Eric's Dwarf Alligator Pages
dedicated to all things Hearts, pub quizzes and me
Number
|
Car Name
|
Drivers
|
Ist
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
1
|
The Bouldermobile
|
The Slag Brothers (Rock Slag & Gravel Slag)
|
3
|
8
|
3
|
2
|
The Creepy Coupe
|
The Gruesome Twosome (Big Gruesome & Little Gruesome)
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
3
|
The Convert-a-Car
|
Professor Pat Pending
|
3
|
2
|
5
|
4
|
The Crimson Haybailer
|
RED MAX
|
3
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
The Compact Pussycat
|
Penelope Pitstop
|
4
|
2
|
5
|
6
|
The Army Surplus Special
|
Sergeant Blast & Private Meekly
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
7
|
The Bulletproof Bomb
|
The Ant Hill Mob (led by Clyde)
|
4
|
5
|
2
|
8
|
The Arkansas Chuggabug
|
Luke & Blubber Bear
|
4
|
1
|
4
|
9
|
The Turbo Terrific
|
Peter Perfect
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
10
|
The Buzz Wagon
|
Rufus Ruffcut & Sawtooth
|
3
|
6
|
4
|
00
|
The Mean Machine
|
Dick Dastardly & Muttley
|
2 (disq)
|
1(disq)
|
0
|
“And now here they are! The most daredevil group of daffy drivers to ever whirl their wheels in the Wacky Races. Competing for the title of worlds wackiest racer. The cars are approaching the starting line. First, is the Turbo Terrific driven by Peter Perfect. Next is Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth in the Buzzwagon. Maneuvering for position is the Army Surplus Special. Right behind is the Ant Hill Mob in their Bullet Proof Bomb. Then there's ingenious inventor Pat Pending in his Convert-A-Car. Oh! Here's the lovely Penelope Pitstop, the glamour gal of the gas pedal. Next we have the Boulder Mobile with the Slag Brothers, Rock & Gravel. Lurching along is the Creepy Coupe with the Gruesome Twosome, and right on their tail is the Red Max. And there's the Arkansas Chug-A-Bug with Luke & Blubber Bear. Sneaking along last is that Mean Machine with those double dealing do-badders Dick Dastardly and his sidekick, Muttley. And even now they are up to some dirty trick, And they are off........to a standing start and why not they've been chained to a post by shifty Dick Dastardly whose shifted to the wrong gear and away they go on the way out Wacky Races”
Its the "Wacky Races"
Wacky Races Trivia
- The series was inspired by the movie The Great Race.
- The series ran on CBS from September 14, 1968 to September 5, 1970.
- Seventeen episodes were produced with each episode featuring two different races for a total of 34 races in all.
- Many of Dastardly's plots look similar to those used in Road Runner episodes, which might be explained by the fact that Mike Maltese was a scriptwriter on both series.
- One of the original plans for the series was that the races themselves would be part of a live-action quiz show with Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions, the team behind the television series Hollywood Squares. Heatter-Quigley's plan was that contestants would actually bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrubbed, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera Heatter-Quigley dual production credit.
- The Creepy Coupe monster Big spoke like Boris Karloff and Little like Peter Lorre.
- The Bulletproof Bomb (aka The Roaring Twenty) was renamed Chugga-Boom in the spinoff The Perils of Penelope Pitstop,