Wacky Races is an American animated television series, which features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with all of the drivers hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer". The show was inspired by the 1965 comedy film The Great Race. The cartoon had many regular characters, with 23 people and animals spread among the 11 race cars. The series spawned numerous spin-offs throughout the years. In 2017, the series was remade as a reboot.
"Wacky Races" was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that aired on CBS as part of its Saturday-morning schedule from September 14, 1968, to January 4, 1969, and then reruns the next season. This series revolves around several racers with various themes who are each allowed to use strange gimmicks to compete against other racers in many races across North America as the race announcer (voiced by Dave Willock) talks about the race while interacting with the racers.
Dick Dastardly and Muttley (the villains from the "Wacky Races" cartoon) are flying aces and members of the Vulture Squadron -- a crew of aviators on a mission to stop a homing pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the other side. This show was a combination of the Red Baron-era Snoopy, "Wacky Races" and the film "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines."
In the style of the silent movie era of melodrama cliffhangers, Penelope Pitstop must evade capture of the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers. The Hooded Claw is in fact really her guardian, Sylvester Sneekly. If Sylvester can do away with Penelope, he will receive her inheritance. She is often aided by the Ant Hill Mob, who have been converted from villainous mobsters to heroic Seven Dwarfs-types. Despite their best intentions, they end up in need of her help during their rescue of her, although despite her resourcefulness, she inevitably will always need to be the one saved.
A revival of Wacky Races in the 1990s, in which the racers drove monster trucks made for racing. Using Hanna-Barbera's character library, each vehicle had a different theme, specific to its drivers.
Wacky Races is an American animated television series, a reboot of the 1968-69 Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name. It is the first Wacky Races television series without the original creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (who died respectively in 2001 and 2006) and also the first without the original voice cast.