Dilly

* TVS
* RWS
* Annual

**Dilly the Duck** (also known as **Quackeroo** and **Donald's Duck**) is a small white duck that was found in Donald's tender cap. She has 4 ducklings and a husband. She lives at Haultraugh (Tidmouth Hault in the Television Series) on the Little Western Branch Line, where there is a small pond nearby. The pond has been later nicknamed Dilly's Pond.

## **Biography**

### ***The Railway Series & Thomas and Friends***

After Donald teased Duck about his "quacking", Duck's crew got revenge by slipping a small duckling into Donald's tender. When discovered, she became friends with Donald and his crew and eventually settled down at Haultraugh (or Tidmouth Hault), where a small pond was nearby. She was named Dilly by the stationmaster, but she is known to everyone else as Donald's Duck and as Quackeroo by Donald himself.

In an annual story, she disappeared for a few months, what made the stationmaster, porters and engines extremely worried, only to return to the station with her husband and children in town, and getting a "welcome home" party for her arranged by the porters. She often meets Oliver and Duck when passing through.

She has also been seen on several other locations on the Television Series, such as the Norramby Fishing Village, The Old Station, Kirk Ronan Road and Hawin Lake, along with the Tower Windmill while riding Donald.

## **Appearances**

### The Railway Series

* Oliver the Western Engine - Donald's Duck, Bulgy (cameo)

### The Television Series

#### Episodes

* Donald's Duck
* Percy's Promise (*deleted scene; stock footage cameo*)
* Lady Hatt's Birthday Party (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Bye George! (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Oliver's Find (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Haunted Henry (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Sir Topham Hatt's Holiday (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Make Someone Happy (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)
* Busy Going Backwards (*deleted scene; specially shot footage*)

#### Songs

* Gone Fishing
* Donald's Duck

### Other Media

#### Annual Stories

* Donald's Duck
* Oliver Gets the Bird (*mentioned*)
* Gordon's Stowaway (*mentioned*)

## **Voice Actors**

* Michael Angelis
* Unknown Japanese Voice Actor (Japan)

## **Quotes**

*“Quack, quack!”*
―Dilly, Donald's Duck

*“I'd rather be as right as rain than as wrong as ice!”*
―Dilly, Surprise Adventures
## **Trivia**

* In the fifth series song, Dilly is nicknamed "Quackeroo".
* She is the only character voiced by the late Michael Angelis on both the US and UK versions.
* Throughout the episode, despite being a duckling, Dilly is depicted as a fully grown duck.
* While though Dilly is still a duckling on the Railway Series Story, on the episode and on the song, she appears as a fully grown duck on the annual story, even with four children and a husband.
* There are several scenes of Dilly riding with Donald on the branch line during the song, however most of them were not used on the episode.
* Dilly's quacking sound is different in the Japanese version.
* Despite being uncredited, Michael Angelis provides Dilly the Duck's voice.
* The audiobook "Surprise Adventures" marks Dilly's only speaking role to date. Throughout the story, she is never mentioned by name but is addressed as "Donald's duck".