DuckTales
Super Ducktales (4) - The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club
TV Flash files “Super Ducktales (4) - The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club” as hour 74 of 100 in the TV Flash guide — DuckTales (1987–1990) on Syndication, season 2, episode 9, aired 1989-03-26, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 74 of 100 in the DuckTales guide, hour 9 of 10 in season 2. It aired 1989-03-26 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Super Ducktales (3) - Full Metal Duck” (S02E08). Next is “Super Ducktales (5) - Money to Burn” (S02E10).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With her newly acquired money bin, Ma Beagle buys Scrooge's mansion and has him thrown in jail, and it's up to the nephews to save the day.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Super Ducktales (4) - The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club sit in the DuckTales guide?
S02E09 is listed hour 74 of 100 — hour 9 of 10 in season 2, season 2 episode 9.
When did DuckTales S02E09 air?
Super Ducktales (4) - The Billionaire Beagle Boys Club aired 1989-03-26 and is listed at 30 minutes.
1987 DuckTales or the reboot?
1987–1990 is Disney Afternoon gold — the renaissance look and the undefeated theme. The 2017 reboot proved IP power; it is not a substitute for Woo-oo as originally sung.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Woo-oo: Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and globetrotting greed recast as adventure. Disney Afternoon gold that proved TV animation could look expensive again, with a theme song that remains undefeated in the earworm Olympics. Treasure-hunt serial comedy — capitalism as a family sport — and the launchpad for a whole after-school block.
Syndication, 1987–1990: Scrooge McDuck and grandnephews hunt treasure and foil the Beagle Boys worldwide — woo-oo, greed recast as adventure. That is the window, not a museum of ducks. DuckTales, from Jymn Magon, is Disney TV animation renaissance: Alan Young's Scrooge, Russi Taylor's Huey/Dewey/Louie, Terence McGovern's Launchpad McQuack, Webby expanding the mythos. Globetrotting serial comedy, capitalism as a family sport. The theme song remains undefeated in the earworm Olympics. Rex can keep the martini for…
Filed against
- Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck
Alan Young’s Wilbur Post spent Mister Ed talking to a horse on purpose — 1960s catalog high-concept silliness, vaudeville executed as a sitcom, then DuckTales asking the same warmth for Scrooge’s globetrotting greed. TV Flash files him as…
- Russi Taylor as Huey / Dewey / Louie
Russi Taylor's Huey, Dewey, and Louie turned DuckTales into globetrotting greed recast as adventure — Scrooge McDuck, Disney Afternoon gold, a theme song undefeated in the earworm Olympics. Treasure-hunt serial comedy, capitalism as a…
- Terence McGovern as Launchpad McQuack
Terence McGovern crashed DuckTales as Launchpad McQuack — woo-oo globetrotting greed recast as adventure, a pilot who makes the landing a gag, Disney Afternoon gold that proved TV animation could look expensive again. Theme song…