Wacky Races - The Complete Series
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Actor: Dave Willock, Daws Butler, Don Messick, Janet Waldo, John StephensonBrand: Unknown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of Wacky Races - The Complete Series
DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved this show when I was a kid and I am glad it is out on DVD now so I can share it with my kids. If you are into the old Hanna-Barbera stuff this is definitely a good choice.DVD Review: Whacky Racers complete box set
Summary: 5 Stars
Was a fan as a kid and still am, this cartoon is a classic , love it ,the dog mutley is cartoon legend, great in any collectionDVD Review: The complete series of Wacky Races
Summary: 5 Stars
What a fun series, this was. I grew up watching these cartoons and they're still just as fun now as they were then. Gotta love the bad guys sometimes. DVD Review: Wacky Races
Summary: 2 Stars
Very repetitive as every episode is a slightly different theme for racing. Not my favourite. Great quality thoughDVD Review: Wacky Races
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter loves it. Thanks for such a great product. Now she can watch "Wacky Races" anytime that she wants to instead of just 30 minutes a day. Thank you so much!
Description of Wacky Races - The Complete Series
Start your DVD engines! Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine take on you and all comers for all the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. Gear up to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chucgabug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat. Fasten your seat belts for all 34 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through to the Finish Line!Mix The Great Race with the slapstick humor of Road Runner cartoons and the wildly inventive minds of Hanna-Barbera, and you've got the 1968 animated series Wacky Races. You remember the lineup: the Slag brothers in the Boulder-Mobile; the Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy Coupe, with a dragon in its belfry; Prof. Pat Pending (ha ha) in the Convert-a-Car; Red Max in the Crimson Haybailer biplane; Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly in the tank-like Army Surplus Special; the Ant Hill Mob in the Bullitt-Proof Bomb; Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chugga-Bug; Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth the beaver in the Buzz Wagon; the Belle of the Brickyard, Penelope Pitstop, in the Compact Pussycat; Peter Perfect in the Turbo Terrific; and our hissable villains, Dick Dastardly and his snickering muttering dog, Muttley ("Sassa frassin'...") in the Mean Machine. In each 11-minute episode, the physics-defying cars compete in different areas of the country ("See-Saw to Arkansas," "Rhode Island Road Race," "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash"), so evenly matched that any car has a chance to win despite the evil schemes of Dastardly and Muttley, who always seem to come to a Wile E. Coyote-type end (writer Mike Maltese worked on both series). There's never really a plot, but just a string of situations and gags before someone finally crosses the finish line to earn the checkered flag.
The DVD set contains all 34 episodes of the series, looking reasonably good. Four members of the original creative team appear on a commentary track on four different episodes, and their discussion is less interesting for what they have to say about Wacky Races ("What was that car again?") than for their memories of working for Hanna-Barbera ("we did things off the top of the head"). There's also pop-up factoids on two episodes, a 20-minute recap of the series' history, and a look at the two spinoff series, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. That a relatively short-lived series could inspire two spinoffs, toys, comic books, a CD-ROM game, and other souvenirs is a testament to its ability to capture the Saturday-morning imagination and create a lot of fond memories. --David Horiuchi
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