This adaptation is of one of my least favorite episodes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

The framing sequence has the Pooh friends putting on a play for Kanga and Roo, then it segues to an Old West tribute with Piglet becoming sheriff of a town needing protection from some horse thieves -- horses that are thieves, that is. The head horse, Nasty Jack, is voiced in the cartoon with a pathetic Jack Nicholson imitation (at least we are spared that in the adaptation). Pooh does a little Lone Ranger cosplay as the battle against Nasty Jack goes back and forth before the happy ending.

The episode is twice as long as regular segments in the show, so it drags on forever. While the adaptation cuts out the fat as it condenses the story, it just emphasizes how weak the tale is.

FOR REFERENCE:

Picture book adaptation of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated segment "Paw and Order," from Season 1, Episode 12; first aired April 3, 1988; directed by Karl Geurs; story by Len Uhley and Mark Zaslove; teleplay by Len Uhley.

(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh books my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.) ( )