Dynamo Duck

Dynamo Duck (French: "Saturnin le canard") was the main character in the children's series "The adventures of Dynamo Duck", which aired on television in the early nineties.

The origin of the series lies with the French film maker Jean Tourane. During the sixties he filmed for a children's television series "Saturnin, le petit canard" about the small duck Saturnin which had all kinds of adventures. The series was produced using real animals, dressed up with sunglasses, hats etcetera, inside a miniature world. The series, first produced in 1964 (according to the Internet Movie Database) was shown on French television.

Years later, the footage was bought by the American producer Nathan Sassover. Originally, clips of it were used as bumpers leading into and out of commercials on the Fox Kids network. With the clips' popularity growing, Sassover edited the different pieces of film in a new way and wrote new storylines to produce some sort of detective show. Again a small duck was the main character, fighting crimes of the evil Dr. Mortex (a dressed monkey) and its evil servants. The animals were wandering around in scale models of trucs and other vehicles. The duck, this time going by the name of "Dynamo Duck", was driving around in a miniature Jaguar.

The series were directed by Robert Dorsett. The duckling was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, using a terse, clipped style parodying "The Untouchables"' Robert Stack. The first season aired in 1990 on Fox Kids. At the end of every show, Dynamo Duck said "The world is my pond and danger is my destiny!". The second season of Dynamo Duck is widely regarded as vastly inferior to the first, with recycled footage from the first season poorly edited into incomprehensible storylines, and completely different voice actors.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289050/ Dynamo Duck (1990)] on IMDB
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191420/ Saturnin, le petit canard (1964)] on IMDB
* [http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/sources/series.php3?cle=1053&sec=3 Saturnin on planete-jeunesse.com] (French)
* [http://www.tvacres.com/birds_ducks_dynamo.htm More about the creation of the nineties series]