Wacky Races

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Wacky Races
Premiere September 14, 1968
Finale January 4, 1969
Airs
Creator
Network CBS
Style 30-minute animated comedy
Company Hanna-Barbera Productions
Episodes 17
Seasons 1
Origin USA
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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!.

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[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

[edit] DVD Releases

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

[edit] External Sites

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