101 Dalmatians (franchise)

101 Dalmatians is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company that grew out of Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. The fictional universe first appeared in that novel, and the franchise as an organised family of works began in 1961, when Disney released the traditionally animated feature film One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Over the following decades Disney produced a range of further adaptations, which the franchise page groups by form: sequels released directly to video, animated television series, video games and other tie-in products. The franchise is American in ownership and production, though its literary source is a British children's novel by Dodie Smith, so this entry is placed by the medium in which the story first appeared, the novel, not by the animated film that made it famous. The individual 1961 film is recorded separately in the atlas as a work.