The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

ABC eagerly commissioned 25 half-hour episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh for its first season, rather than the standard 13 to 17.

At the time, Walt Disney Television Animation had only 80 employees and two projects in production.

The writing process began with story premises being pitched to Zaslove, who served as story editor for the first season.

The process took around four weeks per episode.

Special attention was given to maintain the personalities of the characters as they had originally been written.

The staff often found trouble working with the limited cast, with supervising director Ken Kessel quoted as saying: "You are restrained by what the characters can do and who they are".