After three decades of resistance, Disney finally entered Saturday morning in 1985 when The Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles debuted with significantly more substantial budgets ; the first-run syndication success of DuckTales, which premiered in 1987, eventually inspired a whole block of Disney-produced syndicated cartoons which forced competing studios to improve their own production standards to compete.

Seven final episodes premiered in the fall of 1990 ( including three produced for season two but held back for airing, and four produced explicitly for season three ), bringing the total to 100 episodes — making DuckTales one of the longest-running Disney shows in terms of number of episodes.

DuckTales, the series which served as the launching pad for the Disney Afternoon, premiered in September 1987 on Fox's owned-and-operated stations, as well as various Fox affiliates.

In 1987, Disney finally unveiled the newest series yet in its cycle, and the first in their successful long-time line of syndicated animated shows, DuckTales, which premiered on September 18, 1987.

" In the subsequent 1987 animated series DuckTales, Gyro became a regular character, with the late Hal Smith supplying his voice.

An animated version of the character appeared in the TV series DuckTales, which started airing on September 18, 1987.

In the first season of the 1987 TV series DuckTales, Pete appeared in a few episodes.

Duckburg was the setting of the 1987 animated series DuckTales.

In 1987, the TV animation division adapted Carl Barks ' Scrooge McDuck comic books for the small screen with the syndicated hit DuckTales.

In 1987, The Walt Disney Company tried its luck at syndication ; DuckTales went on the air that September and lasted 100 episodes.

* DuckTales ( 1987 – 1990 )

* DuckTales ( 1987 ) Launchpad McQuack, Baby Face Beagle

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Much of this scenario would resurface in the 1987 television series, DuckTales.

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

Most of the characters have appeared in the 1980s Disney cartoon series DuckTales.

However, in the magazine Disney Adventures, there was a five-part crossover / storyline titled " Legend of the Chaos God " which began with TaleSpin, and continued with Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, and DuckTales, then concluded with Darkwing Duck.

Even the DuckTales characters it reused had no counterpart in early Disney shorts or even the Carl Barks comics.

Starting on October 2, 1995, Darkwing Duck was rerun on the Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called " Block Party " which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon / early-evening and which also included TaleSpin, DuckTales, and Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers.

DisneyToon Studios was founded in Paris in the late 1980s to produce DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, which is not considered by the studio to be part of the Disney animated " canon ".

This contrasted with DuckTales, a previous Disney Afternoon series, where the world is inhabited by other anthropomorphic animals.

Because of this, many characters from the DuckTales cartoons and comics, Including Disney characters, such as Scrooge McDuck, Launchpad McQuack or Mickey Mouse, do not make appearances in the series.

DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation.

The series is notable for being the first Disney cartoon to be produced for syndication, and paving the way for future Disney cartoons, such as Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck, the latter of which is considered to be a spinoff of DuckTales.

The 1987-1988 season of DuckTales consisted of 65 episodes ( the standard length for a Disney TV show ).

On October 2, 1995, DuckTales began reruns on the Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called " Block Party " which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon / early-evening and which also included Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers.

On October 2, 1995, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers began reruns on the Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called " Block Party " which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon / early-evening and which also included Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, and DuckTales.

Starting on October 2, 1995, four of the shows ( Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, DuckTales, and Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers ) were rerun on the Disney Channel as a two-hour weekday programming block called " Block Party " which aired in the late-afternoon / early-evening ..

The show is one of the seven Disney Afternoon shows to use established Disney characters as the main characters, the others being DuckTales, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, Quack Pack, Aladdin and The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa.

On October 2, 1995, TaleSpin began reruns on the Disney Channel as part of a two-hour programming block called " Block Party " which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon / early-evening and which also included Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers.

DuckTales is a video game based on the Disney animated TV series of the same name.

At Walt Disney Studios, he voiced several lead characters including Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, ( taking over the character of Zummi Gummi after Paul Winchell's departure from the role ), DuckTales, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, Gargoyles, and House of Mouse, and animated films such as Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas.

During the 1980s, Gary did several guest voice-over appearances in such Disney television series such as Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, TaleSpin, The Little Mermaid series and Bonkers.

After working with the DuckTales magazine, Rosa found out that the Danish publisher Egmont ( at that time called Gutenberghus ) was publishing reprints of his stories and wanted more.

He was also a frequent star of the animated DuckTales.

Magica was also a semi-regular on the animated television show DuckTales, where she was voiced by June Foray ( using a similar Eastern European accent to that of Natasha Fatale from Rocky & Bullwinkle ).

Like its predecessors DuckTales, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop was previewed in syndication with a pilot TV movie, which later aired as a multi-part serial during the regular run.

The element was also used for the 5-part DuckTales episode Time is Money, which introduced Bubba the Caveduck.

The Phantom Blot's first appearance in animation was in the DuckTales episode " All Ducks on Deck ", voiced by Frank Welker.

Darkwing Duck was initially developed as a spin-off of the very successful DuckTales series.

Darkwing Duck was inspired by a specific episode of DuckTales: " Double-O-Duck ", starring Launchpad McQuack as a secret agent.

Tad Stones was directed to come up with a series around the premise, as an executive liked the title Double-O Duck ; Stones was initially reluctant as he felt this would have " no heart or a sense of family " but created a pitch, with GizmoDuck, a character from the final season of DuckTales, as the sidekick ( Gizmoduck would end up as a recurring guest star ).

* GizmoDuck / Fenton Crackshell ( voiced by the late Hamilton Camp )-Launchpad's old friend and Darkwing's rival super hero who was originally from DuckTales.

This was later adapted into an episode of the first season of DuckTales.

The story was later adapted into an episode of DuckTales.

An animated theatrical spin-off film based on the series, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, was released widely in the United States on August 3, 1990.

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp was released in August 1990.

The show was successful enough to spawn a feature film, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, and spin-off series Darkwing Duck.

Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers was paired with DuckTales in an hour-long syndicated block during the 1989-1990 television season.

DuckTales was one of the early flagship cartoons in the series.

A 1990 issue of Comics Scene magazine reported that a theatrical feature film based on the series was planned for a 1991 release, however the film never saw the light of day, possibly due to the lackluster performance of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.