The Duck Factory (1984)
The Duck Factory
The Duck Factory is a 1984 NBC television series produced by MTM Enterprises that is perhaps most notable for being Jim Carrey's first lead role in a Hollywood production. The show was co-created by Allan Burns. The premiere episode introduces Skip Tarkenton, a somewhat naive and optimistic young man who has come to Hollywood looking for a job as a cartoonist. When he arrives at a low-budget animation company called Buddy Winkler Productions, he finds out Buddy Winkler has just died, and the company desperately needs new blood. So Skip gets an animation job at the firm, which is nicknamed "The Duck Factory" as their main cartoon is "The Dippy Duck Show". Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster; comedy writer Marty Fenneman; artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth. Buddy Winkler Productions was now owned by his young, ditzy widow, Mrs Sheree Winkler, who had been married to Buddy for all of three weeks before his death. The Duck Factory lasted thirteen episodes; it premiered April 12, 1984. The show initially aired at 9:30 on Thursday nights, directly after Cheers, and replaced Buffalo Bill on NBC's schedule. Jay Tarses, an actor on The Duck Factory, had been the co-creator and executive producer of Buffalo Bill, which had its final network telecast on Thursday, April 5, 1984.
Watch Providers
Casting arrow_drop_down
Seasons
Season 1
Episodes season 1
-
1x1
Goodbye buddy, hello skip
-
1x2
Filling buddy's shoes
-
1x3
The annies
-
1x4
No good deed
-
1x5
The way we weren't
-
1x6
Can we talk?
-
1x7
The education of mrs. winkler (a.k.a. the education of s*h*e*r*e*e w*i*n*k*l*e*r)
-
1x8
Ordinary people, too
-
1x9
It didn't happen one night
-
1x10
The duck stops here
-
1x11
The children's half hour
-
1x12
You always love the one you hurt
-
1x13
Call me responsible
