TaleSpin is a half-hour animated adventure series based in the fictional city of Cape Suzette, that first aired in 1990 as a preview on
The Disney Channel and later that year as part of
The Disney Afternoon, with characters adapted from
Disney's 1967 animated feature
The Jungle Book, which was theatrically rereleased in the summer before this show premiered in the fall. The name of the show is a play on "", the rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral. The two words in the show's name,
tale and
spin, are a way to describe telling a story. The show is one of the nine
Disney Afternoon shows to use established Disney characters as the main characters, with the others being
Darkwing Duck,
DuckTales,
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers,
Goof Troop,
Bonkers,
Quack Pack,
Aladdin and
Timon & Pumbaa.