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Dumbo's Circus is a live-action/puppet television series on The Disney Channel, featuring the character of Dumbo from the original film.
120 episodes (along with Welcome to Pooh Corner, 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.
As with Welcome to Pooh Corner, there are currently no plans to release Dumbo's Circus on DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
Live action TV series based on Disney's classic Dumbo, an elephant with the ability to fly (with the help of his trusty feather). The characters were all costumes (with the help of 'puppetronics', I believe, radio-controlled mechanisms pioneered by Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" and Disney's "Welcome to Pooh Corner". This series didn't produce too many episodes but ran for quite a while and was pretty popular for a cable series. Written by The Puppet Avenger






