TV series or program
Quack Pack is 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.
Overview
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" 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, Scrooge McDuck, the Money Bin, Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose, and GizmoDuck were completely absent from Quack Pack; 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 Disney Channel, and later on Toon Disney, but was removed from the channel's lineup, along with several other classic Disney shows, in November 2004.
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).
DVD
Three episodes have been released to DVD in region 1.
Similarities to DuckTales
Since this is a spin-off of DuckTales there are some similarities. These include:
- Huey, Dewey and Louie as main characters and live with one of their uncles.
- Both cartoons take place in Duckburg, though the settings differ dramatically.
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