Wacky Races (1968 TV series)

Plot

• The Slag Brothers, Rock and Gravel, two cavemen that drive the Boulder Mobile '; their car is made out of rock and the brothers power it up by hitting it on both sides with their clubs and are also able to re-build it from bare rock, always using their clubs. Rock and Gravel have long body hair that covers their body except for their noses, arms, and legs.
• The Gruesome Twosome, Tiny "Big Gruesome" and Bela "Little Gruesome", who are monsters that drive the Creepy Coupe '; their horror-themed car includes a small bell tower inhabited by a fire-breathing dragon, bats, ghosts, and other creatures. The Creepy Coupe's special booster is "dragon power", with the dragon acting as a RATO unit.
• Professor Pat Pending, an inventor who drives the Convert-a-Car '; he can transform his car into pretty much anything that moves.
• The Red Max, a Manfred von Richthofen–styled aviator who speaks with a German accent that drives car/airplane hybrid called the Crimson Haybaler '; his vehicle is able to fly, although only for short distances in ground effect. His name is a portmanteau of Red Baron and Blue Max.
• Penelope Pitstop, the lone female driver, in a 1930s racing costume that drives the Compact Pussycat '; a Southern belle, Penelope seems more concerned with her looks than with racing and often gets herself into trouble. Nevertheless, she is a skilled racer.
• Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly, two soldiers in an armored car/tank hybrid called the Army Surplus Special '; the Sergeant uses "fire power" to temporarily boost power in the car.
• The Ant Hill Mob, a group of seven dwarf gangsters that is composed of Clyde, Ring-A-Ding, Rug Bug Benny, Mac, Danny, Kirby and Willy, in the Bulletproof Bomb '; they are sometimes preoccupied with getting caught by the police and are able to use "getaway power", which involves all the gangsters extending their legs through the bottom of the car and running.
• Lazy Luke, a barefoot hillbilly, and Blubber Bear, a timid, cry-baby brown bear, in the Arkansas Chuggabug '; Luke maneuvers the steering wheel with his feet and his car is steam-powered from an old rickety boiler. Blubber has been known to blow up a balloon and use it as an air jet for briefly increased speed.
• Peter Perfect, a gentlemanly racer in the Turbo Terrific '; Peter is extremely strong, but also very vain, and he often boasts about the virtues of his high-tech race car – which regularly falls to pieces seconds after he praises it. He is fond of Penelope and often helps her out.
• Rufus Ruffcut, a lumberjack and his beaver companion Sawtooth in the Buzz Wagon '; their car, entirely made of wood, features four circular saw blades as wheels and Sawtooth is able to cut through obstacles at super-high speed.
• Dick Dastardly, an archetypal mustache-twirling villain and his wheezily snickering dog Muttley in the Mean Machine ''; their sinister vehicle is a purple, rocket-powered car with an abundance of concealed weapons and the ability to fly. Dastardly's usual race strategy revolves around using the Mean Machine's great speed to get ahead of the other racers and then setting a trap to stop them and maintain the lead, but most of his plans backfire, causing him to fall back into last place. In the opening title sequence, Dastardly attempts to stall the racers by chaining their cars to a pole, but then he accidentally shifts his car into reverse, bumps into and breaks the pole and frees the others as the race begins.

  Voice cast

• Daws Butler as Rock Slag, Big Gruesome, Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect, Rufus Ruffcut, Various
• Don Messick as Muttley, Professor Pat Pending, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Ring-a-Ding, Sawtooth, Various
• John Stephenson as Lazy Luke, Blubber Bear, Various
• Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop, Various
• Dave Willock as the Narrator
• Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly, Clyde, Private Meekly, Various

  Episodes

Race results

Standings

Spin-offs and similar series