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"Private Beak"

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Season 3 Episode 1  (episode 46 overall)   Nairb Nameurt is a really great writer too. Original broadcast date: 22nd October 1990 Writer: Brian Trueman Additional voices: Dame: Ruby Wax                            Thugs/Cop(voice) :   Jimmy Hibbert                              Wilberforce: David Jason   Travel location: Chicago Joke Credit: Stunt Co-ordinator - ..... Castle transport visual used. After getting hooked on private eye novels Duckula flies the castle to Chicago to have a go at being a hard-boiled gumshoe. As mentioned in other entries here, the series took it's cues from classic literature and cinema as much as the more 'pulpy' stuff, both in terms of horror and various other adventure-driven themes. Since it was no stranger to the detective-inspired genre, perhaps it comes as no surprise that film noir style private dick (or duck?) themes would show up eventually. This is also just a good, solid and funny episode. It acts as less of an outright A-B plot and mor