International
The success of DuckTales led to the translation of the show into many languages. Featured together with Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers in a Sunday evening program titled Walt Disney Presents, the show premiered in the former Soviet Union in 1991. One year later, DuckTales spin-off Darkwing Duck was also added to this lineup.
The show's theme song (written by Mark Mueller and originally sung by Jeff Pescetto), however, remained in English for a number of episodes. The first Russian version of the song was replaced mid-way through the series with an alternate rendition that contained completely different lyrics. The series aired in India on Doordarshan, dubbed in Hindi.
In Hungary the term "DuckTales generation" (Kacsamesék generáció) refers to the people who were born in the early-to-mid-1980s, because the death of József Antall, the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary was announced during a DuckTales episode in 1993. This was the generation's first encounter with politics.
In many countries the DuckTales song was performed by well-known singers (like in Finland, where it was sung by Pave Maijanen or in Germany, where it was sung by Thomas Anders).
In Latin America, the series was called "Pato Aventuras", a direct translation of the main title. Scrooge McDuck is called "Rico McPato" and the nephews were translated as Hugo, Paco and Luis, keeping the names of the translated old cartoons and comic books. In only one episode their names were dubbed just like the Spain translation: Tio Gilito McPato, Juanito, Jorgito and Jaimito. That's because "Duck tales" is one of the few series that was shown in Spain with the Latin American dub instead of a local dub, as usual.
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