The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (1966), "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (1968), and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" (1974). Extra material was used to link the three featurettes together to allow the stories to merge into each other. A fourth, shorter featurette was added to bring the film to a close, originally made during production of "Blustery Day" (based on the presence of Jon Walmsley as Christopher Robin). The sequence was based on the final chapter of
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh under the title "Winnie the Pooh: Playtime". The following were released under the title "Winnie the Pooh: Friendship". Other releases include the following. Region 1: Between 2002 and 2010, several episodes of the series were released on DVD. Between 2005 and 2006, five DVDs were released as part of the "Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh" series. Each DVD would feature 4 episodes, and sometimes it would include a double-length episode. These DVDs were targeted for preschoolers. The episodes "Honey for a Bunny" and "Trap as Trap Can" were made available as Bonus Shorts on Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with