Quacula

Quacula is an animated fictional character, an anthropomorphic vampire duck, created by Filmation. He starred in his own segment on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle for one season.

Not to be confused with the unrelated cartoon series also about a vampire duck, Count Duckula.
Quacula
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle character
First appearanceSeptember 8, 1979
Portrayed byFrank Welker (voice)
In-universe information
SpeciesVampire duck
GenderMale

Character

Quacula (voiced by Frank Welker) was depicted as a pale blue duck with a Daffy Duck-like bill and fangs, dressed in a blue jacket and a black cape with a red lining. He slept by day in a white coffin shaped like an egg, in the basement of a house owned by an anthropomorphic bear named Theodore (voiced by Norm Prescott imitating Joe E. Ross).

Every night Quacula would rise from his coffin and try to terrify Theodore and others, but he would never really succeed; his antics tended to be more comical than frightening. Also, Theodore would come up with one plan after another to rid himself of Quacula, but always fail to do so.

Broadcast history

Quacula made his debut on September 8, 1979, on the first episode of The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle. However, cartoonist Scott Shaw filed suit against Filmation due to the fact that he had created a character named Duckula for the comic book Quack! #1 (July 1976), published by Star*Reach. The matter was settled out of court, and after 16 episodes Quacula was dropped from the show, which was shortened from an hour to a half-hour .[1][2]

List of cartoons
Nº Title Written by: Air date
1"Star Boars"Ted PedersenSeptember 8, 1979 (1979-09-08)
2"House For Sale"Ron CardSeptember 15, 1979 (1979-09-15)
3"Weird Bear"Bill Danch,
Ted Pedersen		September 22, 1979 (1979-09-22)
4"Monster Mash"Ted PedersenSeptember 29, 1979 (1979-09-29)
5"Uncle Ferenc"Ron CardOctober 6, 1979 (1979-10-06)
6"The Magic Lamp"Ron CardOctober 13, 1979 (1979-10-13)
7"Room for Rent"Ron CardOctober 20, 1979 (1979-10-20)
8"Morgana La Duck"Paul DiniOctober 27, 1979 (1979-10-27)
9"Return of Star Boars"Ted PedersenNovember 3, 1979 (1979-11-03)
10"Time and Before"Ted PedersenNovember 10, 1979 (1979-11-10)
11"Bungled Burglary"Paul DiniNovember 17, 1979 (1979-11-17)
12"Shanghai Salty"Ted PedersenNovember 24, 1979 (1979-11-24)
13"Pyramid"Ron Card,
Bill Danch		December 1, 1979 (1979-12-01)
14"Haunted House"Ron CardDecember 8, 1979 (1979-12-08)
15"Magic Duck"Ron CardDecember 15, 1979 (1979-12-15)
16"The Fantastic 2½"Ted PedersenDecember 22, 1979 (1979-12-22)

Quacula and Theodore also appeared in the Filmation Heckle & Jeckle short "Where There's a Will."

References
  1. Quacula at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016.
  2. Quack! #1 at the Grand Comics Database.


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