Care Bears

Care Bears are a group of multi colored bear characters first painted in 1981 by artist Elena Kucharik for greeting cards published by American Greetings. They were turned into plush teddy bears and given their first screen storylines through the animated television specials The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings (1983) and The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine (1984), before headlining their own television series, Care Bears, from 1985 to 1988. The property was also carried into a string of feature films, including The Care Bears Movie (1985), Care Bears Movie II, A New Generation (1986) and The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987).