March 8

Theatrical releases[]

Shorts[]

• 1946 - A Knight for a Day

Films[]

• 1967 - The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
• 1996 - Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
• 2019 - Captain Marvel

Television[]

• 1972 - The Mouse Factory episode "Water Sports" premieres in syndication.
• 2002
  • The Teacher's Pet episodes "Team Scott" and "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" premieres on Toon Disney.
  • The Lizzie McGuire episode "Mom's Best Friend" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Disney Channel Original Movie Cadet Kelly premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2008
  • The Johnny and the Sprites episodes "A Johnny for Everyone/Lily and the Frog Princess" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
  • The Handy Manny episodes "Skateboard Park/Cowboy Manny" premiere on Playhouse Disney.
  • The Phineas and Ferb half-hour special "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2009 - The Hannah Montana episode "Papa's Got a Brand New Friend" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2010 - The Phineas and Ferb half-hour special "The Beak" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2013
  • The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Quest for the Crystal Mickey" premieres on Disney Channel and Disney Jr.
  • The Jessie episode "Toy Con" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2015
  • The Liv and Maddie episode "Gift-a-Rooney" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The Once Upon a Time episode "Unforgiven" premieres on ABC.
  • The K.C. Undercover episode "How K.C. Got Her Swag Back" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • The I Didn't Do It episode "Lindy Goes to the Dogs" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2016
  • The Sheriff Callie's Wild West episodes "Peck's Prisoner Promise/Toby's Two-Step Trouble" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Bouncing Back" premieres on ABC.
• 2017 - The Milo Murphy's Law episode "Secrets and Pies" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2019
  • The PJ Masks episodes "Gekko and the Opposite Ray/PJ Masks vs. Bad Guys United" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Vampirina episodes "The Ghoul Next Door/Scare B & Vee" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Fancy Nancy episodes "The Imaginary Invalide/Nancy Hops to It!" premiere on Disney Channel.
  • The Sydney to the Max episode "I Know What You Did Last Sleepover" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 2020
  • The Raven's Home episode "Adolessons" premieres on Disney Channel.
  • Just Roll With It concludes its first season on Disney Channel with the episode "Byron & the Gator: The Far Side of the World".
• 2021
  • The PJ Masks episodes "Pharaoh Boy/By My Pharaoh Feathers" premiere on Disney Jr.
  • The DuckTales episode "The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck!" premieres on Disney XD.
• 2024
  • The Mickey Mouse Funhouse episodes "Daisy and the Missing Dream/Daisy's Big Picture" premiere on Disney Jr.
  • The Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures episodes "The Starship Show/Nash's Super Busy Day" premiere on Disney Jr.
  • The SuperKitties episodes "Skitty Kitty/Heat Wave" premiere on Disney Jr.

Theme park happenings[]

• 1986 - The Mad Tea Party opens in Tokyo Disneyland.
• 1999 - Doug Live! opens at Disney-MGM Studios.
• 2008 - Disney Stars and Motorcars Parade closes at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

VHS and DVD releases[]

• 2005 - Ladder 49

DVD releases[]

• 2005
  • Felicity: Senior Year Collection: The Complete Fourth and Final Season
  • Popular: Second Season
  • Sweet Valley High: The Complete First Season
• 2011
  • Hannah Montana Forever: Season 4
  • Tales from Earthsea

Streaming[]

• 2018
  • The second season of Jessica Jones premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Start at the Beginning" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Freak Accident" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Sole Survivor" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA God Help the Hobo" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA The Octopus" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Facetime" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA I Want Your Cray Cray" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Ain't We Got Fun" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Pork Chop" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Three Lives and Counting" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Pray for My Patsy" premieres on Netflix.
    • The Jessica Jones episode "AKA Playland" premieres on Netflix.

• 2023
  • The following Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur episodes premiere on Disney+.
    • "Teacher's Pet"
    • "Skip This Ad...olescence"
    • "Goodnight, Moon Girl"
    • "Like Mother, Like Moon Girl"
  • The first season of Chibiverse was added to Disney+.
  • The Mandalorian episode "Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore" premiere on Disney+.
  • The Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode "The Outpost" premieres on Disney+.

Events[]

• 2016 - Disney XD greenlights two new animated series' for the network Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer & Country Club (got renamed later as Big City Greens).^[1]
  • Big City Greens later makes its series premiere on Disney Channel instead.

People[]

Births[]

• 1943 - Lynn Redgrave † (actress)
• 1945 - Bruce Broughton (composer)
• 1954 - Susan Arnold (chairwoman of The Walt Disney Company)
• 1961
  • Camryn Manheim (actress and voice actress)
  • Jess Winfield (novelist, author, screenwriter, and voice actor)
• 1964 - Bob Bergen (voice actor)
• 1969 - Don Hall (director, writer, storyboard artist, and voice actor)
• 1975 - Liza del Mundo (actress and voice actress)
• 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr. (actor and voice actor)
• 1977 - James Van Der Beek (actor)

Deaths[]

• 1974 - Martha Wentworth (actress and voice actress)
• 1985 - Edward Andrews (actor)
• 1998 - Marvin Davis (master planner, art director, and scenic designer)
• 2006 - Rhoda Williams (actress and voice actress)
• 2020 - Max von Sydow (actor)

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