"Once Upon a Dime" is the sixty-first episode of DuckTales.
Synopsis[]
Scrooge tells the story of how his Number One Dime got his fortune started.
Voice cast[]
- William Callaway as Wild Bill Beagle/Old Man Ribbit/Scotty McGillicutty
- June Foray as Ma Beagle/McMama
- Pat Fraley as Young Scrooge McDuck/Piggly
- Chuck McCann as Duckworth/Butch Beagle
- Don Messick as McPapa
- Pete Renaday as Catfish McDuck
- Michael Rye as unnamed Frontier Beagle Boy
- Russi Taylor as Huey, Dewey, and Louie/Webby Vanderquack
- Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck
Trivia[]
- At the beginning of this episode, Scrooge's calendar declares this episode to take place on a Tuesday that falls on July 1. At the time of this episode's airing, the nearest year that had its month of July start on a Tuesday was 1986, meaning that this episode took place nearly a year-and-a-half before the time of its original airdate. This would also suggest the whole series itself to begin at some point in 1986 rather than 1987.
- The episode was notably based on numerous flashbacks and other references from classic Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge comics, including:
- The Great Steamboat Race (the rivalry of Scrooge's riverboat captain uncle over Cornpone Gables and the riverboat race)
- Hall of the Mermaid Queen! (Scrooge earning a silver dollar in a riverboat race)
- Only a Poor Old Man and/or Back to the Klondike (Scrooge's Klondike days).
- Scrooge working as a shoeshine boy also appeared in The Invisible Intruder, for which Carl Barks did the artwork as well.
- The scene where Scrooge earned his Number One Dime by shining a particularly muddy pair of boots was directly adapted from the comic Getting That Healthy, Wealthy Feeling by Tony Strobl.
- Cottage McDuck, Scrooge's childhood home, reappears in this episode. It had previously appeared in the episode "The Curse of Castle McDuck".
- This episode marked the animated debut of Scrooge's parents, Fergus and Downy McDuck.
External links[]
- Disney Wiki: Once Upon a Dime
- DuckTales Wiki: Once Upon a Dime
- "Once Upon a Dime" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Once Upon a Dime" recap at TV Tropes