"Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" was Disney's first major serialized animated television series (it was released back to back with another show, "The Wuzzles", which lasted only 13 episodes), and is often credited by animators and animation historians as having helped jump start the television animation boom of the late 1980s and 1990s. Consequently, it also became the forerunner to Disney's famous Disney Afternoon timeslot, which gave way to other famous serialized Disney television series, such as "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers" and "Gargoyles". Although many of these subsequently-created shows exceeded "Gummi Bears" in budget and length, the show is often credited as a sort of prototype for all of the animation which followed it.