Wacky Races (1968 TV series) third placings are given by the narrator, and we sometimes saw some or all of the other cars cross the finish line). The show never indicated a particular scoring system or way to determine who won the Wacky Races as a whole. The cumulative totals for first, second, and third-place finishes for each contestant are presented below: Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob were spun off into another cartoon series in 1969 titled "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop". In the same year, Dick Dastardly and Muttley were given a spin-off series titled "Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines".
For the Children puppet Muffin the Mule made his television debut on the show, accompanied by his "friend" Annette Mills. The puppet's character was devised by the puppeteer Ann Hogarth. "For the Children" was last broadcast in December 1952, when it was superseded by other BBC children's television programmes, including "Watch with Mother". For the Children For the Children was a British television programme targeted at children of school age. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service at 3 pm on Saturday 24 April 1937, for its first two years the series was ten minutes in length. Suspended in 1939 along with the