Een wetenschappelijk experiment brengt buitenaards leven naar de Aarde. De eerste hiervan is de sigaarrokende eend Howard. Een paar kinderen proberen hem weg te houden van de hebberige wetenschappers, en hem terug naar zijn planeet te helpen. Maar dan arriveert er een veel minder vriendelijk wezen...
Nee, helaas is Howard the Duck nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Willard Huyck | Director |
| Writing | Willard Huyck | Screenplay |
| Writing | Gloria Katz | Screenplay |
| Production | Gloria Katz | Producer |
| Sound | John Barry | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Richard H. Kline | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Michael Chandler | Editor |
| Editing | Sidney Wolinsky | Editor |
| Production | George Lucas | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Steve Gerber | Characters |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gracie Atherton | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Peter Jamison | Production Design |
| Crew | Debbie Lee Carrington | Stunts |
| Editing | John Watson | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Thomas Dolby | Songs |
| Visual Effects | Phil Tippett | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Phil Tippett | Creature Design |
| Production | Ian Bryce | Associate Producer |
| Production | Robert Latham Brown | Co-Producer |
| Production | Nancy Nayor | Additional Casting |
| Production | Dianne Crittenden | Casting |
| Art | Gary Heider | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joe I. Tompkins | Costume Design |
| Directing | Rodney Allen Hooks | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | John Liberti | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Crew | Margarita Farrell | Stunts |
| Crew | Paul M. Lane | Stunt Driver |
| Crew | Bill Yarbrough | Utility Stunts |
| Crew | Bob Herron | Stunts |
| Crew | Don Ruffin | Stunts |
| Visual Effects | Michael J. McAlister | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Sound | Randy Thom | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Randy Thom | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Ben Burtt | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Ben Burtt | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Gary Summers | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Art | Robert Bonino | Construction Foreman |
| Art | Stacey S. McIntosh | Construction Foreman |
| Art | Dwight Williams | Construction Foreman |
| Sound | Christopher Brooks | Supervising Music Editor |
| Sound | Gloria S. Borders | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Production | Rory Enke | Location Manager |
| Production | Robert Latham Brown | Production Manager |
| Production | Richard Hashimoto | Production Manager |
| Directing | Dan Kolsrud | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Patrick Cosgrove | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | L. Dean Jones Jr. | Second Assistant Director |
| Crew | Phillip Norwood | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Directing | Louise Jaffe | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Thomas J. Wright | Second Unit Director |
| Camera | Bobby Byrne | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Crew | Everett Creach | Stunt Coordinator |
| Art | Mark Billerman | Art Direction |
| Art | Blake Russell | Art Direction |
| Art | Harley Jessup | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | John Warnke | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Jim Pohl | Set Designer |
| Art | Pamela Marcotte | Set Designer |
| Production | Chuck Roseberry | Production Assistant |
| Art | Phil Abramson | Set Decoration |
| Art | Jim Poynter | Leadman |
| Art | Robert Krume | Construction Coordinator |
