Darkwing Duck

Season 1

65 episodes 4 seasons

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Darkwing Duck Season 1 released on September 6, 1991.

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S01E01 Aired September 08, 1991

Darkly Dawns the Duck (1)

Darkwing Duck is a little known crime fighter dying for a big break, and the publicity that goes with it. Yet when he gets on the trail of the infamous Taurus Bulba's latest scheme he gets into more trouble than he expected. Bulba has masterminded a scheme from within prison revolving around a powerful invention - the Waddlemeyer Ramrod, but is missing the arming code. Darkwing foils an attempt to kidnap the only living relative of the late inventor of the Ramrod, an orphan named Gosalyn.

S01E02 Aired September 08, 1991

Darkly Dawns the Duck (2)

Under Darkwing's care, Gosalyn ends up revealing the ramrod arming code in the form of a lullabye her Grandfather used to sing. But a newly escaped Taurus Bulba lures Darkwing out into the opening to both find his secret lair and turn him over to the police. Launchpad, Darkwing's biggest fan springs him loose, becoming his new sidekick at the helm of his fanmade superhero jet - the Thunderquack. They race to Bulba's flying base of operations for a final climactic showdown which ends in a shattering explosion around both Darkwing and Taurus. Later, a bruised and battered Drake Mallard (aka DW) arrives at Gosalyn's orphanage to adopt her.

S01E03 Aired September 09, 1991

Beauty and the Beet

Reginald Bushroot, plant scientist, only wants to make the world a better place to live, but his colleagues mock his passion for plants. When he subjects himself to his own experiments, he becomes a half-plant, half-duck 'Doctor Doolittle of the Plant World,' and it's time to get even with his tormentors.

S01E04 Aired September 10, 1991

Getting Antsy

The owner of the local mini-golf, Lilliput, has invented a helmet that allows him to communicate with ants. He then uses a shrink ray to shrink the buildings and landmarks of St. Canard, using the ants to haul the now-shrunk buildings back to the mini-golf, where thay become part of the course. When DW discovers his secret, Lilliput shrinks him down a tiny size, smaller than an ant. DW now has to foil the villain's plot, and get back to normal.

S01E05 Aired September 11, 1991

Night of the Living Spud

Dr. Bushroot, trying to grow a wife for himself, accidentally creates a vampire potato. The Muddlefoot's go camping with Gosalyn hoping to capture a mysterious monster - ""Webfoot"". Darkwing and Launchpad track Bushroot into the country, where a strange truck driver named Duane tells them about the giant potato. Darkwing think's Duane is just crazy and doesn't listen, but when a bunch of hicks at a diner think DW is the vampire and try to kill him, DW has to prove he isn't one. As all this is happening, the vampire potato has turned Launchpad, Herb, Binkie, and Tank into zombies. Honker and Gosalyn finally convince DW that the vampire is real, but before he can kill it, Bushroot shows up to ""save"" his bride. Eventually, DW follows some advise Duane gave him and the potato is defeated, the zombies are returned to normal, and Bushroot threatens revenge.

S01E06 Aired September 12, 1991

Apes of Wrath

SHUSH sends Darkwing to find the missing Dr Beatrice Brute', the famous anthropologist. DW encounters Major Trenchrot and learns that he is planning to open a vacation villa for villains.

S01E07 Aired September 13, 1991

Dirty Money

Someone is stealing all the money in Saint Canard by erasing all the ink on the money and leaving it nothing but worthless paper to write on. Darkwing volunteers to help solve the mystery but SHUSH Agent Grizlicoff doesn't trust him. Darkwing discovers that the thief is Amonia Pine, who used be a cleaing maid until some dangerous chemicals caused her to be obsessed with cleaning.

S01E08 Aired September 16, 1991

Duck Blind

Darkwing falls afoul of Megavolt and comes out blind. Undaunted, DW tries to keep going using a few inventive gadgets, but Gosalyn, Honker and Lauchpad almost get killed because of him. Sunk in a black funk, Gosalyn and the gang plan to nab Megavolt themselves, but get caught by Megavolt instead.

S01E09 Aired September 17, 1991

Comic Book Capers

Infuriated at how he's portrayed in his new comic book, Darkwing decides he can write it better himself. But he keeps getting interrupted by everyone, who then add their own little bits...Finally, even Megavolt joins in and the result is a hilariously funny romp through Comic Book Land--which the editor hates. No matter, Darkwing is off to see Disney about a contract.

S01E10 Aired September 18, 1991

Water Way to Go

SHUSH has given Darkwing Duck a simple case: Travel to Oilrabia and stop Steelbeak's schemes to steal their oil. Steelbeak's plan: flooding the place with his weather machine and attacking by sea. Darkwing's big problem: He picked THIS day to let Launchpad assume role as hero and be a sidekick himself.

S01E11 Aired September 19, 1991

Paraducks

Darkwing Duck goes Back in time with Goslin and he meets himself in high school when he was known as ""Drakey"". He Then sees a record shop's register being robbed. When he does not do anything, his world gets changed. Now they have to fix the mess they made.

S01E12 Aired September 20, 1991

Easy Come, Easy Grows

Darkwing investigates a case in which money disappearing along with the bank vaults!

S01E13 Aired September 23, 1991

A Revolution in Home Appliances

Megavolt gets zapped with his new invention, which lets him turn regular Home Appliances into living things. He soon controls a barber chair, a refridgerator, a guitar, and a tv. Now Darkwing Duck has to stop them before they take over.

S01E14 Aired September 24, 1991

Trading Faces

Darkwing's computer goes haywire, and causes him to trade bodies with Gosalyn. Now she must pose as Darkwing to stop F.O.W.L.'s latest scheme - stopping the Earth's rotation in an attempt to blackmail the planet. Can DW defeat Steelbeak in a child's body? And how can they reverse the body swap?

S01E15 Aired September 25, 1991

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlatan

Darkwing Duck investigates the production of movie, which is plagued by accidents and is being directed by none other than Tuskernini, who has abandoned his life of crime for the cinema. But what happened to the space aliens?

S01E16 Aired September 26, 1991

Can't Bayou Love

Jambalaya Jake and his Alligator, both from the Bayou, have moved to the city after hearing it was ""easy pickings"". Darkwing shows them firsthand that that it is hardly the case.

S01E17 Aired September 27, 1991

Bearskin Thug

Drake takes Gosalyn on a camping trip in order to teach her about the great outdoors. The national park has been evacuated due to a monstrous bear that has been attacking both campers and wildlife alike.

S01E18 Aired September 30, 1991

You Sweat Your Life

Darkwing goes undercover at a health spa to root out a pair of workers responsible for a museum break in. To his dismay, Herb and Binkie Muddlefoot tag along. The health spa owner, Jock, has discovered the formula for a fountain of youth. The last ingredient he needs is a feather from a true hero.

S01E19 Aired October 01, 1991

Days of Blunder

Quackerjack, posing as a psychiatrist, convinces Darkwing that being a superhero isn't right for him. With Darkwing out of the picture, the criminal is free to go on a crime spree.

S01E20 Aired October 02, 1991

Just Us Justice Ducks (1)

Negaduck, Bushroot, Quackerjack, Megavolt, and Luqidator all join together as the Fearsome Five to defeat Darkwing Duck and take over St.Canard. When the other superheroes hear about this Neptuna, Gizmoduck, Morgana, and Stegmutt band together to fom the Justice Ducks. Darkwing is less than thrilled, however, wanting all the credit for their defeat. But when he faces the Fearsome Five, he soon finds out the job is more than he can handle.

S01E21 Aired October 03, 1991

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.

S01E22 Aired October 04, 1991

Double Darkwings

To get revenge on Darkwing, Jambalaya Jake has Granny Whammy mix him up a hex. He mistakes Launchpad for Darkwing (while he is posing as Darkwing Decoy) a targets him with the curse. Now Jamabalya is using Launchpad as a partner in crime, and Darkwing is getting all the blame for it.

S01E23 Aired October 07, 1991

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!

S01E24 Aired October 08, 1991

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.

S01E25 Aired October 09, 1991

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.

S01E26 Aired October 10, 1991

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.

S01E27 Aired October 11, 1991

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.

S01E28 Aired October 14, 1991

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.

S01E29 Aired October 15, 1991

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.

S01E30 Aired October 16, 1991

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.

S01E31 Aired October 21, 1991

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?

S01E32 Aired October 22, 1991

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.

S01E33 Aired October 23, 1991

The Secret Origins of Darkwing Duck

In the future, Gosloid and her friend get trapped in the Darkwing Duck Museum and hear the alleged story of the 'secret origins' of Darkwing Duck.

S01E34 Aired October 24, 1991

Up, Up and Awry

Gizmoduck comes to St. Canard in order to help stop Megavolt's latest scheme: Stealing horseshoes and cable to build a giant electromagnet. Darkwing is hardly receptive and wallows in self-pity as the super-suited superhero takes the spotlight.

S01E35 Aired October 25, 1991

Life, the Negaverse and Everything

While pursuing the Fearsome Five (and therefore escaping the Muddlefoots and their boring ""Pelican's Island"" birthday party for Honker), Darkwing is thrown into a giant cake - which serves as the universal portal between his world and the Negaverse. In the Negaverse, everything is the extreme opposite of his world and Negaduck is supreme ruler, so Darkwing decides to use his new friends (The "Friendly Four") to change things a bit, which Negaduck does NOT like.

S01E36 Aired October 28, 1991

Dry Hard

Bud Flood, spring water salesmen has been posioning his competitor's water in order to promote his own. Darkwing moves to stop him, but ends up sending him into a vat of the poisoned water. He has survived in a watery form, ""The Liquidator"". Now, the Liquidator has turned all of St. Canard's water hard. How will DW stop a criminal who isn't a solid?

S01E37 Aired October 29, 1991

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.

S01E38 Aired October 30, 1991

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.

S01E39 Aired October 31, 1991

Planet of the Capes

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

S01E40 Aired November 01, 1991

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.

S01E41 Aired November 04, 1991

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.

S01E42 Aired November 05, 1991

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.

S01E43 Aired November 06, 1991

Dances with Bigfoot

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

S01E44 Aired November 07, 1991

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.

S01E45 Aired November 08, 1991

The Incredible Bulk

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

S01E46 Aired November 11, 1991

My Valentine Ghoul

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

S01E47 Aired November 12, 1991

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.

S01E48 Aired November 13, 1991

A Duck by Any Other Name

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

S01E49 Aired November 14, 1991

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.

S01E50 Aired November 15, 1991

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.

S01E51 Aired November 18, 1991

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.

S01E52 Aired November 19, 1991

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!

S01E53 Aired November 20, 1991

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?

S01E54 Aired November 21, 1991

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.

S01E55 Aired November 22, 1991

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.

S01E56 Aired November 25, 1991

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.

S01E57 Aired November 26, 1991

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.

S01E58 Aired November 27, 1991

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.

S01E59 Aired November 28, 1991

U.F. Foe

Aliens kidnap Launchpad to make him ruler of the universe.

S01E60 Aired November 29, 1991

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.

S01E61 Aired December 02, 1991

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.

S01E62 Aired December 03, 1991

Jail Bird

Negaduck steals a diamond that can steal others' powers. And after he steals the powers from Bushroot, Megavolt, Liquidator and Quackerjack, they need to use their weaknesses to stop him.

S01E63 Aired December 04, 1991

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.

S01E64 Aired December 05, 1991

Kung Fooled

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

S01E65 Aired December 06, 1991

Bad Luck Duck

Darkwing Duck is accused of stealing a tribe’s jewel and the leader puts a curse on him. Now they must get it back from Negaduck and stop him from using it. But where is the leader to get the curse off?