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In February 2002, Television Animation continued to take advantage of President’s Day weekend with the successful release of Return to Never Land, giving flight to a new adventure for Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook. Coming in the same weekend in February 2003, Mowgli and Baloo will reunite in The Jungle Book 2, the sequel to the 1967 classic, featuring the voices of John Goodman as Baloo and Haley Joel Osment as Mowgli.

In the spring, the Winnie the Pooh franchise comes once again to the big screen as the littlest member of the Hundred Acre Wood gets top billing in Piglet’s Big Movie, with wonderful music provided by songwriting legend Carly Simon. This film joins another recent addition to the Pooh saga, the Disney Video premiere of A Very Merry Pooh Year, which debuted for the holidays in 2002.

Television Animation’s successful Disney Video Premiere sequels continued to gain global popularity with 2002’s successful release of Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, an enchanting look at “happily ever after.”

The next premiere from Disney Video Premieres is 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure – the animated sequel to the 1961 Disney film classic – debuting in January.

Meanwhile, Disney Television Animation was true to its name with the creation of successful new television shows. Kim Possible launched on the Disney Channel in the summer. The show is becoming a strong new animation franchise – with a live-action feature film and its own Disney Video Premiere in the works. Disney’s Teamo Supremo successfully opened 2002 with the ABC premiere of the series’ retro-futuristic, colorful approach to superhero cartoons. Disney’s Fillmore gave middle school crime-fighters a new leader with its fall 2002 debut on ABC Kids.