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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that premiered on CBS on September 13, 1969. [1] The show ran for one season with a total of 17 half-hour episodes, the last first-run episode airing on January 17, 1970.
Penelope Pitstop (voiced by Janet Waldo), the lone female driver, in a 1930s racing costume that drives the Compact Pussycat (5); a Southern belle, Penelope seems more concerned with her looks than with racing and often gets herself into trouble. Nevertheless, she is a skilled racer.
Wacky Races is a media franchise containing five animated series, several video games, and a comic book, with most centered on the theme of various Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters primarily engaged in auto racing (although occasionally employing other means of transportation), usually in odd vehicles and with absurd plot developments.
Shazzan, The Banana Splits, Wacky Races and its spin-offs (Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop) and Cattanooga Cats followed from 1967 to 1969. The studio's record and music label, Hanna-Barbera Records, [24] was headed by Danny Hutton and distributed by Columbia.
The game features eight ready-to-play vehicles and an additional three boss vehicles that must be unlocked. The eight regular vehicles (and their drivers) are the Buzz Wagon (Rufus Ruffcut and Saw Tooth), the Boulder-Mobile (the Slag Brothers), the Arkansas Chugga-Bug (Lazy Luke and Blubber Bear), the Compact Pussycat (Penelope Pitstop), the Bullet Proof Bomb (the Ant Hill Mob), the Turbo ...
The game features four themed levels, including a desert with Wild West towns and coal mines, snow-covered mountain towns, a Wacky Races version of Mount Rushmore, and a large city with rooftop race tracks (not featured in the Dreamcast version). The game is notable for allowing players to have Dick Dastardly finally win a race.
After Dastardly's cheating goes too far, he is banned from the Wacky Races by the creators of the original show. His friends do their best to defend him before a jury of the worst cartoon villains ever. The Hooded Claw from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop serves as the prosecutor.
The game consists of three modes: Crazy Circuit, Wacky Race, and Trap Challenge. Crazy Circuit mode consists of completing six sets of races with four tracks each, Wacky Race allows a track unlocked in Crazy Circuit mode to be raced through, and Trap Challenge consists of playing through the traps set by Dastardly and Muttley during the races.