See-Saw to Arkansas

"See-Saw to Arkansas" is the first segment in episode one of Wacky Races, which only lasted one season. It aired on September 14, 1968 on CBS. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, co-founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Wacky Racers navigate through Arkansas, where the Ant Hill Mob play a trick on the other racers by pretending to be the Seven Dwarfs.

Characters
In order of appearance:

Mentioned and non-speaking characters are in italics


 * Commentator (Dave Willock)
 * Slag Brothers
 * Big Gruesome
 * Little Gruesome
 * The Red Max
 * Professor Pat Pending
 * Private Meekly
 * Sergeant Blast (Daws Butler)
 * Lazy Luke (John Stephenson)
 * Blubber Bear
 * Peter Perfect
 * Dick Dastardly (Peter Winchell)
 * Muttley (Don Messick)
 * Gruesome Twosome's dragon
 * Penelope Pitstop (Janet Waldo)
 * Clyde (Peter Winchell)
 * Ring-a-Ding (Don Messick)
 * Highway officer (Don Messick)
 * Snow White
 * Rufus Ruffcut (Daws Butler)
 * Sawtooth
 * Referee

Organizations

 * Ant Hill Mob
 * Seven Dwarfs

Locations

 * Arkansas
 * Seven Dwarf's cottage
 * Los Angeles
 * La Brea Tar Pits

Vehicles

 * Slag Boulder
 * Creepy Coupe
 * Crimson Hayballer
 * Convert-a-Car
 * Army Surplus Special
 * Arkansas Chuggabug
 * Turbo Terrific
 * Mean Machine
 * Compact Pussycat
 * Bulletproof Bomb
 * Buzz Wagon

Development
Four writers are given a series group credit, so it isn't known who specifically wrote what. They include Larz Bourne, Tom Degenais, Mike Maltese, and Dalton Sandifer.

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Behind the scenes

 * The Seven Dwarfs are friends of Snow White in the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, but more popularly known by their appearances in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
 * The train passing through, has the initials "H.B." on every cart.

Errors

 * When Dick is first looking through his binoculars, Muttley is sitting next to him, but when the camera switches to a close up of Dick, Muttley is between his arms.