Name that voice...

I learn so much from my sisters. They'll hear a voice and say, "Where have we heard this before?" But they usually can call it before IMDB tells them. A common one is Sterling Holloway, best known for Winnie the Pooh. Here are some other voices he's done:

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

Kaa in the Jungle Book

Mr. Stork from Dumbo and Lambert the Sheepish Lion

Bridget was able to pinpoint that the mean flowers in Alice in wonderland

are also in Dumbo:

And Lucy knew that the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland...

...is Mr. Smee from Peter Pan. (Aka, Bill Thompson)

There's been a moon shot in every movie.*

Even when Alice falls down into what seems the middle of the earth, there's still this:

It's the cheshire cat, of course.

*I thiiink. At least the animated ones, maybe.

Dumbo's Circus (1985-1988)

Anyone else grow up with this show? This gem of a disney channel show ran for three and a half seasons in the late eighties, and continued to air reruns until 1997. Basically, my childhood.

Unlike my child self, I don't have the patience to sit through it now. But it's another television series roughly adapted from a Disney movie that I watched every episode. Multiple times. (Other movies that were made into television series I watched included Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, and The Little Mermaid.) However, the Dumbo's circus oddly enough didn't include any of the characters from the original movie, except Dumbo of course who, unlike the movie, talks.

Apparently many of Dumbo's Circus' cast went on to star in Focus on the Family's radio series Adventures in Odyssey. Though I never listened to it, I have friends who would. Apparently Dr. Dobson commissioned the radio show to be an alternative to Saturday-morning cartoons. (I stuck to my gummi bears.) Who knew? A focus on the family - disney connection. (I don't suppose there's many of them.)