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{{Short description|Children's TV program spin-off}}
{{Infobox programming block
| name = Disney's Animation Weekdays
| image = [[File:Disney's One Too logo.jpg|200px]]
| caption = Disney’s One Too logo used on-air from 1999 to 2002
| predecessor = [[UPN Kids]]
| premiered = {{start date and age|1999|9|6}}
| closed = {{end date and age|2003|8|31}}
| channel = [[UPN]]<br>[[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
| country = [[United States]]
| parent = [[The Walt Disney Company]] (programming syndicated by [[Buena Vista Television]])
| formerly_known = Disney's One Too (1999–2002)
| format = Children's programming block
| runtime = 2 hours
| sister = [[ABC Kids (TV programming block)|ABC Kids]]
}}

'''Disney's Animation Weekdays''' (originally known as '''Disney's One Too''' until 2002) was an American two-hour weekday and Sunday [[children's television series|children's]] [[programming block]] that aired on [[UPN]] (and sometimes in [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]]) from September 6, 1999 to August 31, 2003. Marketed as a  spin-off of the ''[[Disney's One Saturday Morning]]'' block on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (which is owned by [[The Walt Disney Company]]), it featured animated series from [[Walt Disney Television Animation]] aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 11.

== History ==
=== Beginning deal with UPN ===
In January 1998, [[UPN]] began discussions with [[The Walt Disney Company]] (owner of rival network [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]) to have the company program a daily two-hour children's block for the network, airing on weekdays (during the morning or afternoon) and Sunday mornings.<ref>{{cite news|title=Disney kids to play UPN|url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/disney-kids-to-play-upn-1117466892/|author=Jenny Hontz|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 21, 1998|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref> Attempts to reach a time-lease agreement deal with Disney were called off one week after negotiations started due to a dispute between Disney and UPN over how the block would be branded and the amount of E/I programming that Disney would provide for the block; UPN then entered into discussions with then-corporate sister [[Nickelodeon]] as both networks were owned by [[Viacom (1952–2005)|Viacom]] (now known as [[Paramount Global]]) to produce a new block, but never came to fruition and Nickelodeon finally [[Nickelodeon on CBS|joined forces]] with [[CBS]] two years later.<ref name="Disney talks called off">{{cite news|title=UPN kids pick Nick, not Mouse|url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/upn-kids-pick-nick-not-mouse-1117467104/|author=Jenny Hontz|work=Variety|date=January 27, 1998|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref> That February, UPN entered into an agreement with [[Saban Entertainment]] (then a subsidiary of [[ABC Family Worldwide|Fox Family Worldwide]], which Disney later acquired in 2001 and reunited 18 years later following the [[Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney|merger]] of [[21st Century Fox]] along a library of kids' content) – which distributed two live-action series recently aired on the [[UPN Kids]] block around that time, ''[[Sweet Valley High (TV series)|Sweet Valley High]]'' and ''[[Breaker High]]'' – to broadcast the Sunday-to-Friday block.<ref name="Disney talks called off"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Marvel, Saban set kids shows for UPN|url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/marvel-saban-set-kids-shows-for-upn-1117467216/|author=Richard Katz|work=Variety|date=January 29, 1998|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=UPN serves up superheroes|url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/upn-serves-up-superheroes-1117468038/|author=Richard Katz|work=Variety|date=February 24, 1998|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref>

In March 1998, UPN resumed discussions with Disney<ref>{{cite news|title=UPN, BV discuss kids block|url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/upn-bv-discuss-kids-block-1117469171/|author=Jenny Hontz|work=Variety|date=March 26, 1998|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref> and the following month, The Walt Disney Company and UPN came to an agreement to provide Disney-produced programs on the network on weekdays (from 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.) and Sunday (from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.).<ref>{{cite news|title=UPN, Disney in kidvid block deal|url=https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/upn-disney-in-kidvid-block-deal-1117469874/|author=Jenny Hontz|author2=Cynthia Littleton|date=April 17, 1998|work=Variety|access-date=August 21, 2009}}</ref> The block was originally announced under the working title ''Whomptastic'' to distinguish it from Disney's recently-launched [[One Saturday Morning|''One Saturday Morning'']] block for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. However, amid the success of ''One Saturday Morning'', the UPN block was rebranded prior to launch as ''Disney's One Too'', aiming to capitalize on [[brand awareness]].<ref name name=awm>Issue 3.2. {{cite news|title=UPN To Air Disney Block|url=https://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.2/3.2pages/3.2television.html|newspaper=Animation World Magazine|date=May 1998|access-date=March 1, 2014}}</ref><ref name="vty">{{cite news |author=Chris Pursell |date=July 19, 1999 |title=Mouse brands UPN kidvid |url=https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/mouse-brands-upn-kidvid-1117743063/ |access-date=June 5, 2022 |work=Variety}}</ref>

The block premiered on September 6, 1999, replacing UPN Kids, which ended its run the day before (on September 5) after four years.<ref name name=awm/> Compared to the format of ''One Saturday Morning'', ''One Too'' varied in that, instead of incorporating hosted segments, short segment gags from the series featured in the block (such as DIC's ''[[Sabrina: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[Doug (TV series)|Doug]]'' (revived for Disney) and ''[[Recess (TV series)|Recess]]'', all of which – along with a few other series – were originally aired on ''One Saturday Morning'') were actually shown, often preceding the beginning of each program, and after commercial breaks. The block also featured an alternate opening sequence, using more futuristic buildings and a theme similar to that used on ''One Saturday Morning''. Many series previously aired on ''One Too'' continued in reruns on two Disney-branded cable television networks, [[Toon Disney]] and [[Disney Channel]].

=== Closure of block and syndication ===
In September 2002, the ''One Too'' branding was discontinued (due to ''Disney's One Saturday Morning'' replacing with ''[[ABC Kids (TV programming block)|ABC Kids]]''); although the UPN block wasn't rebranded (with bumpers and promos simply being created for each individual show). However, the [[Disney.com]] website referred to it under the title ''Disney's Animation Weekdays'' as a result of the rebranding of the ABC block from ''One Saturday Morning'' into ''ABC Kids''. The block aired for the last time on August 31, 2003, with the time periods being turned over to UPN's affiliates; this left UPN as the only "big six" broadcast television network without children's programming (and for the rest of its existence through its 2006 shutdown, never again ''would'' UPN air any children's programming), and one of only two major commercial broadcast networks that did not air a children's programming block (the other being [[Ion Television|Pax TV]], which discontinued its ''Pax Kids'' lineup in 2000, until returning children's programming as I: Independent Television through the 2006 launch of [[Qubo]] (joint venture of Canada-based Corus, NBC Universal, and Scholastic), as a 24/7 network, it was pulled off the air in 2021 due to Ion's acquisition by [[E. W. Scripps Company|Scripps Media]]).<ref>{{cite news|title=Disney Drops UPN Programming Deal|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-14-fi-rup14.6-story.html|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|publisher=[[Tribune Publishing]]|date=February 14, 2003|access-date=June 5, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=UPN to ax Disney kids shows in fall|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1473784.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924184808/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1473784.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2015|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|publisher=[[Sun-Times Media Group|Hollinger International]]|date=February 15, 2003|access-date=September 2, 2015}}</ref>

=== Aftermath ===
UPN was not the first "big six" network to phase out children's programming: [[NBC]] became the first to remove children's series entirely in August 1992, when the network launched a live-action block for teenagers called [[TNBC]]; children's programming returned to NBC in 2002, through a time-lease agreement with [[Discovery Kids]]. In the years since the block was discontinued, all other major broadcast networks, including UPN successor [[The CW]] (sister of the "Big Three" network [[CBS]]), would gradually abandon children's programming by selling their respective children's blocks to [[Litton Entertainment]], who produces primarily unscripted E/I content targeted nominally at teenagers (but having an older demographic overall by ratings), or in the case of Fox, removing children's programming entirely. Fox's sister network, [[MyNetworkTV]], has never supplied children's programming as part of its lineup; both networks leave the responsibility of acquiring E/I programming to the affiliates, primarily through the syndicated block [[Xploration Station]] in the case of the former.

==Programming==
* <sup>1</sup> Program also aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] prior to the block.
* <sup>2</sup> Program aired episode premieres.

===Disney's One Too===
====Original programming====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Title
!Premiere date
!End date
!Source(s)
|-
|''[[Doug (TV series)|Disney's Doug]]''<sup>1</sup>
|rowspan=3|September 6, 1999
|October 1, 2000
|
|-
|''[[Recess (TV series)|Recess]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|September 8, 2002
|
|-
|''[[Hercules (1998 TV series)|Hercules: The Animated Series]]''
|October 31, 1999
|
|-
|''[[Pepper Ann]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup>
|February 6, 2000
|September 2, 2001
|
|-
|''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|October 2, 2000
|rowspan=3|September 8, 2002
|
|-
|''[[The Legend of Tarzan (TV series)|The Legend of Tarzan]]''<sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|September 3, 2001
|
|-
|''[[The Weekenders]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup>
|September 9, 2001
|
|}

====Acquired programming====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Title
!Premiere date
!End date
!Source(s)
|-
|''[[Sabrina: The Animated Series]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup>
|September 6, 1999
|September 6, 2002
|
|}

'''†''' - Program transitioned to Disney's Animation Weekdays

===Disney's Animation Weekdays===
====Original programming====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Title
!Premiere date
!End date
!Source(s)
|-
|''[[Recess (TV series)|Recess]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|rowspan=4|September 9, 2002
|rowspan=4|August 31, 2003
|
|-
|''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''<sup>1</sup> <sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|
|-
|''[[The Legend of Tarzan (TV series)|The Legend of Tarzan]]''<sup>2</sup> '''†'''
|
|-
|''[[Digimon]]''{{efn|name=diginote|An umbrella name for ''[[Digimon Adventure (1999 TV series)|Digimon Adventure]]'', ''[[Digimon Adventure 02|Adventure 02]]'', ''[[Digimon Tamers|Tamers]]'', and ''[[Digimon Frontier|Frontier]]''.}} <sup>2</sup> '''‡'''
|
|}

'''†''' - Program transitioned from Disney's One Too<br/>
'''‡''' - Program transitioned from final schedule of Fox Kids

== See also ==
* [[The Disney Afternoon]] – a syndicated children's program block that ran from 1990 to 1997.
* [[ABC Kids (TV programming block)|ABC Kids]] – a Saturday morning children's block that ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1997 to 2011.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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{{UPN Kids}}

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