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"Prime Time Duck"

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Hello, good evening and welcome - whatever you are. Season 2 Episode 6 (episode 32 overall) Original broadcast date: 17 October 1989 Writer: Peter Richard Reeves Additional voices: 1 st technician/Dmitri/TVTV                                 announcer: Brian Trueman                                2 nd technician/Sviatoslav/                                Mr. Quentin: Jimmy Hibbert                                  Bettina Bott: Ruby Wax Joke credit: Miss Bott’s Wardrobe – In Miss Bott’s bedroom Castle transport visual not used. This has got to be one of the most cynical episodes of the series and that's saying something. Duckula, despite being the main character of his own show, very rarely gets happy endings and in this one he gets very little respect all round. His servants, however, get their happy ending, after getting carried away in their roles. This is unusual in that, while oftentimes Igor and Nanny end no worse than they start off, it's rare