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) was made available in 1996. All 34 episodes can be purchased on the iTunes Store. On February 14, 2017, Warner Archive re-released "Wacky Races: The Complete Series" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection as a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release. Life-size working replicas of the vehicles have been built in the UK (where the show was very popular) and appear annually at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with new additions each year. 2008 saw the last of the cars (the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb 07) added to the collection, making a complete set.