Wacky Races (2017 TV series) Wacky Races (2017 TV series) Wacky Races is an American children's animated television series created by Rebecca Himot and Tramm Wigzell. It is a reboot/remake of the 1968 Hanna-Barbera animated series "Wacky Races". The show debuted in 2017 on Boomerang's video-on-demand service in the United States. "Wacky Races" was picked up for a second season. It is possible a third season will likely happen in 2019. The series features the return of characters from the original "Wacky Races" program, including Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect, and the Gruesome Twosome. Several new characters were introduced as well, including I.Q.
Wacky Races (1968 TV series) the races would be part of a live-action quiz show made by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions in which contestants would bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrapped, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley dual production credit. In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, "Around the World with the Wacky Racers", was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's "Superstars 10" series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage. The show gave the results of each race at the end of each episode, (the first, second, and