Quack Pack

Quack Pack
Quack Pack title card
Format	Animated series
Created by	Walt Disney Television
Voices of	Tony Anselmo Jeannie Elias Pamela Adlon E.G. Daily Kath Soucie April Winchell
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	39 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	September 2, 1996 – November 28, 1996
Chronology
Related shows	DuckTales (1987) Darkwing Duck (1991)

Quack Pack is an animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company, featuring Donald Duck and his nephews. The show debuted in September 1996 as a part of the Disney Afternoon weekday afternoon programming block. Unlike other Disney Afternoon shows, it was aimed at an older audience, including teenagers. It had one season with 39 episodes.

Premise

The show centres around Donald and teenaged versions of his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Donald now works as a cameraman alongside Daisy, who is a reporter. The group travels around the world looking for a big scoop.

Production

Co-Producers Kevin Hopps and Todd Shelton turned to Donald Duck shorts for inspiration for Quack Pack. Shelton noted that in the shorts, Donald mostly interacted with humans, and decided to incorporate humans into the world of Quack Pack. This contrasted with DuckTales, a previous Disney Afternoon series, where the world is inhabited by other anthropomorphic animals. Shelton considers Quack Pack as more of an extension of the original Donald Duck shorts than of DuckTales.^[1] Because of this, many characters from the DuckTales cartoons and comics, such as Scrooge McDuck or Launchpad McQuack, do not make appearances in the series.

The show was created to give each of the nephews their own voices and personalities. Huey was the smooth-talker and schemer, Louie was the athlete and oddball, and Dewey was the intellectual and prankster.^[2]

After Quack Pack left the Disney Afternoon block, it eventually resurfaced in reruns on the Disney Channel, and later on Toon Disney. It was removed from the channel's line up along with several other classic Disney shows in November 2004.

Episodes

Main article: List of Quack Pack episodes

Cast

• Donald Duck – Tony Anselmo
• Daisy Duck – Kath Soucie
• Huey Duck – Jeannie Elias
• Dewey Duck – Pamela Segall
• Louie Duck – E.G. Daily
• Gwumpki – Pat Fraley
• Kent Powers – Roger Rose
• Moltoc / Gustav Goose – Tim Curry
• Ludwig Von Drake – Corey Burton
• The Claw – Frank Welker - Upon seeing gold, The Claw will turn into a monstrous beast, but hearing a bell will make him calm. His voice is very similar to that of Dr. Claw on Inspector Gadget, and is voiced by the same actor.
• The Great Dr. Horton Letrek – Jeff Bennett
• Agustus Tovar – Danny Mann
• Professor Henry Villainova – Jonathan Harris
• Agent X – Kath Soucie

DVD releases

The episodes Transmission: Impossible, Heavy Dental and Feats of Clay were released as the first Region 1 volume in the US, but no further releases have been planned. A one-off Christmas DVD released, in Region 2, contains the episode Snow Place to Hide.

References

1. ^ http://tobyshelton.blogspot.com/2011/01/huey-dewey-louie-model-sheets-quack.html
2. ^ http://tobyshelton.blogspot.com/2011/01/huey-dewey-louie-model-sheets-quack.html

External links

• UltimateDisney.com — Volume 1 DVD Review with Pictures
• Quack Pack at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
• Quack Pack at the Internet Movie Database
• Quack Pack at TV.com