Ducktales Episode 5

[Doménica Spielmann]

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.

I know that line has almost nothing to do with the main plot of this episode but I just wanted to congratulate writer Colleen Evanson (and perhaps the entire DuckTales writers room) for writing the most real line of dialogue about social media. Ever.

Anyway, I know this episode was supposed to be the big Mark Beaks intro episode but oh my god, Glomgold. I want a show about this guy. I want to follow every single one of his evil schemes. I want his entire power point presentation as a giant art print.

DuckTales is so good taking a comedic plot and giving it real heart. Even with all the opportunities for jokes it still manages to tell us something about these characters that feels real, which helps to ground all of the silly action around it.

The Duck Knight Returns! was everything I could have hoped for and more. I had really high expectations when I found out it was a Darkwing Duck and Launchpad centric episode, and it beat those expectations for a perfect Drake Mallard as Darkwing Duck origin story.

This is one of my favorite episodes. I like the dynamic, the climax was a bit touching and all of the Shakespeare's refrences. Kid's won't propably get some but it was still well put together. I like that two of most popular Shakespeare's play's ("Hamlet" + "Romeo and Juliet") are only brifly refrence ("To buy or not to buy) so they can refrence plays like "Makbeth", "The Tempest"

,"A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Julius Cesar". Nice touches.

I personally asume that the final play ("McDuck") wasn't refrence to "Makbeth" as much a refrence to "Richard III" (you know, the A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" guy) since both plays are about a greedy king, hated by all who gets his comapance.

Now that you pointed it out I can see this episode working with Gladstone but I like the new character of Brushbill a lot.

However I'm with Scrooge on this one (well for the first 3/4 ad least). In real life if they would found a lost Shakespeare's play it would be worth a lot of money no matter if it's good or bad. It's still 500 years old and it's still writen by one of most historically sygnificant writers. I think Historical societies alone would pay a lot of cash for fiding it. And you can't say you cheated people when you sold it. It's still an actually Shakespeare play. If it sucks or not is a matter of opinion.

I remember something bizzare in the episode. Scrooge and two boys get thrown in the wather and in the next scene Scrooge talks to Brushbill on the page and thanks him for saveing them... Is it me or was there a deledet scene there?

"Top Duck" is next, eh? Great. Another good one.

Some funny stuff, even if Lunchapd main conflict could ben solve quickly if he didn't been so over-dramatic all the time.

I always asume that the Bealge Boys pilot cousin was ment to be Bankjob in the first draft but they change it for some strange reason. It's odd for them to introduce new Bealges when they already introduce a lot in previews episodes.

It's a shame Lunchpad family wasn't used more. I especially liked his sister. I think this show could use more dynamic recuring female characters.

Please adress those things ;)

Pan,

"I personally asume that the final play ("McDuck") wasn't refrence to "Makbeth" as much a refrence to "Richard III" (you know, the A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" guy) since both plays are about a greedy king, hated by all who gets his comapance."

As I recall, Macbeth didn't start out as a ruler, so you may in fact be correct.

"I remember something bizzare in the episode. Scrooge and two boys get thrown in the wather and in the next scene Scrooge talks to Brushbill on the page and thanks him for saveing them... Is it me or was there a deledet scene there?"

I think that Scrooge was referring to a previous scene in which Brushbill DID help Scrooge, Huey, and Dewey out of the water... the scene featuring the boat crash. Scrooge really didn't have time to thank Brushbill at that moment because he was concerned with finding Louie. The campfire scene was the first scene in which all the Ducks had a chance to be together for some length of time.

Chris

As far as flaws, I really have none. I would love to know what Launchpad was doing the whole episode, as that sounded ridiculously interesting! I could say that this was another filler episode, but who cares when the filler in this show is so entertaining and fun?

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