What did you watch on the Disney Channel before it turned into crap?

omg i miss these shows so much. i brought over my dvds of rescue rangers to my 7 year old cousin, and he thought they were lame and cheesy, but liked it at the same time.
the shows on disney are absolute sh*t compared to back then. if the kids who are obsessed with high school musical and other stupid crap like that could have been exposed to good quality tv shows like we all were (gummi bears, care bears, fraggles, etc...all things that had morals and lessons and were made for more than just OO SHINY COLORS) maybe we wouldnt have as many 11 yr olds walking around in whorey clothes and acting like skanks. idk, just my 2 cents!

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Yea it's sad what has happend to these channels. I wathced a few shows on disney, like.....

The Gummi Bears
Winnie The Pooh
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Talespin
Chip & Dale
Goof Troop
Ducktales
Darkwing Duck
Even Stevens
Lizzie Maguire

But I was really a Nickolodeon person. I liked the shows like.......

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
The Secret World Of Alex Mac
Pete & Pete
GUTS
Legends Of The Hidden Temple
Figure It Out
Keenen And Kel
All That
Rugrats (The original ones, not the "All Grown Up" Crap they have now).
Get The Picture

I know that there was more shows, but sadly i've forgotten them.

But now we have crap on t.v. like.......

spongebob squarepants
the fairly odd parents
ed edd n' eddie
cow and chicken
camp lazlo
life with derek
naturaly sadie

None of these shows really have any thought put into it like the older shows did.








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Fraggle Rock was on HBO, lots of you are saying it was on Disney. Actually, I think a large number of the shows being mentioned here weren't on the Disney Channel (not that it really matters, but it is the thread title).

As for the movies, there was another period when Disney movies were crap too, and then things got better for a while starting with The Little Mermaid. I wouldn't be surprised if Disney movies make a comeback again at some point.

When I was very little my family didn't have the Disney channel on television. I remember going to my grandmother's house and watching her television and being excited because she actually had it. This was where I watched the Gummi Bears. I also remember a show about Alice in Wonderland but I don't remember what it was called. Oh, and Fraggle Rock :)

A few years later when we actually got the Disney channel I remember watching Growing Pains, A LOT. Later on I watched Brotherly Love and Boy Meets World. That's about it for Disney. Sometimes when my little brother is watching the Disney channel I'll look at the shows and be like, "Gee, that exact same plotline and those exact same jokes were on _____." Nothing is original anymore.

I know that when I have children of my own I will be buying the DVD of Gummi Bears and other shows and allowing my children to watch that instead of whatever is on TV at the time. I can only hope they love it as much as I did :)

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Muppets Tonight, my ass! All those other shows you listed were way much better than that! Including another short-lived Jim Henson show I remember called "The Secret Life of Toys," a show that precedes Toy Story about a group of children's toys who come to life, once their senile teddy bear leader Balthazar says, "All clear, everyone. They're gone!" The other five main characters were Rugby, the plush tiger toy with a strange accent that sounds a bit French and a "deductrable" tail; Raisin, a tomboyish doll; Ditz, a clown toy; Mew, a mouse toy for cats; and Hortense the rocking horse. There were other regular characters in that show like the Bunny Lamp, and "Uncle" Gerry the extremely humble tiger who was the complete opposite of the plush Rugby. The brother and sister kids who had the toys got Gerry from their Uncle Martin, so I'm not sure why they wanted to call him "Uncle Gerry" instead of "Uncle Martin." Why Gerry instead of Martin? Anyway, this definitely doesn't beat pre-Elmo Sesame Street, but it's better than not only the last 26 years of Sesame Street, but Muppets Tonight especially. Of course, I do know The Secret Life of Toys was preceded with "The Christmas Toy," which featured Kermit the Frog as Santa Claus, but I wouldn't watch that because of Kermit. But I did like the Secret Life of Toys, even though Pixar went farther with Toy Story, and its sequel.
You see, I liked most of those shows and think they're all better than what's on Disney Channel now, and at the moment I'm watching High School Musical 2 to see for myself how baldy the Disney Channel has become. But I hate the Muppets, not just Muppets Tonight, but The 1976 Muppet Show, because they bring back bad memories of my not-so-much-of-a-childhood! I wished I could have gotten tickets for the audience that the Muppeteers of Muppets Tonight filmed their show and heckled the Muppeteers enough to give them all a nervous breakdown and halt production. I know that Muppets Tonight only lasted a year, and Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson had since moved on, but they continued with new people and remaining Muppeteers Dave Goelz (Gonzo), Steve Whitmire (Kermit and Rizzo), Bill Baretta (Pepe), and Kevin "Elmo" Clash (Clifford, another bad character by Clash). And with not only Oz and Nelson retired, but Jim Henson himself dead since 1990, and Richard Hunt (Scotter, Janice, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums), I'm pretty sure the Muppets have gone to a nadir, and if someone can trick Goelz, Whitmire, Baretta, and Clash to leave, we can end this. And it was Clash's character Elmo that made Sesame Street jump the shark years ago.
Have any of you been in the studio audience when Muppets Tonight was filmed. I know that, because how hard it is to play certain assigned Muppets at the same time would take one sketch or number at a time, it never was filmed live, but pre-recorded before it aired. But did any of you sit in the studio in a manner like Saturday Night Live, which I think at some point was pre-recorded. Also, you might know that before the 1976 Muppet show, Jim Henson had some adult-oriented Muppets appear at times in the first season of SNL in 1975-76. But did any of you sit in the studio while the show was pre-recorded?

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Never had the Disney channel.