Contents 1 Theatrical releases 2 Television 3 Video games 4 Albums 5 Theme park happenings 6 Home video releases 6.1 Direct-to-video releases 7 Character debuts 8 People 8.1 Deaths 9 Comments

Theatrical releases

• February 14 - The Jungle Book 2
• March 21 - Piglet's Big Movie
• April 11 - Ghosts of the Abyss
• April 18 - Holes
• April 25 - It Runs in the Family
• May 2 - The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• May 30 - Finding Nemo
• July 9 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the first PG-13 movie to be released under the Walt Disney Pictures label
• August 6 - Freaky Friday
• November 1 - Brother Bear
• November 26 - The Haunted Mansion
• December 25 - The Young Black Stallion

Television

• January 17 - That's So Raven premieres on the Disney Channel
• September 20 - Lilo & Stitch: The Series premieres on ABC and the Disney Channel
• November 28 - Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time airs on the Disney Channel

Video games

• February 2 - Piglet's Big Game
• February 7 - Treasure Planet
• April 4 - Disney Princess for Game Boy Advance
• September 2 - Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
• September 30 - The Lion King 1½ for Game Boy Advance
• October 14 - Lizzie McGuire: On the Go!
• November 4 - Brother Bear for Game Boy Advance
• November 11 - Brother Bear for PC

Albums

• Kim Possible

Theme park happenings

• January 13 - A musical based on Aladdin premiers at the Hyperion Theater at Disney California Adventure
• April 11 - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh opens at Disneyland.
• May 22 - Reflections of China opens at the China Pavilion of the World Showcase at Epcot.
• September 5 - 22-year-old Marcelo Torres is killed after suffering injuries, during a derailment of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland.
• October 8 - Mickey's PhilharMagic opens at the Magic Kingdom.
• October 9 - Mission: SPACE officially opens at Epcot.
• October 12 - ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter closes at the Magic Kingdom.
• December 5 - A Space Mountain roller coaster at Tokyo Disneyland derailed as it was returning to the loading station. No guests were injured.

Home video releases

• February 25 - Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World: Special Edition
• March - Who Framed Roger Rabbit Vista Series DVD
• April 1 - Disney Sing-Along Songs: Circle of Life and Sing a Song With Pooh Bear and Piglet too!
• April 15 - Castle in the Sky
• April 29 - Treasure Planet
• May 6 - Toothless
• May 20 - The Rescuers
• June 10 - The Jungle Book 2
• July 23 - The Great Mouse Detective
• July 29 - Piglet's Big Movie
• August 5 - Tower of Terror
• August 12 - The Lizzie McGuire Movie
• September 2 - Kim Possible: The Secret Files
• September 9 - Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition)
• September 23 - Holes
• October 7 - The Lion King: Platinum Edition
• October 10 - Flight of the Navigator (Special Edition)
• November 4 - Finding Nemo
• December 2 - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• December 9 - Lizzie McGuire: Fashionably Lizzie, Lizzie McGuire: Growing Up Lizzie, and Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (Re-issue)
• December 16 - Freaky Friday

Direct-to-video releases

• January 21 - 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
• March 11 - Inspector Gadget 2
• May 20 - Atlantis: Milo's Return
• June 24 - Air Bud Spikes Back
• August 26 - Stitch! The Movie
• October 21 - George of the Jungle 2
• October 28 - Disney Sing-Along Songs: On My Way
• December 9 - Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade and Recess: All Growed Down

Character debuts

• April 25 - Professor Dementor
• May 16 - Frugal Lucre
• May 30 - Nemo, Dory, Marlin, Coral, Bruce, Nigel, Darla Sherman, P. Sherman, Gil
• August 26 - Sparky

People

Deaths

• January 20 - Al Hirschfeld (artist)
• March 20 - Michael Jeter (actor)
• June 30 - Buddy Hackett (voice actor and comedian)
• July 6 - Buddy Ebsen (character actor and dancer)
• July 27 - Bob Hope (actor and comedian)
• August 6 - Larry Taylor (actor and stuntman)
• September 12 - Johnny Cash (singer)
• October 27 - Rod Roddy (radio and television announcer)
• November 12 - Jonathan Brandis (actor, director and screenwriter)
• November 12 - Kay E. Kuter (voice actor)
• December 5 - Bob Gregory (comics artist and writer)

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