Wacky Races (1968 TV series)

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

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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.

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.

Episodes

Episode	Number	Air date
"See-Saw to Arkansas" / "Creepy Trip to Lemon Twist"	1x01	September 14, 1968
"Why Oh Why Wyoming" / "Beat the Clock to Yellow Rock"	1x02	September 21, 1968
"Mish-Mash Missouri Bash" / "Idaho a Go-Go"	1x03	September 28, 1968
"The Baja-Ha-Ha Race" / "Real Gone Ape"	1x04	October 5, 1968
"Scout Scatter" / "Free Wheeling to Wheeling"	1x05	October 12, 1968
"By Roller Coaster to Upsan Downs / "The Speedy Arkansas Traveller"	1x06	October 19, 1968
"The Zippy Mississippi Race" / "Traffic Jambalaya"	1x07	October 26, 1968
"Hot Race at Chillicothe "The Wrong Lumber Race"	1x08	November 2, 1968
"Rhode Island Road Race / "The Great Cold Rush Race"	1x09	November 9, 1968
"Wacky Race to Ripsaw" / "Oils Well That Ends Well"	1x10	November 16, 1968
"Whizzin' to Washington / "The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby"	1x11	November 23, 1968
"Eeny, Miny Missouri Go! / "The Super Silly Swamp Sprint"	1x12	November 30, 1968
"The Dopey Dakota Derby / "Dash to Delaware"	1x13	December 7, 1968
"Speeding to Smogland" / "Race Rally to Raleigh"	1x14	December 14, 1968
"Ballpoint, Penn, or Bust!" / "Fast Track to Hackensack"	1x15	December 21, 1968
"The Ski Resort Road Race" / "Overseas Hi-Way Race"	1x16	December 28, 1968
"Race to Racine" / "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash"	1x17	January 4, 1969

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