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UPDATE JULY 4, 2024: Let's cheer up. After that depressing update from seven years ago, things are finally beginning to brighten! Last December Ryan Paquet of the Film Score Monthly message board posted a question on the Intrada Soundtrack Club Facebook page, asking Roger Feigelson for any update on a possible release of the DuckTales score, and this is what Feigelson said:

"Yes still trying! But nothing definitive yet."

Maybe not cause to outright celebrate, but I'll take a "nothing definitive" any day over a "not going to happen".

It gets better though: When this news hit FSM, the question came up again of why Disney TV scores are harder to release than movie scores, and when the conclusion was reached that TV scores are under different jurisdiction and thus Intrada has seen no success getting the green light for Disney television works, Feigelson himself came in to post a correction:

"Not entirely true. Thanksgiving Promise was Disney TV movie. They just take a long time."

So just keep those fingers crossed, everyone!!

      First, let me get this out of the way: This is NOT a site for finding and downloading DuckTales music. This is purely for informational purposes. I don't own DuckTales, nor am I its composer, Ron Jones.

      I took this project on in hopes of conveying to others my love for the DuckTales score, and possibly gather up enough interest that the music from this series would be in high enough demand that Disney Records would finally release it on CD.

      Those are some desperately ambitious hopes, I know, but I got tired of not being able to talk about the musical score that taught me the influence a good soundtrack can have on the emotions evoked in any given show's audience.

      This guide is completely unofficial; as I currently don't know the official cue names, I came up with my own. So all are fan-given, placeholder titles except for the handful of real cue names I was able to dredge up from various sources. Also, be aware that while I do my best to deduce what I can through the music material that made it into the final cut of each episode, at the end of the day, this is all fan conjecture.

      The timestamps correspond to what the reading would say if you watched Disney's Region 1 DVDs for the first three volumes, selected the episode (rather than the "Play All" option), and brought up the time display under "Title Elapsed". Also, if you're paying attention, you may notice that a cue will sometimes start up a second or two earlier than the last cue ended; this is because the music was very frequently spliced in such a way that they'd overlap one another.

      DuckTales is unique from the other series I've done BGM documentations for, in that absolutely none of the music hasStrangeduck

014. Lost Crown of Genghis Khan 015. Duckman of Aquatraz 016. The Money Vanishes 017. Sir Gyro de Gearloose 018. Dinosaur Ducks 019. Hero for Hire 020. Superdoo! 021. Maid of the Myth 022. Down & Out in Duckburg 023. Much Ado About Scrooge 024. Top Duck 025. Pearl of Wisdom 026. The Curse of Castle McDuck 027. Launchpad's Civil War 028. Sweet Duck of Youth 029. Earth Quack 030. Home Sweet Homer 031. Bermuda Triangle Tangle 032. Micro Ducks from Outer Space