How good is this show? Secret Aztec Gold good. They floundered a bit with the original characters (Bubba sucked, Doofus, less so) My favorite episodes were the initial five-parter, and the one where Scrooge gets amnesia and meets Mrs. Crackshell.

Oh, and who else wishes they had a Junior Woodchuck Guidebook? That book had everything!

Fenton got on my nerves a lot; he was a lame grown-up Doofus.
Doofus rocked. He was funny, the way he talked was funny, and his idolization of Launchpad was hilarious.
Gizmo Duck didn't bother me so much, really, Just Fenton.

I liked the stories where Scrooge was after some buried treasure more than I liked the ones about space cars or air-o-planes.

Anything to do with Glumgold (which was just Scrooge with a beard and a dress "It's a kilt!") was really funny. He and Scrooge should have gone after one another more often.

Out of all the boys, Dewey was the one I liked best. That's because he wears blue, my favorite color. But then, he's also the only boy to show any kinda of character development as opposed to stock character, in the episode "The Duck in the Iron Mask." In it, he's so tired of looking like his brothers that he wears glasses, a polk-a-dot bowtie and giant flower on his head.
It was a plot device, but it gave him some personality.

Does anyone remember the one where Doofus finds his "Lucky Donut"? Which gives him super powers?

"According to the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, when you're lost in a forest you should ..."

Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. I was 5 and my mom thought that since I loved the show so much, I could sit through 90 minutes of it.

And I did LOVE this show when I was little. I used to watch that afternoon line-up of Tale Spin, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and this. But never Darkwing Duck, because it wasn't as good.

When my cable company started carrying Toon Disney, I started watching it again, even though I was in high school. And I still totally loved it. Then one day, I turned to watch it and the EVIL Comcast people had traded out Toon Disney in the line-up for TBN! It's been 2 years and I'm still pissed about it!

Webby was my favorite character on the show. As a young girl with all boys as friends, I could totally relate to her being pushed aside by Huey, Dewey, and Louie. And she wore pink, which was my favorite color.

Another character that I didn't like as a child, but learned to love was Mrs. Crackshell, Fenton's dearest Ma-ma. She was so awesome, with her gravelly voice and how she always sat in her trailer in a bathrobe and curlers, watching soaps. And didn't she win the lottery or something in one episode? I seem to remember her trailer flying through the air and Gizmoduck having to save it with a giant bubble gum bubble. Maybe I'm confusing 2 episodes...this is why I need Toon Disney!

Magica De Spell was the best bad guy, since she was the only one that ever really was able to succeed in stealing Scrooge's money- well, his lucky dime. The Beagle Boys were incompitent and Glomgold needed to get a life.

There were also pigs (and ambiguous fowl-types) living in Duckberg. And one lizard. Also, beavers, frogs, and foxes seemed to exist somewhere around town. There might have also been weasels. Darkwing Duck was a little more liberal with its bestiary.

Maybe ducks were more comfortable living in large numbers at a place named Duckberg. And other animals liked St. Canard (DWD town) better? Just a hunch.

I absolutely loved this show. I had a Ducktales sticker book and I must have drove my mother crazy, asking her to buy the sticker packs every time she went grocery shopping. There was no way I could ever complete it, but I came close with one episode. I think it's the one where the Beagle Boys fooled Launchpad into helping them make a movie, when in reality they were using him to rob banks in a superhero costume. My favorite episode has to be the one where Magica and the Beagle Boys magically take on the respective forms of Mrs. Beakley and Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Ah, the hilarity that ensued.

I also like that Launchpad had a full head of red hair on Ducktales, as it should be. When he was on Darkwing Duck, he removed his hat once and I remember he was bald. He just had a tuft of red bangs on his forehead. WTF?

The ravages of time maybe? DWD is supposedly set a few years after DT?

Anyway, Fenton may have been a little annoying and kinda dense at times, but I did like him. Especially when compared to Bubba, who's totally annoying, completely lame, and who I HATED 99.9% of the time he was on the show. Another thing that thing bugged me was how they kept the new characters separate. It was either a Fenton ep or a Bubba ep. Of course being older and wiser, I look back on this and I'm thankful they did it it that way, but as a child I remember this really disturbing me.

Oh, Bubba.
Bubba was a big flubba. There was nothing good about that kid's introduction to the show.
He took away from Dewey, Louie and Huey, and to an extent, Webby and Doofus.
He's like a mix of Doofus and of the Triplet, with all the plot lines that should have gone to them but ... well.

Oh man, I found this thread! I loved this show when I was a kid. And now that I get Toon Disney, I'll have to be on the lookout for it.


I used to have the computer game based on these episodes. I could only beat it on the easy mode though. But it rocked, extremely basic graphics and all.

What happend to Duck Tales on toon disney? I've been having my DVR record the episodes that played very early in the morning, but they've stopped showing up.

I had forgotten who Bubba was. I knew that I hated Doofus, actually liked Fenton, remembered the genie from the movie and a lot of the characters, but not Bubba. Once I saw Bubba's picture, I realized that I had suppressed Bubba from my Ducktales memory. Nothing good ever came about from Bubba.

I was at home searching through some boxes from my childhood and found a Ducktales magazine. Haven't had a chance to read it, but I've gotta do it sometime. For the most part, it seemed like it was mostly comics and a lot of kids games and puzzles. Perhaps the template for what Disney Adventures magazine would become.

Not only to an extent. After Bubba's introduction at the beginning of season 2, Webby only had very few appereances, in all of them she was a stupid and annoying girl, who desperatly wanted to be part of the gang, but couldn't get anything right. In season 1, she also wanted to be part of the gang, but she also had a brain and quite a few times, she saved the day (for example in the episode in Australia, with the "U.F.O"'s, and also in the one where she saved Launchpack from drowning). In season 2 there weren't such moments anymore, and instead they gave it to Bubba. I will never understand why they did this, basically replacing the most important female character with such an annoying character. And Doofus was totally cut in season 2. He didn't appear at all.

DuckTales - pure, pure excellence in the world of TV cartoons. One thing I remember in particular is the episode with the Golden Goose. Ducktales also had the movie with the lamp, which, now that I think about it, was pretty nice.

Scrooge swimming in cash, GizmoDuck, ahh...the memories. One of the things to love about Disney back when they were actually Disney. Darkwing Duck, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and Talespin used to air with this in a 2-hour block. That was one of my favorite things as a kid...

Thank you for resurrecting such great memories for me, TWoP.

Has anyone heard when or if Ducktales will appear on DVD. There were 100 episodes from the first 2 seasons, enough for 2 great season sets.

From Mike's House of Cartoons: "The series of DuckTales first aired on September 18, 1987. Disney broadcasted 65 episodes over a 13-week period. The first five (one week's worth), opened with Donald Duck enlisting in the Navy, leaving his three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie with his Uncle Scrooge. At first Scrooge wasn't happy with his nephews, until they managed to prove their worth by preventing the Beagle Boys from robbing Scrooge. The series followed the first five episodes with 60 episodes including treasure hunts, thief-foilings, and general humourous adventuring strongly reminescent of Barks's work. DuckTales was such a hit, thatb series two, a further 35 new episodes were produced in 1990. DuckTales had reached a 100 episodes, a first for disney and a feature length film released to the cinemas in 1990 titled, Treasure of the Lost Lamp."

Hopefully, there will be a Duck Tales DVD release of both seasons, as well as Treasure of the Lost Lamp.

Launchpad McQuack was the only cartoon character to crossover to THREE different cartoons......Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck, and Tale Spin. Anyways, I loved this show.

Is anyone else mad that Launchpad was basically diminished as a character when they made him Darkwing Duck's sidekick?

Wait, was Launchpad seriously in Talespin?

I believe "Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp" will be released either late 2005 or in 2006. It's already on dvd overseas.

I also don't remember Launchpad in Talespin, unless it was a quick cameo of sorts. Plus the time frame would be out of wack, as Talespin was supposed to be set in the 40's or 50's era was it not, and Ducktales was current.

Ahh, memories of this show really take me back. I've been waiting for them to come out with the DVD set but I guess it's not enough in people's memories to warrant that much attention. "Blabbering blatherscythe!"

Disney was testing the waters for releasing their animated series to DVD with the first season of Gargoyles (easily my favorite Disney toon, though it's a completely different animal than any of the anthropomorphic shows like Tale Spin and Duck Tales). I'm not sure how well it did, but creator Greg Weisman said that Disney told him it did "fairly well". Not sure if that's "fairly well and exceeding our low expectations for sales", or "fairly well and we're not thrilled or disappointed, just on the fence about any further animated series releases". I'm confident we'll see most of the rest of the Disney TV library on DVD in the near future. My top picks are Duck Tales, Aladdin, and Gummi Bears (moreso because it's the oldest of that `80s/`90s crop and I have the most vague memory of it, can't remember if it was all that good). Probably Tale Spin as well just 'cause of how different it was and how good a lot of the voice talent was, but I don't remember it being a favorite. I'm a little more iffy about Darkwing Duck, Chip & Dale, and a few other Disney shows (especially the prequel/sequel shows to big screen films).

Forgot about that magic lamp film. It did rock, didn't it? I remember that at least, plus the guy who could change into animals.

The Heathcliff thread got me thinking about another theme song I really liked.

Life is like a hurricane
Here. In. Duck-burg
Racecars lasers aeroplanes
It's. A. Duck-blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite hist'ry

Duck Tales! Woo oo!
Every day they're out there making
Duck Tales! Woo oo!
Tales of daring do bad and good
Luck Tales! Woo oo!

D-d-d-danger!
Watch behind you!
There's a stranger
Out to find you!
What to do?
Just grab onto some

Duck Tales! Woo oo!
Not ponytails or cottontails but
Duck Tales! Woo oo!

When it seems they're headed
For the final curtain
Bold deduction never fails
That's for certain
The worst of messes
Become successes

Duck Tales! Woo oo!
Tales of daring do bad and good
Luck Tales! Woo oo!
Not ponytails or cottontails but
Duck Tales! Woo oo!

If you go to Toon Tracker's `80s/`90s Theme Page and scroll down about half way, you can listen to the theme song too.

Ducktales coming to dvd on November 8, 2005!

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ducktales-ch...-factsheet.html

Cool. I'll buy. And Rescue Rangers? (dunno if I'll buy that one) All Disney has to do is announce Gummi Bears, the Aladdin series, maybe Tale Spin, and I'll have gotten all I'll ever want from them.

Rescue Rangers? That is the best news I've gotten all day (it's been kind of a shitty one, so, really, it's the only good news I've gotten all day, but still!) I can't wait to get those!

I, like you, can't recall Bubba and I think I've seen every last episode.



I totally remember that.



Gargoyles is on DVD? Yes!



As I was reading that, the music was totally playing in my head. And I was flashing back to coming home from school and turning the tv to Ducktales. Everydat at 3 or 3:30 on channel 17 or 29.

I really loved this show. I remember who was who but I was the nephew in the red shirt (fave color), my one friend was in the blue shirt (her fave color) and my other friend was in the green (I remember if that was her fave color or not). I totally wanted to be on the show. And I wish I had a Junior Woodchuck guide.

I loved the nanny, Mrs. Duckworth I think.

Thanks for taking me back. And I have to get this on DVD.

The butler was Duckworth. The nanny was Mrs. Beakley.

The DVD is good news. I think I have 3 episode tape somewhere gathering dust. It had the Homer's Odyssey based episode on it. The Siren's song, which I still remember to this day, was: "Pennies, nickels, quarters, dimes! Come to us while there's still time." I think Scrooge was the only one drawn in by it because of the money related lyrics.

I love watching this cartoon. Uncle Scrooge was cool and I found myself rooting for those Beagle boys at times. Why the heck do I remember the butler being a dog? Weird.

My absolute fave episode is the Homer's Odyssey one.

My favorite episode ever was Launchpad as a James Bond-type secret agent. I wish that had been the spin-off instead of Darkwing Duck!

Oh that would of been great. Launchpad: Double O Duck. I could see it now. I love that episode too. I'm a fan of the Duck to the Future episode where Scrooge ended up in 2021 and Magica de Spell ran everything, it was a great "future imperfect" story line.

For Ducktales fans who'd like to see more of Scrooge McDuck in his native environment (comic books), Don Rosa's extraordinary 12-part "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" has just been released in a single, bound volume from Gemstone Publishing. The comic book is an autobiography of Scrooge, starting from his boyhood in Scotland in the late 19th century, all the way up to his fabulously wealthy present and the Money Bin. Even the most devoted Carl Barks aficionados acknowledge that Rosa's work may be definitive. Cannot be more highly recommended.

I loved Ducktales & Rescue Rangers.

I loved on Rescue Rangers Fat Cat, & Norton Nimnone (whatever his last name is.)

The Beagle Boys always make me laugh. Especially Ma Beagle & that fat one who is always hungry.

However, I don't like Bubba & I especially hate Fenton Crackshell & Gizmo Duck. What is the point of having these losers on Ducktales? It was doing just fine without them.

Damn. I remember buying this in a garage sale SEVERAL years back, but never reading it. Tempted to dig them out of storage now though, what with this and the Onion AV review....

BTW, I keep on hearing 12 issues. Are you sure? I remember buying at least 15 issues that the guy said was part of the story...

I just finished reading it - definitely a great collection. I am now curious about reading some of the original Barks comics, do you know if there are any similar collections of Barks out there?

So incredibly excited for the release of Ducktales on DVD (along with The Rescue Rangers). The price seems to be especially right for my wallet!

That's amazing!

I specifically saw that it was episodes 1-27, but when I went to the link to look at the titles, I was looking for "Wrong Way to Runway" and "Valley of the Golden Suns", because I remember it specifically started off with that five-parter.

And they weren't there. And I though, "A ha! They're wrong!"

Then I read that the web site had cross-checked with TV.com and they point out that the five-part mini series does is not on the DVD.

But I still felt smart anyway.

This is from forever ago, but what the hell...



I feel like the main story was 12 parts, and they stretched it out later by adding a prologue... an epilogue... a part zero...

Bah! I know beggars can't be choosers etc, but why put out a dvd without the opening episodes - those were some of the best.

Sigh.

Yeah, the animation was great. For some reason the quality really started to go down after a while. Remember, the episode where Huey, Duey and Louie and Doofus went on a "Star Trek"-type show:"Courage of the Cosmos"? They really made the lead actor who played the captain to be an egotistical phony. I wonder if the writer of the episode had had a bad experience with William Shatner?

I'm so excited this show is coming out...even though I had kinda forgotten about it. I'm definitely reliving some cool childhood memories now. My favorite line from the whole series is when Scrooge is jumping up and down on the breakfast table screaming, "A SEA MONSTER...ATE MY ICE CREAM!!!!" over and over. That was a pretty good arc too if I remember correctly. Something about a cloud ship and fruit that glowed or something.

Bubba was a tool and a horrible character, but he did have an awesome theme song: "Bubba hits a rock with a...'Bubba Clubba', Bubba takes a bath in a...Bubba Tubba!', when Bubba makes a goof it's a 'Bubba Flubba!'. Sheer poetry.



Hopefully these will be appended to the series at some later time? I agree that that kinda sucks.

The money-weighing contest with Glomgold! Good arc. I liked it even better than the five-part opening arc. The cloud ship was actually the City of Atlantis that had been raised from the ocean floor, and was being used to transport Scrooge's money to the contest.

For no reason whatsoever, the theme song entered my brain this morning in the shower, so I went looking for this thread.

Gladstone Publishing still reprints many of the old Barks adventures. Scrooge-maniacs usually cite "Back to the Klondike" as the best of the bunch.

So is the pilot definitely not on the set? I thought I read somewhere that nobody knows for sure if it would be on the set yet. They just had a rough list of the episodes that should be on there by looking at the episode list.

The pilot is definitely not on the first DVD set. The five-part opening series is not in it, The Valley of the Golden Suns.


"Who's your favorite hero? Courage! Courage!
When he's far or near-o! Courage! Courage!"

I loved Doofus. I can almost do his voice. I hated Bubba, though. Right around the time they introduced him, the animation changed, and I hated it.

"Sea Monster, ate my ice cream!"
And his accountant goes yelling/screaming out of the McMansion. That one had Donald, too, didn't it? I thought it did. And for some unexplainable reason, when they go down to Atlantis, to recover the money, instead of taking Donald and the boys, he takes Launchpad, Gyro and Doofus. Yeah, Doofus is who I'd trust to raise a city of the bottom of the Marinara Trench.

Uncle Scrooge McDuck! Now this guy is a great Disney character. I loved this show when I was a kid.

I remember the special movie that aired on TV, Super Duketales, and how vulnerable Scrooge's fortune was as they tired to move it. I believe the Money Bin was in the way of a freeway construction. Who could forget Blatherin' Blatherskite? I also think Magica and her obsession to get Scrooge's number one dime was a great storyline. I always felt sorry for her brother who was stuck as a crow. I can't remember his name though.

I don't know if it was his name in the U.S.A. as well, but in the German translations he's called Nimmermehr ("Nevermore"), based on quote: "Quoth the raven nevermore".

That's fitting for him - his name was Poe in the U.S.

Sucks that the opening pilot episodes aren't on there, but I bought the set anyway 'cause I want my 4 year old cousin to have it for Xmas (Toys R Us seems to have it for cheapest, at least in Canada. $26.99 Canadian, as opposed to Amazon.ca's $34-something). Also kind of a present for his mom as well, who buys everything Disney. She probably doesn't know much about Disney TV shows, but I think she'll appreciate these and it'll be awesome to give them their own complete series set of Gargoyles when my cousin's old enough for it.

The Ducktales pilot was originally aired as a movie though, wasn't it? And then later it was split into four or five separate episodes...?

There's a review up at Ultimate Disney, which seems to be a good, balanced, critical fansite for all things related to Disney on DVD.

I don't remember the pilot being released as a movie. And it has all the teasers and establishing shots that are indicative of commercial breaks. Having just watched the pilot myself, I think it's criminal that it wasn't included. Great locations and quests (minus the penguin part), well-written dialogue and the story of how the nephews came to live with Scrooge. The Ultimate Disney site did mention that not a lot of care was taken with this release and I tend to agree. No extras or inserts at all.

But the show itself is really good, sometimes even better than I remembered (my boyfriend actually went out and bought a copy). Especially when you compare it to other animated box sets like He-Man, which tended to recycle lots of animation and not put a lot of time into its backgrounds. I would recommend this set to anyone who remembers the show fondly. It's definitely something I will make my children watch someday.

See, I wouldn't have minded the lack of extras, but the incredibly poor transfer is inexcusable. I mean, does "Digitally Mastered" actually mean anything?? I believe Warner spent the money to clean up their Hanna Barbera cartoons, so for Disney to not cough up the dough is very disappointing.



Despite the poor transfer, the TMS animated episodes are still a marvel to me. The animation is always smooth and consistent in their episodes, so even though there's plenty of dust and grain, I do think these episodes still look better than a clean transfer of a badly-animated cartoon.

Now, it's been years since I've seen a lot of these episodes. Is anyone aware if there were syndication cuts, and if so, are the episodes on the set the original, unedited versions?

Not released as a movie, but it definitely aired as a two-hour TV movie before the series started. I remember watching it when it premiered. I think that the two-hour movie was then split into five episodes for regular rotation (no doubt they added more commercials and whatnot). I think they did this same thing for most of the Disney Afternoon Shows. I know they did it for Tale Spin and Darkwing Duk. Probably Rescue Rangers, too.