Quack Pack

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Quack Pack
Genre	Animated series
Running time	22 minutes
Creator(s)	Walt Disney Television
Starring	Tony Anselmo Jeannie Elias Pamela Segall Elizabeth Daily Kath Soucie
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	September 2, 1996–November 28, 1996
No. of episodes	39

Quack Pack was an animated television series made by the Walt Disney Company. The show debuted in September 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon weekday afternoon programming block, and lasted for one season of 39 episodes.

The series centered around the adventures of Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, who in this series were portrayed as teenagers. Other familiar Disney characters included in the series were Daisy Duck and Ludwig Von Drake.

In Quack Pack, Daisy was a reporter for a television news show called What In the World, with Donald as her cameraman. The nephews were portrayed in the series as typical teenagers, with appropriate accompanying interests. Huey, Dewey, and Louie in Quack Pack spoke in conventional voices, versus the "duck"-like voices they possessed in the earlier theatrical shorts, and also were given separate, distinct personalities (also in contrast to their earlier portrayals).

The tone of Quack Pack was overwhelmingly comedic and slapstick, a sharp contrast to the earlier "more serious" series featuring the Duck characters, especially the 1987 series DuckTales. Also contrasting with the earlier series was that despite Quack Pack taking place in Duckburg, the series almost exclusively featured human characters, with the Ducks as the only anthropomorphized characters to appear. Finally, there was no appearance or mention of either Donald's uncle Scrooge McDuck (though it can be assumed that Scrooge has passed on due to old age in this story) or Scrooge's money bin in this series; no explanation was given in the series for their absence. For these and other reasons, Quack Pack was met with criticism from some Disney fans.

After Quack Pack left the Disney Afternoon, it eventually resurfaced in reruns on the Toon Disney cable channel, but was removed from the channel's lineup, along with several other classic Disney shows, in November 2004. However, Disney has recently announced that it will be released on DVD and it will include the best 3 episodes of the series. Volume 1 arrived February 14, 2006.

The show's working title was Duck Daze, but was changed at the last minute to Quack Pack; traces of the earlier title were still reflected in the theme song (performed by Eddie Money).

Contents 1 Cast 2 Episodes 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Cast

• Donald Duck - Tony Anselmo
• Daisy Duck - Kath Soucie
• Huey Duck - Jeannie Elias
• Dewey Duck - Pamela Segall
• Louie Duck - Elizabeth Daily
• Gwumpi - Pat Fraley
• Kent Powers - Roger Rose
• Moltoc - Tim Curry
• Ludwig Von Drake - Corey Burton

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Quack Pack episodes

1. Blue Monday
2. Island of the Not-So-Nice
3. The Real Mighty Ducks
4. Leader of the Quack
5. All Hands on Duck
6. Pride Goeth Before the Fall Guy
7. Need 4 Speed
8. The Germinator
9. The Late Donald Duck
10. Tasty Paste
11. Phoniest Home Videos
12. Return of the T-Squad
13. Koi Story
14. Ready. Aim...Duck!
15. Pardon my Molecules
16. Unusual Suspects
17. Ducklaration of Independence
18. Can't Take a Yolk
19. Heavy Dental
20. Duck Quake
21. The Long Arm of Claw
22. Shrunken Heroes
23. Snow Place to Hide
24. Huey Duck, P.I.
25. Take My Duck, Please
26. Duck by Nature
27. Recipe for Adventure
28. The Boy Who Cried Ghost
29. Gator Aid
30. None Like it Hot
31. Ducky Dearest
32. Transmission: Impossible
33. Nosy Neighbors
34. Hit the Road, Backwater Jack!
35. Cat and Louse
36. Hero Today, Don Tomorrow
37. Captain Donald
38. Stunt Double or Nothing
39. Feats of Clay

[edit] Trivia

There will be a third spin-off called The Launchpad and Mickey Mouse Show, which will be an animated series starting 2007-01-03. ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• UltimateDisney.com - Volume 1 DVD Review with Pictures
• Quack Pack at the Internet Movie Database
• Quack Pack at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Quack Pack at TV.com