DuckTales (1987)

Scrooge attempts to capture a dinosaur from a "lost world" where Launchpad accidentally crashed. Our heroes become involved with goofy Caveducks and a mother dinosaur and her baby. Scrooge comes to grips with the emotional crisis of separating a baby from its mother. Launchpad is on hand to help save the day along with Webby and the boys, when a Tyranosaurus Rex attacks the expedition!

Yet another of Launchpad's blunders prompts a furious Scrooge to fire him, so Launchpad goes into the "hero" business full time. Tricked by the Beagle Boys into doing a series of "good deeds" that are really crimes, Launchpad becomes a wanted criminal! He must prove himself innocent. Even Ma Beagle gets into the act by taking Doofus hostage to force Launchpad into taking the rap!

An alien crystal falls into Doofus' hands. As a result, Doofus finds himself with superpowers and more of a hero than his hero, Luanchpad! In a series of adventurous mishaps, Doofus learns to live with his own shortcomings and finds he's better liked for being himself. He gives up the super powers, not realizing the aliens who lost the crystal are hot on his tail!

Mrs. Beakley's opera debut as "Brunhilde" attracts the attention of a horde of Vikings whose tiny arctic island has been cut off from the outside world for centuries. It's chaos as the Vikings pillage Duckburg and kidnap Mrs. Beakley to sing for their king! Scrooge, Launchpad and the kids pursue the Vikings to their island where circumstance causes Mrs. Beakley to end up in a slam-bang chariot race with mighty Thor!

Because of an ancestral debt, Scrooge loses his fortune to Fritter O'Way, a shifty weasel who fritters the fortune away on tacky furniture! With the help of Captain Jack and his woebegone ship, Scrooge manages to find the lost "marbles" under the Cape of No Hope, and retain his fortune, but not until storms and sharks have caused near-insurmountable problems! During his tenure as a penniless pauper, Scrooge learns to empathize with the poor, and decides to treat them with compassion and respect.

Scrooge is searching for "Macduck!", the lost play of William Drakespeare, on an island haunted by the ghosts of characters from Drakespeare's plays. During the process, they are pursued by Fuller Brush Bill, who wants to steal the valued manuscript for profit. But Scrooge learns the play is a terrible affront to the McDuck family reputation and must do his best to stop the manuscript's theft!

Launchpad retains his superflier status as he flies Scrooge's newest plane, the "Mc-X." We meet Launchpad's family, which shows up at the air show. But with Mom and Dad present, Launchpad can't do anything right, because he feels they don't believe in him! The Beagle Boys, trying their own set of wings to get the money in the Money Bin, are again thwarted as Launchpad proves himself and renews the faith of his parents.

Scrooge and a dastardly smuggler vie on a south sea island for a magical pearl that bestows wisdom and power. Various and sundry villains, a tribe of whacky islanders and even a squirrel come to terms over the pearl. Accidentally, ultimate wisdom is bestowed on both Scrooge and the smuggler, with unexpected results!

Scrooge comes to grips with a childhood fear he's never reconciled when he visits his ancestral home, a castle in Scotland plagued by the curse of a ghostly hound! Scrooge and the kids come in contact with ancient Druids, whom he discovers are really creating the frightening hound to get back at Scrooge's family and keep possession of their land. Scrooge's rancor is squashed, however, when he learns his own great, great grandfather stole the land from the Druid's ancestors in the first place!

When Launchpad is invited to participate in the annual Civil War Pageant in Duck Ridge, pandemonium breaks loose! He is to play the role of his great, great grandfather, General Rhubarb, in a re-enactment of the Battle. Launchpad does not realize that his ancestor was responsible for losing the battle! Doofus and the Nephews join him on the trip, only to find out that the townspeople wanted to humiliate Launchpad. When the ceremony begins, Launchpad and his troop decide that this time they are going to win, and win they do!

Facing another birthday, Scrooge is depressed with the idea of getting old. He takes Launchpad and the boys on an expedition into spooky Okeefdokie Swamp to discover Ponce de Loon's famous fountain of youth. They encounter the terrifying ghost of a Conquistador and a crusty old hermit who tries to frighten them into leaving. In the end, Scrooge leads the others to safety and learns he still has a lot of life left in himself!

Gyro constructs a giant shock absorber to correct the earthquake fault beneath the Money Bin, but when tunneling down, Scrooge and the boys are lost in the land of the "Terry-Fermies" whose national sport is causing earthquakes! A big quake causes all of Scrooge's money to cascade miles underground! Scrooge and the Nephew outwit the Terry-Fermies, stop the earthquakes and recover Scrooge's fortune!

Scrooge meets weird creatures as he and the Nephews are hurled back in time by a storm to the days of Odysseus and his wandering son, Homer. Circe, the evil sorceress, tries to thwart Homer's return to power in Ithaquack. Only Circe's magic medallion can return Scrooge and the Nephews back to the present.

While searching for one of Scrooge's missing cargo ships, Scrooge and the boys get marooned on a haunting seaweed island of lost ships! They are captured by ragged, ghostly castaways and continuously stalked and attacked by a horrible Seaweed Monster who's determined to make Scrooge its next meal! Scrooge must take over the leadership of the castaways in order to lead a mission to escape. Standing in his way is the current leader, Captain Bounty, a brutish sea captain who believes escape is impossible.

Scrooge, Webby and the Nephews are accidentally shrunk down to ant-size by the technology of visiting extraterrestrials. The minute ducks can get help at Gyro's laboratory. But first, the miniature ducks must make a dangerous trek across the giant-sized city of Duckburg, facing rats the size of elephants and hurtling automobiles as big as football stadiums!

Scrooge goes back to his gold claim in the Klondike where he found his first fortune, and encounters Glittering Goldie, the only woman he ever loved! He reminisces about his past and encounters Dangerous Dan, an old rival for both Scrooge's gold and for Goldie! The rivalry is reborn as Scrooge makes a new gold strike and Dangerous Dan robs Scrooge's gold train!