7.1/1016 votes#1 - Running Duck
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Rugg, Danielle Mentzer
NaN/100 votes#2 - Duck Naked
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2001
After Bill starts losing all of his feathers 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Danielle Mentzer
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Ducks for Hire
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/2001
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 goes terribly wrong.
Director: N/A
Writer: Thomas Hart
- 8.6/106 votes
#4 - Hic Hic Hooray
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Peeking Duck
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Fred's Meltdown
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/27/2001
After Fred the penguin's air-conditioners cause a town power failure, 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 killed while doing it.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sean Roche
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Mind Over Mallard
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/2001
Cecil tries to help Bill so he can achieve his dream of learning to fly. After trying over and over again, Bill eventually gets hurt and ends up in hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Gillies
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Fly Who Loved Me
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/4/2001
After being bothered by a fly while trying to sleep Bill decides to go the decoy 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Danielle Mentzer
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Feeding Frenzy
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/2001
Bev starts losing her customers after Waddle creates green waffles that the whole town loves. But after the waffles cause the feathers of ducks to start falling out of them, they quickly go out of business.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Merton
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Bev's Big Day
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/11/2001
After Bill and his friends forget Bev's birthday, she closes the cafe until further notice, so Bill and friends help Bev to remember the first time they met with their separate stories.
Director: N/A
Writer: Danielle Mentzer, Barbara Herndon, Jill Gorey, Christine Balling
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Born to Be Wild
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/18/2001
After hitting his head in a scooter accident, Waddle begins acting like a primitive duck and ends up on a billboard. Bill and Waddle then fall off of the billboard, and Raoul and his friends save the day.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Liebmann-Smith
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Bill Hatches an Egg
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/18/2001
Bill and Aldo find an egg in the park, with Bill thinking it's a duck egg and Aldo thinking it's an alligator egg. However, they are both proved wrong after it turns out to be a turtle egg.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Gillies
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Hey... Bill's on the News
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/25/2001
Bill has to go out and buy a satellite dish in order to watch a special on The Flight Channel.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sean Roche
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Got Milk?
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/25/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Herndon, Jill Gorey
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - License to Scoot
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/1/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Danielle Mentzer
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Old Duck and the Sea
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/1/2001
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Pest of a Guest
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/2002
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
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Koonce, David Wiemers
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Getting Away from it All
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/2002
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Midnight Snack
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/2002
When Bill is almost eaten by a sleep-walking 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Gillies
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - The Visitor
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/2002
An alien named 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Ducks on Ice
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/2002
To celebrate Penguin Day, Bill and his friends go down to central pond. However a fierce wind blows then over the 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Gillies
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Where's Aldo
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/2002
After Bill and Aldo have a fight over Aldo's clumsiness, Aldo leaves. Bill regrets the fight so Bill, Ed, Oly and Waddle head off to Swampwood to try and make up.
Director: N/A
Writer: Richard Liebmann-Smith
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Great White Hype
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/2002
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Koonce, David Wiemers
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Waddle's Spud Bud
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/3/2002
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Don Gillies
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Denture Adventure
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/10/2002
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Barbara Herndon, Jill Gorey
The Best Episodes of Sitting Ducks Season 1
Every episode of Sitting Ducks Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Sitting Ducks Season 1!
Sitting Ducks is an American children's animated television series based on the 1970s "Sitting Ducks" lithograph and the 1998 children's book of the same name,...
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Network:Cartoon Network
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Running Duck" is the best rated episode of "Sitting Ducks" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Paul Rugg, Danielle Mentzer, it aired on 9/13/2001. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Duck Naked".