Disney Channel Spring Preview 1990 Part 2 of 5

Here's part 2 of about 50 minutes of advertising for The Disney Channel that aired on April 15th, 1990 during one of their preview weekends. Witness how great this channel used to be.

1. Promo for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (Behind the scenes footage likely from an EPK for the film)
2. Promo for Muppet shows, specials and films ("The Muppets Take Manhattan", "Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series", "The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show", "Hey Cinderella!", "The Frog Prince" and "Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories")
3. Promo for "Tale Spin"
4. Promo for "The New Mickey Mouse Club"
5. Promo for "Avonlea"
6. Promo for Disney Movies ("20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", "That Darn Cat!", "Flight of the Navigator", "Johnny Tremaine", "The Watcher in the Woods", "The Parent Trap", "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin", "Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue" and "The Shaggy Dog")
7. Promo for Disney Channel Specials ("The Temptations Get Ready", "Paul Simon: Solo", "The Sinatra Television Library", "Ashford and Simpson: Going Home", "Fantasia: The Making of a Disney Classic" and "The Disneyland Story" hosted by Harry Anderson)

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[qualityseth]

Does anyone have any information on the episode of Talespin shown in this promo? I'm guessing It must be a full episode, maybe the original pilot? Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[80sCommercialVault]

It looks more like an extended promo, used to sell the show to advertisers...not an entire episode. The pilot episode has none of that stuff.

[qualityseth]

Yes, I know its not considered to be the true pilot. That was the movie: Plunder and Lightning... but there must be more to it. I wish there was a way to see it all.

Thanks for the info.

[80sCommercialVault]

I don't actually think there is more to it. It looks completely self contained.

Like I said, it was either something shown to advertisers or perhaps an early version of the intro.

[ElectroX24]

Jim Henson should have came up with his own channel instead of giving all his shows for Disney fo fill up their time slots

[80sCommercialVault]

He didn't "give" his properties away, he was negotiating to sell the Jim Henson Company to Disney for $150 Million and retain complete creative control. He died around a month after this aired and the deal fell through. Since then Disney has bought the Muppet characters.

[TheMcdust]

Disney has gone down the toilet lately, the park is still awesome but the tv shows now suck.

[ReijiThePhantom]

I taped both Hey Cinderella and The Frog Prince when the Disney Channel aired them. I still have that tape in my "retro" video library.

[LittleLulubee]

Random question: Does anybody remember the name of a Disney tv movie from 1990, which had a scene of a house party, with a bunch of teens dancing? Thanks!

[MermaidJassica]

i was born 7 years after this

[ccipollini1984]

God in heaven what I wouldn't do for someone to kill the Disney execs of  today...

[Sheri451]

@qualityseth I LOVED Avonlea. I watched it for it's entire run on Disney. In Canada they called it The Road To Avonlea.

[Sheri451]

My niece used to love Fraggle Rock, she called it Fwaggle Wock. Her son talked like that when he was three too. He called our dog Lucky Wucky.

[dan1986ist]

remember seeing Tail Spin, when I was younger, and Fraggle Rock on HBO.

[Delvus85]

what bothers me is how they keep saying here "something for everyone in the family" etc....that was walts thing, for the parents & children to have fun together....what aprent has fun watching miley cyrus/??? I would pay to have this channel.....like I used to..

[oasisongbird]

OMG!! Mother Goose Stories!! I LOVED that as a kid!....even had (and still have)the Talking Mother Goose that looked like the one in the show!

God, The Disney Channel has gone down the sh**ter now :(

[HLJokerRP]

Jim henson died the month after this