Sitting Ducks (TV series)

Sitting Ducks is a CGI-animated children's television series based on the 1977 "Sitting Ducks" lithograph and the 1998 children's book of the same name, created by the poster artist Michael Bedard.^[1] The series first premiered internationally before debuting in the United States on Cartoon Network.

Sitting Ducks
Promotional poster
Genre	Children's television series Comedy Animated
Created by	Michael Bedard (lithography)
Developed by	Sitting Ducks Productions Universal Pictures Visual Programming
Directed by	Walt Kubiak
Creative directors	Terry Shakespeare (Season 1) David Molina (Season 1) Gary Selvaggio (Season 2)
Voices of	Ian James Corlett Dave "Squatch" Ward
Theme music composer	Kick
Composers	Kick (Season 1) Charlie Brissette (Season 2)
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Michael Bedard Elizabeth Daro Loredana Cunti (Season 1 only)
Producers	Eliot Daro Steve Granat and Cydne Clark (co-producers, Season 1 only) Walt Kubiak and G. Sue Shakespeare (supervising producers, Season 1 only) George Elliott and Brian Irving (line producers, Season 2 only)
Editors	Billy Jones (Season 1) Steven Kingsbury (Season 2) Supervising editors: Craig Russo (S01), and Billy Jones (Season 2)
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	The Krislin Company Creative Capers Entertainment Krislin/Elliot Digital Sitting Ducks Productions Universal Television
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network
Original release	September 13, 2001 (2001-09-13) – July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05)

The show lasted for two seasons each comprising thirteen episodes, with the last episode shown on July 5, 2003.

Background

Sitting Ducks takes place in a 1970’s-style town called Ducktown, and stars the duck Bill who likes to drink milkshakes, play “bucket-ball” (basketball), and hang out with his best friend Aldo, the alligator.

Bill (Ian James Corlett) likes to live a more laid-back life, such as his peaceful hobby of painting, and his affinity for flight, and ponders about ducks taking flight. He shares the building with his next-door neighbors, the three duck brothers Ed, Oly, and Waddle (Louis Chirillo, Phil Hayes, and Jay Brazeau respectively), who like to pilfer Bill’s fridge looking for snacks. Bill also shares his building with Fred (Phil Hayes), a melancholy penguin who is an immigrant from Antarctica, who now lives in Ducktown.

Aldo (Dave Squatch Ward) lives in the neighboring town of Swampwood, who is Bill’s best friend. He likes to spend his leisure time by bowling, working at the bowling ball factory, and spending time with Bill. He sometimes has an urge to eat ducks that turns up every once in a while. He constantly tries to turn down other gators’ offers for duck-related meals, even getting pressured to terminate his relationship with Bill.

Characters

• Bill (voiced by Ian James Corlett) – An anthropomorphic diminutive duck who waddles to a different beat. A very kind-hearted, good-natured fellow who is always there when needed. One of his dreams is to fly. With the help of his friend Dr. Cecil, he tries again and again to fly, and eventually is told that the reason he cannot is because ducks became too terrestrial. Bill's main appearance difference, apart from his smallness, is his bow tie (usually red) which he changes every year at the Ducktown Picnic. Bill lives in an apartment with his pet parrot, Jerry. He has been called a "gator lover" for his rare efforts to turn alligators into allies of Ducktown.
• Aldo (voiced by Dave Ward) – A lumbering but kind-hearted alligator from the town of Swampwood. He is Bill's best friend, though he often receives grief from his fellow gators on being a "duck lover". Has a blind uncle named Artie and a younger cousin named Andy. Once was the cook at the bowling ball factory, he transferred to the assembly line after he befriended Bill, as he did not want to cook any more ducks. He also fights urges so he will not eat ducks.
• Bev (voiced by Kathleen Barr) – Owner of the Decoy Cafe, where many ducks go to eat. She is a sweet duck who also has an alias, Madam Bevousky, as whom she offers fortune telling services to the residents of Ducktown. She is also the focus of Bill's romantic interests.
• Ed, Oly, and Waddle (voiced by Louis Chirillo, Phil Hayes, and Jay Brazeau respectively) – Three brothers and friends of Bill who live next door to him. These three goofy and lazy freeloaders are similar to The Three Stooges and tend to scheme their way into things and are usually the ones behind some plot or a practical joke, from which they always try to distance themselves when things go awry. Ed wears a tropical shirt and speaks with a New York accent. Oly wears a green beret, has big, soft feathers (as seen in "Fowl Weather Feathers") and speaks with a "beatnik" accent. Waddle is the shortest, fattest, and youngest and has a childish voice.
• Cecil (voiced by Ian James Corlett) – Ducktown's only dentist and an inventor, Cecil speaks in a British accent and is always there to offer advice to Bill or the others. Naturally, Aldo is typically his only customer, being the only person in town who actually has teeth. He also provides beak adjustments for the ducks.
• Claire – Cecil's wife who was scared of alligators, just like Aldo in the first episode.
• Fred (voiced by Phil Hayes) – a melancholy, but sometimes nervously hyper penguin, who migrated from Antarctica to Ducktown, in which he has citizenship. He's somewhat of a loner most of the time, always seen surrounding himself with bags of ice or air conditioning to remain comfortable in the intolerable (to him) heat. Has a duck girlfriend, Dot Cable, and a stylish cousin, Gelata.
• Raoul (voiced by Michael Benyaer) – A Latin-accented crow who tends to be the freeloading troublemaker in Ducktown, and likes trading insults with Bill and mocking Bill's attempts to fly.
• Drill Sergeant Duck (Cathy Weseluck) – A tough police duck who makes it hard for Aldo to come into Ducktown, as she also is the leader of the Duck Defense League, an anti-gator organization, and the Ducktown Scooter Shop and Driver Station.
• Other characters that have appeared in the show have been voiced by Dale Wilson, Brian Dobson, Sylvia Zaradic, Chantal Strand, Chiara Zanni, Pauline Newstone, Paul Dobson, Lee Tockar, Garry Chalk, and Scott McNeil.

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	13		September 13, 2001 (2001-09-13)	March 10, 2002 (2002-03-10)
2	13		April 12, 2003 (2003-04-12)	July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05)

Season 1 (2001–02)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1a	1a	"Running Duck"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Paul Rugg & Danielle Mentzer	September 13, 2001 (2001-09-13)	0001a
In parallels to the in-universe TV show “Running Duck,” Bill is almost attacked by Aldo. After finding out that Aldo has a toothache, he takes him to see Cecil, the local dentist, and the two eventually become fast friends.
1b	1b	"Duck Naked"	Danielle Mentzer	September 13, 2001 (2001-09-13)	0001b
As a result of "molting season," Bill starts losing all of his feathers and he goes to Bev for help. Getting all but his tail feathers back on, Bill goes into a feather-making machine for a second time, regaining all of his feathers but also turning green.
2a	2a	"Ducks for Hire"	Thomas Hart	September 20, 2001 (2001-09-20)	0002a
After dropping a fridge on someone's scooter, Ed, Oly, and Waddle must find a job to pay to get it fixed. After getting fired from Bev's Cafe and several other jobs, Bill asks them to help paint a billboard, but however it goes terribly wrong.
2b	2b	"Hic Hic Hooray"	S : John Hoberg; T : Richard Albrecht & Casey Keller	September 20, 2001 (2001-09-20)	0002b
Aldo volunteers to be the fifth member in Bill's Squaddo game, but Bill tries to stop him because he hasn't told his family his best friend is an alligator. After eating fried tadpole buttocks, Aldo also gets a case of the giccups (gator hiccups), so Bill and some of their friends try to make the giccups go away.
3a	3a	"Peeking Duck"	Richard Albrecht and Casey Keller	September 27, 2001 (2001-09-27)	0003a
While using his new telescope, Bill spots Aldo in Cecil and Claire's apartment. After being told that Aldo has eaten Cecil and Claire by Ed, Waddle and Oly, they go to the apartment finding that Aldo is only baby-sitting their pet lizard for the weekend.
3b	3b	"Fred's Meltdown"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Sean Roche	September 27, 2001 (2001-09-27)	0003b
After Fred the penguin's air-conditioners cause a town power outage thanks to an electrical overload, every duck refuses to let him into the pond to cool off, so Bill and Fred go to Swampwood to get some ice, and almost get attacked while doing it.
4a	4a	"Mind Over Mallard"	Don Gillies	October 4, 2001 (2001-10-04)	0004a
Cecil tries to help Bill so he can achieve his dream of learning to fly. After trying over and over again, with heckling from Raoul the Spanish crow, Bill eventually gets hurt and ends up in the hospital.
4b	4b	"The Fly Who Loved Me"	S : Walt Kubiak; T : Danielle Mentzer	October 4, 2001 (2001-10-04)	0004b
After being bothered by a fly while trying to sleep Bill decides to go the Decoy Café for a milkshake. He finds Bev tied up by an alligator pretending to be a duck. With Bill and Bev trying their best to get away the fly goes and bothers Aldo to get him to come and help.
5a	5a	"Feeding Frenzy"	Michael Merton	October 11, 2001 (2001-10-11)	0005a
After being barred from entering the Decoy Cafe, Ed, Oly, and Waddle create green waffles in an attempt to find food, and after they start selling commercially, Bev starts losing her customers after Waddle's business attracts the whole town. After the ingredients in the waffles cause their customers to shed their feathers, they quickly go out of business.
5b	5b	"Bev's Big Day"	Danielle Mentzer, Jill Gorey, Barbara Herndon, and Christine Balling	October 11, 2001 (2001-10-11)	0005b
Thanks to nobody remembering her birthday, Bev closes the cafe. In an attempt to earn her respect again, Bill, Aldo, Ed, Oly, and Waddle give her cake and flowers, but then realize that the true way to find her love is through her heart, so the quintet tell Bev about the ways they met.
6a	6a	"Born to Be Wild"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Richard Liebmann-Smith	October 18, 2001 (2001-10-18)	0006a
A scooter crash renders Waddle in a primitive state, and eventually he starts acting like an ancestral wild duck. After Ed and Oly watch him, they end up finding him on the top of a billboard, thus Bill is tasked with the objective of retrieving Waddle.
6b	6b	"Bill Hatches an Egg"	Don Gillies	October 18, 2001 (2001-10-18)	0006b
A game of frisbee catch leads to Bill finding an egg in the park, which incites him to believe that it's an abandoned duck egg. After he takes it home, concerns about the egg (its taste in media, whether it's a duck egg or not) causes Aldo and Bill to keep challenging each other, but then when they lose the egg in a chase, they are both surprised to find out that it's a turtle egg.
7a	7a	"Hey... Bill's on the News"	Sean Roche	October 25, 2001 (2001-10-25)	0007a
Bill has to go out and buy a satellite dish in order to watch a special on The Flight Channel.
7b	7b	"Got Milk?"	Barbara Herndon and Jill Gorey	October 25, 2001 (2001-10-25)	0007b
The cows have gone on strike, so the milk supply for the town is cut off. Bill is sent in to persuade them to start supplying again, finding out they aren’t comfortable enough for the job.
8a	8a	"License to Scoot"	Danielle Mentzer	November 1, 2001 (2001-11-01)	0008a
Fred likes Dottie and with Bill's help, nervously asks her out, but has to learn about using Bill’s scooter to get there. It turns out that penguins are not the best at scooter-driving.
8b	8b	"The Old Duck and the Sea"	Richard Albrecht and Casey Keller	November 1, 2001 (2001-11-01)	0008b
After Aldo wins another bowling trophy, Bill realizes that he has never won a trophy himself, so he goes out to the city pond to fish for a rare marine animal, the Bug-Eyed Bass.
9a	9a	"Pest of a Guest"	Ken Koonce and David Weimers	February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10)	0009a
After Bill hurts Raoul's foot in the window, he has to take care of him. However Raoul begins to take advantage of Bill even though his foot was never really injured, just so he can get royal treatment he thinks he deserves.
9b	9b	"Getting Away from It All"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Richard Albrecht & Casey Keller	February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10)	0009b
Bill decides he needs some time to himself only to find Ed, Waddle and Oly in his house watching TV. So he takes a boat to a private island only to have his boat float away. While on the island, he makes a new friend in a chicken and is almost eaten by alligators. When Ed, Oly, and Waddle notice Bill is missing, they set off to rescue him.
10a	10a	"Midnight Snack"	Don Gillies	February 17, 2002 (2002-02-17)	0010a
When Bill is almost eaten by a sleepwalking Aldo, he tries to get Aldo to eat duck food but to no avail. So Bill takes him to Cecil which doesn't work and then tries a psychiatrist which also fails. In the end they find out that they both like to eat fish.
10b	10b	"The Visitor"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Richard Albrecht & Casey Keller	February 17, 2002 (2002-02-17)	0010b
Zug visits Ducktown with a remote that can control people. Finding it funny at first, their opinion changes when Aldo is frozen, Ed, Oly and Waddle are put into a video game they are playing, and Bill gets shrunk. In the end Zug's parents arrive and he gets grounded.
11a	11a	"Ducks on Ice"	Don Gillies	February 24, 2002 (2002-02-24)	0011a
To celebrate Penguin Day, Bill and his friends go down to central pond. However a fierce wind blows them over to the alligators' side of the pond where they have to agree to play the alligators' kids at a game of Ice Pucky or be eaten.
11b	11b	"Where's Aldo"	Richard Liebmann-Smith	February 24, 2002 (2002-02-24)	0011b
After Bill and Aldo have an argument over Aldo's clumsiness, Aldo leaves. Bill regrets the fight so he, Ed, Oly and Waddle head off to Swampwood to try to make up.
12a	12a	"Great White Hype"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Ken Koonce & Dave Weimers	March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03)	0012a
A boxing match between Crazy Bob the duck and an alligator known as the Green Death! has come to town and everyone is taking bets. However Bill finds out what is going on behind the match and then the tables turn.
12b	12b	"Waddle's Spud Bud"	Don Gillies	March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03)	0012b
After Aldo performs a magic trick on Bill turning him into a potato, Waddle babysits the potato he believes to be Bill for the day. In the end he realizes that he took the illusion a little too seriously.
13a	13a	"Denture Adventure"	Barbara Herndon and Jill Gorey	March 10, 2002 (2002-03-10)	0013a
Cecil shows Bill his new invention, ducky dentures, but says that the duck public isn't ready for the power of having teeth. Bill then takes the denture from Cecil's office and ends up having a dream that all the ducks have teeth and want to attack him.
13b	13b	"All In a Day's Work"	Tom Hart	March 10, 2002 (2002-03-10)	0013b
Bill ask Aldo if he wants to go to a concert but Aldo refuses because he is too tired from work. When Bill asks what Aldo does for a job, Aldo refuses to tell him because his job involves cooking ducks. So Bill goes to Aldo's factory and is almost eaten by other alligators. Aldo finds Bill and claims that Bill is his lunch. In the end Aldo decides he is going to quit his job.

Season 2 (2003)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
14a	1a	"Holding Pen 13"	James Magon	April 12, 2003 (2003-04-12)	5427a
After Ed, Oly and Waddle win a contest they didn't sign up for, they find themselves imprisoned in Swampwood. When Bill learns of their location, Aldo and he have to sneak in and help them.
14b	1b	"Daredevil Ducks"	Danielle Mentzer	April 12, 2003 (2003-04-12)	5427b
Ed, Oly and Waddle break their television while watching "Daredevil Ducks" so they go over to Bill's to finish watching the show. They find out that they could win a new TV if they could complete a dare which involves rubbing an alligator's stomach until it falls asleep. When Aldo refuses to help them, they seek out another alligator in Swampwood which almost gets them killed. Notes: This episode offers a cameo with the jerky Spanish crow, Raoul.
15a	2a	"Aldo the Duck"	Vinny Montello	April 19, 2003 (2003-04-19)	5428a
Aldo gets a craving to eat ducks so he goes to see Cecil for a way to fix it. Cecil gives him duck hormones to stop the cravings but Aldo takes too many and starts to turn into a duck.
15b	2b	"Chasing Andy"	Sindy McKay	April 19, 2003 (2003-04-19)	5428b
Aldo has to watch his baby cousin Andy but when a bowling championship turns out to be on the same weekend he asks Bill to watch Andy. However, Andy bites on one of Waddle's feathers giving him a craving for duck and tries to eat the ducks of Ducktown.
16a	3a	"Feet of Fortune"	Larry Swerdlove	April 26, 2003 (2003-04-26)	5429a
Bill and Aldo get told that Bev can tell peoples fortunes by looking at their feet. Bev tells Bill he has bad luck all over him and Bill starts to experience bad luck. But in the end they find out that Bev had the chart upside down and all the bad luck was in Bill's head.
16b	3b	"The Great Scooter Race"	Ford Riley, Tedd Anasti, and Patsy Cameron	April 26, 2003 (2003-04-26)	5429b
Bev bets Ed that she can beat him in a scooter race for milkshakes. Although Bev can't ride a scooter at first, she eventually picks up the skill which cause Ed, Oly and Waddle to try and cheat to win.
17a	4a	"O'Brother What Art Thou"	Michael Dobkins	May 3, 2003 (2003-05-03)	5430a
Bill finds out that Aldo has a secret club. Bill then follows Aldo to a bowling alley dressed as an alligator, but when they want to initiate him into the club, Bill reveals he is a duck and almost gets eaten.
17b	4b	"Urban Legend"	Sib Ventress	May 3, 2003 (2003-05-03)	5430b
Aldo has a nightmare about Quack the Ripper, a monstrous duck that shows up every midnight. He tells his friends that Quack is feared by all the alligators in Swampwood, so Ed comes up with an idea to make Waddle dress up like Quack. Something goes wrong and Waddle is almost eaten until the real Quack shows up and scares off the alligators.
18a	5a	"Fred's Fever"	Doug Molitor	May 10, 2003 (2003-05-10)	5431a
Fred gets sick on the day of his test to become an official citizen of Ducktown. Bill and Aldo help Fred keep cool so he can continue to study. But after he takes the test and passes he becomes delirious, so they must get him into the cold and get rid of the sickness so Fred can become initiated.
18b	5b	"You're Grounded"	Vinny Montello	May 10, 2003 (2003-05-10)	5431b
After flying really crazy Raoul has his flying license grounded. This in turn upsets but also excites Bill because now he doesn't fight with Raoul. When Bill, Aldo, and Bev start to notice that Raoul is feeling down, Bill and Aldo help him get his flying license back so he can go back to being himself again.
19a	6a	"The Gator in the Mask"	Tedd Anasti and Patsy Cameron	May 17, 2003 (2003-05-17)	5432a
There is a picnic in the park for ducks. Aldo decides he would like to go so he puts on a duck mask so nothing will go wrong. However when two alligators (Homages to Jasper and Horace from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv from Home Alone) show up to try and eat the ducks, they target Aldo because they think he is a duck.
19b	6b	"Lotta Gelata"	S : Michael Bedard; T : Sindy McKay & Vinny Montello	May 17, 2003 (2003-05-17)	5432b
Fred's favorite cousin, Gelata, comes to visit. Although all the male ducks take a liking to her leaving no time for Fred to spend with her. The only one who doesn't like her is Waddle whose only desire is ice cream, but in the end Fred gets to spend time with Gelata.
20a	7a	"Feather Island"	James Magon	May 24, 2003 (2003-05-24)	5433a
After Drill Sergeant Duck bans Bill and Aldo from spending time together, they decide to go on a treasure hunt. However Ed, Oly, Waddle and Raoul follow them while trying to turn them all against each other. It turns out that the treasure wasn't what they expected but just a means for Bill and Aldo to spend time together.
20b	7b	"King of the Bongos"	Danielle Mentzer	May 24, 2003 (2003-05-24)	5433b
After listening to the radio Bill gets a chance to meet his idol King of the Bongos. However when the King goes missing, Bill and Aldo set out to find him only to find out that the King is a little crazy. Bill decides he prefers the King's music to the King himself.
21a	8a	"Fred's Secret"	Carin-Greenberg Baker	May 31, 2003 (2003-05-31)	5434a
After seeing Fred with a mysterious package, Bill, Ed, Oly and Waddle begin to spy on him to find out what he is hiding. They thought Fred was either an alien from Neptune, a spy for the alligators, an evil mastermind planning to give Ducktown to the penguins, or all of the above. Soon they discover that Fred is actually building a satellite so they all can watch an Ice Pucky match on TV.
21b	8b	"Aldo's Uncle Artie"	Tim McKeon	May 31, 2003 (2003-05-31)	5434b
Aldo is going out of town for a bowling tournament and needs someone to look after his blind Uncle Artie. Bill volunteers and he and Artie soon become friends. But when Artie says something about ducks that annoys Bill, Bill tells him he is a duck. Artie then tries to eat Bill, but Aldo comes back in the nick of time and saves Bill.
22a	9a	"Close Encounters of the Green Kind"	Danielle Mentzer, Kate Wharmby, and Michael Maurer	June 7, 2003 (2003-06-07)	5435a
Waddle gets a new girlfriend, Alley, who is an alligator. But when she keeps drooling over him he begins not to trust her. Bill reminds Waddle about how no one trusted Aldo at first when he returned to Ducktown, so Waddle tells Alley he could trust her more if she didn't drool as much.
22b	9b	"Gonna Getcha Gator"	Danielle Mentzer	June 7, 2003 (2003-06-07)	5435b
Drill Sergeant Duck wants to win the Outstanding Sergeant of the Year Award and decides the only way to win it is by catching an alligator. She decides to go after Aldo, so Bill and Aldo must stay one step ahead of her. She ends up arresting Bev, Ed, Fred, Oly, Waddle and Aldo but then loses the award because it is revealed that she arrested Aldo for nothing.
23a	10a	"Nothing but the Truth"	Vinny Montello	June 14, 2003 (2003-06-14)	5436a
Everyone one is tired of Ed's lying so they go to see Cecil to get something which will fix his lying problem. Cecil gives them a spray but Waddle and Oly go around and spray everyone and Bill ends up trying to tell Bev he likes her. Meanwhile, when Ed tells Drill Sargent Duck that two criminals stole his money. Drill Sargent Duck thinks that it's Oly & Waddle.
23b	10b	"Duck and Cover"	Mark Young	June 14, 2003 (2003-06-14)	5436
Bev is almost eaten by an alligator while outback of the cafe. However Bill can't get out there to save her, but two members from the Ducktown Defense League end up coming to her rescue. Subsequently, Bill joins the League and ends up becoming a hero to all ducks in the League, and even Drill Sergeant Duck.
24a	11a	"Iced Duck"	James Magon	June 21, 2003 (2003-06-21)	5437a
A huge block is delivered to the cafe and Bill and Aldo notice that there is an ancient Caveduck stuck in the ice after the ice begins to melt.
24b	11b	"Duck Footed"	Jeff Stockwell	June 21, 2003 (2003-06-21)	5437b
After Bev's dance partner drops out of the Ducktown's annual Shake and Shimmy dance contest, Bill volunteers to step in. They have to compete with Raoul & a female crow named Evette.
25a	12a	"Free as a Bird"	David Ehrman	June 28, 2003 (2003-06-28)	5438a
It turns out that Jerry, Bill's parrot, can talk and has been ordering things with Bill's credit card. Bill gets suspicious when he receives a delivery that he didn't order. After trying and failing to get Jerry to tell him who ordered it, Bill decides to set Jerry free thinking it will give him something to talk about. But when Jerry doesn't return Bill begins to worry.
25b	12b	"Fowl Weather Feathers"	Sarah Weeks	June 28, 2003 (2003-06-28)	5438bb
Ducktown is facing a feather shortage and is in danger from Swampwood. Bill manages to convince Oly to donate some of his feathers, which turn out to be unique. When Oly becomes a celebrity amongst Ducks and Gators alike, Bill and Aldo realize that if Oly is producing all the feathers, the Gators will have no use for the rest of the Ducks and will eat them.
26a	13a	"Duck Lover"	Kate Donahue, Scott Kreamer, and Michael Maurer	July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05)	5439a
When the other gators start making fun of Aldo because his best friend is a duck, he doesn't feel anyone respects him anymore not even in Ducktown. The alligators even initiate a raid on Ducktown. Aldo reaches out to a llama and says that even though he is friends with a duck, he is proud of his alligator roots.
26b	13b	"Outback Quack"	Richard Liebmann-Smith	July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05)	5439
Bill's old friend, Outback Quack, comes for a visit and begins to brag about his gator he caught. Aldo then pretends to be Bill's captured gator and scares Quack revealing to everyone that he isn't what he says he is.

Broadcast

The series aired in Australia on ABC3 and Nickelodeon, in Canada on CBC Television and YTV, in the United Kingdom on CITV and Boomerang, and on the Japanese version of Cartoon Network.^[2]

Home media

VHS releases

Title	Release Date	Additional Information
Sitting Ducks: Duck Cravings	February 10, 2004	Also available on DVD format. Episodes: Running Duck, Hic Hic Hooray, Peeking Duck, Midnight Snack, Ducks on Ice, Great White Hype, All In a Day's Work Includes a bonus episode "Where's Aldo?"
Sitting Ducks: Ducktown Adventures	February 10, 2004	Also available on DVD format. Episodes: Mind Over Mallard, Got Milk?, Duck Naked, Bill Hatches an Egg, Hey... Bill's On The News, Denture Adventure, Waddle's Spud Bud Includes a bonus episode "The Fly Who Loved Me"
Sitting Ducks: Bill & Friends	February 10, 2004	Also available on DVD format. Episodes: Ducks for Hire, Fred's Meltdown, License to Scoot, Pest of a Guest, Bev's Big Day, Feeding Frenzy, Born to be Wild Includes a bonus episode "The Visitor"

DVD releases

Title	Release Date	Additional Information
Sitting Ducks – Season 1: Quack Pack	February 10, 2004	Consists of the “complete first season.” However, the DVD contains only one episode from season 1, but featured all of the others from season 2. Features two interactive games and character profiles.

Merchandise

Sitting Ducks proved to be a big hit with the European children's show market, and as a result toys, clothing and other merchandise were created.

Print

The cartoon itself also spawned a few books. Quacking Up is a joke book written by Rick Walton featuring the characters from the TV show, and multiple children's picture books by Danielle Mentzer and Annmarie Harris based on various episodes. The books were released in 2004, roughly one year after the show had ended.

Video games

In May 2003, Light and Shadow Production picked up the rights from Universal to create games for Sitting Ducks.^[3]

PlayStation 2/Microsoft Windows

Developed by Asobo Studio, the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows versions are 3D action-adventure titles where the player controls Bill and Aldo in different missions based on episodes from the show, with a Multiplayer racing mode also available.^[4] An Xbox release was also planned, but was cancelled.^[5]

PlayStation/Game Boy Advance

Developed in-house at Light & Shadow Production with The Code Monkeys assisting the PlayStation version, the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance versions are top-view adventure games where the player can control Bill, Aldo and Fred. It also features a different storyline than the PS2/Windows version.

References

1. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 556–557. ISBN 978-1538103739.
2. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 748. ISBN 978-1476665993.
3. Calvert, Justin (2003-05-27). "Sitting Ducks announced". GameSpot. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
4. "Sitting Ducks for PS2". GameSpot. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
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External links

• Sitting Ducks at IMDb
• Internet Archive