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* In the ''Lucifer'' episode "Yabba Dabba Do Me," a young Jimmy Baines watches ''Wacky Races''. | * In the ''Lucifer'' episode "Yabba Dabba Do Me," a young Jimmy Baines watches ''Wacky Races''. | ||
* In the ''South Park'' episode "Handicar," the series was a subject to parody, including its intro sequence. Dastardly and Muttley also appear here as well, albeit aged. | * In the ''South Park'' episode "Handicar," the series was a subject to parody, including its intro sequence. Dastardly and Muttley also appear here as well, albeit aged. | ||
* Dastardly and Muttley made a cameo in the ''Uncle Grandpa'' episode | * Dastardly and Muttley made a cameo in the ''Uncle Grandpa'' episode "Uncle Grandpa Retires." | ||
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 18:10, 23 September 2022
- This article is about the 1968 TV series. For the 2010s reboot, see Wacky Races (2017 TV series).
Wacky Races | |
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Network | CBS |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Heatter Quigley Inc. |
Distributor | Taft Broadcasting |
Original release | September 14, 1968—January 4, 1969 |
Starring | Paul Winchell Don Messick Janet Waldo Daws Butler John Stephenson Dave Willock |
Producer(s) | Alex Lovy Art Scott |
Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
Writer(s) | Larz Bourne Tom Degenais Mike Maltese Dalton Sandifer |
Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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Wacky Races is an animated racing comedy TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Heatter-Quigley Inc. for CBS' Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1968 to 1969, airing 17 episodes. Despite only lasting one season, the characters continued to live on in different forms, with two equally as popular spin-offs, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
The entire series has also been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as music director.
Episodes
Cast
- Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly, Private Meekly and Clyde
- Don Messick as Muttley, Professor Pat Pending, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Ring-a-Ding and Sawtooth
- Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop
- Daws Butler as Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, the Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect and Rufus Ruffcut
- John Stephenson as Lucky Luke and Blubber Bear
- Dave Willock as Announcer
Legacy
Another TV series Yogi's Treasure Hunt also starred Dick Dastardly and Muttley as villains with Penelope Pitstop making a cameo in the episodes "Snow White & the 7 Treasure Hunters" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chump," respectively, while Blubber Bear guest-starred on The New Yogi Bear Show.
When Cartoon Network tasked its Senior Vice President, Mike Lasso, with creating its first cost-effective series in 1993, he originally envisioned a marathon-like version of Wacky Races, which had all the episodes edited together to make it look like one long race across America, but this was quickly replaced with a greater desire to turn Space Ghost into a nighttime talk show host in Space Ghost Coast to Coast.[1]
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 to 2019 on the Boomerang SVOD service.
In 2016, DC Comics published their own take, called Wacky Raceland, taking a somewhat more realistic and much darker turn in comparison.
In 2004, Vauxhall's unveiled its ads patterning its new Corsa line after Wacky Races. In 2013, Peugeot Brazil did the same for their Peugeot 208, with high production values and live actors playing them for the first time.
On June 15, 2022, it was announced at the Annecy Film Festival that a stop motion series based on Wacky Races was in the works.[2]
In popular culture
- In the Lucifer episode "Yabba Dabba Do Me," a young Jimmy Baines watches Wacky Races.
- In the South Park episode "Handicar," the series was a subject to parody, including its intro sequence. Dastardly and Muttley also appear here as well, albeit aged.
- Dastardly and Muttley made a cameo in the Uncle Grandpa episode "Uncle Grandpa Retires."
References
- ^ Kenyon, Heather (July 1998). "Late Nite With Space Ghost". Animation World Magazine, issue 3.4. Retrieved June 6, 2022.
- ^ Hopewell, John (June 15, 2022). "‘Unicorn,’ ‘Fionna and Cake,’ ‘Gumball’ Reboots, ‘Bye Bye Bunny’ Fascinate at Annecy". Variety. Retrieved June 15, 2022.