Walt Disney Television Animation

Walt Disney Television Animation is an animation production company that is a division of the The Walt Disney Company.

Gary Krisel founded the studio on December 5th, 1984 shortly after he he joined the company. Before then, producing an original animation series for television was considered economically unfeasible. In 1986, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, followed up shortly afterwards with DuckTales.

While some shows like were produced exclusive to a specific station, like The Little Mermaid to CBS and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh to the (then-premiere cable) Disney Channel, other shows such Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, and Aladdin soon made up what would be the studio's television syndication block known as the Disney Afternoon, which ran for seven seasons. From 1997 to 2002, the studio produced various series (including The Goliath Chronicles) for One Saturday Morning, the weekly animation block that aired on the recently-acquired ABC network.

In 2003, the animation studio became a division of the Disney Channel, which eventually came to include fellow cable channels ABC Family, Toon Disney, and Playhouse Disney (later Freeform, Disney XD, and Disney Jr., respectively) and (since 2019) the streaming service, Disney+. The studio has since been renamed Disney Television Animation, and continues to produce animated series like Kim Possible, the DuckTales reboot, and Amphibia for the various Disney-owned channels and services.

See Also

• Walt Disney Television Animation at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia