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===Programming blocks=== ====Current==== * '''Disney Jr./Mickey Mornings''' β A weekday morning block of preschool programming from [[Disney Jr.]] It debuted on February 14, 2011, following the closure of [[Playhouse Disney]]; the current name and [[Mickey Mouse]]-hosted [[continuity (broadcasting)|continuity]] segments were both launched in June 2020, replacing the previous "Disney Junior on Disney Channel" branding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.d23.com/how-mickey-mouse-is-making-mornings-more-magical-for-families/|title=How Mickey Mouse is Making Mornings More Magical for Families|last=Deitchman|first=Beth|website=D23 press release|date=June 2020|access-date=26 October 2020|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030190016/https://d23.com/how-mickey-mouse-is-making-mornings-more-magical-for-families/|url-status=live}}</ref> ====Former==== * '''Disney Night Time''' β As '''The Disney Channel''' as a premium channel from its launch until April 6, 1997, this block featured programming aimed at older parental audiences during the evening and overnight hours under the banner title "Disney Nighttime". The content seen in these blocks was devoid of sexual and violent content. Programming seen during Disney Nighttime included older feature films (similar to those seen at the time on [[AMC (TV channel)|American Movie Classics]], and eventually [[Turner Classic Movies]], with both Disney film titles and movies from other [[film studio]]s mixed in), alongside original concert specials (featuring artists ranging from [[Rick Springfield]] to [[Jon Secada]] to [[Elton John]]), variety specials and [[documentary film|documentaries]].{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} * '''[[Disney anthology television series|The Magical World of Disney]]''' β used as a Sunday night umbrella for films and specials on The Disney Channel from September 23, 1990, to November 24, 1996, originally airing exclusively on Sunday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.<ref>'' The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 8, no. 4 (typo in the magazine: should be "no. 5"), September/October 1990: pp. 24, 51.</ref> From December 1, 1996, to 2001, ''The Magical World of Disney'' served as the overall branding for Disney Channel's nightly evening lineup of films starting at 7:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. * '''The American Legacy''' β ran on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific from January 7, 1992, to August 27, 1996. Originally launched in honor of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the United States,<ref>{{cite web|title=IN CELEBRATION OF THE 500th BIRTHDAY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, THE DISNEY CHANNEL PRESENTS 'THE AMERICAN LEGACY'|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IN+CELEBRATION+OF+THE+500th+BIRTHDAY+OF+THE+DISCOVERY+OF+AMERICA,+THE...-a011716932|work=The Free Library|access-date=28 March 2014|archive-date=28 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328224735/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IN+CELEBRATION+OF+THE+500th+BIRTHDAY+OF+THE+DISCOVERY+OF+AMERICA,+THE...-a011716932|url-status=dead}}</ref> the block featured films, documentaries and specials about the contributions, history and scenic wonders of the nation. * '''Toonin' Tuesday''' β Running from October 5, 1993, to August 27, 1996, "Toonin' Tuesday" was a weekly program block featuring various animated programs. Each Tuesday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific,<ref name="October/November 1993">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 11, no. 6, October/November 1993: pp. 32β33, 40.</ref> "Toonin' Tuesday" featured primarily animated films and specials (though reruns of ''[[The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show]]'' sometimes aired as part of the block).<ref name="October/November 1993"/> The block ended on August 27, 1996, due to changes to the channel's programming schedule.<ref name="June/July 1996">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 3, June/July 1996: p. 27.</ref><ref name="August/September 1996">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 4, August/September 1996: p. 29.</ref> * '''Bonus! Thursday''' β From October 7, 1993, to August 29, 1996, The Disney Channel ran a weekly program block called "Bonus! Thursday" (or "Bonus!" for short), which ran each Thursday from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.<ref name="October/November 1993 TWO">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 11, no. 6, October/November 1993: pp. 33, 40.</ref><ref name="December 1993/January 1994">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 12, no. 1, December 1993/January 1994: pp. 28, 43.</ref> The block featured programs aimed at teenagers, including series such as ''[[Kids Incorporated]]'', ''[[The All-New Mickey Mouse Club]]'', various ''Mickey Mouse Club'' serials (including ''[[Teen Angel (1989 TV series)|Teen Angel]]'' and ''Match Point''), and ''[[Eerie Indiana]]'', followed by films and specials.<ref name="October/November 1993 TWO"/><ref name="December 1993/January 1994"/> The block ended on August 29, 1996, due to changes to the channel's programming schedule.<ref name="June/July 1996"/><ref name="August/September 1996"/> * ''' Totally Kids Only''' ("TKO") β an afternoon lineup of live-action and animated series introduced in 1992,<ref>'' The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 3 (typo in the magazine: should be "no. 2"), April/May 1996: p. 26.</ref> which became the overall branding for the channel's daytime children's programs from 1995 to 1996. * '''Triple Feature Friday''' β ran each Friday starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific from October 8, 1993, to May 30, 1997, featured three separate films β sometimes regardless of each film's genre β that were tied to a specific subject<ref>'' The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 11, no. 6, October/November 1993: pp. 32β33, 58.</ref> * '''Disney Drive-In''' β ran each Saturday starting at 1:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific from October 8, 1994, to August 31, 1996, featured Disney series such as ''[[Zorro (1957 TV series)|Zorro]]'', ''[[Texas John Slaughter (TV series)|Texas John Slaughter]]'' and ''[[Spin and Marty]]'', followed by Disney films and specials<ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 12, no. 6, October/November 1994: pp. 36, 42.</ref> The block ended on August 31, 1996, due to changes in the channel's schedule.<ref name="June/July 1996: p. 26">''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 3, June/July 1996: p. 26.</ref><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 4, August/September 1996: pp. 28, 40, 48β49.</ref> * '''Block Party''' β From October 2, 1995, to August 28, 1996, four animated series that previously aired in syndication on ''[[The Disney Afternoon]]'' (''[[Darkwing Duck]]'', ''[[TaleSpin]]'', ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' and ''[[Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (TV series)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'') were rerun together on The Disney Channel as a two-hour programming block called "Block Party", which aired weekdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.<ref>"Block Party: Four Disney Animated Series". ''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 13, no. 5, October/November 1995: p. 36.</ref> The "Block Party" branding was dropped on September 3, 1996, when ''Darkwing Duck'' was removed as the block's lead-in and ''[[Goof Troop]]'' was added to end the lineup.<ref name="June/July 1996: p. 26"/><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 4, August/September 1996: pp. 25, 28, 34.</ref> This unnamed block continued to air into 1997.<ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 6, December 1996/January 1997: p. 28.</ref> * '''Magical World of Animals'''{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} β an hour-long block of wildlife series aimed at children that ran from August 1997 to 1999. Promoted as an offshoot of the ''Magical World of Disney'' and airing Sunday evenings from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the block consisted of two series: ''[[Going Wild with Jeff Corwin]]'' and ''[[Omba Mokomba]]''.<ref name=ks/> * '''Vault Disney''' β premiered in September 1997,<ref name=ks/><ref name="highbeam1997">{{cite news |date=September 9, 1997 |title=Television News & Notes |newspaper=[[The Record (Bergen County)|The Record]] |publisher=[[North Jersey Media Group]] |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22405127.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624034132/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22405127.html |archive-date=June 24, 2011 }}</ref> five months after Disney Channel's first major rebrand, replacing the Disney Nighttime lineup. Originally airing only on Sunday nights from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time,<ref name=ks/> Vault Disney expanded to seven nights a week in September 1998 (the Monday through Saturday editions of the block at this time aired from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific; the start time of the block as a whole was moved consistently to midnight daily in September 1999). The vintage programming featured during the late-night schedule changed to feature only Disney-produced television series and specials (such as ''Zorro'', ''Spin and Marty'', ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' and the [[Walt Disney anthology television series]]),<ref name="highbeam1997"/> along with older Disney television specials. Older Disney feature films also were part of the lineup from 1997 to 2000 but aired in a reduced capacity. The block also featured ''[[The Ink and Paint Club (TV series)|The Ink and Paint Club]]'', an [[anthology series]] featuring Disney animated shorts, which became the only remaining program on the channel to feature these shorts by 1999, upon the removal of ''[[Quack Pack]]'' from the schedule. The channel discontinued the block in September 2002, in favor of running reruns of its original and acquired series during the late evening and overnight hours (which comparative to the adult-focused Vault Disney, are aimed at children and teenagers, an audience that is typically asleep during that time period). * '''Zoog Disney''' β launched in August 1998, a program block that originally aired only on weekend afternoons from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. The hosts for the block were "Zoogs", animated anthropomorphic robot/alien creature-hybrid characters with human voices (some of whom acted like teenagers). The block unified television and the Internet, allowing viewer comments and scores from players of ZoogDisney.com's online games to be aired on the channel during regular programming in a ticker format (which the channel continued to use after the block was discontinued, however, the ticker has been all but completely dropped from on-air usage {{as of|May 2010|lc=y}}).<ref name="highbeam1998">{{cite news |date=December 26, 1998 |title=Digital L.A. : Truly It's All Happening at the Zoog |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |publisher=[[Times Mirror Company]] |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83849759.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624034114/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83849759.html |archive-date=June 24, 2011 }}</ref> From June 2000 to August 2002, the afternoon and primetime lineups on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays were branded under the umbrella title "Zoog Weekendz". The Zoogs were redesigned with [[cel shading]] and given mature voices in 2000, though the remade Zoog characters were discontinued after less than a year; the entire Zoog Disney block was phased out by September 2002.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-FBDgAAQBAJ&q=programming+blocks+of+disney+channel&pg=PT29|title=Girlhood on Disney Channel: Branding, Celebrity, and Femininity|last=Blue|first=Morgan Genevieve|date=2017-03-16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317365051|language=en}}</ref> * '''Disney Replay''' β "Disney Replay" was a block that premiered on April 17, 2013, featuring episodes of defunct Disney Channel Original Series that premiered between 2000 and 2007 (such as ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'', ''[[That's So Raven]], [[The Suite Life of Zack & Cody]]'' and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'').<ref>{{cite magazine|title='So Weird', 'That's So Raven,' and other shows we want to see on Disney Replay|url=http://family-room.ew.com/2013/04/17/so-weird-thats-so-raven-disney-replay/|last=Caldwell|first=Sarah|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=April 17, 2013|access-date=August 7, 2014}}</ref> Airing Wednesday nights/early Thursday mornings (as a nod to the popular [[social media]] trend "Throwback Thursday"), originally from 12:00 to 1:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific Time, the block expanded to six hours (running until 6:00 a.m. Eastern/Pacific) on August 14, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Disney Channel's expanded replay block here to stay|url=http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizzle/disney-channels-expanded-replay-block-here-to-stay/|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times|Voices]]|last=Rack|first=Lori|date=August 20, 2014|access-date=August 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120422/http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizzle/disney-channels-expanded-replay-block-here-to-stay/|archive-date=August 26, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Programs featured on Disney Replay were added to the WATCH Disney Channel service on August 16, 2014. The block was discontinued on April 28, 2016, and moved to [[Freeform (TV channel)|Freeform]] with a new name: That's So Throwback. * '''[[Disney XD]] on Disney Channel''' β "Disney XD on Disney Channel" is the former branding of two blocks airing on Friday and Saturday nights; an animated block airing Fridays from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., showing series mainly exclusive to Disney XD such as ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', ''[[Star vs. the Forces of Evil]]'', ''[[Milo Murphy's Law]]'', and ''[[DuckTales (2017 TV series)|DuckTales]]'', and a live-action block airing Saturdays from 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., airing series such as ''[[Mech-X4|MECH-X4]]'' and ''[[Walk the Prank]]''. It was discontinued as Disney XD's carriage became equivalent to that of Disney Channel.
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