Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore Sterling Holloway elected not to continue the role of Pooh and Sebastian Cabot, the original narrator, died shortly after the release of the feature film "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". The deaths of Junius Matthews in 1978 and Barbara Luddy in 1979 also necessitated changes in Rabbit's and Kanga's portrayers; Will Ryan began a three-year stint as Rabbit's voice in this featurette while Julie McWhirter portrayed Kanga only once. Additionally, Laurie Main, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, and Kim Christianson later appear in the live-action series "Welcome to Pooh Corner" as the Narrator, Winnie the Pooh, Owl, Rabbit, and
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Corner"), "In which Pooh & Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle" (Chapter III of "Winnie the Pooh"), "In which Piglet does a very grand thing" (Chapter VIII from "The House at Pooh Corner"), "In which Christopher Robin gives a Pooh Party and we say goodbye" (Chapter X of "Winnie-the-Pooh") and "In which Piglet is entirely surrounded by water" (Chapter IX of "Winnie-the-Pooh"), with elements taken from "In which Piglet meets a Heffalump" (Chapter V from "Winnie-the-Pooh": Winnie the Pooh's nightmare of Heffalumps and Woozles). In A. A. Milne's original story, Pooh shows more initiative during the flood, finding