Ok, this one's going to be a little confusing.
Winnie The Pooh's final theatrical featurette for Disney was 1983's "Winnie The Pooh & a Day For Eeeyore". It'd been 9 years since the last theatrical release, during which time the previous ones had been airing on television, usually as stand-alone primetime specials for NBC.
The credits shown on the screen as this begins are radically different from the actual product. For example, per other sources, Hal Smith (Owl) doubled as Winnie, though Jim Cummings is credited, not so much as Winnie, but the story is that Cummings, Tress MacNeille, and others were brought in for re-dubs for a later DVD/Blu-Ray release that apparently was aborted. Tress was supposed to be voicing Kanga, but the role actually was performed by Julie McWhirter-Dees (ex-Casper & The Angels, Jeannie, etc.). The obvious constant at the time is Paul Winchell as Tigger.
Laurie Main was given the envious task of succeeding the late Sebastian Cabot as narrator. We know from the later New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh that Cummings would not only assume the role of Winnie, but would also do a near-perfect mimic of Sterling Holloway's characterization, as Smith comes up short there.
Here we go:
Rating: B.
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