The Duck Factory

The Duck Factory
The Duck Factory cover
Format	Sitcom
Starring	Jim Carrey
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 min (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	April 12, 1984 – October 4, 1984

The Duck Factory is a 1984 NBC television series produced by MTM Enterprises that is most notable for being Jim Carrey's first lead role in a Hollywood production. It was about Skip Tarkenton, a new employee of a low-budget animation company called Buddy Winkler Productions. Skip comes to Hollywood looking for a job, but when he gets there he finds out Buddy Winkler has died. So Skip gets an animation job at The Duck Factory, whose main cartoon is "The Dippy Duck Show."

The Duck Factory lasted thirteen episodes; it premiered April 12, 1984, and its last episode was broadcast on July 11, 1984.

Cast

• Jim Carrey - Skip Tarkenton
• Jack Gilford - Brooks Carmichael
• Nancy Lane - Andrea Lewin
• Jay Tarses - Marty Fenneman
• Don Messick - Wally Wooster/Voice of Dippy Duck
• Julie Payne - Aggie Aylesworth
• Clarence Gilyard Jr - Roland Culp
• Teresa Ganzel - Mrs. Sheree Winkler

Home Video

In 1995, two VHS videocassettes were released in the United States, one containing the first three episodes, the other the last three episodes. The two volumes were released in the United Kingdom in 1997, slightly expanded to the first four and the last four episodes of the series. A full-season VHS or DVD set has yet to be released.

Episode Guide

• Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip (April 12, 1984)
• Filling Buddy's Shoes (April 19, 1984)
• The Annies (April 26, 1984)
• No Good Deed (May 3, 1984)
• The Way We Weren't (May 10, 1984)
• Can We Talk? (May 17, 1984)
• The Education of Mrs. Winkler (a.k.a. The Education of S*h*e*r*e*e W*i*n*k*l*e*r) (May 24, 1984)
• Ordinary People, Too (June 6, 1984)
• It Didn't Happen One Night (June 13, 1984)
• The Duck Stops Here (June 20, 1984)
• The Children's Half Hour (June 27, 1984)
• You Always Love the One You Hurt (July 4, 1984)
• Call Me Responsible (July 11, 1984)

External links

• The Duck Factory at the Internet Movie Database
• The Duck Factory at TV.com