The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
| The Perils of Penelope Pitstop | |
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| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Written by |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears Michael Maltese |
| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Starring |
Mel Blanc Paul Lynde Don Messick Janet Waldo Paul Winchell |
| Narrated by | Gary Owens |
| Composer(s) | Ted Nichols |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Alex Lovy |
| Running time | 21 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Color (NTSC) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 13, 1969 – January 17, 1970 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Wacky Races (1968) |
| Related shows | Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969) |
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that premiered on CBS on September 13, 1969. The show ran for one season with a total of 17 half-hour episodes, the last first-run episode airing on January 17, 1970. Repeats aired on CBS until September 4, 1971. It is a spin-off of the Wacky Races cartoon, reprising the characters of Penelope Pitstop and the Anthill Mob. Rebroadcasts of the show air on the Cartoon Network-owned channel Boomerang.
The series was patterned on the silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial The Perils of Pauline. It originally was to star also the characters of Dick Dastardly and Muttley though Dastardly and Muttley were later dropped in pre-production. Those characters would be later reused in their own series, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
Joe Ruby and Ken Spears were the head writers for the series, and Ruby, Spears, and Warner Bros. Cartoons veteran Michael Maltese wrote the stories for the individual episodes. Deciding to feature the characters in a different setting, studio heads decided to set the characters into an active adventure format strongly reminiscent of the 1910s.
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