The BEST episodes of DuckTales season 1
Every episode of DuckTales season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of DuckTales season 1!
When Donald Duck decides to join the Navy, he leaves his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, in the care of his cantankerous Uncle Scrooge. He is an eccentric and miserly billionare who loves to literally swim in his money that is held in his corporate headquarters/vault known as the Money Bin. While the initial meeting was less than pleasant, events soon have them, along with a newly hired nanny, her daughter and Scrooge's stupid but skilled pilot, on countless adventures as the group goes around the world looking for treasure, or defending Scrooge's current assets from enemies like the Beagle Boys or Magica De Spell.
#1 - Once Upon a Dime
Season 1 - Episode 61 - Aired 12/24/1987
Scrooge tells the story of how his Number One Dime got his fortune started.
#2 - Maid of the Myth
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/12/1987
Mrs. Beakley is abducted by Vikings and it is up to Scrooge and the others to rescue her.
#3 - Pearl of Wisdom
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 10/16/1987
Scrooge learns that a pearl he bought will grant him infinite wisdom once he takes it back to its homeland.
#4 - Treasure of the Golden Suns (4) - Cold Duck
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/1987
The nephews, Webby, and Mrs. Beakley find themselves joining Scrooge in his adventure as he looks for the second half of the treasure map in Antarctica.
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#5 - Treasure of the Golden Suns (1) - Don't Give up the Ship
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1987
The introduction of the series, as Donald Duck joins the Navy and sends Huey, Dewey, and Louie off to live with their uncle Scrooge McDuck. Meanwhile, a mysterious man named El Capitán busts the Beagle Boys out of jail in order for them to help him steal an awkward treasure map in Scrooge's possession.
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#6 - The Uncrashable Hindentanic
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 12/8/1987
Scrooge makes a bet with Glomgold that he can make money off a blimp called the Hindentanic.
#7 - Scrooge's Pet
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/30/1987
Scrooge loses the new combination for his vault to a lemming.
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#8 - Catch as Cash Can (1) - A Drain on the Economy
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/2/1987
Scrooge and Glomgold compete in a contest where the winner, being the world's richest duck, becomes the sales broker for a new fruit from Macaroon that works like a flashlight. First, though, Scrooge must keep his fortune away from the Beagle Boys.
#9 - Treasure of the Golden Suns (2) - Wronguay in Ronguay
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1987
After foiling the Beagle Boys, Scrooge and his nephews decipher the strange marking on the map, which leads to a sunken treasure ship in Ronguay. However, Flintheart Glomgold and El Capitán are out to stop them at every turn.
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#10 - Back to the Klondike
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/28/1987
Scrooge takes the kids to the Klondike, where he met an old flame, Glittering Goldie.
#11 - Armstrong
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/24/1987
Gyro presents the McDuck household with a robot named Armstrong to do their work for them. However, the robot decides it would rather work for itself.
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#12 - All Ducks on Deck
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 12/30/1987
Donald makes up a story about being a hero to the nephews. They stow away in the Navy and try to make him a hero. Meanwhile, The Phantom Blot has a spy infiltrating the Navy while he has Scrooge McDuck and Launchpad McQuack as prisoners on Cat Island after they go to investigate Scrooge's fishing fleet there.
#13 - Send in the Clones
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/1987
Magica DeSpell gets the Beagle Boys to help her steal the Number One Dime, disguising them as the nephews.
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#14 - Where No Duck Has Gone Before
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/23/1987
Gyro's props for a science fiction television show accidentally launch the cast into space, and Launchpad becomes the hero when it is realized that he is the only real pilot on board.
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#15 - Duck to the Future
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 12/1/1987
Magica sends Scrooge into the future, where she has stolen his Number One Dime and taken over his company.
#16 - Launchpad's First Crash
Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 12/3/1987
Scrooge and Launchpad reminisce on how they first met.
#17 - Spies in Their Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 12/25/1987
A hypnotist brainwashes Donald into giving her a remote control device for a submarine that's Scrooge's companies built for the navy.
#18 - Duck in the Iron Mask
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 12/7/1987
Scrooge and the boys take a trip to visit an old friend of his, Count Roy. However, unknown to Scrooge, Roy's evil twin Ray rules Roy's kingdom with an iron fist.
#19 - Merit-Time Adventure
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/6/1987
The Nephews, Webby, and Doofus attempt to earn a Junior Woodchuck badge in sailing while a sea monster is preying on Scrooge's shipping fleet.
#20 - Down & Out in Duckburg
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/13/1987
A family debt causes Scrooge to lose his entire fortune, sending his entire family into the poorhouse.
#21 - Double-O-Duck
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/25/1987
Launchpad finds himself masquerading as Bruno Von Beak, an agent for the Foreign Organization of World Larceny.
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#22 - Duckworth's Revolt
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 11/27/1987
After being fired by Scrooge, Duckworth and the boys are abducted by plant aliens and enslaved.
#23 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. McDuck
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 12/23/1987
Scrooge becomes a victim of a potion that causes him to be obsessive with giving money away. It is up to his nephews to find an antidote before he stays a big spender forever.
#24 - Till Nephews Do Us Part
Season 1 - Episode 65 - Aired 1/1/1988
Scrooge is romanced by a billionairess named Millionara Vanderbucks, but as the nephews and Webby find out, she only wants his money.
#25 - Earth Quack
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/22/1987
Scrooge and the boys discover that the games of an underground civilization are causing earthquakes directly under the Money Bin.