Dumbo's Circus
Dumbo leads his own flying circus.
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Dumbo's Circus is a live action/puppet television series that aired on The Disney Channel from May 6, 1985 to May 25, 1986, with reruns continuing until February 28, 1997. The show featured the character of Dumbo from the original 1941 film, now grown up and able to speak, leading his own traveling circus. It was notable for its human-sized anthropomorphic animal characters performed by actors in full-bodied puppet suits.
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Did You Know?
- Many of the show's cast went on to star in the Christian radio series Adventures in Odyssey.
- The wagon used in the show was seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the vehicle boneyard lot of the Studio Backlot Tour at Disney-MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
- Some of the puppets used for audience members in the circus were used for The Mother Goose Video Treasury.
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- Wikipedia: Dumbo's Circus (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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