Wacky Races (1968 TV series)


 * This article is about the 1968 TV series. For the reboot, see Wacky Races (2017 TV series).

Wacky Races is an animated racing television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Heatter-Quigley, Inc. for CBS' Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1968 and 1969, airing 17 episodes. Despite only lasting one season, it proved popular enough for two spin-offs, which were The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Dick Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, and to a lesser extent Yogi's Treasure Hunt.

The series has been revived a couple of times by Warner Bros. Animation. In 2006, there was a five-minute pilot pitch called Wacky Races Forever, which acted as a sequel, but was not picked up. The second was a comparatively more successful reboot/quasi-sequel once again called Wacky Races, which lasted between 2017-2019 on the Boomerang VSOD service.

Cast

 * Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly, Private Meekly, Clyde
 * Don Messick as Muttley, Professor Pat Pending, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Ring-a-Ding, Sawtooth
 * Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop
 * Daws Butler as Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, the Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect, Rufus Ruffcut
 * John Stephenson as Lucky Luke, Blubber Bear
 * Dave Willock as commentator/narrator