The Duck Factory (1984)
The Duck Factory (1984)
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Jack Gilford
Brooks Carmichael

Jim Carrey
Skip Tarkenton

Jay Tarses
Marty Fenneman

Teresa Ganzel
Mrs. Sheree Winkler

Don Messick
Wally Wooster

Clarence Gilyard Jr.
Roland Culp

Julie Payne
Aggie Aylesworth

Nancy Lane
Andrea Lewin

Herbert Klynn
Creator

Allan Burns
Creator / Writer

Diane Stilwell
Ginger

Barry Corbin
Hubbell

Victor Lobl
Director

Rod Daniel
Director

Gene Reynolds
Director

Jim Drake
Director

Peter Baldwin
Director

Burt Brinckerhoff
Director

Kim Friedman
Director

Harry Winer
Director

John Steven Owen
Writer

Jordan Moffet
Writer

Thad Mumford
Writer

Dan Wilcox
Writer

Stuart Silverman
Writer

Katherine Green
Writer

Barbara Hall
Writer

Bob Stevens
Writer

Steve Kline
Writer

Larry Gelman

Bill Scott

Daphne Maxwell Reid
Media.

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Wiki.
The Duck Factory is an American sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on NBC from April 12 until July 11, 1984. It was Jim Carrey's first lead role in a Hollywood production. It was also the only time Don Messick appeared in a live-action role, although he also voiced a cartoon character within the sitcom as well. The show was set at a small independent animation studio, and was co-created by Allan Burns and Herbert Klynn. It won two Emmy Awards.
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