Voice Cast
- Hal Smith as Owl and Winnie the pooh
- Ralph Wright as Eeyore
- John Fiedler as Piglet
- Paul Winchell as Tigger
- Will Ryan as Rabbit
- Kim Christianson as Christopher Robin
- Julie McWhirter as Kanga
- Dick Billingsley as Roo
- Narrated by Laurie Main
Only Smith, Wright, Fielder, and Winchell returned in the roles they had originated in. Kim Christianson became the fourth different actor to portray Christopher Robin in as many featurettes, after Bruce Reitherman, Jon Walmsley, and Timothy Turner. Dick Billingsley assumed the role of Roo after Dori Whitaker portrayed him in the previous two featurettes.
Smith and Laurie Main first took the roles of Winnie the Pooh and The Narrator in the 1981 educational film Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons, as Sterling Holloway elected not to continue the role of Pooh and Sebastian Cabot, the original narrator, died shortly after the making of the feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The deaths of Junius Matthews in 1978 and Barbara Luddy in 1979 also necessitated changes in Rabbit's and Kanga's portrayers; Will Ryan began a three year stint as Rabbit's voice in this featurette while Julie McWhirter portrayed Kanga only once.
Ralph Wright, one of two voice actors who appeared in all four theatrical releases, became the third principal Winnie the Pooh featurette voice to pass away shortly after the release of the film; he died of a heart attack on December 30, 1983. He has since been followed in death by Sterling Holloway (1992), Hal Smith (1994), and finally Paul Winchell and John Fiedler, who died on consecutive days in June 2005.
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