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The Best Episodes of Duckman

Every episode of Duckman ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Duckman!

Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an American animated sitcom that aired from 1994–1997, created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck. The sitcom is based...
Genres:AnimationComedy
Network:USA Network

Top Episode Ratings Summary

"The Once and Future Duck" is the best rated episode of "Duckman". It scored 8.8/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Peter Avanzino and written by Dean Batali, Rob DesHotel, it aired on 4/13/1996. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Room With a Bellevue".

  • The Once and Future Duck
    8.8/1086 votes
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    #1 - The Once and Future Duck

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/13/1996

    Ajax opens a rift in the time/space continuum with his clock radio. Duckman discovers from a future version of himself that his future hinges on Charles and Mambo's tuba recital. Unfortunately Duckman tries to use these visits from his future selves to make a his decisions and suddenly discover every little decision he makes has a big impact on his future.

    Director: Peter Avanzino

    Writer: Dean Batali, Rob DesHotel

  • A Room With a Bellevue
    8.6/1087 votes
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    #2 - A Room With a Bellevue

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1996

    Duckman gets placed in a mental institution after pleading temporary insanity to a charge of public ranting. He likes the strict regimentation of the institution (compared to the anarchy and choas of outside the institution) so much that he decides to have himself permanently commited. Cornfed comes to rescue Duckman from the institution, but is to late as he has already been given shock treatment. Luckily Cornfed has a book on brain surgery and gets Duckman back to 'normal'. [note: the original version of this episode has a small section where Duckman is being dragged through a room where some residents are being given a test, and Dr. Stein asks them about seeing Duckman and a question of time. For some strange reason this scene is usually cut.]

    Director: Peter Avanzino

    Writer: Joshua Sternin, Jennifer Ventimilia

  • About Face
    8.5/10100 votes
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    #3 - About Face

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/4/1994

    Duckman calls 911 in an emergency and falls in love with the voice on the other end of the line. When they meet, her looks leave a whole lot to be desired. Then she gets a complete makeover that changes her life.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: Jim Pond, Bill Fuller

  • Joking the Chicken
    8.4/1091 votes
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    #4 - Joking the Chicken

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/11/1994

    A group of comedians hire Duckman to stop a pathetic mild mannered politically correct chicken whose ""clean"" stand up routine becomes a comedy sensation. The chicken's routines are funny to everyone except Duckman, who soon discovers the source of his popularity.

    Director: Jeff McGrath

    Writer: Michael Markowitz, Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz

  • Cock Tales for Four
    8.4/1064 votes
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    #5 - Cock Tales for Four

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 7/6/1996

    Duckman and Bernice go to meet the parent's of Ajax's girlfriend. The parents turn out to be ""King"" Chicken and his wife; surprisingly for the moment he and Duckman make up. Bernice and the ""King"" also mend their fence; however, Honey makes a play for Duckman to put things back to normal.

    Director: Bob Hathcock, Donovan Cook

    Writer: Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb

  • Where No Duckman Has Gone Before
    8.4/1061 votes
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    #6 - Where No Duckman Has Gone Before

    Season 4 Episode 27 - Aired 8/23/1997

    In a send-up of the Paramount franchise, Eric Tiberius Duckman, captain of the starship Enterprise matches wits against the evil Khan Chicken.

    Director: Steve Loter

    Writer: Gene Laufenberg

  • Color of Naught
    8.3/1074 votes
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    #7 - Color of Naught

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1996

    Duckman again foils King Chicken's plot for revenge. This time King Chicken has produced a product that makes everything beautiful, everything except Duckman. The only problem being is that this product is actually a virus that de-evolves everything. Duckman must again battle King Chicken and save the world.

    Director: John Eng

    Writer: Michael Markowitz

  • Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
    8.3/1068 votes
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    #8 - Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 4/19/1997

    Duckman and Cornfed become plumbers and their first job takes them to a society gathering in a mansion. While not doing his job, Duckman discovers that the cursed ""Sharon Stone"" is missing; he and Cornfed try to recover the diamond before the hostess discovers the theft. After the diamond is revealed to be missing, its curse comes into play and traps them in the mansion.

    Director: Peter Avanzino

    Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg

  • Noir Gang
    8.2/1085 votes
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    #9 - Noir Gang

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1996

    Feeling ""creatively obligated by a film-noir parody,"" Cornfed calls their new client ""a dame,"" whose name is Tamara La Boinque. Later he confesses to a priest about betraying his partner, when they both fall in love with their client.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: Ed Scharlach, Eva Almos

  • Forbidden Fruit
    8.2/1070 votes
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    #10 - Forbidden Fruit

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1996

    Duckman is slapped with a sexual harassment charge by the French nanny that Bernice has hired to tutor the boys. It seems the nanny isn't who she appears to be. In search of solitude Duckman moves in with Fluffy and Uranus; even they reach their breaking point with him.

    Director: Paul Demeyer

    Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz

  • Clear and Presidente Danger
    8.2/1059 votes
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    #11 - Clear and Presidente Danger

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/1996

    Duckman and group win a trip to a third-world country. Duckman starts a revolution with his ranting and gets placed into power where he becomes as corrupt as the last rulling paty. This requires Cornfed to form a revolution and rescue Duckman and group.

    Director: John Eng

    Writer: Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb

  • I, Duckman
    8.1/10142 votes
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    #12 - I, Duckman

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1994

    We are introduced to Duckman, who's ignored by his family and feels under appreciated, he is searching for something to be remembered by. The agency receives a package that contains a bomb that goes of in the office. Duckman is happy someone cared enough to try and kill him so he visits the sender in prison. Only that suspect also receives a package.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno

  • A Civil War
    8.1/1084 votes
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    #13 - A Civil War

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/23/1994

    Duckman is jealous when everyone showers Cornfed with their attention, so he fires him while working their next case, which involves the ""murder"" of the owner of a Steak and Waffle on a Stick factory.

    Director: Norton Virgien

    Writer: Bob Kushell

  • It's the Thing of the Principal
    8.1/1080 votes
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    #14 - It's the Thing of the Principal

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/7/1994

    Bernice is worried about Ajax, who's not been eating and has been sent to the principal every day this week. Duckman and Cornfed go undercover in the school to find out what's up with Ajax. It turns out that Ajax is in love with the vice principal and she's in love with him. They take off together with plans to get married, south of the border. Duckman and Bernice pose as a couple and go after them.

    Director: Igor Kovalyov

    Writer: N/A

  • Cellar Beware
    8.1/1080 votes
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    #15 - Cellar Beware

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/21/1994

    Bernice decides they're going to act together as a family. For their first activity together, she invites the neighbors over for the monthly meeting of the block association. When a home security expert shows up, his pitch gets Duckman to buy the most elaborate security system, the ""Interlopen Fuhrer 2000,"" which of course doesn't do the job and then Duckman fixes it...

    Director: Norton Virgien

    Writer: Ladd Graham

  • Apocalypse Not
    8.1/1073 votes
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    #16 - Apocalypse Not

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/24/1996

    After the city gets attacked by one of Duckmans over-inflated dolls, the city decides to have an emergency drill where all the residents go underground till the drill passes. Duckman fails to know about the drill and has a city-wide 'party' (involving mass destrution) while all the residents are gone. Eventually the residents return to chase Duckman out of town.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury

  • The Mallardian Candidate
    8.1/1060 votes
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    #17 - The Mallardian Candidate

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/1996

    Former comedian Iggy Catalpa hires Duckman to investigate a conspiracy where the only evidence is a sock missing from his laundry. The conspirators capture Duckman and brainwash him into killing the only one who can stop them, Cornfed.

    Director: Peter Shin

    Writer: David Misch

  • The Road to Dendron
    8.1/1061 votes
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    #18 - The Road to Dendron

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/11/1996

    A parody of the Hope/Crosby Road pictures is done in this episode as Duckman and Cornfed act as chaperones for Ajax's class trip to the Sudan. Ajax is kidnapped. Duckman and Cornfed must rescue Ajax from a Sultan, his Fakir and a beautiful princess.

    Director: Peter Shin

    Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury

  • All About Elliott
    8.1/1075 votes
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    #19 - All About Elliott

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/1997

    Duckman and Cornfed hire a college intern for the agency. The intern undermines Cornfed's reputation and indulges Duckman's self-destructive behavior. Duckman must choose between his flashy new assistant (who may be trying to kill him) and his old partner.

    Director: Peter Shin

    Writer: Gene Laufenberg

  • How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying
    8.1/1052 votes
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    #20 - How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying

    Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 7/19/1997

    Duckman sells his identity to the Variecom corporation for $1000, which he immediately spends. Unable to use his own name or image, he is left penniless. He even tries to become a Duckman impersonator, until he is ""downsized."" Then he conceives a plan to get his self-respect and identity back. Meanwhile, Cornfed leaves to rejoin the 80's band A Flock of Seagulls.

    Director: Jaime Diaz

    Writer: Ellis Weiner

  • Hamlet 2: This Time It's Personal
    8.1/1053 votes
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    #21 - Hamlet 2: This Time It's Personal

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 8/2/1997

    Cornfed undergoes analysis and relates this tale about Duckman seeing the ghost of his uncle who says that Duckman's father was murdered by King Chicken. Duckman hangs with Bernice and King Chicken while pretending to be crazy. Cornfed realizes that Duckman is living out the plot of ""Hamlet,"" that will eventually lead to Duckman's death.

    Director: Anthony Bell

    Writer: David Misch

  • T.V. or Not to Be
    8.0/10111 votes
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    #22 - T.V. or Not to Be

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1994

    Duckman is watching a TV program, but the family takes over the set when Mother Mirabelle's Home Miracle Network program starts airing. The family demands that Duckman help find Mother Mirabelle's stolen painting that helps create miracles. Duckman reluctantly agrees, but he is skeptical until he experiences his own miracle.

    Director: Raymie Muzquiz

    Writer: Bernie Keating

  • Gripes of Wrath
    8.0/10101 votes
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    #23 - Gripes of Wrath

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/1994

    A comment Duckman makes at the unveiling of a new supercomputer, named Loretta, makes the world a better place to live in, for a while anyway.

    Director: Norton Virgien

    Writer: Michael Markowitz

  • Psyche
    8.0/1098 votes
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    #24 - Psyche

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/1994

    Feeling inadequate and hard up, Duckman gets a bill job. The detectives then get a job researching the lives of two large breasted women, but Duckman runs away from it. Seeking further help, takes him into his psyche where he confronts what has really been troubling him.

    Director: Paul Demeyer

    Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz

  • Not So Easy Riders
    8.0/1089 votes
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    #25 - Not So Easy Riders

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/30/1994

    Duckman receives a letter from the IRS. The IRS agent is tough and Duckman is given 24 hours to pay $29,587.42 in back taxes. After asking his family for help and being rejected and lectured, Duckman tries anything. When he can't raise the funds, he and Cornfed go on the run and then on the road. Bernice falls for the IRS agent who's staying at the house waiting for Duckman to call.

    Director: Paul Demeyer

    Writer: Joe Ansolabehere, Steve Viksten