October 12

Theatrical releases

Films

• 1990 - Mr. Destiny (Touchstone Pictures)
• 2001 - Recess: School's Out is released in Brazil.

Television

• 1955 - Disneyland episode "Adventures of Mickey Mouse" premieres on ABC.
• 1985
  • The Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "The Oracle/When You Wish Upon a Stone" premieres on NBC.
  • The Wuzzles episode "Moosel's Monster" premieres on CBS.
• 1987 - The DuckTales episode "Maid of the Myth" premieres in syndication.
• 1989 - The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Fake Me to Your Leader" premieres in syndication.
• 1991 - The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "The Wise Have It" and the Darkwing Duck episode "Something Fishy" premiere on ABC.
• 1992 - The Goof Troop episode "All the Goof That's Fit to Print" premieres in syndication.
• 1993 - The Bonkers episode "Quibbling Rivalry" premieres in syndication.
• 1994 - The Aladdin episode "Opposites Detract" premieres in syndication.
• 1995 - The Gargoyles episode "The Price" premieres in syndication.
• 1996
  • The Disney's Doug episode "Doug's in Debt!", the Mighty Ducks episode "The Human Factor", and the Jungle Cubs episodes "How the Panther Lost His Roar/The Humans Must Be Crazy" premiere on ABC.
  • The Timon & Pumbaa episodes "Monster Massachusetts/Handle with Caribbean" premiere on CBS.
• 1997 - The Muppets Tonight episode "Pierce Brosnan" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2000 - The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "The Main Event" premieres on UPN and in syndication.
• 2001
  • The Lizzie McGuire episode "Facts of Life" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Proud Family episode "Spelling Bee" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Disney Channel Original Movie Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2002 - The Fillmore! episode "Red Robins Don't Fly" premieres on ABC.
• 2003 - Lilo & Stitch: The Series premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "Holio" and "Spooky".
• 2005 - The Little Einsteins episode "Pirate's Treasure" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2007
  • The Disney Channel Original Movie Twitches Too premieres on Disney Channel.
  • Wizards of Waverly Place premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Crazy 10-Minute Sale".
• 2008
  • The Hannah Montana season two finale "We're All on This Date Together" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Racing" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009 - The Phineas and Ferb half-hour special "Phineas and Ferb Musical Cliptastic Countdown" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2012
  • The Doc McStuffins episodes "Boo-Hoo to You/It's Glow Time" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Handy Manny episodes "Mrs. Lopart's Attic/Hoop Dream" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Disney Channel Original Movie Girl Vs. Monster premieres on Disney Channel. Dog with a Blog premieres after it with the episode "Stan of the House".
• 2014
  • The Once Upon a Time episode "Rocky Road" premieres on ABC.
  • The Austin & Ally episode "Records & Wrecking Balls" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The 7D episodes "Buckets/Frankengloom" premiere on Disney XD.
  • The Liv and Maddie episode "Kathy Kan-a-Rooney" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2015
  • Sofia the First premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "The Secret Library".
  • The Gravity Falls episode "Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2018
  • The PJ Masks episodes "The Wolfies Take HQ/The Good Wolfy" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The second season of Puppy Dog Pals premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "A New Pup in Town/The Last Pup-icorn".
  • The Raven's Home episode "Raven's Home: Remix" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • Coop & Cami Ask the World premieres on Disney Channel with the episode "Would You Wrather Take Your Mom to the School Dance?".
• 2019
  • The Lion Guard episode "The River of Patience" premieres on Disney Jr. (originally premiered on the DisneyNow app on September 2).
  • The Bunk'd episode "Inn Trouble" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Coop & Cami Ask the World episode "Would You Wrather Sing or Fly?" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2020
  • The DuckTales (2017) episode "The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!" premieres on Disney XD.
  • The Vampirina episodes "Phantom of the Auditorium/Memoreek!" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2024
  • The following Hamster & Gretel episodes premiere simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD:
  • "Who's in Charge?/Fools of Engagement"
  • "The New Adventures of Super Kevin"

Streaming

• 2022
  • The following episodes of Big City Greens were added to Disney+:
    • "The Move"
    • "Country Side/Junk Mountain"
    • "Farmer Remy/Homeward Hound"
    • "Pie Hard/Rat Tail" (This released before it's Disney Channel airing)
  • The Andor episode "The Eye" premieres on Disney+.
  • Sofia the First is released onto Disney+ (excluding Once Upon a Princess).
• 2023 - The Loki episode "Breaking Brad" premieres on Disney+.

Events

• 2020 - Disney Channel greenlights Dan Povenmire's (co-creator of Phineas and Ferb & Milo Murphy's Law) newest series Hamster & Gretel.

Home media

• 1989
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • The Boatniks and Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• 1994 - Holy Matrimony
• 1999
  • 10 Things I Hate About You (Touchstone Home Video)
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
• 2004
  • Raising Helen
  • Disney's Learning Adventures: Winnie the Pooh ABC's Discovering Letters and Words
  • Disney's Learning Adventures: Winnie the Pooh 123's Discovering Numbers and Counting

Theme park happenings

• 1986 - The Golden Horseshoe Revue closed at Disneyland.

Video games

• 2004 - Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc is released for Game Boy Advance
• 2009 - Cars: Race-O-Rama is released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable in North America.

People

Births

• 1911 - Bill Anderson † (producer)
• 1960 - Hiroyuki Sanada (actor)
• 1965 - Jeff Nathanson (screenwriter, director, and producer)
• 1968 - Hugh Jackman (actor, producer, and singer)
• 1970 - Kirk Cameron (actor, evangelist, television and documentary host, and producer)
• 1974 - Doug Sweetland (animator and filmmaker)
• 1992 - Josh Hutcherson (actor and voice actor)
• 2001 - Raymond Ochoa (actor and voice actor)

Deaths

• 1997 - John Denver (singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian)

References