Quack Pack
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Quack Pack
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| 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).
[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
- Eating dogs and cats
- Island of the Not-So-Nice
- The Real Mighty Ducks
- Leader of the Quack
- All Hands on Duck
- Pride Goeth Before the Fall Guy
- Need 4 Speed
- The Germinator
- The Late Donald Duck
- Tasty Paste
- Phoniest Home Videos
- Return of the T-Squad
- Koi Story
- Ready. Aim...Duck!
- Pardon my Molecules
- Unusual Suspects
- Ducklaration of Independence
- Can't Take a Yolk
- Heavy Dental
- Duck Quake
- The Long Arm of Claw
- Shrunken Heroes
- Snow Place to Hide
- Huey Duck, P.I.
- Take My Duck, Please
- Duck by Nature
- Recipe for Adventure
- The Boy Who Cried Ghost
- Gator Aid
- None Like it Hot
- Ducky Dearest
- Transmission: Impossible
- Nosy Neighbors
- Hit the Road, Backwater Jack!
- Cat and Louse
- Hero Today, Don Tomorrow
- Captain Donald
- Stunt Double or Nothing
- Feats of Clay
[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
