Films released

Title	Country	Release date	Animation studio/Production company	Distributor	Notes
The Black Cauldron The Black Cauldron (film) The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985...	United States	July 24	Walt Disney Feature Animation Walt Disney Feature Animation Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio headquartered in Burbank, California. The studio, founded in 1923 as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by brothers Walt and Roy Disney, is the oldest subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...	Buena Vista	Disney's first animated film to be rated "PG" in the United States.
The Care Bears Movie The Care Bears Movie The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated film, the second feature production from the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films based directly on a toy line, it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions, the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, orphanage owners...	Canada	March 23   March 29	Nelvana Nelvana Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s... /American Greetings American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Brooklyn, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products , and electronic expressive content...	The Samuel Goldwyn Company The Samuel Goldwyn Company The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., the son of the famous Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, in 1979.-Background:...
He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword	United States	March 22	Filmation Filmation Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...	Atlantic Releasing Atlantic Releasing Atlantic Entertainment Group, also known as Atlantic Releasing Corporation was an independent film production and distribution company founded by Tom Coleman and Michael Rosenblatt in 1974...	The first film based on a toy line.
Here Come the Littles Here Come the Littles Here Come the Littles is a 1985 children's animated film, produced in Luxembourg by DIC Entertainment and distributed by Atlantic Releasing...	Luxembourg	January 18   May 24	DiC Entertainment DiC Entertainment DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...	Atlantic Releasing	DiC's first feature film.
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is an animated film released on November 15, 1985 by Warner Bros., and produced by DiC Entertainment and Hallmark Cards...	United States/ Japan	November 15	DiC Entertainment DiC Entertainment DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of... /Hallmark Cards Hallmark Cards Hallmark Cards is a privately owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce C. Hall, Hallmark is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts....	Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated movie. It was written by animation writer Jeffrey Scott and was originally released in 3-D by Atlantic Releasing. Starchaser was one of the first animated movies to mix traditional and computer animation. It is the only 3-D film distributed by...	United States/ South Korea	November 22		Atlantic Releasing	The first animated film released in 3-D 3-D film A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception... .

Television debuts

• January 23 – ThunderCats
  ThunderCats
  ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...
  
  premieres on first-run syndication (1985–1990).
• September 14 – Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
  Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
  Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s...
  
  (1985–1991) and The Wuzzles
  The Wuzzles
  Disney's Wuzzles is an American animated television series created for Saturday morning television, and was first broadcast on September 14, 1985 on CBS. An idea of Michael Eisner for his new Disney television animation studio, the Wuzzles are crossbred animals which sport a combined appearance of...
  
  (1985–1987), the first Disney animated shows made for television, premiere on NBC and CBS, respectively, at the same time slot.
• September - Care Bears
  The Care Bears (TV series)
  The Care Bears is an animated television series based on the Care Bears franchise, which aired between 1985 and 1988 in syndication; on the ABC network in the United States; and on Global in Canada. The 1985 episodes were produced by DIC Entertainment; the ABC/Global episodes were made by...
  
  (DiC
  DiC Entertainment
  DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...
  
   series)
• September 16 - G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, the ongoing series debuts in syndication after two mini-series that aired the previous two years (1985–1986).

Deaths

• February 20 - Clarence Nash
  Clarence Nash
  Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash was an American voice actor, best known for providing the voice of Donald Duck for the Walt Disney Studios...
  
   (b. December 7, 1904), original voice of Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...
  
  
• May 22 - Wolfgang Reitherman
  Wolfgang Reitherman
  Wolfgang Reitherman , also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men.-Personal life:...
  
   (b. June 26, 1909), one of Disney
  The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
  
  's Nine Old Men