Dumbo's Circus

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Dumbo's Circus was a live-action/puppet television series on The Disney Channel, featuring the character of Dumbo from the original film.

120 episodes (the most ever for a Disney TV show) were made in 1985, and they were shown until 1995. In the show, Dumbo has grown up, is able to speak, and had struck out on his own to begin his own circus. He and a cast of characters fly from town to town in a wagon pulled through the air by Dumbo performing their "greatest little show on earth". Other than Dumbo, none of the characters from the original film are cast members. The cast members are human-sized anthropomorphic animals played by people in puppet suits using technology developed by The Jim Henson Company for Fraggle Rock; this production technique was also used for the Disney Channel live-action/puppet television series Welcome to Pooh Corner.

Cast

Katie Leigh - Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Caleb Chung - Q.T. the Orangutan
Patricia Parris - Lilli the Cat
Jim Cummings - Lionel the Lion
Will Ryan - Barnaby the Goofy Dog
Hal Smith - Fair Dinkum the Koala Bear, Rinkum Dinkum, Sebastian the Alley Cat

Trivia

The wagon used in the show is now displayed on the back lot of Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.
Due to a legal dispute, the character of Timothy Q. Mouse from the original film is not in this series.
Dumbo has a new look in this series, giving spoken dialogue lines he didn't have in the original film.
Every episode the group would travel to a new town inhabited with puppets; however, one episode featured a character called Big Fred, a giant that you see from the legs down.
Each character would perform their special act. This ranged from dancing and singing to telling knock knock jokes.

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