Wacky Races (1968 TV series) The series is sometimes mistakenly known as "Stop the Pigeon", after the show's working title and theme song. Both series ran for two seasons. In 2006, the pilot for a spin-off series titled "Wacky Races Forever" was produced for Cartoon Network. The series depicted a roster of both new and returning racers competing against each other. Penelope Pitstop and Peter Perfect had married and created Perfect Industries, the corporate sponsor of the new Wacky Races, whereas their children Parker and Piper competed in the race. Other characters included the Slag Brothers, Professor Pat Pending, a teenage version of the Gruesome
The Great War (TV series) Much use was made of 20th Century symphonies, including Shostakovitch's 11th Symphony and Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antartica'. Each episode of "The Great War" was seen by an average audience of over eight million people, a 17 percent share of the estimated viewing population. The fourth episode, the most popular of the series, reached an audience of over eleven million (22.6 percent of the audience). Following transmission of the series by the Republic of Ireland's national TV station, Telefís Éireann, "The Great War" won a Jacob's Award at the 1964 presentation ceremony in Dublin. On 16 October 2013, fifty years after