Ducktales First Episode

[Catherine Rubeo]

Thefollowing is an episode list for the Disney animated television series DuckTales. The series is based on the Scrooge McDuck character and the Uncle Scrooge comic books created by Carl Barks. The series stars Scrooge, his great-nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Webby Vanderquack, and several characters created for the series. While Huey, Dewey, and Louie originated in Donald Duck animated short subjects in the 1930s, their characterization on DuckTales approximated that of Barks' comics. Although Donald Duck was a major player in the Uncle Scrooge comics, he appeared as a guest star in a few DuckTales episodes.

Ten episodes premiered during the second season, and 18 in the third. Three episodes produced for the third season were held back for broadcast until the fall of 1990, when the series was incorporated into The Disney Afternoon. Seven additional episodes were produced for its short final season, totaling 100 for the series. The show aired its final episode on November 28, 1990.[3]

After foiling the Beagle Boys, Scrooge attempts to determine the nature of the map, until his nephews discover it leads to a sunken treasure ship hidden in the South American nation of Ronguay. Naturally, the group decide to go after it, but El Capitn is eager to thwart this, and recruits assistance from Scrooge's chief rival, Flintheart Glomgold, with promises to help him become more wealthier with the treasure.

When going to Duck Ridge for an American Civil War reenactment, Launchpad encounters aged Union veterans who once served under his ancestor, who had lost a battle. Meanwhile, Doofus and the nephews learn that a businessman is exploiting the reenactments for financial gain. Launchpad works to avenge his family's honor by rallying the old veterans to a "rematch" of sorts against the reenactors.

Duckburg is being plagued by earthquakes, causing Scrooge to be concerned his Money Bin might get hit and his fortune lost. Gyro invents a giant shock absorber to prevent this happening, but which requires it be placed into the faultline under the city. When the workforce become spooked while underground, Scrooge and his nephews venture down to find out why. They soon discover that an underground civilisation is causing the earthquakes as part of a sport, unaware of the trouble it is causing.

Part 1 of Catch as Cash Can, Scrooge and Glomgold compete in a contest where the winner, being the world's richest duck, becomes the sales broker for a new fruit from Macaroon that works like a flashlight. First, though, Scrooge must keep his fortune away from the Beagle Boys.

Part 2 of Catch as Cash Can, As Scrooge tries to deliver his fortune to Macaroon, he experiences an interference in the form of a rogue Navy super-submarine working for Glomgold. Donald is there to help his uncle reclaim his fortune.

Scrooge acquires a magical harp that can determine if someone was lying or not. However, Magica de Spell wants the harp for herself, and so does the harp's guardian: a five-story stone Minotaur.

After being fired again by Scrooge, Launchpad enters the space program, and accidentally gets sent to Mars. Worse, Doofus joins him on his trip, the pair accidentally causing the Martians to attack Earth.

In September 1989, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers joined DuckTales in syndication as a companion series.[8] That fall, 17 of the 20 still-expected episodes first aired. Also, "A DuckTales Valentine" premiered in February 1990 on NBC's The Magical World of Disney.[3]

Scrooge decides to become a vigilante after an unflattering report on him airs on television by a sleazy reporter. He is soon framed by a villain impersonating him and unmasked by Gizmoduck, unaware his doppelganger is actually the reporter who smeared him in the first place.

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a feature film based on DuckTales. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990. It was produced by the Disney Television Animation studios, Walt Disney Animation France and DisneyToon Studios, and not by Walt Disney Feature Animation.

On September 10, 1990, The Disney Afternoon started airing, with DuckTales included as part of its lineup and takes place after the events of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.[3] "Ducky Mountain High", "The Duck Who Knew Too Much", and "Scrooge's Last Adventure" were produced for season three, but did not air until season four.[3]

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released four DVD volumes that collect the entire series in NTSC format. 99 out of 100 episodes are available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon as well (the episode "Sphinx For the Memories" is not available).

In India where DuckTales was dubbed in Hindi for TV broadcast on Doordarshan and syndication on Star Plus, 60 episodes out of the first 70 episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 were released by Sony DADC India under license from Disney India, on 20 DVD volumes and Video CDs in PAL format.[9] These discs support Region 2, Region 4 and Region 5. However, due to limited number of copies, they quickly went out of stock. Each DVD contains 3 episodes encoded at a bit rate of 8000 kbit/s. Episodes 08, 10, 11, 22, 23, 24, 36, 55 and 61 are missing from the released set. All episodes starting from episode 70 to 100 (Seasons 2, 3 and 4) and earlier 10 random episodes from Season 1 of DuckTales are yet to be released in Hindi on DVD.

Walt Disney Television Animation began production on DuckTales in 1986, and the first season includes 65 episodes, the requirement needed for a show to have a weekday syndication (five days a week for thirteen weeks). Much of the season was inspired by Carl Barks' comic book stories, with ten episodes being full fledged adaptions, and Barks given credit for eight of them. Supervising producer of the first season was Fred Wolf, while Tom Ruzicka served as associate producer.

One of the show's developer, Jymn Magon, co-wrote the five-part pilot "The Treasure of the Golden Suns" with Bruce Talkington and Mark Zaslove, as well as the four-part serial "Catch as Cash Can", and some standalone episodes, while the duo David Wiemers & Ken Koonce were the most frequent additional writers. The duo Tedd Anasti & Patsy Cameron wrote the first episode that was produced, "Back to the Klondike", and served as story editors through out the season. Other writers of the season include Anthony Adams, Sharman DiVono, Evelyn Gabai, Michael Keyes, Richard Merwin, Bruce Reid Schaefer, and Len Uhley, as well as several contributors who were credited in one sole episode each: Eleanor Burian-Mohr, Diane Duane, Jack Enyart, Richard Esckilsen, Don Glut, Dale Hale, Jack Hanrahan, Pamela Hickey, Sam Joseph, Earl Kress, Randy Lofficier, James A. Markovich, Dennys McCoy, Francis Moss, Tom Naugle, Michael O'Mahony, Margaret Osborne, John Pirillo, Frank Ridgeway, Manette Beth Rosen, Astrid Ryterband, David Schwartz, John Semper, Chris Weber, Cherie Dee Wilkerson, Karen Willson, Mark Young, and Judy Zook.

David Block, Steve Clark, Terence Harrison and Alan Zaslove took turns directing the episodes, with timing director Vincent Davis serving as one-off director of the episode-segment "Take Me Out of the Ballgame".

The series focus on established comic book characters Scrooge McDuck (Alan Young), "the richest duck in the world", and his grand nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Russi Taylor). Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo) plays a minor role, but makes regular guest appearance throughout the season.

Much of the supporting cast is original DuckTales characters, including Duckworth the Butler (Chuck McCann), daring pilot Launchpad McQuack (Terry McGovern), nanny Mrs. Beakley (Joan Gerber) and her granddaughter Webby Vanderquack (Russi Taylor), and the friendly but clumsy Doofus Drake (Brian Cummings). Also appearing frequently is inventor Gyro Gearloose (Hal Smith), adapted from the comic books alongside his sidekick robot, Lil Bulb (non-speaking).

The characters Admiral Grimitz, Poe, Gladstone Gander, Benzino Gassolini, Gloria Swansong, Farley Foghorn, and Quacky McSlant do not appear past the first season, while Vacation Van Honk and Lord Battmountain, did return, but only as non-speaking characters. Donald Duck, while not appearing physically past the first season, continued to make photographic cameos up until the third season.

While I am very aware of the popularity, I have never seen the original show and have yet to play the immensely popular game, despite it being ported and remastered for just about every system including PS4 and Xbox One. So without nostalgia, I can say that I really loved this first episode!

I'll start out by saying I've never been a huge fan of television series' that anthropomorphize its characters. I've just always thought that people should be people and animals should be animals. You don't mix the two. But Ducktales has always been enjoyable because of its focus on the fun adventures that the characters find themselves in. I was skeptical when I first heard Disney was making a new series, but all my skeptical thoughts disappeared as I watched the first episode/hour long movie that opened the series.

The characters are all so interesting and full. Starting with Huey, Dewey, and Louie, you get a cool feel for them right off the bat. I like that each of these characters are different from each other. They are all troublemakers in their own right, and I was worried that they would change them up so one of them would be the troublemaker, and one would be the goody-goody, and the other would just be whatever. But the classic core of the characters still stands and each are unique in fantastic ways.

Donald Duck is also really intriguing. I'll be honest in saying, I don't remember Donald playing a large role in Ducktales, but in this series, he plays an essential fatherly figure to the boys. He really does care about them, to the point of over protection. It's cool to see Donald fleshed out in this way. I'm used to just seeing him as a figure of anger or pride, but seeing him worried about his nephews and his adventurous background is awesome.

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