Jungle Cubs

Jungle Cubs is an animated series produced by Disney for ABC in 1996. It was based on their 1967 feature film The Jungle Book, but set in the youth of the animal characters. The show was a hit, running for two seasons in syndication before moving its re-runs to the Disney Channel. The show was last seen on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001 and has not been seen since on the U.S. airwaves. The show did air in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America until it was removed. Sterling Holloway, Kaa's voice actor voiced Kaa in this show for the very first... episode, he died before the show's start and was taken over by Jim Cummings. The show's theme song is a hip-hop version of the classic song, "The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. After a ten-year absence in the U.S., reruns of the show had started airing on Disney Junior since March 23, 2012, and are now being shown every day at 5:00AM ET and weekends at 6:30AM ET. The stars of Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book were regressed to cubs for this syndicated animated series.
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