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"The Old Man and the Sea Duck" is the thirty-fifth episode of The Disney Afternoon animated series, TaleSpin. It premiered on November 8, 1990.

Plot[]

While on the way home, Baloo and Kit have a crash landing, resulting in Baloo getting a bump on the head which gives him amnesia. Kit and Wildcat decide to keep this from Rebecca and try and help Baloo remember by taking him out on a flight. However they are struck by lighting while flying through a storm, and go down. All manage to parachute out except Baloo, who gets trapped inside the Sea Duck. Screaming for help and struggling to get out, a strange call comes on the radio and helps Baloo land safely on a runway, where he meets an elderly pilot named Joe Magee.

The next day, Baloo finds himself in a flying school surrounded by tall cliffs, with the only way out through a cave. Joe tells him that his plane is ready for take off, but Baloo explains that he can't remember how to fly. So in order to help him, Joe teaches him everything he needs to remember. The first few lessons end with Baloo failing the first time, but he does better the second time. Through all the training, Baloo finally regains his memory of how to fly. However, he develops a phobia that, whenever he flies again, leads to him losing his memory again, so he makes up excuses to avoid flying altogether.

Joe pretends to hurt himself, making Baloo fly to the nearest town and get a doctor. As he does so, he rejoins with Kit and Wildcat. When they return to Joe's Flying School, they find it deserted as if it had been abandoned for years. a doctor tells Baloo that Joe Magee passed away twenty years ago. After a little looking around, Baloo realizes that he was helped by an angel. He flies back home with Kit and Wildcat, as Joe's voice echoes across the sky...

"Look around you, Baloo. You're free as a bird. The skies are yours."

Cast[]

Gallery[]

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Home video releases[]

DVD

  • TaleSpin: Volume 2

Trivia[]


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TaleSpin Logo
Media
TaleSpin (Videography/Soundtrack) • Walt Disney's World on Ice: Double Feature... Live!Raw ToonageNES gameGenesis gameComic book
Characters
BalooKit CloudkickerRebecca CunninghamMolly CunninghamWildcatLouie LamountAirplane JaneClementine ClevengerKatie DoddPrincess GraceKing AmokLotta LamourPrince Nevarhas Bin-BroakBandar-logCaptain William StansburyJoe MageeDoctor CooperRick SkyWhistlestop JacksonNanukMyra FoxworthyDetective ThursdayInspector BurrowOscar VandersnootShere KhanKhan's PilotsDon KarnageAir PiratesIvanod SpigotSergeant DunderJack CaseDaring Dan DawsonAce LondonGeneral PattonTrader MoeThaddeus E. KlangKitten KaboodleIgnatiusDr. AxolotlDr. ZibaldoBuffy and Muffy VanderschmereDouglas BensonPrince RudolfChancellor TrampleEmperor Wan LoProfessor Martin TorqueSeymourCovingtonMacKneeSheriff Gomer Cleghorn and Deputy WendellCrazy EdieCool Hands LukeHans and Helga
Episodes
"I Only Have Ice for You" • "Time Waits for No Bear" • "A Touch of Glass" • "It Came From Beneath the Sea Duck" • "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink" • "The Idol Rich" • "Stormy Weather" • "Plunder and Lightning" • "From Here to Machinery" • "Mommy for a Day" • "Molly Coddled" • "Polly Wants a Treasure" • "Vowel Play" • "Bearly Alive" • "Her Chance to Dream" • "All's Whale That Ends Whale" • "The Golden Sprocket of Friendship" • "For a Fuel Dollars More" • "A Bad Reflection on You" • "On a Wing and a Bear" • "A Star is Torn" • "A Spy in the Ointment" • "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" • "A Baloo Switcheroo" • "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend" • "Double or Nothing" • "Feminine Air" • "Last Horizons" • "Flight of the Snow Duck" • "Save the Tiger" • "The Old Man and the Sea Duck" • "War of the Weirds" • "Captains Outrageous" • "The Time Bandit" • "For Whom the Bell Klangs" • "Citizen Khan" • "Gruel and Unusual Punishment" • "Jolly Molly Christmas" • "My Fair Baloo" • "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure" • "Flight School Confidential" • "Bringing Down Babyface" • "Jumping the Guns" • "In Search of Ancient Blunders" • "Louie's Last Stand" • "Sheepskin Deep" • "Pizza Pie in the Sky" • "Baloo Thunder" • "Bullethead Baloo" • "Destiny Rides Again" • "Mach One for the Gipper" • "Stuck on You" • "The Sound and the Furry" • "The Road to Macadamia" • "The Ransom of Red Chimp" • "Your Baloo's in the Mail" • "Paradise Lost" • "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" • "Bygones" • "Flying Dupes"
Locations
Cape SuzetteHigher for HireLouie's PlaceWildcat's HouseboatKhan IndustriesThembriaPirate IslandWalla-Walla-Bing-BangMacadamiaTinabulaPanda-La
Songs
Spin ItI'm GoneHome is Where the Heart IsSky PiratesMonkey In Your TankFriends for Life
Objects
Sea DuckKhan TransportIron VultureSpruce MoosePirate FightersIdol of the Spirit-SwitcherThe Ruby WingsThe Three Bells of Tinabula
See also
The Jungle BookThe Disney Afternoon
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