Darkwing Duck

1991 star 7.4 tv3 Seasons play_circle91 Episodes

The adventures of superhero Darkwing Duck, aided by his sidekick Launchpad McQuack. In his secret identity of Drake Mallard, he lives in a suburban house with his adopted daughter Gosalyn, next door to the bafflingly dim-witted Muddlefoot family. A spin-off of DuckTales.

Action & Adventure Animation Comedy Family Kids

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Episode 1
E1

Darkly Dawns the Duck (1)

Darkwing Duck meets Launchpad McQuack! Together they try to save Gosalyn from being kidnapped and used by Taurus Bulba as a pawn in his evil plan.

Sep 6, 1991

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Episode 2
E2

Darkly Dawns the Duck (2)

Taurus nabs Gosalyn, despite the best efforts of DW and Launchpad. Can Darkwing Duck and Launchpad McQuack save the day?

Sep 6, 1991

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Episode 3
E3

Beauty and the Beet

Darkwing Duck must battle through a greenhouse of hostile plants to save Rhonda from being changed into a plant.

Sep 9, 1991

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Episode 4
E4

Getting Antsy

Darkwing and Gosalyn take a trip to the new miniature golf course that turns out to be the hideout of Dr. Lulliput, a scientist who's shrinking the banks of St. Canard!

Sep 10, 1991

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Episode 5
E5

Night of the Living Spud

Bushroot, the half plant/half duck villain, tries growing a bride to keep him company.

Sep 11, 1991

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Episode 6
E6

Apes of Wrath

Shush asks Darkwing Duck to investigate the disappearance of a gorilla researcher.

Sep 12, 1991

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Episode 7
E7

Dirty Money

Someone is scrubbing the print off the cash in bank vaults across the country and Darkwing Duck is on the case!

Sep 13, 1991

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Episode 8
E8

Duck Blind

In a battle with the electrified villain, Megavolt, Darkwing Duck is blinded by a giant flashbulb.

Sep 16, 1991

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Episode 9
E9

Comic Book Capers

A comic book company wants to produce a Darkwing Duck comic book! Darkwing decides to write about his latest adventure with Megavolt.

Sep 17, 1991

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Episode 10
E10

Water Way to Go

Darkwing Duck finds Steelbeak using a rain-making device to flood the Sahara Desert!

Sep 18, 1991

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Episode 11
E11

Paraducks

Darkwing Duck is the brave volunteer to try out a Shush scientist's time travel machine!

Sep 19, 1991

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Episode 12
E12

Easy Come, Easy Grows

Darkwing Duck is baffled by the mysterious disappearance of bank safes which seem to be literally walking away on their own.

Sep 20, 1991

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Episode 13
E13

A Revolution in Home Appliances

Megavolt accidentally gives life to a group of home appliances who go on a crime spree through St. Canard.

Sep 23, 1991

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Episode 14
E14

Trading Faces

Darkwing Duck and Gosalyn are forced into action when Steelbeak and F.O.W.L. Egg Men steal a huge booster rocket from an intergalactic spacecraft!

Sep 24, 1991

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Episode 15
E15

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlatan

Tuskerninni plans to take over a studio by causing 'accidents' to occur to the leading actors. Darkwing decides to investigate by becoming the lead in Tuskerninni's latest film!

Sep 25, 1991

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Episode 16
E16

Can't Bayou Love

A Cajun crook, Jambalaya Jake, moves to the city when his pork-bellied pet gator, Gumbo, develops an allergy to swampwater. But, his crooked style is cramped by Darkwing Duck!

Sep 26, 1991

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Episode 17
E17

Bearskin Thug

Gosalyn would rather be anywhere than camping, but Drake has decided it's time to hit the trail for a little father/daughter togetherness.

Sep 27, 1991

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Episode 18
E18

You Sweat Your Life

Drake is off to the health spa when he finds two of it's employees, Flex and Slim, stealing rare items from the St. Canard Museum!

Sep 30, 1991

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Episode 19
E19

Days of Blunder

Quackerjack masquerades as a psychiatrist and convinces Darkwing Duck that he's become ineffective at his job. Darkwing then switches careers as Quackerjack goes on a crime spree.

Oct 1, 1991

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Episode 20
E20

Just Us Justice Ducks (1)

Darkwing Duck's ego gets the better of him when Negaduck teams up Darkwing's greatest foes: Megavolt, Quackerjack, Bushroot and Liquidator!

Oct 2, 1991

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Episode 21
E21

Just Us Justice Ducks (2)

The Justice Ducks are each defeated and captured by the Fearsome Five. Darkwing rushes to the rescue, and the five heroes join in battle against the five villains, with the ultimate victors deciding the fate of the whole city.

Oct 3, 1991

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Episode 22
E22

Double Darkwings

Jambalaya Jake and Gumbo obtain a bayou zombie potion to control Darkwing Duck. But Launchpad gets hit with the potion when in his Darkwing decoy outfit!

Oct 4, 1991

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Episode 23
E23

Aduckyphobia

A mutated spider bite causes Darkwing to grow four extra arms! When this causes hims trouble while trying to catch Moliarty, Darkwing adopts a new super-hero identity... Arachno-duck!

Oct 7, 1991

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Episode 24
E24

When Aliens Collide

Gosalyn comes upon a space ship that has crashed in the park. A cute alien emerges, wearing a rather restrictive collar which he doesn’t seem to be fond of.

Oct 8, 1991

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Episode 25
E25

Jurassic Jumble

Honker and Gosalyn track down a set of dinosaur footprints, and are led to the nefarious Dr. Fossil, duck turned dinosaur. With his de-evolution ray and the aid of a passing comet, Fossil plans to end the current life on the planet to give dinosaurs a second chance.

Oct 10, 1991

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Episode 26
E26

Cleanliness is Next to Badliness

Steelbeak teams up with agent Amonia Pine to clean out banks for F.O.W.L. Gosalyn starts a Darkwing fan club.

Oct 15, 1991

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Episode 27
E27

Smarter Than a Speeding Bullet

Comet Guy, failure superhero has come from another planet to retrieve superhero training. Steelbeak directs the theft of masses of rubber to construct a destructive F.O.W.L. device - the F.O.W.L. ball.

Oct 17, 1991

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Episode 28
E28

All's Fahrenheit in Love and War

Launchpad and Darkwing are after a strange band of firebugs that have melted down the gold of the city banks. Icy Vanderchill, frozen duck, develops a crush on DW, and dates him, all the while hiding a plot to paint the city in a layer of gold.

Oct 21, 1991

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Episode 29
E29

Whiffle While You Work

Gosalyn and Darkwing are hyped over a video game competition involving the popular ""Whiffle Boy"". However, a toymaker gone insane, Quackerjack, is out to get revenge on the gaming industry that put him out of business.

Oct 23, 1991

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Episode 30
E30

Ghoul of My Dreams

Morgana is using sleep sand to rob the citizens of St. Canard while they sleepwalk. When Darkwing steps in to set things right, he ends up in dreamland. Nodoff, controller of dreamland and supplier of Morgana's sleep sand wants the entire city to snooze, and will see to it that no one gets in his way.

Oct 31, 1991

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Episode 31
E31

Adopt-a-Con

In this case, Adopt-a-con means the Adopt A Convict Program. The program has sent Tuskernini to Drake's house. DW is sure that Tusker won't reform, even though he acts as if he has. Posing as Bushroot, he takes Launchpad, Gosalyn, And Drake hostages in order to fish out Darkwing. But Drake's already a hostage. How can DW pull out of this one?

Nov 7, 1991

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Episode 32
E32

Toys Czar Us

When Quackerjack learns that parents won't buy his dangerous toys, he decides to create a toy utopia for children, with him as the ruler. Gosalyn gets into trouble at school, causing the principal to suggest Drake take a better look at his parenting. Drake gives up Darkwing to become the perfect parent just as Quackerjack executes his insane plot.

Nov 11, 1991

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Episode 33
E33

The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck

200 years in the future, an archaeologist tries to put the pieces of history together with the aid of a supercomputer and ends up with multiple origins of Darkwing Duck.

Nov 13, 1991

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Episode 34
E34

Up, Up, and Awry

Darkwing becomes self-conscious about not having powers, so Gizmoduck and Launchpad create a Gizmosuit for him!

Nov 14, 1991

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Episode 35
E35

Life, the Negaverse, and Everything

To set things 'right' in an alternate universe where morality is reversed, Darkwing Duck teams up with the superheroes of the world: Megavolt, Quackerjack, Bushroot and Liquidator!

Nov 18, 1991

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Episode 36
E36

Dry Hard

Bud Flood, a crooked water salesman, becomes the Liquidator, seizing control of the water in St. Canard!

Nov 20, 1991

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Episode 37
E37

Heavy Mental

Launchpad gains psychic powers, but has trouble controlling them. F.O.W.L. agent, Major Synapse, steals S.H.U.S.H.'s Nora Ray, and uses it on his underlings to give them super brain powers.

Nov 21, 1991

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Episode 38
E38

Disguise the Limit

Negaduck, disguised, frames Darkwing for a series of crimes. To go into hiding, the hero uses an experimental S.H.U.S.H. design, which ends up causing him to spontaneously change into whomever he looks at.

Nov 26, 1991

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Episode 39
E39

Planet of the Capes

Comet Guy returns, and he needs Darkwing to go to his planet to help him.

Nov 27, 1991

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Episode 40
E40

Darkwing Doubloon

300 years ago, a pirate scourge sailed the seas, striking for truth and justice. That's right, believe it or not, that was a scourge of pirates! Darkwing Doubloon and his crew, Gosalyn, Stegmutt, Launchpad, and Gizmoduck have must battle the alleged pirate Negaduck and the Fearsome Four to keep them from making off with the king's jewels.

Dec 16, 1991

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Episode 41
E41

It's a Wonderful Leaf

A crowd of pushy holiday shopppers rub Bushroot the wrong way. He decides to ruin Christmas by taking control of all of St. Canard's Christmas trees.

Dec 23, 1991

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Episode 42
E42

Twitching Channels

Megavolt creates a way of transmitting himself as an electrical signal. Darkwing confronts the rat, and both of them get transported to the human universe. Here, the Darkwing Duck cartoon is a big seller, and DW realizes he isn't getting any of the profits. And it seems that there is no way home.

Feb 5, 1992

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Episode 43
E43

Dances with Bigfoot

Drake Mallard disappears and it’s up to the Crimson Quackette to find him.

Feb 6, 1992

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Episode 44
E44

Twin Beaks

When Honker's parents go missing, all clues point to the mysterious Twin Beaks. A mutated alien race of cabbages have begun their conquest of Earth from this unseemly town.

Feb 10, 1992

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Episode 45
E45

The Incredible Bulk

Bushroot creates a new experimental fertilizer that causes plants to grow large and strong.

Feb 12, 1992

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Episode 46
E46

My Valentine Ghoul

Darkwing’s refusal of Morgana’s suggestion of help, makes her very angry, which Negaduck sees as an opportunity.

Feb 14, 1992

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Episode 47
E47

Dead Duck

Chasing Megavolt, Darkwing gets into an accident and is killed. Now, on the run from Death himself, he no only plans to apprehend the villain he's after, but also has to search for a way to return to the living before it's too late.

Feb 17, 1992

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Episode 48
E48

A Duck by Any Other Name

A news program reveals Darkwing Duck's identity as Launchpad.

Feb 18, 1992

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Episode 49
E49

Let's Get Respectable

After a television program shows that Darkwing as a poor reputation with the public, Gosalyn decides that Darkwing needs an image change.

Feb 20, 1992

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Episode 50
E50

In Like Blunt

A nefarious criminal from the past returns, to profit by auctioning of all a complete list of S.H.U.S.H.'s secret agents. J. Gander teams up Darkwing with the legendary Derek Blunt to intercept the documents before they fall into the wrong hands.

Feb 24, 1992

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Episode 51
E51

Quack of Ages

To prevent the invention of the yo-yo, Quackerjack travels back to the medevial land of Canardia. Posing as the king's advisor, the demented toymaker convicts Darkwing as a warlock.

Feb 26, 1992

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Episode 52
E52

Time and Punishment

During a battle between Darkwing, Megavolt and Quackerjack, Gosalyn ends up aboard the villains Time Top, just before it starts up and takes them to the future. There, Gosalyn finds out that Darkwing has become Darkwarrior Duck, and enforces the law with an iron fist!

Feb 27, 1992

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Episode 53
E53

Stressed to Kill

Darkwing Is getting a little bit stressted. So he goes to a stress free clinic (which is beeing runby Megavolt and QuackerJack) and they brain wash him. Now he is too calm (not even Goslyn deystroying the house can get him mad!). When Megavolt and QuackerJack start a fire that soons starts to spread, Launchpd and Goslyn have to try to get DW out of it. But when Megavolt puts out the fire, he also starts a flood. What will they do?

Mar 3, 1992

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Episode 54
E54

The Darkwing Squad

J. Gander asks DW to train some of Shush's agents. That does not go over well with Agent Grizzlicoff, who joins F.O.W.L. as a double agent. Steelbeak sets a trap for the newly titled ""Darkwing Squad"" while Grizzli faces off against Darkwing.

Apr 1, 1992

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Episode 55
E55

Inside Binkie's Brain

When Binkie Muddlefoot gets hit on the head by a bowling ball, her ""little hero"" escapes and causes her to become the Canardian Guardian. Her endless quest for safety endangers the life of Darkwing as he tries once again to capture Megavolt.

Apr 1, 1992

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Episode 56
E56

The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain

A Sprit named Paddywhack is unleashed from a jack in the box when Gosalyn gets into mischief, and possesses Quackerjack's doll, Mr. Banana Brain. As he causes trouble alongside the demented toymaker, he grows, feeding from the negative emotions around himself.

Apr 29, 1992

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Episode 57
E57

Slime OK, You're OK

Bushroot creates a formula intending to create an intelligent plant friend, and Gosalyn ends up sampling it. Now Darkwing has a limited amount of time to find a cure before Gosalyn, half-slime, half-duck, melts into a pile of goo.

May 1, 1992

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Episode 58
E58

Whirled History

Forced to work on her boring history assignment, Gosalyn dozes off, and begins sleepwalking. She dreams herself with AstroDuck, a television show character, trying to find ""The Fountain Of Knowledge"". While she is learning about famous explorers in her dreams, Megavolt uses her as bait to trap and kill Darkwing in the real world.

May 1, 1992

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Episode 59
E59

U.F. Foe

Aliens kidnap Launchpad to make him ruler of the universe.

May 1, 1992

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Episode 60
E60

A Star Is Scorned

Darkwing's TV producer feels that Darkwing's TV show needs a new gimmick in the form of a spin-off character, which might really be Darkwing's replacement.

May 1, 1992

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Episode 61
E61

The Quiverwing Quack

Gosalyn takes up archery, and bests Negaduck with it. Against Darkwing's wishes she creates her alter-ego, the Quiverwing Quack and causes a stir of publicity. She also becomes Negaduck's new target - so he can regain his position as Public Enemy # 1.

May 16, 1992

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Episode 62
E62

Jail Bird

Negaduck steals a dimond that can steal other peoples powers. And after he steals the powers from,bushroot, megavolt, the luiquidator, and qukerjack, they have to use there weakneses to stop mega negaduck ( as he calls him).

May 17, 1992

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Episode 63
E63

Dirtysomething

It's Ammonia Pine's worst nightmare! FOWL has teamed her with her polar opposite, her filth-loving sister, Ample Grime. It WOULD be easy for Darkwing Duck to stop them. But Gosalyn, not having enough allowance to buy a video game, has discovered that she can cash in whatever she recycles... incuding the Thunderquack's engine, the Ratcatcher, a few gas guns, etc.

May 18, 1992

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Episode 64
E64

Kung Fooled

Darkwing chases Moleiarity to the city Kung Pow where he meets up with his old martial arts instructor, Master Lee.

May 19, 1992

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Episode 65
E65

Bad Luck Duck

Darkwing Duck is accused of stealing a tribes jewel and the leader puts a curse on him. Now they have to get it back from Negabuck and sop him from using it. But where is the leader to get the curse off?

May 20, 1992

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people Cast

Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings

Darkwing Duck (voice)

Christine Cavanaugh

Christine Cavanaugh

Gosalyn (voice)

Terence McGovern

Terence McGovern

Launchpad McQuack (voice)

apartment Production Companies

Disney Television Animation Disney Television Animation

public Countries

United States of America