Wacky Races - The Complete Series

Bought it for my grandkids cuz they love all my cartoons!

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Childhood was great but watching the old cartoons is better now

October 19 brings a promising release of Wacky Races, the series where many different characters compete in races in their custom cars. Sadly I dont think Cartoon Network plays these shows anymore so many kids may not know what this is. Adults will remember it though and it certainly is a show the entire family can enjoy. The characters:Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas ChugabugThe Slag Brothers, Rock and Gravel, in the Boulder MobileThe Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy CoupeProfessor Pat Pending in the Ring-A-Ding Covert-A-CarThe Red Max in the Crimson HaybailerThe Sarge and Private Meekly in the Army Surplus SpecialThe Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof BombPeter Perfect in the Turbo TerrificPenelope Pitstop in the Compact PussycatRufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth in the BuzzwagonDick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean MachineThe show follows a similar pattern: Dick Dastardly and Mutley cheat every way they can to win but never do, and Muttley always laughs about it. Different riders would win on each episode, often with dilemmas within the race (mostly caused by Dick Dastardly/Muttley). It is a simple but fun show that I loved watching and I am glad we are getting the complete series of 34 episodes on dvd. There look to be good extras included on here, and each episode has been remastered to look better than ever before. Amazon's price of $[...] is a steal for what you get so I encourage fans of 60s/70s animation as well as first-time fans to pick this bargain up. It is fun for the whole family, old or young. Episodes listing of the show:1 See Saw To Arkansas2 Creepy Trip to Lemon Twist3 Why Oh Why Wyoming4 Beat the Clock To Yellow Rock5 Mish Mash Missouri Dash6 Idaho A Go-Go7 Scout Scatter8 Free Wheeling to Wheeling9 The Baja-Ha-Ha Race10 Real Gone Ape11 By Rollercoaster To Upsans Downs12 The Speedy Arkansas Traveller13 Rhode Island Road Race14 The Great Cold Rush Race15 Eeny Miny Missouri Go16 The Super Silly Swamp Sprint17 The Zippy Mississippi Race18 Traffic Jambalaya19 Hot Race At Chillicothe20 The Wrong Lumber Race21 Wacky Race To Ripsaw22 Oils Well That Ends Well23 Whizzin' To Washington24 The Dipsy Doodle Desert Derby25 Speeding for Smogland26 Race Rally to Raleigh27 The Dopey Dakota Derby28 Dash to Delaware29 Ballpoint Penn. Or Bust30 Fast Track to Hackensack31 Race to Racine32 The Carlsbad or Bust Bash33 The Ski Resort Road Race34 Overseas Hi-Way RaceHope this convinces you to buy this set, it looks to be a great release of some classic animation from the 60's and 70's.

This is one of my favorite cartoons from back in the day. I highly recommend it but it is dated.

Funny love it

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Hanna-Barbera's cartoon show "Wacky Races" premiered on CBS at 9:30 AM EDT Saturday September 14, 1968 , and was subsequently blackballed by the TV watchdog group Action for Children's Television. Because the show was bankrolled by game show producers Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley (NBC's "Hollywood Squares"), ACT president Peggy Charren charged that the show enticed children to make monetary wagers on the outcome of each race. Hogwash. I took the over/under on how many times Dick Dastardly's machinations would backfire on him.In actuality, the original premise of the show was to have children write in to predict who would win each of the thirty-four races, with prizes given to drawn winners, but CBS nixed the idea. "Wacky Races" was principally devised in response that that superhero cartoons that permeated Saturday mornings over the previous two seasons were too violent. For all the atypical Hanna-Barbera standards of limited animation for 1968, "Wacky Races" still stands as classic cartoon slapstick from a more innocent time before double-entendres and grossouts became cartoon standards. It would spin off two shows the following year--"Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines" (the first known cartoon where the villains are the stars) and "The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop."Eleven cars with a veritable spectrum of offbeat drivers race cross-sountry from point A to point B, each race with a connecting story sandwiched. Sight gags and visual surrealism permeate, and with any Saturday morning, they're hit or miss. With Dastardly, many of them are hits (literally and figuratively). Warner Home Video has released the entire series on a three-disc set. And it's a hit-and-miss affair as well.On the hit side, it looks as fine on disc as it did when the show first aired. It's got three bonus features, including a look back at the show by designer Iwao Takamoto, voice Janet Waldo, character designer Jerry Eisenberg (whose dad, Harvey Eisenberg, drew many H-B comics for Dell/Gold Key in the early 60s), and contemporary artist Scott Jeralds. On the miss side, instead of each half hour program as CBS aired it, the cartoons are broken down into 34 individual episodes. This means, no mid-point interstitial asking viewers to stay tuned for part two (featured once as an extra). Also, the episodes are as Cartoon Network aired them, which means the end title narration by Dave Willock (the announcer) and Paul Winchell (Dastardly) is gone save for the end of the episode "Ski Resort Road Race."However, the hits outnumber the misses here, and it's a blast from the Saturday morning past.

There is nothing that I don't like about the Wacky Races.But I would like to see more Hanna Barbera cartoons out on DVDlike The Quick Draw McGraw Show, Snooper and Blabber ,Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and the Fred and Barney show

a superb dvd

génial cela est arrivé en tant et en heure merci et je recommande ce vendeur.

Great shape, DEADLY PRICE, way cheaper than I have ever seen ANYWHERE!!! Super fast FREE delivery!!!

everything that I remembered about this show was exactly as I remebereed it! They say Nostalgia isn't what is was but this brings back a childhood of sitting in front of the tv Saturday morning with a a big bowl of Ca'n Crunch and enjoying the wacky antics... it was a trip down memory lane with a few detours into the wonderful world of animated humour.Quality was as expected great and that it is the complete episodes all the better... if you were or are a fan of Hanna Barbera Studios, you'll enjoy this collection.