The Plucky Duck Show
The Plucky Duck Show | |
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Genre | Saturday morning cartoon |
Created by | Tom Ruegger |
Directed by | Rich Arons |
Voices of | Joe Alaskey Don Messick Charlie Adler Tress MacNeille Gail Matthius Cree Summer Frank Welker John Kassir (1 episode) |
Theme music composer | Bruce Broughton |
Composer(s) | Richard Stone Julie Bernstein Steve Bernstein |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Executive producer(s) | Steven Spielberg |
Producer(s) | Tom Ruegger Sherri Stoner |
Running time | 30 min. |
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Original network | Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox Kids) |
Original release | September 19 December 12, 1992 |
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Related shows | Tiny Toon Adventures Animaniacs Freakazoid! Pinky and the Brain Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain |
Steven Spielberg Presents The Plucky Duck Show, usually referred to as The Plucky Duck Show, was an animated television series created by Warner Bros. and a short-lived spin-off of Tiny Toon Adventures, the first collaboration between Steven Spielberg and the newly reborn Warner Bros. Animation studio, but concentrating attention mainly on Plucky Duck. The show ran for 13 episodes from September 19 to December 12 1992.
Of the 13 episodes, only the first one (entitled "The Return of Batduck" in homage to the then-new movie Batman Returns) was original to the series. All remaining episodes of the show were compilations of shorts produced for Tiny Toon Adventures, though some of the shorts were aired on The Plucky Duck Show first.
The theme song for the show is a rendition of the Tiny Toon Adventures theme, set to the same music, but with Plucky himself as the subject of the song. Some of the lyrics were reused in the Tiny Toon Adventures' episode, "It's A Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special".
After the show was canceled, the Batduck episode was edited somewhat and added in as an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures. The show's formula was attempted again several years later when the supporting characters from Animaniacs (Steven Spielberg's next collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation), Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid were also given their own show (PATB had better results, lasting 65 episodes, all of which were completely original to the series and not compilations of shorts produced for Animaniacs).
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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13 | September 19, 1992 | December 12, 1992 |
Episodes
1992
No. | Cartoon(s) | Original air date |
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1 | "The Return of Batduck" | September 19, 1992 |
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2 | "Ducklahoma / Video Game Blues / Yakety Yak / Party Crasher Plucky" | September 26, 1992 |
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3 | "Minister Golf / Particle Man / Istanbul / My Brilliant Revenge!" | October 3, 1992 |
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4 | "Kon Ducki" | October 10, 1992 |
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5 | "Inside Plucky Duck" | October 17, 1992 |
This episode is made up of two shorts: |
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6 | "A Quack In The Quarks" | October 24, 1992 |
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7 | "A Ditch In Time" | October 31, 1992 |
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8 | "Going Up / Wait ‘Till Your Father Gets Even / Never Too Late To Loon" | November 7, 1992 |
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9 | "Just-Us League of Supertoons / A Bacon Strip / Migrant Mallard" | November 14, 1992 |
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10 | "Hollywood Plucky" | November 21, 1992 |
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11 | "The Potty Years / Milk, It Makes A Body Spout / The Anvil Chorus" | November 28, 1992 |
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12 | "Slugfest / Duck Dodgers Jr. / Duck Trek" | December 5, 1992 |
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13 | "Best O’ Plucky Duck Day" | December 12, 1992 |
An episode of Tiny Toons consisting of the following Plucky Duck shorts:
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Plucky Duck Show at IMDb
- The Plucky Duck Show at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Plucky Duck Show at TV.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Television spin-offs
- 1990s American animated television series
- 1992 American television series debuts
- 1992 American television series endings
- American children's television series
- Fox network shows
- Looney Tunes television series
- Fox Kids
- Warner Bros. Cartoons
- Television series by Amblin Entertainment
- Crossover animation
- Television series by Warner Bros. Television