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.
Year: 1984
Genre: Comedy
Country:
Studio: NBC
Director: Herbert Klynn, Allan Burns
Cast: Jack Gilford, Jim Carrey, Jay Tarses, Teresa Ganzel, Don Messick, Clarence Gilyard Jr.
Crew:
First Air Date: Apr 12, 1984
Last Air date: Jul 11, 1984
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 13 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 6.00 users
Popularity: 17.312
Language: English
Keyword : hollywood, cartoonist
Season
Season 1
Episode
Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip
Filling Buddy's Shoes
The Annies
No Good Deed
The Way We Weren't
Can We Talk?
The Education of Mrs. Winkler (a.k.a. The Education of S*h*e*r*e*e W*i*n*k*l*e*r)
Ordinary People, Too
It Didn't Happen One Night
The Duck Stops Here
The Children's Half Hour
You Always Love the One You Hurt
Call Me Responsible
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