Wacky Races (video game)
| Wacky Races | |
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| Genre |
Racing Comedy Fantasy |
| Written by |
Larz Bourne Dalton Sandifer Tom Dagenais Michael Maltese |
| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices of |
Paul Winchell Don Messick Janet Waldo Daws Butler John Stephenson Dave Willock |
| Narrated by | Dave Willock |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 (34 segments) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Hanna-Barbera Heatter-Quigley Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | September 14, 1968 – January 4, 1969 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by |
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969–1970) Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969–1970) |
For the 1991 video game, see Wacky Races (1991 video game). For the 2000 video game, see Wacky Races (2000 video game).
Wacky Races is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series, inspired by the 1965 slapstick comedy film The Great Race, features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." The cartoon had a large number of regular characters, with 23 people and animals spread among the 11 race cars.
Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969. 17 episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races.
The villains (and also the stars) of the series drive a purple, rocket-powered car with an abundance of concealed weapons and the ability to fly. Dick Dastardly is an archetypal mustache-twirling villain; Muttley is his wheezily snickering dog henchman. Dastardly's usual race strategy revolves around using the Mean Machine's great speed to get ahead of the other racers, and then setting a trap to stop them and maintain the lead; but most of his plans backfire, causing him to fall back into last place. Dastardly never sees victory.
The other racers include The Slag Brothers, Rock and Gravel, in two cavemen themed racers called the Boulder Mobile; the Gruesome Twosome, who are monsters in the Creepy Coupe; Professor Pat Pending, a scientist, in the Convert-a-Car; the Red Max in a car/plane hybrid; Penelope Pitstop, the lone female, in a 1930s racing costume; Sergeant Blast, in an army tank/jeep hybrid with a small steamroller wheel attached to the front, called the Army Surplus Special; the Ant Hill Mob, gangsters, in the Bulletproof Bomb; Luke, a hillbilly, and Blubber Bear, his pet bear, in the Arkansas Chugabug; Peter Perfect, a gentlemanly racer, in the Turbo Terrific; and finally Rufus Roughcut, a lumberjack, and his companion Sawtooth in the Buzzwagon.
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