The Good Days of Toon Disney

There is a place called Toon Disney.
It's only on premium cable.
But the picture above, is not the one I love.
It's the one we see today.
But let's take a look on it's heyday.
Since it got it like it was - yesterday...

Toon Disney's Golden Ages (according to my experience)

Another done day of school, so much work, like a mad clerck.
Then my father picks me up (I didn't take the bus xD) to show me a big surpirse.
We're at our local cable company and he said "We're switching to premium cable, son!".
I was SOOOOOO exicted.
When we came back home, I was excited than ever before!
I was flipping through the channels, the I saw something ATRACTIVE, something ingenuis, something inovative, something inspriational. It was...

TOON DISNEY!

It became my favorite channel of all time! It had classic Disney shows like Pepper Ann and such! It was almost a trip to memory lane! And I like, almost watched it through the WHOOOLE night on New Year's Eve 2003! 2004 came and Toon Disney was still goin' strong, but one thing that was unimportant to me came on Valentine's Day.

It was Jetix, or as they say it: "JEH-TICKSSS!"

The nightly block was good, but had too much Power Rangers in my opinion. Now, here is a treat. The Toon Disney schedule as of early 2004!

Toon Disney Today

Toon Disney is no longer my favorite channel anymore. It has animated crap from Disney Channel and the Jetix block is now 14-17 hours a day! It shows only a FEW classic shows and those are Recess, TaleSpin, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The Tick, and Pinky and The Brain. Those are good, but I WANT Pepper Ann, DuckTales, Hercules, 101 Dalmations, Teacher's Pet, Teamo Supremo, Disney's Doug (yeah I'm a fan of the new one), Garfield & Friends, Lloyd In Space, Timon & Pumbaa, and the DOUBLE FEATURE MOVIE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

We must send a message to Disney-ABC Television Group that simply says "BRING BACK THE GOLDEN YEARS OF TOON DISNEY!"

A Little Memorial:

Toon Disney: 1998-2006
Your golden years must rest in peace for now...

Comments

ducktalesfan1977Posted: 11/04/2007

Besides most of the cartoons you mentioned were not that great. They are the reason why I started watching stuff like Married With Children and the Simpsons.

mlw1984Posted: 11/25/2007

To be honest, I think Toon Disney wasn't all that great. They did air the Disney Afternoon shows but after they took them off (or started editing them) and made room for the One Saturday Morning shows, I stopped watching.

And I don't recall seeing any advertisement claiming Toon Disney to be a "retro" network. It's for Disney cartoons IN GENERAL, not just the old ones. If so, they would also be playing the theatrical shorts from 1928-1966 as well along with the classic animated films.

Unfortunately, they would have to take off the old shows to make room for the new ones, that's how every network works! If you don't like it, then don't watch it. We aren't even in the target audience anymore, so why waste your time complaining about something you can't change. Yes, Jetix is eating Toon Disney alive, but we can't do anything about it.

Besides some of these cartoons are on DVD already (Chip n Dale RR, Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles and Tale Spin). Since all of these shows were re-ran dozens and dozens of times since 1998 (and earlier) you had dozens of chances to tape them and since if you didn't, then it's too late.

I don't like the changes on Toon Disney now, but it must happen. Networks rely on old shows when they first start up because it's cheaper to run and the network has no money yet. When they have established, then they can start making original shows. I hate it when it happens, but it must.

This is nothing more than another "Cartoons suck now" article.

mlw1984Posted: 11/25/2007

Besides, shows like Pepper Ann and Doug (Disney version) aren't that old, nor they are "classics".

childofthe1970sPosted: 11/29/2007

Toon Disney was never good. They played the theatrical shorts in their edited form. I never cared for the Disney tv cartoons.

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