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Wacky Races is an animated comedy that aired on CBS.

Eleven screwball drivers engage in countrywide cannonball runs to determine "the world's wackiest racer." It's catch-as-catch-can racing, with Dick Dastardly scheming week in and week out to find a way to thwart the other drivers in order to win the race himself, which he never does. Dastardly's Mean Machine obviously is of superior power to ovetake the others legitimately, but as the token villain, he resorts to chicanery along with his canine sidekick Muttley.

The show was to originally had had a live game show segment prior to each race with children predicting the winner of each race. CBS nixed the idea, but Hollywood Squares producers Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley, who was to have produced the game segment, was given on-screen credits anyway. Peggy Charren, of Action For Children's Television, blackballed the show, charging that it enticed kids to make monetary wagers on the races. It spawned two spinoffs, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines and The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop. Dastardly and Muttley would show up in three other Hanna-Barbera shows, Yogi's Treasure Hunt, "The Fender Bender 500" (segment of the syndicated Wake, Rattle & Roll), and Yo, Yogi!.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Seasons 3 In-Depth 4 DVD Releases 5 External Sites

[edit] Cast

Actor	Character	Duration
Main Cast
Daws Butler	Rock Slag	1
	Red Max	1
	Peter Perfect	1
	Rufus Ruffcut	1
	Sgt. Blast	1
	Big Gruesome	1
Don Messick	Muttley	1
	Professor Pat Pending	1
	Sawtooth	1
	Ring-A-Ding	1
	Little Gruesome	1
	Gravel Slag	1
John Stephenson	Luke	1
	Blubber Bear	1
Janet Waldo	Penelope Pitstop	1
Paul Winchell	Dick Dastardly	1
	Clyde	1
	Pvt. Meekley	1
Dave Willock	Narrator	1

[edit] Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
CBS
Season One	September 14, 1968	January 4, 1969	17

[edit] In-Depth

• The Racers and Their Cars: A list of all the race teams and a description of their cars.

[edit] DVD Releases

Title	Release Date	#
Complete Series
The Complete Series	October 19, 2004	3

[edit] External Sites