DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: Box Sets Fact Sheet

[lis]

IF Disney decide to put, as some of you suggest, 25 episodes on each volume, it won't be, IMHO, the broadcast sequence mentioned on the page 6 of this topic, because in that case, they would have to split the "Time is money" into two discs.

BTW, I think that three volumes, each having four DVDs, would be a better solution. Volume 1&2 for first 65 episodes, and Vol.3 for all this Bubba and Gizmo stuff.

[jamminjake245]

Yeah, but it has already been confirmed for 3 disks.

[scroogemcd]

I guess were gunna have to wait and see !

[jamminjake245]

See what? lol We already know it will be 3 disks. I am 100 % sure that the box sets will have 25 episodes each include the first 5 pilot episodes.

[scroogemcd]

See what? lol We already know it will be 3 disks. I am 100 % sure that the box sets will have 25 episodes each include the first 5 pilot episodes.

Wait and see whether of not source is incorrect

[sealightbreeze]

Cool! I want to get both. I remeber the Disney Afternoon. I miss that. I am more happy about the Ducktales than Chip N Dale though. I hope that they do a Gummi Bears and a Talespin DVD release

[jamminjake245]

Here is a review I wrote of Ducktales:

"Daily fix"

Disney's Adventures of Ducktales was the first Disney animated series to air daily. A few years previous to Ducktales was another Disney saturday morning series entitled Gummi Bears. However, Gummi Bears and Ducktales were two very different things! *chuckle* The theme song of Ducktales really summed up the whole show:
Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duck - burg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a duck - blur!
Might solve a mystery,
Or rewrite history!

Ducktales! (a - whooh ooh)
Every day they're out there making
Ducktales! (a - whooh ooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
Ducktales!

D - D - D - Danger!
(Watch behind you)
There's a stranger,
(out to find you!)
What to do?
Just grab on to some...

Ducktales! (a - whooh ooh)
Every day they're out there making
Ducktales! (a - whooh ooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
Ducktales!

Not pony tales or cotton tales, no
Ducktales!
(a - whooh ooh)

Ducktales had cost much more to make then it did for Gummi Bears since Gummi Bears was really a way for Disney to "test" the animated series market. Ducktales, Gummi Bears and many more aired in syndication on The Disney Afternoon was a created-for-syndication two-hour television series which aired from September 10, 1990 until 1998. It was produced by The Walt Disney Company.

The two hour show was broken up into four half-hour segments, each of which contained an animated cartoon. As each season ended, the first cartoon shown in the lineup would typically be dropped, and a new one added to the end. The Disney Afternoon itself featured unique animated segments consisting of its own opening and "wrappers" around the cartoon shows shown.

Some of the early cartoon series in The Disney Afternoon came from already in-circulation cartoons, such as Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears (created years earlier). DuckTales and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers had been a one hour long cartoon block in 1989-1990, until both were incorporated into The Disney Afternoon. TaleSpin was the first series presumably created expressly for The Disney Afternoon.

Some of the later additions were inspired by shorter cartoons in the short lived series Raw Toonage [1], which appeared on the ABC network in Fall, 1992 -- see Marsupilami; also He's Bonkers!, which, with storyboard revision, eventually became Bonkers.

The other main source for Disney Afternoon cartoons were series inspired by movies created previously; for a time, a 'two year rule' of sorts became almost reliable, whereby about two years after a Disney summer movie came out, a Disney Afternoon series by the same name was released (example: Aladdin, and Timon and Pumbaa, from The Lion King.)
(Bits and pieces taken from wikipedia)
In 1992 Ducktales was removed from The Disney Afternoon, but re-joined the schedule for the last 1998 season. After the end of The Disney Afternoon (D.A.F.T) Disney created a new line-up to air on UPN affiliates entitled Disney's One Too. A few Disney Afternoon shows were shown on this new line-up, but featured new faces such as Disney's Recess, Sabrina: The Animated Series, Disney's Doug, Disney's Hercules, Disney's Pepper Ann, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Disney's The Weekenders, Disney's The Legend of Tarzan, and Digimon. After a five season run the line-up was removed and those shows as well moved to Toon Disney. Today no One Too shows are currently brodcasted except a few such as Digimon. That year Ducktales “executed” removed from Disney, but was placed on a daily channel entitled Toon Disney that featured all Disney Afternoon shows plus movies, current programs, etc. In 2004 Ducktales was removed from Toon Disney never to be seen again. Thankfully on November, 8, 2005 Disney released Disney's Ducktales and Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers to DVD boxset. Although Ducktales no longer airs on any channels it can now be seen on DVD with many bonus features. In the future we hope to see more Disney programs on DVD such as Gummi Bears, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, The Wuzzles, Doug, Pepper Ann, etc. So now you have a little bit of everything concerning Ducktales, The Disney Afternoon, and the spin-off of The Disney Afternoon Disney's One Too.

Sources:
Wikipedia
Prior knowledge
Old T.V Guide Magazines
Official Disney Episode Guide

Below I am enclosing a complete list of all Disney Afternoon, One Too, and One Saturday Morning shows.
"The Gummi Bears"
"The Wuzzles"
"DuckTales"
"The New Adventures
of Winnie the Pooh"
"Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers"
"Tale Spin"
"Darkwing Duck"
"The Little Mermaid"
"Goof Troop"
"Bonkers"
"Aladdin"
"Gargoyles"
"Timon & Pumbaa"
"Brand Spanking New! Doug"
"Jungle Cubs"
"Mighty Ducks"
"Quack Pack"
"Recess"
"Pepper Ann"
"101 Dalmatians: The Series"
"Hercules"
"Teacher's Pet"
"Buzz Lightyear of Star Command"
"The Weekenders"
"Lloyd in Space"
"House of Mouse"
"The Legend of Tarzan"
"Teamo Supremo"
"Fillmore!"
Disney 1985 - 2003

[lis]

As for the extras, I think "$crooge McDuck and the money" and "Sport Goofy in Soccermania" would be perfect, the second one even more. And they should definitely put at least a few minutes documentary about Carl Barks, the man we owe DuckTales.

[Edge]

To me nothing ever replicated the early disney afternoons.

Gummi Bears, Ducktales, Rescue Rangers and Talespin was an awesome lineup.

From there it slowly became more cost cutting and the animation and stories started a slow downward spiral.

Ducktales second and third seasons (much like Real ghostbusters} never really quite captured the magic of the first effort.

Darkwing Duck was a solid show but did see a slight downturn in animation style and story efforts. This is when the disney shows became much more hit or miss than in the past with their episode to episode efforts.

Gooftroop was interesting as well but continued this process and Bonkers seemed to be the first real step downward. From there the results usually got cheaper with the possible exception of Gargoyles. Though even Gargoyles was a show i never got into (thought it borrowed a lot of elements from different shows and those shows did em a little better}.

The one area that was interesting was the relationship between Ducktales and Darkwing duck as the latter was almost but not quite a spinoff.

[chamfer]

To me nothing ever replicated the early disney afternoons.

I agree with you completely. With all your points I feel the exact same way.

[anger is pointless]

yay rescue rangers and ducktales im gonna snatch those up the day they come out whoo hoo

um will the wuzzle come out soon and how many seasons did it have and how many episodes

[jamminjake245]

Anything is possible and it had 13 episodes in one season.

[calvin101]

This is THE most exciting news I have heard DVD-wise in a long time. I used to watch both these shows religiously, but I'm really worried that we won't get them in the UK though I think we should because as I recall they were a big part of kids TV in the 90s.

[Wonderlicious]

This is THE most exciting news I have heard DVD-wise in a long time. I used to watch both these shows religiously, but I'm really worried that we won't get them in the UK though I think we should because as I recall they were a big part of kids TV in the 90s.

The sad thing is, your negative thoughts on the series may be right. I'd advise you to get a multi-region player as soon as possible (or if you have a DVD Rom drive on top of an actual player, just play Region 1 discs on that and no Region 2 discs under any circumstances). You will be so much happier when you don't have to get annoyed by the social climbers at BVHE UK messing up yet another UK release.

However, the Duck Tales movie is available on DVD at the moment. You can buy it here, and you'll support this site at the same time!

[calvin101]

I have the Ducktales movie already (shameless promotion there).

I'm tempted to just drop an e-mail about this to check and may well invest in a multi-region DVD player as I consider these 2 DVDs absolute essentials.

[magicalwands]

Ducktales is coming to DVD?

I remember I missed a lot of the episodes they showed on tv, but I caught some of them. At least now I can buy it. This is one more TV DVD to add to my collection. I'm so excited!

[jamminjake245]

Both Ducktales and Rescue Rangers are at amazon.com

Ducktales:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... /ref=nosim

Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... /ref=nosim

[Disneybell]

with the question about the wuzzles it actually had about thirty episodes only 13 were aired before it stopped showing on the saturday morning line up so somewhere out there in the disney vault there are unaired episodes i m a huge Wuzzles fan i have all the dolls and the episodes on tape so i would love a dvd release of the 13 episodes plus the unaired ones

[jamminjake245]

Where did you read about the 30 episodes? That sounds intresting.

[Disneybell]

if you go to www.google.com then type in disney's wuzzles you get all sorts of sites with facts and little tid bits about the show