Original title
小さなアヒルの大きな愛の物語 あひるのクワック
Released
4/3/1989
Origin country
JP
Genre
Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
TVE, TV Tokyo, ZDF, Telecable Benelux B.V., VARA
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
52
Alfred J. Kwak lost his parents when he was just a duckling. Raised by a mole, the brave duck grows up to have lots of adventures around the world.
Henk, a mole, lives in a verdant grassland of Holland in company of his friend Johan Kwak, bachelor duck having a sabot as a house. He presents Johan to Anna, a charming duck lady.
After Alfred's parents and siblings die in a traffic incident, Henk the mole takes him in his house. On his birthday, Alfred and his friends visit the royal palace where Pikkie steals the crown jewel.
Alfred threatens, wrongly, to be sentenced to death for the theft of the crown jewel, but does not dare to betray Pikkie. Pikkie struggles with the same internal conflict.
Alfred is bullied by Dolf because his father is a mole. When they fight, Alfred discovers Dolf also is not a real crow, but colors its beak black with shoe polish.
Alfred and Dolf are stuck in a well. Henk is outside looking for Alfred, but Krabnagel de cat is also seeking the two young birds.
A triathlon is organized for the youth of Polderstad. Dolf could not participate because of his injury, so he trains Hannes in the hope he can beat Alfred. Since Hannes' condition is very bad, Dolf comes up with the idea to steal energy pills.
Alfred and a few others join the sea scouting, and are getting ready for a race against Groot Musland. Professor Hannibal has invented a ingenious system, but Igor de Mus infiltrates on board to sabotage this with Lispel.
Alfred is mistaken for the spy and imprisoned since. Igor and Lispel now have free reign, but are eventually unmasked.
Alfred moves in a new house for his own and gets a antique bottle as a gift from Ollie. Little did they know that the bottle comes from a far eastern country and there is an evil spirit trapped in it.
Carried away by his fantasy, Alfred opens the enchanted bottle. When the genie tries to eat Alfred, he manages to drive the genie back in the bottle, and the bottle goes back again to the east.
Alfred wants to become a clown in a circus. He is accepted rather quickly, when the local circus clown is too ill to perform. But things turn haywire when a wild man breaks loose during the performance.
Polderstad is plagued by a number of mysterious burglaries. After Alfred falls asleep while playing chess with Henk, The White Queen comes to life and takes Alfred outside.
Krabnagel de Kater is suspected of the burglaries and captured. Alfred believes his adventure with The White Queen was a dream, until Krabnagel mentions Alfred in his alibi, so Alfred and The Queen confront Dolf.
Alfred and Henk travel to sea where they discover that Professor Hannibal has invented a advanced fishing boat.
Alfred and Henk are gonna look for Wiedewiedewagen the saw fish, hoping that he can saw the modern fishing boat in half.
Hannibal and K. Rokodil prepare an even better computer-controlled boat. Alfred and Henk leave for the South Pole, to find whales that could block the port of Polderstad.
Alfred and Henk cast ashore on a deserted island. They meet a group of duck-like aliens who occasionally come to the island to harvest a special kind of fruit.
On their way to the South Pole, Alfred and Henk are attacked by an octopus that wants to eat them, they bribe him with the food from the aliens. In the evening they meet the polestar who helps leading the way.
At the South Pole, Professor Paljas tries to communicate with the whales. Alfred and Henk go into battle with a whaler, but the invention of the professor proves useful.
Alfred has a dream about Zonder Waterland, where there's no water and improvident development aid. Alfred tries to establish a fund to make money for digging channels in Zonder Waterland.
The public purse is empty, and the king loans money on interest rate from Alfred. After three months, there is nothing repaid and Alfred, accompanied by some bees, tries to get his money back.
Dolf returns from abroad, unexpectedly inherits a fortune and start a revolutionary party. Most people underestimate him, but gradually de Kraaienpartij begins to incarcerate dangerous opponents.
Alfred, Ollie, Rangpang and Jonkheer Poen are incarcerated by Dolf. Henk and Igor help them to flee to Breed Rietland, now it is no longer safe in Groot Waterland.
The king is deposed and escaped to Breed Rietland. Only the destruction of Dolf's capital could break his regime. Alfred and Rangpang secretly return to accomplish this.
With the help of the families of Snuif de muis and Igor, Alfred and Rangpang manage to steal Dolfs money, just before he wanted to start a genocide against mice and rats and a war against neighboring countries.
Alfred and Professor Paljas make a trip to the Homoloyo mountain area hoping to discover the abominable snowman. The habitat of the snowman is threatened because businessmen, led by K. Rokodil, want to build a ski resort in the mountains.
Alfred meets the black duck family Wana in a train, who are refugees from their home country, where the white geese conduct the Apartheid policy. Lispel discovers that Alfred hides illegal immigrants in his house.
Lispel tips Wannes about the Wana family, who goes to the police. The only way Alfred could prevent the family Wana from sent back, is by asking his old friend the King for help.
Alfred joins Kwa and Blanche Wana back to their homeland, but Wannes follows them.
Alfred goes on holiday to the island Aroba with Winnie and Tom. But the island is threatened by a tornado.
Alfred and Henk go to a drilling rig of the concrete company, where every drill is broken for unknown reasons.
After the sinking of their submarine, Alfred, Henk and Pikkie enter Atlantis.
Alfred has a dream in which he is the sheriff in a cowboy movie. He arrests bandits and settles the score with old enemies. But Dolf is coming to take over the city.
Professor Ramses, Winnies employer, is seriously ill, and the medicine he needs only seems to be found in the pyramid of Toet Kat Kammon, so Alfred and Paljas start an investigation in the pyramid.
Having escaped from all the traps, Alfred and Paljas continue their journey inside the pyramid and meet a fortune-teller.
Winnie is madly in love with the popular pop star Michael Duckson. Alfreds jealousy drives him to be an artist too.
Alfred and a scholar go on a trip to Salam, who, for unclear reasons is at war with neighboring Yil.
Alfred and his friends escape from prison, along with the Prince of Salam, who is in love with the princess of Yil. The love is mutual and the king of Salam sees little harm here, but the king of Yil is not as indulgent.
Alfred has to babysit Ollies children and he reads them the tale of Hansel and Gretel. When he falls asleep, he dreams that the witch from the book comes to life and forces him into marriage.
The king of the Land of the Pyramids wants to build a dam. Professor Paljas offers to make plans to generate solar energy but Rokodil and Hannibal, which would make the dam plans are not happy and hire Dolf to steal Paljas' drawings.
The volcano on the island Sinatra spits many flames, but no lava or smoke. Alfred, Paljas and Kapitein Stoppel go on a journey to the island to study the matter.
An alien dragon is trapped inside the volcano. The government of Sinatra helps to free the dragon, but Dolf wants to buy the dragon for his theme park.
The king still hates politics and only wants a ceremonial function. He organizes presidential elections. Ollie enrolls, but Dolf too.
To win votes Dolf destroys dykes, after which he offers money and support to the affected areas. However, Lispel has witnessed him.
Het Land van Twee is divided into the rich North and the poor South. The south is plagued by a mysterious disease, the Mozons, which causes rapid aging. A soothsayer tells Alfred that he has dreamed of a clown on the moon that might be able to help.
The clown on the moon says that the Mozon virus comes from outer space, but that one can destroy them with his magic violin.
Alfred has destroyed the Mozon virus, but the king of Het Land van Twee locks him up.
Professor Paljas has designed a submarine, but has a dispute with his business partner, an avid golfer, about the name. They decide the dispute with a game of golf, but Paljas has an injury, so Alfred aids him.
Professor Paljas received an invitation from Dokter Livingstone to join him in on an expedition through the jungle, fascinated by the legend of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Alfred, Henk and Pikkie go along with him.
Because Konigin Nora realizes that Alfred and his friends have no mischief they are released, and are allowed see the pot of gold. Pikkie can not control himself and steals it.
Professor Paljas worries about acid rain and wants to develop an environmentally friendly fuel. K. Rokodil and Hannibal see their interests in the oil company in danger and hire Dolf to steal the drawings.
Alfred and Winnie quarrel. Dolf escapes from prison and takes Winnie as a hostage. Alfred and the professor do everything they can to find the villain and the girl.
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