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After 30 years of resisting offers to produce television animation, Disney finally relented once Michael Eisner, who had a background in TV, took over. The first TV cartoons to carry the Disney name, CBS's ''[[The Wuzzles]]'' and NBC's ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears|Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'', both premiered in the fall of 1985. Breaking from standard practice in the medium, the productions enjoyed substantially larger production budgets than average, allowing for higher-quality writing and animation, in anticipation of recouping profitably in rerun syndication. While ''The Wuzzles'' only lasted a season, ''The Gummi Bears'' was a sustained success with a six-season run.
 
In 1987, the TV animation division adapted [[Carl Barks]]' [[Scrooge McDuck]] comic books for the small screen with the syndicated hit ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''. Its success spawned a 1990 theatrical film entitled ''[[DuckTales (1987) the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp]]'' and an increased investment in syndicated cartoons. The result of this investment was ''[[The Disney Afternoon]]'' in 1990, a two-hour syndicated television programming block of such animated shows as ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' (1989–91), ''[[TaleSpin]]'' (1990–91), ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' (1991–93, also airing on ABC), ''[[Goof Troop]]'' (1992–94, also airing on ABC), ''[[Bonkers (TV series)|Bonkers]]'' (1993–94), and ''[[Gargoyles]]'' (1994-96). TV animation also brought some animated feature film characters to Saturday morning, including ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Aladdin'' both on CBS.
 
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