Bambi (TV series)

Bambi (also known as Bambi: The Series) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that aired on the ABC network as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning from August 14, 1999 to July 21, 2001. Based on the Disney animated film of the same name (which in turn was based on Felix Salten's book, Bambi, a Life in the Woods), the series follows Bambi's life in the woods as he discovers new things and encounters strange events. Although it does take place after the death of Bambi's mother and before Bambi becomes an adult buck, the series is non-canon to the original film and it's midquel.

Premise
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Main characters

 * Bambi (voiced by Noah Luke) - Coming soon!
 * Thumper (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Flower (voiced by Tara Strong) - Coming soon!

Supporting/Recurring characters

 * The Great Prince of the Forest (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Faline (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Friend Owl (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Mrs. Hare (voiced by Kath Soucie) - Coming soon!
 * Thumper's Sisters (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Mrs. Quail (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Edgar (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Ronno (voiced by E.G. Daily) - Coming soon!
 * Miss Bunny (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Hunter, Red and Willy (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!
 * Kitsune (voiced by TBD) - Coming soon!

Production
The show began production in early 1998, where Disney, after seeing the potential for more Bambi material, thanks to the success of the original film's home media releases from 1997 during its limited period of availability, decided to start production on a new TV series that would be based on the first film.

The first season was animated using cel animation, while the second season instead used digital ink and paint animation.

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United States
While most episodes of Season 1, as well as all of Season 2, premiered on ABC, nearly about half of the Season 1 episodes premiered on UPN. After the series ended its run on July 21, 2001, it began airing in reruns on ABC, beginning on August 18, 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning, and continuing to air reruns, even during the first season of One Saturday Morning's successor, ABC Kids, up until September 13, 2003, when the show was pre-emptied in favor of the then-soon-to-premiere Lilo and Stitch: The Series.

In addition to ABC, the show also aired in reruns on UPN's Disney's One Too up until its rebranding to Disney's Animation Weekdays, Toon Disney from March 19, 2002 to January 25, 2008, and on Disney Channel from October 7, 2002 to September 19, 2010, where it would be taken off the air for about one and a half years. It would eventually return to television as part of the Disney Junior channel, where it was shown in edited reruns from March 23, 2012, the same day that the channel launched, to May 14, 2014, when the Bambi series reran for one final time on television.

The series became available for streaming on Disney+ on November 12, 2019, the same day that the streaming service became available in the US, in restored high definition, but was kept in its original 4x3 ratio rather than being zoomed in to give it a 16x9 ratio unlike most of the other HD-remastered cartoons from the 80s-00s, similar to the likes of The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmatians: The Series and the first 19.5 seasons of The Simpsons as of June 2020.

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Trivia
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