January 23

Theatrical releases[]

Shorts[]

• 1928 - Neck 'n' Neck
• 1942 - The New Spirit
• 1948 - They're Off

Television[]

• 1957 - The Disneyland episode "Our Friend the Atom" premieres on ABC.
• 1999 - Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2004 - Dave the Barbarian premieres on Disney Channel with the episodes "The Maddening Sprite of the Stump/Shrink Rap", "Pet Threat/Lula's First Barbarian", "Girlfriend/Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow", "Beef!/Rite of Pillage", and "King for a Day or Two/Slay What?".
• 2006 - The JoJo's Circus episode "Skating Away" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
• 2009
  • The Phineas and Ferb episode "Tip of the Day" secretly premieres on Toon Disney (the episode would later make its official premiere on February 20 on Toon Disney's successor Disney XD).
  • The Suite Life on Deck episode "When in Rome..." premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2011
  • Part two of the Good Luck Charlie episode "Snow Show" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Shake It Up episode "Match It Up" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2012 - Special Agent Oso airs its series finale "Thundersmall" on Disney Channel.
• 2014 - The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "The Pesky Kangaroo Rat/Cattle Overdrive" premiere on Disney Jr.
• 2015
  • The Phineas and Ferb episodes "Lost in Danville/The Inator Method" premiere on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on September 29, 2014).
  • The Wander Over Yonder episodes "The Funk/The Enemies" premiere on Disney Channel (originally premiered on Disney XD on November 25, 2014).
• 2016 - The 7D begins its second season on Disney XD with the episodes "When Pigs Fly/Knight School".
• 2017 - The Kirby Buckets episode "The Unpranked" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2018 - The K.C. Undercover episode "Cassandra Undercover" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2021 - The Big City Greens episodes "'Rent Control/Pool's Gold" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2023
  • The Hamster & Gretel episodes "A Mammoth Problem/The Bantam of the Elementary School Light Opera" premiere on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on November 26, 2022).
  • The Big City Greens half-hour special "The Move" premieres on Disney XD (originally premiered on Disney Channel on September 24, 2022).

Streaming[]

• 2024 - The Percy Jackson and the Olympians episode "We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of" premieres on Disney+.

VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray releases[]

• 1998 - The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
• 2001
  • The Kid
  • The Thirteenth Year
• 2007 - The Guardian
• 2012 - Real Steel

Theme park happenings[]

• 1994 - Muppets on Location: Days of Swine and Roses had its final performance at Disney-MGM Studios.^[1]
• 2006 - Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! opens at Disney California Adventure.
• 2009 - Celebrate A Dreams Come True Parade debuts at Magic Kingdom.
• 2023 - Splash Mountain closes in Frontierland at Magic Kingdom.

People[]

Births[]

• 1900 - David Hand † (animator and filmmaker)
• 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen (actress and voice actress)
• 1981 - Julia Jones (actress)

Deaths[]

• 2015 - Barrie Ingham (actor)
• 2021
  • Hal Holbrook (actor and voice actor)
  • Larry King (actor, voice actor, comedian, and television and radio host)

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