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 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Steven Spielberg |
| Producer(s) |
Tom Ruegger Sherri Stoner |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox Kids) |
| Original run | September 19, 1992 – December 12, 1992 |
Steven Spielberg Presents The Plucky Duck Show, usually referred to as The Plucky Duck Show, is an animated television series created by Warner Bros. It was 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 thirteen episodes from September to December 1992.
Of the thirteen episodes, only the first one (entitled "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 and Freakazoid (Steven Spielberg's next collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation), Pinky and the Brain 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).
Episodes
| 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 |
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This episode is made up of two shorts: | ||
| 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 |
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An episode of Tiny Toons consisting of the following Plucky Duck shorts:
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External links
- The Plucky Duck Show at the Internet Movie Database
- The Plucky Duck Show at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Plucky Duck Show at TV.com
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