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==See Also==
==See Also==
===Disney Channel===
===Disney Channel===
*[[101 Dalmatians: The Series (partially found unaired pilot episode of Disney animated TV series; 1996)]]
*[[Amazing Animals (found Disney Channel animated educational series; 1996-1999)]]
*[[Arwin! (partially found pilot of cancelled "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" spin-off TV series; 2007)]]
*[[Disney Channel Interactive (lost Dish Network game channel; late 2000s)]]
*[[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 unreleased pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2009)]]
*[[Going Wild with Jeff Corwin (partially found Disney documentary TV series; 1997-1999)]]
*[[Gravity Falls (found Comic Con 2012 promo of animated series; 2012)]]
*[[Gravity Falls (found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series; 2010)]]
*[[Hannah Montana (lost production material of cancelled anime adaptation of Disney Channel teen sitcom; 2009-2010)]]
*[[Katbot (partially found unreleased Disney animated TV series; 2005)]]
*[[Lizzie McGuire "Season 3" (lost production material of unfinished season of Disney Channel comedy series; 2020)]]
*[[Minnie Takes Care of Pluto (found original English audio of Mickey Mouse Works animated short; 2000)]]
*[[Mousercise (partially found Disney Channel exercise series; 1983-1996)]]
*[[Mouseterpiece Theater (partially found Disney Channel cartoon compilation TV series; 1983-1990)]]
*[[Pepper Ann (partially found pilot episode of Disney animated series; 1996)]]
*[[Phineas and Ferb (lost script of cancelled theatrical film based on animated series; 2010s)]]
*[[Phineas and Ferb: Shooting Star Milkshake Bar (partially found full version of song; late 2000s)]]
*[[Phineas and Ferb: Spot the Diff (found Disney Channel animated special; 2008)]]
*[[Recess "The Break In" (partially found pilot of Disney animated TV series; 1996)]]
*[[Star and the Forces of Evil (partially found unaired pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2011)]]
*[[Talespin - Phil Harris performance (lost audio recordings from Disney animated TV series; 1990)]]
*[[Teen Angel (partially found Disney Channel serial drama; 1989)]]
*[[The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (partially found Disney Channel original series; 1989-1994)]]
*[[The Jersey (partially lost Disney Channel sports themed comedy series; 1999-2004)]]
*[[The Owl House (partially found unaired pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2017)]]
*[[The Proud Family (partially lost unaired Nickelodeon pilot of Disney Channel animated sitcom; 1999)]]
*[[Welcome to Pooh Corner (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1983-1986)]]
*[[Welcome to Pooh Corner (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1983-1986)]]
*[[Dumbo's Circus (partially found Disney Channel live action puppet series; 1985-1986)]]
*[[What's Stevie Thinking? (lost unaired pilot of cancelled "Lizzie McGuire" spin-off TV series; 2003)]]


===Playhouse Disney===
===Playhouse Disney===
*[[Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos (partially found Playhouse Disney animated short series; 2004-2007)]]
*[[Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos (partially found Playhouse Disney animated short series; 2004-2007)]]
*[[Bear in the Big Blue House "Water, Water Everywhere" (lost unaired pilot of Disney Channel puppet series; 1997)]]
*[[Bear in the Big Blue House (partially lost original English audio of Playhouse Disney puppet series; 1997-2006)]]
*[[Bear in the Big Blue House (partially lost original English audio of Playhouse Disney puppet series; 1997-2006)]]
*[[Breakfast with Bear (partially found episodes of Playhouse Disney spin-off series; 2005-2006)]]
*[[Breakfast with Bear (partially found episodes of Playhouse Disney spin-off series; 2005-2006)]]
*[[Handy Manny (partially found unaired pilot of Disney children's animated TV series; 2005)]]
*[[Little Einsteins (lost second pitch pilot of Playhouse Disney animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2004)]]
*[[Out of the Box (partially lost Playhouse Disney children's series; 1998-2004)]]
*[[PB&J Otter (partially found original credits sequences of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1998-2000)]]
*[[Stanley (found unaired pilot episode of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1999)]]
*[[Stanley (found unaired pilot episode of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1999)]]
*[[Out of the Box (partially lost Playhouse Disney children's series; 1998-2004)]]
*[[The Book of Pooh (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2001-2004)]]
*[[The Book of Pooh (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2001-2004)]]
*[[PB&J Otter (partially found original credits sequences of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1998-2000)]]
*[[Handy Manny (partially found unaired pilot of Disney children's animated TV series; 2005)]]


===Disney Junior===
===Disney Junior===
*[[Jungle Junction (lost pilots of Disney Junior CGI animated series; 2003; 2005; 2008)]]
*[[Jungle Junction (lost pilots of Disney Junior CGI animated series; 2003; 2005; 2008)]]
===Toon Disney===
*[[Toon News (partially found CGI Interstitial Toon Disney series; 2004/2005)]]
===Disney XD===
*[[Billion Dollar Freshmen (lost unaired pilot episode of "Lab Rats" Disney XD live-action comedy TV series; 2010)]]
*[[DXP (partially found Disney XD video game block; 2017)]]
===Other===
*[[Bonkers "Fall Apart Bomb Squad" (found episode of Disney Channel animated series; 1993)]]
*[[Disney's One Too - Recess gags (partially lost series of animated shorts; 1999-2003)]]
*[[Green Monkeys (lost Disney pilot; 1999)]]
*[[Herbie the Lovebug (lost animated pilot; late 1990s-2000s)]]
*[[La Chambre Folle (lost French Disney children's TV block; 1998)]]
*[[Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (found English dub of anime series; 2015)]]
*[[Power Rangers Animated Series (lost Disney XD pilot; existence unconfirmed; 2007-2009)]]
*[[Robodz (lost 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)]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 06:54, 31 October 2021

Playhouse Disney UK Dave and Alex.png

A picture of Big Dave and Little Alex, the main presenters.

Status: Partially Lost

Playhouse Disney was a brand used by The Walt Disney Company for the preschool strand on Disney Channel around the world, and was also its own dedicated channel in a few regions outside North America.

About

Playhouse Disney outside the United States for many years was completely different from its US counterpart, featuring a format set within a live-action "Playhouse" set that contained the main room, a bedroom, an attic, a bathroom, and a garden. It was produced and created by Andrew Beecham, who later would go on to work for NBCUniversal and run PBS Kids Sprout.

The United Kingdom was the first to use this format, which on Disney Channel replaced the already-existing "Underfives" block on September 29, 1999. The presenters who fronted this version were legendary British children's presenter Dave Benson Phillips (Nicknamed as "Big Dave") and newcomer Alex Lovell (Nicknamed as "Little Alex"). The two would dance, sing, interact with the audience and do activities in relation to a "Day", where the focus would be on a related topic, like a hobby, an activity, a part of the body, an animal, or a character featured on the block/channel. A year later, Playhouse Disney expanded to its own channel on Sky Digital (and later on Cable). In later years, the Disney Channel block was removed, and a puppet named Monty Mole joined the channel, appearing with Dave and Alex on occasion.

Other mini-segments featured in the main portion included a Birthday segment, which featured Dave and Alex interacting and dancing with a talking/singing Birthday cake named Victoria Sponge (Voiced by Michael Omer, the format's composer from 1999-2002, and later Dave Benson Phillips himself from 2002-2003) and then later interacting with Mickey the Mouse, a real-life mouse who lived in a smaller replica of the Playhouse.

Viewer-sent Images were also shown off. Normally, Dave or Alex would retrieve these from the Playhouse Postman (played by Phil Gallagher) and would soon put them down. Then, two talking picture-heads/gargoyles named Auntie Rosie and Uncle Charlie (Voice actors unknown) would come to life when Dave or Alex was not around. Normally, they would trick the presenters by doing things like ringing the doorbell so they could talk while they never noticed. Normally, after the segments were finished, the two presenters would ask the viewers about them and would be certain they never did a thing. Sometimes, a character called "Mini Jack" (played by Phil Gallagher) would interract with Dave in the early days.

Alongside this main format, there were several alternate programs/strands featured as well:

  • Circle Time - Presented by Jason Canning (Jason Anthony as of late-2018), this strand featured Jason with a group of children who would draw, and would inspire him to tell a story told with pictures sent in by real-life viewers. It is very similar to a strand of the same name used on the US Playhouse Disney block. The strand was retired in 2003 after Canning's departure.
  • Art Play - This strand focused on making and creating a Disney-inspired art piece or thing with items you can find at home. The first version was presented by Sara-Louise Harper, who did the work with some children. After she left in 2003 after pregnancy, she was replaced with a new presenter named Olivia Bonnochi, with the second version featuring a changed format that features her and a puppet made out of household goods named Splodge doing the work themselves.
  • Music Time - This strand featured Dave or Alex singing a Disney song on location.
  • Bite Size - A cookery show made for children that originally debuted as a stand-alone program on Disney Channel in 1998 before becoming a Playhouse Disney strand. Dave (as "Deep-Fried Dave") would make a Disney-related food dish with puppet Mitzi the Oven Glove (Puppeted and voiced by Cathrine Smee). In the show's early days, other presenters also fronted the program, known ones being Karl Wooley (as "Krispy Karl"), and Sophie Aldred (as "Stir-Fry Sophie").
  • Paws - An animal strand fronted by a presenter named Nick Spellman. This segment was added in late-2000 and currently, is the only strand to currently be fully lost.
  • The Story Garden - A story-book-related strand fronted by a woman named Pumpkin (Actor unknown). This segment was added in mid-2002, and is similar to Circle Time in a way with the viewer-sent images. However, unlike Circle Time, Pumpkin puts herself in the story as she tells it.

In Mid-2004, a new strand titled PJ's Bedtime was introduced. This new strand featured Dave and new presenter Olivia, helping the puppet PJ Mole (Puppeteered and voiced by Marcus Clarke) get ready for bed.

By September 2004, the segments were given a makeover, with a new-look set and new shirts for Dave and Alex. Almost all of the 2004-2005 segments are lost apart from a TV advert from the latter year that was included on "The Songs of Playhouse Disney" DVD. By 2006, everything from the era had been retired following Playhouse Disney and sister channel Disney Channel's transition from being premium add-on networks into standard channels.

Other items

Playhouse Disney UK has seen very little merchandise, with what came out from this era being very rare and hard to find.

A promotional VHS given out with Practical Parenting magazine was released in 2000, which contained especially-recorded segments of Little Alex showcasing what Playhouse Disney was about. Some of the clips featured on the tape were uploaded to YouTube by the composer Michael Omer's official channel in 2009, and the entire tape was later uploaded onto the site by the user "VHS dump" on March 28, 2021. [1]"The cover to the tape was also lost until it was ripped by VHS dump to fellow Playhouse Disney archivist LTPHarry, who soon uploaded the cover to the Disney Wiki on Fandom.

A promotional CD sampler titled "Come On, Join In" was released by Walt Disney Records in Mid-2003 which featured three Playhouse songs, and three songs from different shows. This release is notable as it features the only high-quality version of the Bite Size song "We're Cooking". Other than a low-quality scan of the cover, the content on this CD was considered lost until the user LTPHarry purchased a copy on eBay in February 2020 and uploaded it to the Internet Archive. [2]

A full CD/DVD release titled "The Songs of Playhouse Disney" was released in September 2005 by Warner Vision International. The DVD consisted of sing-along versions of some of the songs featured on the CD. Clips from the DVD were previously uploaded to an unknown YouTube account until it was terminated in the 2010s, however LTPHarry soon bought a copy and "re-uploaded" the Playhouse-related videos from the DVD on YouTube, and uploaded the whole CD onto the Internet Archive.[3]

Live Show

A live show toured shopping centres around the UK from 2001-2003. Other than a few pictures from the 2002 event and website information from the 2003 event, very little is known about them as they were solely produced to promote the channel.

Known "Days"

Many of the listed days for each year are practically unknown as there has never been a full list featured, and as of 2021, only 2002's entire day listing has been found.[4]

1999

  • Bear Day (Partly Found on the Discover Playhouse Disney VHS)
  • Noisy Day (Partly Found on the Discover Playhouse Disney VHS)

2001

  • Baby Day

2002

  • Boat Day
  • Flying Day
  • Train Day
  • Garden Day
  • Carnival Day
  • Silly Day
  • Decorating Day
  • Poorly Day
  • Winnie The Pooh Day
  • Time Day
  • Shell Day
  • Uniform Day
  • Stanley Day
  • Monster Day
  • Holiday Day
  • Cleaning Day
  • Hair Day
  • Excercise Day
  • Hot Day
  • Cold Day

Unknown

  • Post Day (Partly Found)
  • Bug Day (Partly Found)
  • Shapes Day (Partly Found)
  • Space Day

Strands with partially-found segments

Circle Time

  • The Bouncy Ball[5]
  • Goofy's Christmas[6]
  • Henry the Hippo[7]
  • The Little Cloud[8]
  • The Magic Laces[9]
  • Lucy and the Lolly Sticks[10]
  • The Slowest Snail[11]

Art Play

  • Buzz Lightyear
  • Aladdin's Magic Carpet[12]
  • Mitzi the Oven Glove (Found on the Discover Playhouse Disney VHS)

Music Time

  • Never Smile at a Crocodile[13]
  • Zip-a-Dee Doo Dah[14]
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious[15]
  • I Wan'na Be Like You[16]
  • It's a Small World[17]
  • The Bare Necessities

Bite Size

  • Simba Salad[18]
  • Sunshine Toast (Found on the Discover Playhouse Disney VHS)

The Story Garden

Other

  • Birthday Segment from 2002[20]
  • Circle Time lead-in from 2001[21]
  • Continuity from February 2001[22]
  • Lineup of continuity links and segments from a 2003 rebroadcast of "Shapes Day" [23]

See Also

Disney Channel

Playhouse Disney

Disney Junior

Toon Disney

Disney XD

Other

References