Welcome to Pooh Corner Children's Television Series Review

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Welcome To Pooh Corner Television Series

Do you remember the television series Welcome to Pooh Corner? The popular children's television show aired for three years, beginning in 1983 and it also ran in reruns until 1997.

Welcome to Pooh Corner was a Disney Channel live-action puppet series featuring real people, people in costumes with radio controlled 'puppetronics' and one 'ordinary' puppet. The animatronic costumes were developed by Ken Forsse and Alchemy II who later developed the very popular Teddy Ruxpin.

Each show was presented by a friendly and warm older man played by Laurie Main. He opened each episode from a comfy chair with a book on his lap and a stuffed toy at his side. He would tell the tale of an event that had happened in the Hundred Acre Wood and relate it to a topic at hand and then he would read a story from Welcome to Pooh Corner. As he narrated, the action was recreated by the Pooh chracters.

Welcome to Pooh Corner featured no commercials as it was created for The Disney Channel before it began airing commercials. Each episode therefore is actually 30 minutes long. After the main story finished, there were two shorter stories. One of these segments was a music video and the other, an arts and crafts segment. There were regular episodes made as well as holiday and educational episodes.

The Welcome To Pooh Corner series was sold on VHS videotape and has never been reproduced on DVD, making the videotapes somewhat rare, much sought after and very expensive. Note that not every episode was released on video.

On this page, read more about Welcome to Pooh Corner and, if you are searching for copies of these shows, you will find links to buy the videos so that you can add these rare VHS videotapes to your collection.

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Welcome To Pooh Corner
followed the movie,
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Welcome To Pooh Corner Video

This video features the original commercial advertisement for this Winnie The Pooh television show.

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Welcome To Pooh Corner Introduction Video

This video features the opening of the show.

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Fast Facts About Welcome To Pooh Corner

CHARACTERS:

Hal Smith - Pooh and Owl
Will Ryan - Tigger and Rabbit
Phil Baron - Piglet
Ron Gans - Eeyore
Kim Christianson - Kanga and Roo
  • DIRECTOR: Denise McKenna
  • WRITERS: A.A. Milne and Mark Stratton
  • RELEASE DATE: April 18, 1983
  • RUNTIME: 30 minutes per episode
  • DVD RELEASE DATE: Only available on VHS videotape. No DVD version has been released.

Wikipedia Lists These Differences Between This and Other Winnie The Pooh Shows

  • Piglet always wears a scarf or a muffler and is musically inclined.
  • Tigger is not orange but rather red with black stripes and he is artistically inclined.
  • Rabbit is both a gardener and a magician.
  • Eeyore loves and is a talented dancer.
  • Owl wears glasses and often a pilot's hat and scarf. He also loves to cook.
  • Roo began as a toddler. However, later in the series he was more of a preschool aged child. He always was dressed in red.

Amazon Customer Review

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"My words will be inadequate to describe how good Welcome to Pooh Corner is. No other children's show comes close to the quality of this series. I would be willing to pay big bucks to have the entire series (all 120 episodes) on DVD. If that ever happens, I hope it will include bonus materials to tell us how it was done--who wrote the scripts, did the music, manned the characters, did the voices, etc.

Every episode had warmth, humor, and charm, and taught good values. It appeals to adults as well as children.

The songs were fabulous. How did the actors make those puppet heads convey such emotion and how did they synchronize the voices with the facial expressions?

The backdrops and scenery were beautiful also.

What an amazing bunch of talented people worked on this show!

I watched Welcome to Pooh Corner with my sons when they were little and now with my granddaughter. I wish I had recorded every episode from the Disney Channel, but I only got 9 of them. Then I bought the 6-volume tape series." ~ Ferrin Sanders

Walt Disney Home Video Released Six VHS Videotapes In The United States in the 1980s

(Different tapes were released in the United Kingdom.)

  • VOLUME ONE: You Need A Friend, Doing What I Do Best, The Pooh Scouts and Brighten Your Corner.
  • VOLUME TWO: Safety First, Rabbit Learns to Share, The Great Outdoors and Surprise, Surprise.
  • VOLUME THREE: Piglet Pride, Roo's Great Adventure, Eeyore Talks to Himself and Snow Falls On Pooh Corner.
  • VOLUME FOUR: Hello, Hello There, Practice Makes Perfect, The Old Swimming Hole and Pooh Makes a Trade.
  • VOLUME FIVE: A Bicycle Built for Five, My Echo and I, Pooh Learns to Remember and Wishing.
  • VOLUME SIX: Don't Quit, Holiday for Pooh Bear, Pooh Builds a Bee House and Piglet Lends a Helping Hand.

Order Your Copy of Welcome To Pooh Corner From Amazon Right Here

Sellers on Amazon have Volumes 1 through 6 available.

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Holiday and Educational Welcome To Pooh Corner Episodes

  • Because It's Halloween
  • Pooh Corner Thanksgiving
  • Christmas at Pooh Corner
  • Pooh's Funny Valentine's Day
  • Christmas Is For Sharing
  • Too Smart for Strangers
  • Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure

Welcome to Pooh Corner's Too Smart For Strangers Video

The Not-Okay Touching Video

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More Rare VHS Videotapes

Including a page with instructions on how to preserve your rare videos.

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Welcome To Pooh Corner is
"truly 80s and truly a gem.
It was the first Winnie-the-Pooh
show to ever air (even before
"The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh"
cartoon show) and it had all the
campy charm and wholesome fun,
which appealed to kids and adults..."
~~ Johnny Italian

Are you familiar with Welcome to Pooh Corner?

  • lesley May 19, 2011 @ 4:57 pm | delete
    i have an autistic daughter who is 24 and she grew up on pooh corner and still to thiis day begs to see it please disney release all episodes on dvd i beg you
  • Joan4 Jul 29, 2010 @ 8:09 pm | delete
    Oh we loved Pooh when our kids were small and now we are loving Pooh again with our grandchildren!
  • rms Jul 27, 2010 @ 6:21 am | delete
    Too darn cute!
  • Susan52 Jul 26, 2010 @ 5:44 pm | delete
    Somehow we missed this series, which is too bad since my children were just the right age during the years it was on TV. I can see why Welcome to Pooh Corner tapes have become collectible.
  • stargazer00 Jul 26, 2010 @ 12:30 pm | delete
    We have some adorable Winnie the Pooh VHS videos but I don't think it is this set. The kids loved them and so did I.

Welcome To Pooh Corner Episode List

welcome-to-pooh-corner-volume-2Pooh Borrows Trouble
Handyman Tigger
Pooh Shows Tigger A Bright Side
Eeyore Solves A Problem
Owl Has A Party For His Auntiversary
Kanga and Roo Learn Where Home Is
Pooh and His Friends Take Pot Luck
Big Little Piglet
There's No Place Like Owl's Place
Roo's Great Adventure
You Need a Friend
A Brand New Sign
Piglet Sings Out
Pooh Corner Singing Society
Pooh Gets a Turn
A House is Blown Down
Singing Helps the Work Along
Be of Good Cheer
The Old Swimming Hole
Practice Makes Perfect
Pooh and His Friends Play Follow the Leader
A House of a Different Color
Piglet Pride
Eeyore Joins the Band
Eeyore's Costume Party
Eeyore's Gift
Feelings
A Swing for Eeyore
Little Things
Rabbit and Eeyore Do a Good Deed
Piglet Lends A Helping Hand
Do It Now
Pooh Goes Boom
It Must Be Fall
It Must Be Spring
It Must Be Summer
Rabbit's Treasure Hunt
Strawberry Time
Sleepytime Tigger
Eeyore's Tea Party
Safety First
Clouds
Rules of the Game
Wishing
The Fastest Rabbit in the Wood
Piglet Cares for a Carrot
Carrots, Carrots and More Carrots
Eeyore's Island
The Pooh Scouts
Let's Pretend
Song of Eeyore
Pooh Corner Carnival
Many Things: Lost and Found
Roo Gets Lost
Hi Neighbor
Happy Birthday, Roo
All Fall Down
Rabbit Wins One for the Tigger
Spaghetti
Eeyore Goes Exploring
Pooh Corner On Parade
Tale of a Tail
Iceboat Cometh
Rabbit Learns to Share
Tigger's Day Off
Rabbit's Cousin
Tigger Takes A Fall
Dress Up Day
Bright Idea
Piglet's Secret Place is Safe
The Great Outdoors
Pooh Forgets to Remember
Pooh Learns to Remember
The Great Kite Race
Stay at Home Adventure
Surprise, Surprise
Look Around, Look Around
Fine-Feathered Friend
Pooh Builds a Bee House
Doing What I Do Best
To Be A Friend
Eeyore Talks to Himself
Pooh Makes a Trade
Hello, Hello There
Butterflies Tigger
Piglet Sees Spots
Pooh Scouts Campout
The Man in the Moon is a Tigger
Heat Wave
My Echo and I
Snow Falls on Pooh Corner
The Long, Long Walk
Don't Quit
Mystery of the Missing Tail
Now You See It
Strawberry Time
Pooh Corner School
Poor Eeyore
Piglet's Slumber Party
Piglet Finds Out Who His Friends Are
A Mysterious Noise Keeps Piglet Awake
Treasures Island
When I Was Younger
Very Beautiful Day
Piglet Learns to Swing
There's A Party Going Round
Almost Perfect Picnic
A Bicycle Built for Five
Home is Better
Day for Knights
The Fastest Does Not Win the Race
Brighten Your Corner
Pooh and His Friends Switch Places
Pooh Cleans Up
Tigger Finds A Hobby

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