Burns had started his career as a writer/animator for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and George of the Jungle before turning to live action and co-creating See more

Seen in some episodes were clips from various "Dippy Duck" cartoons the Buddy Winkler crew were working on—sometimes fully animated, sometimes in pencil sketch or See more

• Jim Carrey as Skip Tarkenton
• Jack Gilford as Brooks Carmichael
• Nancy Lane as Andrea Lewin
• Jay Tarses as Marty Fenneman See more

• The Duck Factory at IMDb
• First episode posted by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television on YouTube
• All episodes on Internet Archive See more

The premiere episode introduces Skip Tarkenton (Carrey), a somewhat naive and optimistic young man who has come to Hollywood looking for a job as a cartoonist. When he arrives at a low-budget animation company called Buddy Winkler … See more

The Duck Factory lasted thirteen episodes; it premiered April 12, 1984. It was directed primarily by Gene Reynolds, Rod Daniel, … See more

In 1995, at the height of Carrey's career, some episodes of the series were released in the United States on two VHS videocassettes by MTM Home Video. One tape contained the … See more