and Madeline away 😂
it’s crazy how old the disney channel was. I’m in high school and most the shows i watched weren’t listed (jessie, good luck charlie, etc)
Funny how I found out Rin-Tin-Tin, The Racoons, Care Bears, and the Cosgrove Hall Wind of the Willows series(Ironic since they've done it for Ichabod and Mr. Toad in the late 1940s, and later distributed a live action adaptation with most of the crew from Monty Python) was once on Disney a one point.
Is there any 80s kids that remember watching the Unico movies (based on the Osamu Tezuka manga series) by Sanrio that used to air on The Disney Channel back in the 1980s?
I’m sorry- but all of the original Disney channel movies and shows- need to come to Disney Plus right now. Call it the Disney Channel collection- and have them listed in order of release. I will binge all of them, no regrets.
I doubt there gonna care been waiting for some shows on the service for quite a while especially since 2019 since I subscribed to this channel
The vast majority are...not so much the "premiere" films from the 80s, but most of the 90s to today.
The golden years of Disney Channel for me growing up were the mid 90's-00's up until about 2005. Folks that are older than me might feel differently.
Well for me the golden age of Disney was from 1997 to 2000 because that was when they air the good old Disney Afternoon Shows on Disney Channel plus they put it on Playhouse Disney block with tons of shows for toddlers in the mornings, in the afternoon was Live Action Shows, the night was Disney Movies and sometimes the Classic Disney Movies and the Midnight was Vault Disney block that they used to air all the classic shows and Walt Disney classic shows from the old Disney Channel of 1983. Many people said that the golden age of Disney Channel was from 2002 to 2007 but its not true at all because they can have all the original Live Action and Cartoons made on Disney Channel but since they get rid the Vault Disney block that it was the most important thing on Disney ever and they get rid of it and it wasnt the same after that. So the real Golden Age of Disney was from 1997 to 2000 and not from 2002 to 2007.
Best years that I can remember were from 1989 to about 1996.
Sounds about right considering it's early history (1983-1997) was groundbreaking for a family channel and things Disney. The second revamp (1997-2002) was trying to be hip and cool, while keeping the family channel model. The third revamp ( 2002-???) was where the channel changed forever by getting rid of Vault Disney and keeping Playhouse and Zoog Disney 24/7.
@@luis95198 this is the sentence in 3 seconds
Disney channel was ACTUALLY a Disney channel in 1980s-2002.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
thanks for all the hard work you do. I fell in love with your channel because of the information/docu-series feeling it has and of course the topics themselves.
Keep up the great work!
I was born in 83 and my parents always had HBO, so this channel legit raised me. We watched *everything* it had. And I also remember that mother goose show and thought I was insane.
It’s funny because Jetix was trying to be a Toonami clone which failed.
As a late 90s/00s viewer of Disney Channel content, I admit that the fact that the fact that that long list of “DCOM” titles wasn’t in chronological order or some was a bit frustrating.
Holy crap…. My childhood!! 🤣🤣 I remember so much of this, it’s crazy! I remember going to watch Keri Russell audition for the Mickey Mouse Club. We went to school and church with her in Denver. LOVE that I came across this video, man. Thanks so much for the time, effort and energy you put in. Definitely gained a new subscriber! Cheers, mate. 👊🏻
80s Disney Channel was the best. I loved the reruns of Wonderful World where they showed vintage Imagineering behind the scenes at the parks. They had this Masterpiece Theatre-like show where they showed Classic Goofy shorts. At night as a kid, they had adult documentaries and classic Disney live action - and I had my own TV in my room, which meant distracted homework and late nights watching stuff like Darby O’Gill and the Little People and not being able to go to sleep before school. This was how I was indoctrinated into the corporate ecosystem.
I remember that, used to watch with my brother in our playroom.
Yeah, '80s and early '90s Disney Channel was the best! It had a nice mix of content for both kids and adults. I loved staying up late to watch Zorro and Walt Disney Presents. I remember they, also, would sometimes show concerts at night too.
@nemo pouncey In my town, most people had the cable "box" with 12 buttons and a 3 position flip switch on the right. If you wanted Disney, you had to get a different, "digital" cable box from the cable company. So I think we didn't even get the free weekends.
I was so young that era I have vague memories of the free weekends which would explain some of the bumper logos on some of our VHS tapes
I liked 80's Disney Channel, too, but they didn't do A good job with the shorts editing them alot. I didn't like when they ditched the cartoons, and adult oriented content in favor of cheap crap that panders to tween girls. (That 'Growing Pains' promo with DiCaprio was pure cringe.) As an animation fan, and someone much older, that turned me off, and I felt betrayed by the channel at that point.
When Disney Channel rebranded, that's when it lost me. I couldn't stand it. There was a....magic to the Disney Channel that was lost when they modernized.
They didn't even acknowledge its history as it became just another live-action sitcom on based trendy content channels. Everything from the late 1990s to the 2010s was all that was featured in the Disney Channel anniversary tribute, which was offensive in every way. Didn't mention anything about the channel's previous persona; all it talked about was all the other popular tween shows and movies through the years.
The first rebranding (1997-2002) was understandable since DC was no longer the only game in town for cartoons and kids shows (CN and Nick). But the second rebranding (2002-???) is where the magic was gone from the channel reducing movies and Vault Disney to make room for Playhouse and Zoog 24/7.
I really hope Disney+ gets around releasing the 90s New Mickey Mouse Club. Given the star power that was part of the new MMC, I would think there would be a lot of curiosity and interest.
I want that too! But thinking bc of all the songs and having to purchase the rights to those… it will not be anytime soon 😢
I'm surprised they haven't released it in some form, especially given how many big names came from that show. Justin, Britney, and Christina being the biggest, but there was also JC (who disappeared after N*Sync; his confidence was shook. Very sad, as he's a great triple threat. Even better than Justin and less of a douche) and Keri Russell (I think that was her name. She was big for a time as Felicity then faded soon after cutting her hair. Seems a trivial reason, but there was quite the hoopla about her cutting her gorgeous curly mane short. Her hair was kind of her trademark.)
Edit to add: I forgot The Americans exists because I no longer pay attention to shows and stopped reading magazines years ago. I never watched Felicity, either, but it existed during my gossip magazine addiction. Magazines filled my head with information about celebrities and shows that I otherwise paid no attention to.
Yeah, it's kind of annoying how much is absent from Disney Plus. 2 shows from my childhood that come to mind are Lloyd in Space and The Weekenders.
@@gypsywoman9140 The Americans was an amazing show too. She was completely believable.
I personally don't give a dang about the live action stuff, I just hope they have the Mighty Ducks cartoon, I think I'm the only one who ever liked that thing
I miss the Disney Channel late night TV block Vault Disney!!! That was my jam. I went to bed every night at 7 PM to be able to wale up at Midnight to be able to watch the 6 hour block full of classic shows. The Ink and Paint Club was my favorite show on that block.
Amazing to think that this channel had such a history and evolution behind it.
Yeah I never knew how it all started
I know. It's no wonder they and Nickelodeon became rivals by the mid-2000's.
Yep. A promising start, but a dismal present lineup aimed at teeny boppers. Whatever happened to appealing to families of all ages.
@@normadgarmez7026 Teens were always a big part of the channel. Disney+ is the real nail in the coffin for it. Why bother having a cable channel when you can just put all your shows on a one stop streaming service that you can watch any time?
Yes. I’m almost 20 and I still remember those movies and shows by heart.
"We could make a series of it. 'Suicide Of The Week' Ah, hell, why limit ourselves? 'Execution Of The Week'.... I love it. Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hit men, automobile smash-ups: 'The Death Hour'. A great Sunday night show for the whole family. It'd wipe that f--kin' Disney right off the air!" ----Max Schumacher (William Holden), *Network* .
In '76, the writing was on the wall.
I would also mentioned Andy Mack, as a show that tried to add some more "mature content" to Disney. It was still PG but it was Disney's attempt at a drama in recent years.
Awesome, another reason to avoid that show, thank you. Ill stick with actually good stuff like Sydney to the Max, Stuck in the Middle, Best Friends Whenever, The Villains of Valley View, Bizaardvark, and Coop and Cami Ask the World.
@@poisonedyoyo
It wasn't actually "mature" it was just more serious than other shows.
You pulled up on the blitz, you're a legend already. This is as good and comprehensive a history of a TV channel as I've ever seen - bravo to you. (The intermittent stop to explain the point of the doggies being left out in that DCOM intro was iconic)
I find it hilarious that I can see the exact point when Disney Channel became a nostalgic part of my childhood and the exact moment it no longer was.
22:54 - 40:54
What a wild ride full of "OH! I remember that!" between those timecodes.
Hannah Montana wasn't Selena Gomez's first appearance on Disney. She appeared on an episode of The Suite Life before that. She had her first kiss on camera with Dylan.
Disney channel for me was my favorite tv channel for YEARS. 2005-2012 or 2013 were the prime years for me on the channel. Also the original movies were something else. Halloween town and the one where the boy is actually a mermaid were my favorites
In the 90s they had weird "blooper" reels from their Pixar movies that were clearly fully animated just for the channel. I remember laughing at those so hard. Then they got old because they showed the same bloopers over and over and over again, in between shows. Absolutely one of my fondest memories is watching them with my dad.
G-d, Disney Channel was a large part of my childhood in the 2000s. I still remember Kim Possible, Yin Yang Yo, and the Lilo & Stitch series. I also loved Playhouse Disney.
I remember I was like 7 or 8 watching the making of Captain EO so amazed. They also showed a bunch of epcot stuff like the skipping fountains to play in.
A couple of years later I got to experience it all live and it didn't dissapoint!
Captain EO is pretty awesome. I got to see it when it originally was shown at Disneyland. I can't remember whose video I watched about the attraction, but they pointed out that it is one of the most entertainment talent elite packed productions in history, considering all who were involved: Disney, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, James Horner, Anjelica Huston, and of course Michael Jackson, (among others, including Jim Henson's creature shop, and choreographed by the same guy who choreographed "Beat It" and "Thriller.")
I can't remember what the segments were called anymore, but they were just little snippets with a kind of nerdy looking guy who would go around and either talk about new features in the park (Splash Mountain, Typhoon Lagoon) or would go in-depth about stuff like the audio-animatronics. Do you remember those? I still think of those to this day, because I remember Splash Mountain being one of those "NEVER!" things to my childhood self...and yet the other day I just stood in a 90-minute queue because I love it so much and refused to leave without riding it. :P
Typhoon Lagoon is still on my bucket list, and I'm determined I will FINALLY be going this summer. I've wanted to go ever since I saw it on one of those TDC segments right at opening, but my parents either couldn't afford it or weren't interested.
@@veryberry39 yes I totally remember those segments. And it's what really made me want to go to the park more than anything, and I finally got to experience it all in late '80s and also the early 90s. Typhoon Lagoon was awesome and that wave pool is to this day the biggest wave I've ever experienced in a wave pool, and there was a place where you could swim with sharks and I'll never forget that experience.
The first time I went we experienced Captain EO and the second time I got to experience Honey I Shrunk the Audience which was also very entertaining. We also did the behind the scenes where they showed the giant bee and that was really cool
Thanks for crediting me! Love your videos!
Will never forget the day Yesterworld snubbed Lilo and Stitch the Series from his script. You're on my list now, watch your back. (Keep up the great work loved the video)
The nostalgia vibes hit hard. In-between nick and CN, DC was my home and really was a nice blend of content. However with its slow closure I think its a sign that cable is on that slow and steady decay. No one is really watching cable and leaning towards streaming services and pretty soon we might just see a more stylized cable for the streaming age. Would be nice to not have to pay for more than one streaming service, but who knows if we'll reach that point. Regardless, I think DC was just generally good all around, but as it hit the 2010's struggled to find that shift in popularity. I believe Disney+ will be the better next generation so long as Disney can stick to the formula that made them successful(ish) prior- original and unique content...and some classics tossed in.
Same
Honestly there's so much streaming now that it just feels like you're basically paying for cable still
Maybe you could do an video on the Universe of Energy now that the attraction is closed and replace with Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.
I remember how odd the programming was back in the day (I was a Nickelodeon kid). But I lived for the "free preview weekend" as a kid !
I actually dug "Vault Disney" the few times I watched it. I remember watching a TV movie starring The Osmonds once and was pretty entertained by that.
The thing I remember most about the cable subscription era was the pre-show card that said how the following program was closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
And the "Hot Days, Cool Nights" jingle was peak summer in the 90s.
29:27 it reminds me of a mickey-themed tv i had in my room as a kid! :D
As someone who knew the Disney Channel back when (i.e., late '80s to mid '90s), I suppose I should count my blessings with them including much, if not all, of the vintage content on Disney Plus. It would be nice, though, if they did more old cartoons at the very least (again, I'm grateful they have any of the old cartoons at all).
as an 80s child, there was so much nostalgia in this video i was literally going OMG I REMEMBER THAT every 2 seconds
Disney XD actually had a lot licensed stuff when I was younger too that I remembered a lot and loved. Especially Slugterra, MaxSteel, and Pac Man and the Ghostly Adventures.
I remember Jetix and Disney Channel. It was always the proud family, the buzz on Maggie's, lilo and stitch, kim possible was my favorite, and various other anime as well. Great times the early 2000s.
Horrid times 21st Trash Millenium!
All the 80s/90s Epitome gone for totally retarded Pokemon/Teletubby CRAP!
Regards Gen X / Da Kool Kids of 80s
I will never forget how classic Disney Channel introduced me to three of my favorite "children's" films: The Fantastic Adventures Of Unico, Unico and the Island Of Magic, and The Mouse And His Child..... All three of these movies screwed me up in some pretty amazing ways. I love them.
Those films were defintely nightmare fuel for me. Especially the first Unico Anime.
They aired Unico? I remember renting the 2 Unico movies on VHS. First animes I ever saw.
For me, it was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Felix The Cat: The Movie, and The Great Mouse Detective. It was Encore that introduced me to The Secret of NIMH.
As a kid, Amber was obsessed with the Disney Channel and this was during the strange tween/teen content invasion where sitcoms and t.v movies about teens were everywhere and in retrospect, they were just boring and where the exact same as each other.
god, i was so upset when disney channel was taken off of air. i grew up watching playhouse disney, which was later rebranded to disney junior. i have fond memories of waking up on saturday mornings to watch it. my mom even has this video on an old camcorder that shows me and my sister as kids watching “mickey house clubhouse.” its the best form of nostalgia. and fast forward a few years later, on that SAME camcorder, there is a video of me and some close friends/family members singing a song together from “teen beach movie” in the car. this was during my 10th birthday.
I grew up LOVING the Disney Channel. From free weekends to the year my family were premium subscribers, to its addition to our basic cable package. As a little kid, I loved You & Me Kid and Mousercise - and enjoyed Pooh Corner and Dumbo’s circus with my little brother. ANYthing classic Disney, featuring Walt or filmed in the parks (Disneyland After Dark) were my ultimate favorite, clearly a fan of what eventually was packaged into Vault Disney. My time with The Disney Channel lasted though Kids Incorporated and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. Once MMC was dropped, I really didn’t have much interest in the other programming coming out of TDC, it just no longer felt like Disney to me. Also, I had a chip on my shoulder over MMC being canceled (and before I even got to audition). I still take that grudge out in Toy Story Midway Mania, as the ride resides in the former soundstage where MMC was filmed. Every once in a while, a zinger like Gravity Falls comes out, but those are few and far between. Granted, I’m a 43yr old queer fella, not exactly the demographic they’re after.
All of this ramble is to say thank you. Not only for the trip down memory lane, but for crystallizing the way I’ve felt about the fa of the channel into a concise thesis documentary. As always, YOU ARE AWESOME. Thank you!!
Disney Channel's Peak as a Premium Cable Channel was 1985-1990. Hitting its Best Subscriber Numbers in '89-90. The Thing that wasn't mentioned in the video is after the 1989-90 peak, TDC's Stubborn and frankly unremarkable Premium Channel Ecosystem begin to decline and profits started to slip, TDC had a Strong '90-91 performance, but that was the LAST of its glory days as Nickelodeon, its BIGGEST Competitor having spent the past 6 years as an Open Circuited/Basic Cable Channel after its first 5 years(1979-1984) as a Premium Cable Channel had been one of the biggest COMMERCIAL FAILURES and Cable TV Disasters in history had SURPASSED Disney Channel in Family Demographics by 1991, hitting a HISTORICAL peak that Year with 32 Million Annual Viewers.
TDC refused to go Open Circuited, believing that the PCC Ecosystem was completely distinguishable from Nickelodeon's RISE to prominence under the MTV Networks Umbrella, Disney believed that is "Sneak Peak" Free Weekend Broadcasting of making TDC accessible on Basic Cable free from Friday-Monday was keeping it viable.
Then, in Early 1992, Disney got a Rude Awakening with the Launch of Ted Turner's "Cartoon Network". Which had a Successful Test Run in Atlanta,GA in December 1991. In the Spring of 1992, CN exploded as a Commercially Successful NEW Premium Cable Channel across the East Coast which reached Middle America by the fall.
Disney Channel from 1991-1998 kept itself afloat by investing into being Mostly a Satellite Channel, but it watched as Cartoon Network gradually successfully chipped away TDC's Subscriber Base throughout the mid 1990s, everything came to a head when Turner and Time Warner Announced on January 1,1997 that come July 1st, Cartoon Network would discontinue operations as a Premium Only Channel and instead would be fully transitioning into an Open Circuited Basic Cable Channel. This is when Disney FINALLY saw the writing on the wall, as the Year 1997 turned out to be a Shattering Record Breaking Year for Cartoon Network with 60 Million Annual Viewers and International Markets Exploding,in ways Disney Channel Failed to a decade prior in Overseas Television.
Disney and Eisner decided to suck it up for '97 and most of '98, consolidating their programming, maintaining the solid Black they were in financially thanks to Lion King's Phenomenon and all of the Theatrical Features after it that were successful. Disney FINALLY announced on September 1st, that come December 4,1998, TDC would be added to Basic Cable.
Dumbo's Circus & Pooh Corner were probably the first TV series I ever saw. Sad to hear there are still missing episodes. It's weirdly still watchable as an adult. I'm actually subscribed to a CZcams channel that uploads episodes of Kids Incorporated. Remember watching it & Alf in the 80s when I got home from the YMCA. Good music to have in the background since the covers were good. I hadn't watched Disney since either the cancellation of Gargoyles or the 101 Dalmatians cartoon in the 90s, whichever came last. Only recently got Disney Plus to scratch the itch of rewatching X-Men TAS is preparation for X-Men 97.
All of those shows sounds like something that would air on a Christian tv channel all day long.
Boring. Lol
@@Dave102693 LMAO - no, no, no - you're thinking of Gerbert, McGee and Me, SuperBook, Psalty the Singing Songbook, The Gospel Bill Show, Colby's Clubhouse ... thank God we got out of that *cult* before they made me watch VeggieTales (which SO wasn't Kitchen Kabaret).
@@LikaLaruku Yeah, sometimes having old shows like Kids Inc and MMC in the background are nice "comfort TV."
I didn't even realize how similar Disney+ was to the original version of the Disney Channel. Just without the bumpers and scheduling basically.
One of my longtime hot takes was that Oliver and Company has one of the most heart-wrenching openings ever in a Disney movie (so heart-wrenching you might confuse it for a Don Bluth movie, which wouldn't surprise me if that had been intentional) and apparently they decided to do it again, because that Life is Ruff opening has the exact same setup and I'm glad someone else feels the same way. Regardless, thank you for doing this video. I was always intrigued by the Disney Channel as a kid because there's a lot of stuff I liked during their free preview weekends, but my parents refused to subscribe to it. By the time it went to basic cable, I was in high school and even though there were things on it that I liked, I was too old for Zoog Disney (which I completely forgot about until you mentioned it) and too young for Vault Disney (even though my parents watched it a lot), and by the time I became an adult who could appreciate Vault Disney more, it was gone. At least some of it is on Disney+, though (Alas, no Zorro other than the movie made from the first five episodes).
Zorro the whole entire series is now on disneyplus
Yesterworld: new video
Me: the Return of the king
The Fellowship of the Cable
The Two Programming Blocks
Return of the Programming
40:30 - People didn't want that last dog so bad, they manifested an entire other dog just so they could really drive home how unwanted it was.
I was born in 83 and felt like I just went through an acid flashback of weird fragmented memories. That Mickey mouse short where he's got the tv dinner, me too. So familiar yet 25 years removed.
I guess I owe Eisner a thank you for making the movies available on the channel, because them airing Robin Hood during a preview weekend (cuz we couldn't afford the extra subscription) was the first time I ever saw a Disney animated movie. Also, thank you for solving the mystery of "where the heck did I see The Raccoons despite not being Canadian", since it was probably another preview weekend.
You're not the only one who was first exposed to the Raccoons this way, or Danger Bay, or Road to Avonlea.
@@bradjames891 Avonlea...yes! i would've loved to watch it in canon real time in the late 80s-90s but was only able to catch it during Disney Channel preview weeks/weekends. i remember finally being able to find the Avonlea series finale episode on VHS around 2000 (possibly via ebay) and was still trying to catch up on the series as a whole, even on 9/11. (i still remember flipping though the cable channels to get to the one airing Avonlea reruns at 9:00am, on Sept 11, coming across the WTC 'North Tower fire' on CNN and Fox News...and yeah...history.)
I used to enjoy the Disney Channel when I was a kid, back when it played the old movies and original Mickey and Donald cartoons. Then that mostly went away except for the Disney Vault, which I still used to watch as a college aged adult. Once the channel switched to nothing but Hannah Montana type shows and stopped playing the classics, I checked out.
Same. They should have never even had a "vault". Pretty messed up to lock up all the content like that
Yes. I remember staying up late as a kid to watch the old stuff: Zorro, the original Mickey Mouse Club, the Wonderful World of Disney. When they played that with the mixture of Disney live action originals (So Weird, Famous Jett Jackson), original cartoons like DuckTales, and Playhouse Disney, those were the days...
@@Equalshares yeah, they basically purged all the actual Disney content and became a Nickelodeon clone.
Mousterpiece Theatre was great, as were Zorro and Swampfox. Always looked forward to A Disney Halloween and Darby O’Gill and the Little People each year.
Ahhhh! Vault Disney! It made me heart skip a beat! I watched Sunday night the Wonderful World of Disney on NBC as a lad. This WAS my night cap!
Loved this episode, it brought back so many good memories watching Disney Channel in early 2000s. Didn't know the channel has been around for a long time! Growing up in 2000s, while there were early internet, the internet is not like today, and media consumption wasn't as readily accessible like Netflix, Hulu, etc. (streaming services). To watch shows on certain time slots or certain days. If I want to watch a movie or TV show anytime I went with my family to a store physically in person to buy physical copies. I have a large DVD collection still. I didn't like renting movies from libraries/store locations like Blockbuster since it meant returning the movie later on, and I get attached to the movie/show. Sadly I don't have the VHS tapes anymore since VHS is not really a thing anymore. I know there's Blurays in stores, but it seems more cost efficient to just pay for monthly streaming service of choice nowadays to have access to many content, easy to watch on TV, laptops, smartphones, and gaming devices. Crazy how much times have changed over the years. Kids nowadays are glued to their devices all the time, mostly on CZcams, binging on internet content. They won't know what it's like looking forward to a show in a specific time slot in a certain day anymore. It's so easy to have a binge marathon nowadays thanks to the internet and streaming services. I still go to the store time to time if I really want to buy a physical copy of a movie or show I want to watch, but it is less often now, my focus shifted more to internet content and gaming.
In early 2000s cable TV also had ON DEMAND movies
All that hate for Dumbo's Circus and Welcome to Pooh Corner is uncalled for man. Stuff was magic as a kid.
The way you talk is a PERFECT fit with The Disney Channel from 1983 to 1994:) I grew up on it all through the 90s to 2004, and yet I'm completely obsessed with it from the 80s! I can't get enough of the promos from then, that VOICE ("The DISNEY Channel"), and the pictures of The Disney Channel Magazine from '83 to '89;)
I've made so many comments in here already that I didn't want to write another one just about the voice, but since someone else mentioned it... Hearing that voice just makes me instantly feel safe. :P It takes me right back to the apartment we lived in when I was a kid, and I miss those times!
@@veryberry39 You took the words right out of my mouth:):) I IMMEDIATELY grin listening to it, and it puts me in a good mood all day! It's so cool you lived in an apartment as a kid because so did I! 1989 to 1993 (from 1 to 5), and I sure did watch The Disney Channel all the time:):)
That voice was the late Jerry Bishop.
@@LogoMan7777 I'll forever adore him for it...