Wacky Races - total car racing

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Television series
German title Wacky Races - total car racing
Original title Wacky races
Country of production United States
original language English
year 1968
length 20 minutes
Episodes 17 in 1 season
genre Comedy , action
music Hoyt Curtin
First broadcast September 14, 1968 on CBS
German-language
first broadcast		 1996 on ProSieben
synchronization

Wacky Races - Auto Racing Total ( engl. Wacky Races , dt as "Crazy Race".) Is an American animated series from Hanna-Barbera Studios and was in 1968 and 1969 the television channel CBS as part of the Saturday morning cartoons broadcast.

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Wacky Races tells the story of eleven different cars and drivers who compete on a wide variety of racetracks in order to win the title of World's Wackiest Racer at the end of the day .

The main character of the series is the stereotypical villain Dick Heimtücke ( Dick Dastardly ) and his sidekick promenade-Pluto the dog ( Muttley ). Dastardly doesn't miss a chance to get the other racing drivers off the track.

The racers and their numbers

  • Number 00: The Mean Machine , driven by Dick Dastardly & Muttley : The series' villains in a rocket-powered car equipped with various weapons.
  • Number 1: The Boulder Mobile , driven by The Slag Brothers (Rock Slag & Gravel Slag) : Two cavemen in a wheeled boulder that they remodeled with their clubs during the race.
  • Number 2: The Creepy Coupe , driven by The Gruesome Twosome (Big Gruesome & Little Gruesome) : The two monsters drive a car with a bell tower in which a dragon and a few ghosts live. With the help of the kite wings it is possible for them to fly over short distances.
  • Number 3: The Convert-a-Car , driven by Professor Pat Pending : A mad professor in a car that can transform into anything that can move.
  • Number 4: The Crimson Haybailer , driven by Red Max : A German flying ace from the First World War in his driving combination of a car and airplane, with which he is able to jump over obstacles. In addition, the car has a machine gun mounted.
  • Number 5 The Compact Pussycat , driven by Penelope Pitstop : The woman in the pink car can drop various utensils in order to force her opponents out of the race, such as shampoo or glitter dust.
  • Number 6: The Army Surplus Special , driven by Sergeant Blast & Private Meekly : Two soldiers in a tank whose guns they also use to their advantage.
  • Number 7: The Bulletproof Bomb (also The Roaring Twenty ), driven by The Ant Hill Mob : A car from the 1920s, driven by two gangsters . The car was later renamed Chugga-Boom in The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop offshoot .
  • Number 8: The Arkansas Chuggabug , driven by Luke & Blubber Bear : two simple-minded country eggs in their coal-powered wooden car.
  • Number 9: The Turbo Terrific , driven by Peter Perfect : A busybody in love with Penelope Pitstop with a dragster that often falls apart.
  • Number 10: The Buzz Wagon , driven by Rufus Ruffcut & Sawtooth : A woodcutter and a beaver in a car with circular saws instead of wheels to drive / saw through everything.

Production and publication

The series was produced in 1968 at Hanna Barbera Studios , directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna . The music is by Hoyt Curtin . 17 episodes were produced, with each episode containing two races, making a total of 34 different races to be seen.

It was first broadcast from September 14, 1968 to January 4, 1969 on CBS as part of the Saturday morning cartoons . The German first broadcast took place in 1996 and 1997 on ProSieben , followed by repetitions on K-Toon , Junior and Boomerang. The series has also been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, French, Russian and Spanish, among others. From 2001 the series appeared in the original and some translations on DVD. In 1996 several episodes appeared on VHS.

synchronization

character English speaker German speaker
Dick Dastardly Paul Winchell Eberhard Prüter
Muttley Don Messick
Lazy Luke John Stephenson Bernd Schramm
Ring-A-thing Don Messick Stefan Staudinger
Big Gruesome Daws Butler Reinhard Scheunemann
Professor Pat Pending Don Messick Georg Tryphon
Rufus blank Daws Butler Tilo Schmitz
Penelope pitstop Janet Waldo
teller Dave Willock Michael Pan

Further exploitations and remakes

Penelope Pitstop got its own cartoon series in 1969 called The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop . Also in 1969, Dick Dastardly and Muttley reappeared in Flying Men in Daredevil boxes (in the original: Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines ). In 1990 the series Monstergeschichten (originally: Wake, Rattle & Roll ) went on air, in which the characters Dick Dastardly and Muttley and their Mean Machine appear. In 2017, a remake of the series was produced under the same title for the online platform and broadcaster Boomerang . The series consists of 65 episodes in 2 seasons.

In Great Britain, fans of the series have recreated the vehicles. The models have been seen regularly at the Goodwood Festival of Speed since the 2000s .

Computer and video game implementations

Web links

Commons : Wacky Race  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Todd Spangler: Turner, Warner Bros. to Launch Boomerang Cartoon Streaming-Subscription Service for $ 5 Monthly. In: Variety. March 7, 2017, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Racers take to the street ahead of Goodwood Festival of Speed. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .