Winnie the Pooh was a series of books about the fictional bear of the same name.
One of the books in the series was The House at Pooh Corner, written by A. A. Milne. (AUDIO: Conspiracy in Space [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Caerdroia [+]Lloyd Rose, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2004).)
Lucas Seyton quoted the titular character to the Second Doctor when he agreed to help rescue Jamie and Zoe from killer androids. This threw the Doctor a bit, as it was usually he who quoted Winnie the Pooh. (PROSE: Fallen Angel [+]Andy Lane, Decalog (Virgin Decalogs, 1994).)
Wallis Simpson had a collection of Winnie the Pooh books in her drawing room. They had belonged to her second husband. (PROSE: Players [+]Terrance Dicks, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)
Susan Foreman was familiar with the books, writing in her diary, "I live under the name Foreman like Winnie-the-Pooh lives under the name Sanders." (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Kim Newman, Telos Doctor Who novellas (Telos Publishing, 2001).)
When the Eighth Doctor was split into three personalities, Charley Pollard, in order to differentiate between them, decided to call the more exuberant one "Tigger" and the more irritable one "Eeyore", after two of the books' characters. The Doctor said that Tigger was his favourite character from the books. (AUDIO: Caerdroia [+]Lloyd Rose, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2004).)
Indeed, the Doctor was fond of the series, owning a copy of The House at Pooh Corner by his tenth incarnation. (PROSE: Notre Dame du Temps [+]Nick Clark, Short Trips: Companions (Short Trips, 2003).)
Yasmin Khan claimed that when the Thirteenth Doctor got excited, she started bouncing around like Tigger. The Doctor replied that it could be worse; she could be Piglet. (PROSE: Molten Heart [+]Una McCormack, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2018).)
When Fitz Kreiner questioned Anji Kapoor's knowledge of bear behaviour, she retorted that the last bear book he had read was Winnie the Pooh. (PROSE: The City of the Dead [+]Lloyd Rose, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)
Behind the scenes[]
The anthology book Now We Are Six Hundred is based on the Winnie the Pooh poetry book Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, with many of the poems found within being inspired by poems from said book. Likewise, the setting and characters found in the book's first and penultimate chapters Beforwards and Afterwords are clear parodies of those found in Winnie the Pooh.
Connections[]
Susan Sheridan voiced Christopher Robin in the 1986 video game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
David Warner narrated 1997's Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, 1998's A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving, and 1999's Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You.
John Hurt narrated 2000's The Tigger Movie.
John Cleese narrated the 2011 movie simply titled Winnie the Pooh.
The 2018 live-action film Christopher Robin featured Peter Capaldi as the voice of Rabbit, Sophie Okonedo as the voice of Kanga, and Toby Jones as the voice of Owl, along with Hayley Atwell, Mark Gatiss, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Amanda Lawrence, and Paul Chahidi in live-action roles.
Outside of Winnie the Pooh media released by Disney: Stephen Fry, Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer and Janet Fielding voiced Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Kanga respectively in two audio drama adaptations of the stories in the 1990s.
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