Dumbo's Circus

Dumbo's Circus
Starring	Patty Maloney Mark Sawyer Van Snowden Joe Giamalava Sharon Baird Norman Merrill, Jr. Caleb Chung Ron Mangham
Voices of	Katie Leigh Walker Edmiston Patricia Parris Jim Cummings Will Ryan Hal Smith Ron Gans
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	115
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Distributor	Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	The Disney Channel
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	May 6, 1985 (1985-05-06) – May 25, 1986 (1986-05-25)

Dumbo's Circus is a live action/puppet television series that aired on The Disney Channel beginning on May 6, 1985, and featured the character of Dumbo from the original film. The series was in production for three and a half seasons, and reruns continued to air until February 28, 1997.

The cast members are human-sized anthropomorphic animals played by people in puppet suits using technology developed by Ken Forsse, the creator of Teddy Ruxpin. The same production technique was used for Welcome to Pooh Corner. Unlike Welcome to Pooh Corner, the show has never had any VHS, DVD or Blu-ray releases.

Many of the show's cast went on to star in the Christian radio series, Adventures in Odyssey.

In the show, Dumbo has grown up, is able to speak, and has 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 appeared in the show. Each character would perform a particular talent, which ranged from dancing and singing to telling knock knock jokes.

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