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Duckman Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - I, Duckman

First aired: Mar/05/1994
Writer: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn
Guest star: Bruce Weitz (Unknown), Linda Gary (Beatrice)

This is the episode we are introduced to Duckman's family. Duckman is the man of the family, who is also under appreciated and ignored by his family. The place Duckman works for receives a package, which is a bomb. Duckman is glad to hear that someone cares enough to kill him, only to find out the prisoner who sent him the package also got one too...



2 :01x02 - T.V. or Not to Be

First aired: Mar/12/1994
Writer: Bernie Keating
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: John Kassir (Unknown), Tress MacNeille (Unknown), Danny Mann (Unknown), Michael Bell (Unknown)

When a sacred painting goes missing from a Televangelist show, Duckman puts his mocking aside to reap the financial reward. However, he has a changed perspective on the nature of miracles when he undergoes a near-death experience.



3 :01x03 - Gripes of Wrath

First aired: Mar/19/1994
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: Debi Derryberry (Unknown), Ron Fassler (Unknown)

Duckman unwittingly inspires a supercomputer to reshape society into a perfect world. A world that is, perhaps, just too perfect.



4 :01x04 - Psyche

First aired: Mar/26/1994
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz
Director: Paul Demeyer
Guest star: Philece Sampler (Unknown)

Duckman feels inadequate because of his bill size and gets a much bigger one to attract women, but never takes any open opportunity due to his guilt over his late wife.



5 :01x05 - Gland of Opportunity

First aired: Apr/09/1994
Writer: Eugene B. Stein, Ron Lux
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Hamilton Camp (Unknown), Jess Harnell (Unknown)

Duckman's days of cowardice come to an end when he receives the adrenal gland of a legendary daredevil, giving him a new lease on life, as well as a previously unheard level of respect.



6 :01x06 - Ride the High School

First aired: Apr/16/1994
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Tony Jay (Unknown), Pamela Adlon (Unknown), Ed Gilbert (Unknown), Tim Curry (King Chicken)

Ajax is accepted into a special school for the gifted, a prospect Duckman doesn't like because it will separate him from the one member of the family he can relate to.



7 :01x07 - A Civil War

First aired: Apr/23/1994
Writer: Bob Kushell
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: Kenneth Mars (Unknown)

Duckman has had enough of being outshined by Cornfed and fires him while working on a painfully simple case, only for him to realize how much he needs his former partner.



8 :01x08 - Not So Easy Riders

First aired: Apr/30/1994
Writer: Steve Viksten, Joe Ansolabehere
Director: Paul Demeyer
Guest star: Bobcat Goldthwait (Indian), Neal McDonough (Unknown)

When the IRS finally catches up with Duckman's back taxes, he and Cornfed hit the road to evade the long arm of the government.



9 :01x09 - It's the Thing of the Principal

First aired: May/07/1994
Director: Igor Kovalyov
Guest star: Cynthia Mann (Voice), James Avery (School Guard, Minister), Teri Garr (Vanessa La Pert)

When Ajax begins behaving more unusual than usual, Duckman investigates only the way he can to find out it's because he's discovered his first love.



10 :01x10 - Cellar Beware

First aired: May/21/1994
Writer: Ladd Graham
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: John Astin (Terry Duke Tetzloff), Sally Struthers (Unknown), Nancy Linari (Unknown)

A pitchman scares Duckman into buying an over-priced, excessive security system for the house, which not only fails to prevent a robbery, but then threatens to aim its sights on the family.



11 :01x11 - American Dick

First aired: May/28/1994
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Steve Mackall (Unknown)

With a detective's union strike going on, reality series American Dicks profiles the only P.I. still working, Duckman, in desperation to film a record 100th case.



12 :01x12 - About Face

First aired: Jun/04/1994
Writer: Bill Fuller, Jim Pond
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Nancy Linari (Unknown), Lolita Davidovich (Angela)

Duckman falls in love with the voice of a 911 operator, but things get ugly when he comes face-to-face with his angel.



13 :01x13 - Joking the Chicken

First aired: Jun/11/1994
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz, Michael Markowitz
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Conchata Ferrell (Roxanne), Tim Curry (King Chicken), Eddie Deezen (Iggy Catalpa), Corey Parker (Unknown)

A clean comedian gains popularity with the entire country with his brand of politically correct stand-up material, much to the confusion and frustration of Duckman.



14 :02x01 - Papa Oom M.O.W. M.O.W.

First aired: Mar/11/1995
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: Neriah Davis (Herself), Charles Shaughnessy (Duckman), Mark DeCarlo (Unknown), Gilbert Gottfried (Art DeSalvo), Karen Roe (Herself), Gregg Berger (Cornfed), Keythe Farley (Ninja #3), Tasia Valenza (Bernice), Mitch Watson (Murdered Father)

Duckman inadvertently saves the President during his attempt to pinch female bottoms and after being made out to be a monster, he makes the most out of every second of his fifteen minutes of fame.



15 :02x02 - Married Alive

First aired: Mar/18/1995
Writer: Bernie Keating
Director: Raymie Muzquiz

Bernice meets a home shopping billionaire who plans to marry her. Duckman is thrilled that his sister-in-law will be out of his feathers until he founds out that they'll be taking the kids away with them.



16 :02x03 - Days of Whining and Neurosis

First aired: Mar/25/1995
Writer: Gary Glasberg
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Charlie Adler (Unknown)

Duckman and Cornfed are tasked to find out which of a rehab doctors' famous patients have it out to kill him.



17 :02x04 - Inherit the Judgment: The Dope's Trial

First aired: Apr/03/1995
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Tim Curry (King Chicken)

Duckman and his family find themselves in a backwater town where his nemesis King Chicken is the Sheriff. Things get pretty heated when Duckman presents a controversial answer to the age-old question over the chicken or the egg theory.



18 :02x05 - America the Beautiful

First aired: Apr/10/1995
Writer: Bill Canterbury, Gene Laufenberg
Director: Paul Demeyer
Guest star: Bobcat Goldthwait (Hippie, whino), Heather Locklear (America), Steven Weber (Brian Hackett (his character from Wings)), Alan Young (Wilbur Nelson)

Children come to Duckman and Cornfed to help find a model named America that has gone missing after a string of boyfriends who seem to be taken straight out of different eras in the past forty years.



19 :02x06 - The Germ Turns

First aired: Apr/17/1995
Writer: Bill Fuller, Jim Pond
Director: Bob Hathcock
Guest star: Janeane Garofalo (Moonbeam), Katey Sagal (Duckman's Mother), Edward Asner (Mort Sidelman)

While with the family at a New Age faire, Duckman finds out that his mother has been reincarnated as a germ for having neglected him as a child. Not wanting to meet the same fate, Duckman pours all his affection on his three boys.



20 :02x07 - In the Nam of the Father

First aired: Apr/24/1995
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: Maurice LaMarche (Sergeant), Danny Mann (Cornfed's Son)

When a young man comes to Cornfed and claims to be the result of a physical encounter with a woman he met in Vietnam, he takes Duckman with him, who in turn takes the family (sans Grandma-ma) as a cheap way to appease them with a vacation trip.



21 :02x08 - Research and Destroy

First aired: May/01/1995
Director: John Eng

Ajax is discovered to have a poetic tongue and soon amasses popularity. Naturally, corporate big wigs attempt to capitalize on his success and package him his talent for commercial work, all approved by Duckman.



22 :02x09 - Clip Job

First aired: May/08/1995
Writer: David Misch
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Ben Stiller (Harry Medfly)

A madman kidnaps Duckman and holds him responsible for a morale decline in society because of the insane idea that the duck detective's life is a television show and he has the clips to prove it.



23 :03x01 - Noir Gang

First aired: Jan/06/1996
Writer: Ed Scharlach, Eva Almos
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Maurice LaMarche (Crazy, Short, Bald Guy/Fat Man), Carl Reiner (Salacious Priest), Bebe Neuwirth (Tamara La Boinque)

When a beautiful dame hires Duckman and Cornfed out to find out who wants to kill her, but soon the two fall in love with her. Soon Cornfed's feelings for their client turn to torment when he feels like he's betraying his partner.



24 :03x02 - Forbidden Fruit

First aired: Jan/13/1996
Writer: Jeff Astrof, Mike Sikowitz
Director: Paul Demeyer
Guest star: Tim Curry (King Chicken), Laurie Metcalf (Unknown)

A live-in tutor is hired to help the children, but Bernice threatens to destroy Duckman's collection of porn and associated paraphernalia if he makes any sexual remarks to the young girl they've employed. Duckman manages against his most basic instincts, but all sexual liberated hell breaks loose when he offers the girl a simple apple.



25 :03x03 - Grandma-ma's Flatulent Adventure

First aired: Jan/20/1996
Writer: Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
Director: Norton Virgien
Guest star: Dennis Haysbert (Unknown), John Astin (Terry Duke Tetzloff)

With Grandma-ma becoming too much to care for, the family opts to send her away to a retirement home, but Duckman in his typical carelessness, loses her on the way there.



26 :03x04 - Color of Naught

First aired: Jan/27/1996
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Tim Curry (King Chicken), Judy Tenuta (Edna), Lee Tergesen (Chett Donnelly), Kathy Najimy (Unknown), John Mallory Asher (Gary Wallace), Michael Manasseri (Wyatt Donnelly), Lolita Davidovich (Angela), Eddie Deezen (Iggy Catalpa)

A beauty cosmetic is being hawked with the help Angela, the former 911 operator Duckman fell in love with and left. With Beautex having the ability of transforming anyone or thing a work of physical attraction, Duckman buys some for himself so as to be good looking to Angela.



27 :03x05 - Sperms of Endearment

First aired: Feb/10/1996
Writer: Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Kath Soucie (Suzie), Nicholas Walker (Unknown), John Astin (Terry Duke Tetzloff), Nancy Linari (Unknown), Mae Whitman (Unknown), Joe Alaskey (Unknown), Anne Bloom (Unknown), Suzanne Stone (Unknown)

When the world around her reminds Bernice that her biological clock is ticking and fails to meet the right guy, she opts for artificial insemination - only to discover to her horror that her donor is none other than Duckman.



28 :03x06 - A Room With a Bellevue

First aired: Feb/17/1996
Writer: Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Robert Costanzo (Unknown), Victoria Jackson (Nurse), Joel Brooks (Unknown), Olivia White (Unknown), Henry Gibson (Unknown), John Byner (Dr. Gerhardt Morsink), John Corbett (Unknown), Bronson Pinchot (Dr. Henri Ducharme), Billie Hayes (Unknown), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein)

Duckman tries for once to do the best thing as a father and come to his twins' birthday dinner. However, the absurdities he encounters over the course of the day just to get his suit dry cleaned causes Duckman to snap.



29 :03x07 - Apocalypse Not

First aired: Feb/24/1996
Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Scott Larose (Unknown), Jennifer Lien (Unknown), Jeff Bennett (Unknown), Elayne Boosler (Mayor Gallagher), Stuart Pankin (Loud Mouth), Mary Pat Gleason (Unknown), Roddy McDowall (Akers)

The government initiates a disaster readiness drill for the whole city. Naturally, Duckman manages to miss out on all warnings and reminders, so when everyone in the city goes underground as a part of the test, he believes himself to the last man alive.



30 :03x08 - Clear and Presidente Danger

First aired: Mar/02/1996
Writer: Chris Webb, Doug Chamberlin
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Robert Cait (Unknown), Carlos Ferro (Unknown), Marabina Jaimes (Unknown), Jess Harnell (Unknown), Hector Elias (Unknown)

When Duckman manages to scam a fast food restaurant into giving him a free trip to a South American country, he inadvertently inspires the people to overthrow the government. As the ruling dictator, it doesn't take long before Duckman's reign gives the people another burning for rebellion.



31 :03x09 - The Girls of Route Canal

First aired: Mar/09/1996
Writer: Brian Kahn
Director: Donovan Cook, Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Mary Ellen Dunbar (Unknown), Julie Maddalena (Unknown), David Duchovny (Richard), Aeryk Egan (Unknown), Ed Gilbert (Unknown), Marty York (Unknown)

Charles and Mambo come to Duckman for inspiration when they fall in love with girls and recounts the story of how he won their mother's heart.



32 :03x10 - The Mallardian Candidate

First aired: Mar/16/1996
Writer: David Misch
Director: Peter Shin
Guest star: Susan Krebs (Unknown), John Kassir (Unknown), Eddie Deezen (Iggy Catalpa), Gedde Watanabe (Unknown)

Duckman is hired by Iggy to unravel a conspiracy to steal socks, only to find that it was a set-up for considerable larger conspiracy that aims to brainwash Duckman into assassinating Cornfed.



33 :03x11 - Pig Amok

First aired: Apr/06/1996
Writer: Spencer Green
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Bob Guccione (Himself), Danny Mann (Unknown), Blair Underwood (Himself), Thomas Gibson (Himself), Chuck McCann (Unknown), Lee Meriwether (Widow Liebner), Edward Winter (Voice), Peter Strauss (Narrator)

Cornfed discovers that thanks to a genetic infliction passed down from his grandfather, at age 26, he must lose his virginity or face death.



34 :03x12 - The Once and Future Duck

First aired: Apr/13/1996
Writer: Rob des Hotel, Dean Batali
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: James Sikking (Unknown), Rhonda Shear (Herself), Charlie Adler (Unknown), Brian Cummings (Unknown)

Fearful of being replaced as a father figure, Duckman vows to attend Charles and Mambo's recital just as the fabric of the space/time continuum has been ripped. With drop-ins from future selfs, Duckman is awarded with knowing the outcome of his every action, but is soon driven to the brink of insanity as he's plagued with endless possibilities for everything he does.



35 :03x13 - The One With Lisa Kudrow in a Small Role

First aired: Apr/20/1996
Writer: Monica Piper
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Melissa Manchester (Unknown), Jerry Sroka (Unknown), Roger Rose (Unknown), Howard Morris (Ernest T. Glob), Lisa Kudrow (Beta Max Females), Mari Weiss (Unknown), David Lodge (Unknown)

Feeling neglected by his own family, Ajax is taken by simple-minded aliens to their backwater planet where its denizens are enlightened by his every thought.



36 :03x14 - Aged Heat

First aired: Apr/27/1996
Writer: Bill Canterbury, Gene Laufenberg
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Lynette Mettey (Unknown), Brian Doyle-Murray (Agnes Delrooney), Wayne Tippet (Unknown)

Agnes Delrooney is a violent criminal on the run. Thankfully, she is dead-ringer for Grandma-ma and swaps places with her and hides out in the Duckman household, but keeping up the ruse isn't easy.



37 :03x15 - They Craved Duckman's Brain!

First aired: May/04/1996
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Donovan Cook
Guest star: Bart Flynn (Yelling Man), Ron Perlman (Roland Thompson), Judith Light (Unknown), Eugene Levy (Dr. Craig Ehrlich), Mary Gallagher (Lobey the MRI Pixie), Kathleen Freeman (Nurse), Howard Storm (Commercial Director), Joe Walsh (Himself), Al Albert (Unknown), Maureen McGovern (Ajax's singing voice), Lauren Lane (Director's Assistant)

When Duckman is left too long in an MRI machine, a part of his brain develops the cure for cancer. Unfortunately, the doctor who needs to take his head off to get to it isn't the only one who needs Duckman dead because of what's in his brain.



38 :03x16 - The Road to Dendron

First aired: May/11/1996
Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
Director: Peter Shin
Guest star: Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein), Ismael Kanater (Unknown), Maurice LaMarche (Unknown), Jay Thomas (Fakir Achmed Awazer), James Avery (Expositor), Amanda Plummer (Princess Fallopia), John Rhys-Davies (Sultan of Dendron)

Cornfed accompanies Duckman whom he tricked into going to Ajax's school field trip to the middle eastern country of Dendron. There, the three got caught up in an assassination plot involving a Sultan's daughter.



39 :03x17 - Exile in Guyville

First aired: May/25/1996
Writer: Ellen L. Fogle
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Michelle Thomas (Unknown), Ken Hudson Campbell (Unknown), Justin Berfield (Unknown), Debrah Farentino (Unknown), Maryedith Burrell (Future Mother), Mark DeCarlo (Unknown)

When a verbal fight between Duckman and Bernice airs on the news, it sparks a new stage in the battle of the sexes in which the two genders are segregated by a giant wall.



40 :03x18 - The Longest Weekend

First aired: Jun/22/1996
Writer: David Misch
Director: Raymie Muzquiz
Guest star: Gilbert Gottfried (Art DeSalvo), Andrea Martin (Mayor Gallagher), Dave Thomas (Tad Venom), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein), Judy Tenuta (Edna)

North Phlegm declares war against their upper-crust neighboring block whose lobbying results in their low-end block getting the shaft by their local government.



41 :03x19 - The Amazing Colossal Duckman

First aired: Jun/29/1996
Writer: Bill Canterbury
Director: John Eng
Guest star: Katie Leigh (Unknown), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein), Michael Hagiwara (Unknown)

Due to an abnormal combination of substances, Duckman develops a blood condition that causes him to grow every time he gets angry.



42 :03x20 - Cock Tales for Four

First aired: Jul/06/1996
Writer: Chris Webb, Doug Chamberlin
Director: Bob Hathcock, Donovan Cook
Guest star: Judith Light (Honey Chicken), Tim Curry (King Chicken)

Duckman and Bernice meet the parents of Ajax's new girlfriend - who turn out to be none other than King Chicken and his wife. As the children are at play, the four adults get to know each other and enter new stages of their relationships.



43 :04x01 - Dammit, Hollywood

First aired: Jan/04/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz, Jeff Reno
Director: Peter Shin
Guest star: Paul Dooley (Unknown), Brendan Fraser (Unknown), Maurice LaMarche (Unknown), Julie Moran (Herself), Rodney Saulsberry (Unknown), Roger Rose (Unknown)

When Duckman goes to a major studio to complain about a kiddie flick with a misleading title, he winds up as its new president as part of a last-minute ploy by its outed head who hopes Duckman's clear incompetence will make him look better.



44 :04x02 - Coolio Runnings

First aired: Jan/11/1997
Writer: David Misch, Gene Laufenberg, Bill Canterbury
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Coolio (Himself), Hattie Winston (Adoption Agent), Ben Stein (Ben and Lionel Stein)

In order to win a bet he made (up) with Stein about winning in the father/son games, Duckman takes to adopting rap artist Coolio, leaving Ajax on the sideline.



45 :04x03 - Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat

First aired: Jan/18/1997
Writer: Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Cathy Moriarty (Unknown), Sandra Bernhard (Warden), Sheena Easton (Betty), Farrah Forke (Unknown), Kathy Ireland (Susie), Gina Belafonte (Wanda)

Duckman is arrested for his latest mutilation of Fluffy and Uranus, and sent to jail. However, he's in no rush to leave as, by some mistake, he is sent to a woman's prison. The warden and guard then make Duckman put on shows for men for money.



46 :04x04 - All About Elliott

First aired: Jan/25/1997
Writer: Gene Laufenberg
Director: Peter Shin
Guest star: Catherine Cavadini (Female Student, Stripper), Chris Elliott (Elliott)

The Duckman detective agency takes on a college intern. However, once Elliot joins them, he stuffs Duckman with every means of pleasure, all the while Cornfed's reputation begins to take an unusual dive.



47 :04x05 - From Brad to Worse

First aired: Feb/01/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Peter Scolari (Brad), John Vernon (Principal Dinkler), John de Lancie (Tyler Fitzgerald)

Duckman happens upon someone from his high school whose life he ruined when he let him take the fall for a stunt on the principal. Hoping to alleviate his guilt, Duckman tries to help out his homeless friend, all while Cornfed investigates the incident.



48 :04x06 - Bonfire of the Panties

First aired: Feb/08/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Anthony Bell
Guest star: Jamie Hanes (Unknown), Courtney Thorne-Smith (Herself), Tom Kane (Bill Clinton)

Charles, Mambo, and Cornfed (with assistance from Ajax) concoct a love potion, just enough to give Duckman a little help. Inevitably, Duckman abuses their trust and makes more for himself. The family finds out and Duckman is forced to lay low, a real problem when he meets Courtney Thorne-Smith.



49 :04x07 - Role With It

First aired: Feb/15/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Anthony Bell
Guest star: Russell Means (Unknown), Dana Delany (Dr. Susan Fox), Michael Horse (Big Chief Fancy Pants), Steven Weber (Brian Hackett)

While vacationing at an Indian casino, the Duckman family is observed by a psychiatrist who offers help to them before they explode.



50 :04x08 - Ajax and Ajaxer

First aired: Feb/22/1997
Writer: Bill Canterbury
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Maurice LaMarche (Merv Griffin), Nancy Linari (Merv's Secretary), Michael Jeter (Dr. William Blay)

While investigating a lab, Cornfed, thanks to Duckman, accidentally drinks a dumbing potion. This comes to be a blessing to Ajax who finally has a best friend.



51 :04x09 - With Friends Like These

First aired: Mar/01/1997
Writer: Gene Laufenberg
Director: Steve Loter
Guest star: Laura Leighton (Ditzi), Theresa Randle (Sassy), Merrill Markoe (Skip "Spike" Bergenstock), Jeremy Sisto (Bobby), Arye Gross (Pete), Alison La Placa (Marion)

After no one bothers to throw him a birthday party, Duckman realizes that it's his personality that repels people. Duckman sets to make it right by going out to make a whole new set of friends.



52 :04x10 - A Trophied Duck

First aired: Mar/08/1997
Writer: Bill Canterbury
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Amy Brenneman (Lauren Simone), Jerry Houser (Unknown), Jeff Bennett (Unknown)

After being humiliated by an old rival at a Detective Convention, Duckman sets out to redeem himself by looking like a great detective.



53 :04x11 - A Star is Abhorred

First aired: Mar/15/1997
Writer: Gene Laufenberg
Director: Jaime Diaz
Guest star: Joe Mantegna (Rube Richter), Kevin Schon (Unknown), Mari Weiss (Unknown), Kurt Loder (Himself), Flea (Himself), Dom DeLuise (the Governor), Art Kimbro (Unknown), Ice-T (Himself)

Bernice is discovered by a record producer to put her angry Duckman-fuelled anger out in song. She becomes a huge superstar, but her nephews begin to fall by the wayside.



54 :04x12 - Bev Takes a Holiday

First aired: Mar/22/1997
Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg
Director: Stig Bergqvist, Toni Vian
Guest star: Vicki Lawrence (Herself), Kathleen Freeman (Nurse), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein), John Rubano (Detective), Eugene Levy (Dr. Craig Ehrlich)

As Bernice takes off to Washington, Duckman seems to be the only person who sees what he believes is his deceased wife Beatrice. This belief is the only thing that keeps him going when he gets into a serious accident.



55 :04x13 - Love! Anger! Kvetching!

First aired: Apr/12/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Anthony Bell
Guest star: Bob Guccione (Himself), Joe Mantegna (Rube Richter), Joe Walsh (Himself), Robert Klein (Uncle Mo Dawkin)

With Bernice out of the house, Duckman finally has the freedom to have a card game. The only problem now is the arrival of his Uncle Mo, a pest of an old man who Duckman can't throw out for fear evoking a family curse.



56 :04x14 - Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'

First aired: Apr/19/1997
Writer: David Misch, Michael Markowitz, Gene Laufenberg
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Daniel Davis (Rodney), Nicholas Walker (Unknown), Beverly Archer (Lady Calowina Worthington-Ford), Glenn Shadix (Army Leader Guest), Dan Castellaneta (Homer J. Simpson), Xander Berkeley (Hans the Butler)

After having lost their detective agency, Duckman and Cornfed become plumbers. When they get a job at a high society party, they are back as dicks to recover a valued stolen jewel.



57 :04x15 - Ebony, Baby

First aired: Apr/26/1997
Writer: Gene Grillo
Director: Steve Loter
Guest star: Leila Kenzle (Janeane), Ice-T (Taanzi), Barry Shabaka Henley (Unknown), Tisha Campbell-Martin (Ebony Sable), Taj Mahal (Unknown), Taylor Negron (Wilhelm van der Klerk), Jeremy Piven (Victor DeMann), Michael Stanton (Unknown)

While Cornfed is on vacation, Duckman hopes to get his kicks at a fashion show where he happens on a black female detective and temporarily becomes her partner as she tracks down her boss's killer.



58 :04x16 - Vuuck, as in Duck

First aired: May/03/1997
Writer: Dave Finkel, Brett Baer
Director: Jeff McGrath
Guest star: Jill Goodacre (Unknown), Chick Hearn (Himself), Tim Curry (Simon Desmond), Kathy Ireland (Susan), Alison Moir (Unknown), Maureen McGovern (Ajax's singing voice), Tom Kane (Gene Vuuck), Nicole Eggert (Unknown)

The owner of a fledging baseball franchise quickly wills over rights to Duckman in an attempt to give it to a true fan and not a greedy banker. In attempt to lure fans, Duckman hosts a string of promotional nights that leads the team to quit, at which point Duckman hires a new team made entirely of supermodels.



59 :04x17 - Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot

First aired: May/10/1997
Writer: Howard Margulies
Director: Jaime Diaz
Guest star: Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein)

As her birthday approaches, Beverly and Bernice prompt her to have a flashback narrating about love, love lost, and coming to America.



60 :04x18 - Kidney, Popsicle, and Nuts

First aired: May/24/1997
Writer: Stephen Sustarsic, David Silverman
Director: Stig Bergqvist
Guest star: James Brown (Himself (Hostage Negotiator)), Brian Keith (Red Crocker), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein), John Astin (Terry Duke Tetzloff)

When Duckman needs a new liver, he discovers that the man he's had frozen isn't his real father. Instead, his true biological dad is a lone, anti-government, conspiracy nut.



61 :04x19 - The Tami Show

First aired: Jun/14/1997
Writer: Eva Almos, Ed Scharlach
Director: Anthony Bell
Guest star: Kim Cattrall (Tami Margulies), Greg Cupoli (Psychiatrist, Airline Counter Person), Danny Mann (Unknown)

A young woman who Duckman accidentally hits with his car and has no family is invited to stay with theirs. Shortly thereafter, Beverly is confused that is sleeping all day and that Tami has assumed the motherly role in the family.



62 :04x20 - My Feral Lady

First aired: Jun/21/1997
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Mary Gallagher (Paramount Tour Guide), Kristen Johnston (Kathie Lee), John Astin (Terry Duke Tetzloff), Vic Polizos (Unknown), Harve Presnell (Sir Declan McManus), Leeza Gibbons (Herself)

A lonely Duckman gets a mail-order bride. Unfortunately, she is far too undomesticated, so Duckman has to teach to become civilized so as to make an honest woman out of her.



63 :04x21 - Westward, No!

First aired: Jun/28/1997
Writer: Jed Spingarn
Director: Steve Loter
Guest star: Jim Cummings (Big Jack McBastard), Estelle Getty (Aunt Jane), Nick Jameson (Unknown), Ron Palillo (Himself)

When Cornfed invites Beverly to his Aunt Jane's ranch, Duckman tags along only because he fears the two could be getting romantic. However, Duckman's presence continually makes things worse for the future of the catfish ranch.



64 :04x22 - Short, Plush and Deadly

First aired: Jul/12/1997
Writer: Lisa Latham
Director: Jeff McGrath, Steve Ressel
Guest star: Maureen McGovern (Ajax's singing voice), Tom Wilson (Park Ranger "Smith"), Jim Bailey (Himself)

When the family takes a vacation at a camp site, Duckman gets kicked and proceeds to take Cornfed with him where they run into Fluffy and Uranus. Duckman's utter incompetence leads the other three to getting stung by bees where things only get worse from there.



65 :04x23 - How to Suck in Business Without Really Trying

First aired: Jul/19/1997
Writer: Ellis Weiner
Director: Jaime Diaz
Guest star: Alan Rosenberg (Unknown), Mike Madeoy (Unknown), Robert Cait (Unknown), Dorian Harewood (Booming Voice in Auditorium), Paul Sorvino (Doctor Bob), Gilbert Gottfried (Art DeSalvo)

When a corporation is in need of a mascot by the name of Duckman, the real Duckman, in need of money, carelessly signs away his name and likeness. And with it goes his business and virtually his entire life.



66 :04x24 - You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby

First aired: Jul/26/1997
Writer: Howard Margulies, Gene Laufenberg
Director: Stig Bergqvist
Guest star: Brian Doyle-Murray (Agnes Delrooney), Erv Immeman (Additional Voices), Maurice LaMarche (Tony Randall), Jim Varney (Walt Evergreen), Ed Gilbert (Unknown)

After she catches Mambo smoking, Bernice using her political power to vilify the tobacco industry. However, when a tobacco president fails to change her position on cigarettes, they are put to work on his plantation. Things are so awful that it forces Agnes Delrooney to blow her cover to make an escape with Duckman in tow.



67 :04x25 - Hamlet 2: This Time It's Personal

First aired: Aug/02/1997
Writer: David Misch
Director: Anthony Bell
Guest star: Tim Curry (King Chicken), Jeffrey Tambor (Psychiatrist), Robert Klein (Uncle Mo Dawkin)

Haunted by his Uncle Mo, Duckman learns that King Chicken murdered his father and urges vengeance. Unfortunately, he has already made a truce with his archenemy and must lure King Chicken into admitting to his crime. The deeper Duckman goes into the plot, the more Cornfed sees the scenario playing out as the play of Hamlet.



68 :04x26 - Das Sub (a.k.a. Class Warfare)

First aired: Aug/16/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz, Gene Grillo
Director: Peter Avanzino
Guest star: Burt Reynolds (Judge Keaton), Mayte Vilan (Unknown), Steven Zirnkilton (Opening Narration), Jason Marsden (Unknown), Richard Libertini (Unknown), Tamala Jones (Unknown), Mauricio Mendoza (Unknown)

When Duckman is sentenced to community service, he winds up subbing for a class of intelligent high school students with bright futures. Of course, Duckman sees them as naive and hopes to reach out to his students to teach them the ways of the real world.



69 :04x27 - Where No Duckman Has Gone Before

First aired: Aug/23/1997
Writer: Gene Laufenberg
Director: Steve Loter
Guest star: James Doohan (Kardassian), Leonard Nimoy (Himself), Gilbert Gottfried (Art "Bones" McSalvo), Tim Curry (Khan Chicken), Marina Sirtis (Aurora Abromowitz)

After Leonard Nimoy eats a headcheese hoagie, he goes to bed and has a dream (or nightmare?) where he imagines the Duckman gang as Star Trek characters.



70 :04x28 - Four Weddings Inconceivable

First aired: Sep/06/1997
Writer: Michael Markowitz
Director: Steve Ressel
Guest star: Judith Light (Honey (Ursula Bacon) Chicken), Tim Curry (King Chicken), Michelle Nicastro (Dana Reynard/Coco L'Available), Ben Stein (Dr. Ben Stein)

When Duckman shows up at Dr Stein's wedding reception with King Chicken's ex-wife, it sparks an engagement between King Chicken/Bernice and Cornfeld/Beverly, which ultimately prompts Duckman to pop the question as well. This leads towards a three-way wedding and a startling revelation from the past.