Editing Darkwing Duck (section)

==Broadcast history==
''Darkwing Duck'' first aired on [[The Disney Channel]] on March 31, 1991, as a "sneak preview",<ref name="super fowl">{{cite news|title= Disney's 'Darkwing Duck' enlists a super fowl in fight against crime; ABC telecasts Easter Parade|work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date= March 31, 1991|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-31-tv-2594-story.html|access-date= 2014-06-08|first= Lauren|last= Lipton|url-status= live|archive-url= http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20101019232620/http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-31/news/tv-2594_1_disney-darkwing-duck|archive-date= October 19, 2010|df= mdy-all}}</ref><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 9, no. 2, March/April 1991: pp. 38, 43.</ref> and then from April 6 into July 14 of that year as a regularly scheduled run on weekend mornings,<ref name="super fowl"/><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 9, no. 2, March/April 1991: pp. 2, 43.</ref><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 9, no. 3, May/June 1991: pp. 28, 46.</ref> as it was advertised to be "The newest animated TV series exclusively to The Disney Channel". In reality, this was a preview-run of the series before it aired on ''The Disney Afternoon''.

The two-part episode "[[Darkly Dawns the Duck]]" originally aired as an hour-length TV special on September 6, 1991, as part of a larger syndicated TV special, ''The Darkwing Duck Premiere / Back to School with the Mickey Mouse Club''.<ref name="Kokomo Tribune">{{cite news|title=Kokomo Tribune TV Update: Friday Sept. 6 – Evening|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/kokomo/kokomo-tribune/1991/09-06/page-29|access-date=December 2, 2014|newspaper=Kokomo Tribune|date=September 6, 1991|page=7|via=NewspaperArchive.com|quote=Darkwing Duck Premiere / Back to School with the Mickey Mouse Club previews a new Disney cartoon starring crime-fighting detective Darkwing Duck. Also, a Mickey Mouse Club special featuring comedy sketches and music performances.}} See also {{harvnb|Lenburg|1999|pp=247, 397}}.</ref> The film served as the show's pilot. Seasons 1 and 2 were aired simultaneously in the autumn of 1991. Season 1 aired in syndication as part of ''[[The Disney Afternoon]]'' block of shows. Seasons 2 and 3 aired on Saturday mornings on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. The final episode aired on December 12, 1992. ABC stopped airing reruns of the show in September 1993, and it was replaced by ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. All episodes remained in syndicated reruns on ''The Disney Afternoon'' until 1995 and then returned to the lineup from 1996 to 1997.

Starting on October 2, 1995, ''Darkwing Duck'' was rerun on [[The Disney Channel]] as part of a two-hour programming block called "Block Party" which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon/early-evening and which also included ''[[TaleSpin]]'', ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'', and ''[[Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (TV series)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''.<ref>"Block Party: Four Disney Animated Series." ''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 13, no. 5, October/November 1995: p. 36.</ref> On September 3, 1996, ''Darkwing Duck'' was dropped from the beginning of the block when ''[[Goof Troop]]'' was added to the end.<ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 3, June/July 1996: p. 26.</ref><ref>''The Disney Channel Magazine'', Vol. 14, no. 4, August/September 1996: pp. 25, 28, 34.</ref>

The series was last seen in the U.S. on [[Toon Disney]] on January 19, 2007, as part of the Toon Disney Wild Card Stack. Certain episodes from the show's original run rarely re-aired while the show was on Toon Disney. These episodes appear to have been removed for content reasons. The most prominent of the rarely seen episodes is "[[Hot Spells]]", which was never re-aired after its initial broadcast on ABC because of its religiously sensitive subject matter.

''Darkwing Duck'' was one of the first American animated TV series to be officially broadcast in syndication in the former [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Darkwing Duck|url=http://www.darkwing-duck.ru/|publisher=darkwing-duck.ru|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123054155/http://www.darkwing-duck.ru/|archive-date=January 23, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The show formerly aired on [[Disney XD]] in international territories such as the Netherlands and Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalfernsehen.de/ratgeber/digital-tv/disney-xd-554869/ |title=Disney XD: Sendeschluss bei Pay-TV-Spartensender |last=Trank |first=Kim |date=2020-04-04 |access-date=2020-06-25 |work=digitalfernsehen.de}}</ref>

The show is available on the [[Disney+]] streaming service, with the exception of the episode "Hot Spells".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://attractionsmagazine.com/disney-plus-day-one-list/ |title=Every Disney movie, TV show available day one on Disney+ |date=October 14, 2019 |access-date=2019-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206115317/https://attractionsmagazine.com/disney-plus-day-one-list/ |archive-date=2019-12-06 |url-status=live }}</ref>