Warner Archive Collection Press Release: Wacky Races: The Complete Series (1968) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

COMING TO BLU-RAY FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION ON APRIL 29th!
1080pHD MASTERS FROM 4K SCANS OF THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVES

WACKY RACES: The Complete Series (1968)
RUNNING TIME: 408 minutes
COLOR
2 BD-50
NOT RATED
Aspect Ratio 16x9 1.33.1 with side mattes
Audio DTS HD-MA 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH
Special Features TBA

It’s the Hanna-Barbera favorite making its remastered Blu-ray debut! Start your engines! Diabolical do-badder Dick Dastardly, his snickering canine cohort Muttley and their Mean Machine take on you and all comers for all the fast and furious fun of the complete animated series Wacky Races. Gear up to keep pace with this dimwitted duo as well as their rivals: Peter Perfect in his Turbo Terrific, Luke and Blubber Bear in the Arkansas Chucgabug, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb and glamorous Penelope Pitstop in her pink Compact Pussycat. Fasten your seat belts for all 17 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through to the Finish Line!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[justarandomstan]

That's AWESOME NEWS! What a rush! This, TopCat and Magilla Gorilla in the span of 6 months! WOW!

 

[JamesSmith]

That's AWESOME NEWS! What a rush! This, TopCat and Magilla Gorilla in the span of 6 months! WOW!

You’re forgetting “Wait Till Your Father Comes Home.”

Jthree

 

[Greg Chenoweth]

Good news here. I hope they present the show as it originally aired with 2 cartoons per episode with the bumpers going into and out of commercial breaks. These bumpers were hidden Easter eggs on the DVD set.

 

[darkrock17]

Good news here. I hope they present the show as it originally aired with 2 cartoons per episode with the bumpers going into and out of commercial breaks. These bumpers were hidden Easter eggs on the DVD set.

Fasten your seat belts for all 17 original episodes plus Hilarious, High-Speed Extras that will keep you awake at the wheel straight through to the Finish Line!

 

[Greg Chenoweth]

Thank you, darkrock17, for the reminder. However, sometimes what is advertised is not always what shows up. When this show was released on DVD, Warner Brothers could not show the episodes as they originally aired because the lawyers said they had to have the beginning and ending credits on each cartoon itself. That created 34 individual 15 minute episodes instead of the 17 half hour episodes as originally aired. The producer of the DVD set let us know this info on another forum. RIP Earl Kress. We will not know how this all comes out until the Blu-rays are released.

 

[Randy Korstick]

You’re forgetting “Wait Till Your Father Comes Home.”

Jthree

And Frankenstein Jr and the Impossibles.

 

[darkrock17]

Thank you, darkrock17, for the reminder. However, sometimes what is advertised is not always what shows up. When this show was released on DVD, Warner Brothers could not show the episodes as they originally aired because the lawyers said they had to have the beginning and ending credits on each cartoon itself. That created 34 individual 15 minute episodes instead of the 17 half hour episodes as originally aired. The producer of the DVD set let us know this info on another forum. RIP Earl Kress. We will not know how this all comes out until the Blu-rays are released.

The upcoming The Magilla Gorilla Show release looks like it's going to be completely intact, so I would think the same would go for this one too. WB Archive seems to be paying more attention and treating these series with better care with the new blu-ray editions than what WHV did to the original H-B DVD era.

Why would lawyers tell WB for the original DVD release that the episodes had to be split into individual episodes each and not the original broadcast 2 per episode? That doesn't make sense to me?

 

[Sam Favate]

This was such a fun show. I passed it along to my kids (showing them the DVDs) but by then a new Wacky Races was happening, so they were more interested in that. It’s great that Warner Archive is keeping these old shows alive.

 

[Broomy]

Why would lawyers tell WB for the original DVD release that the episodes had to be split into individual episodes each and not the original broadcast 2 per episode? That doesn't make sense to me?

At a guess, maybe something to do to appeal more to families? The NickToons shows do this on DVD too. It’s really annoying.

I’m praying with everything crossed the episodes are presented as original broadcast. This is properly by favourite HB show and want it done right.

 

[darkrock17]

At a guess, maybe something to do to appeal more to families? The NickToons shows do this on DVD too. It’s really annoying.

I’m praying with everything crossed the episodes are presented as original broadcast. This is properly by favourite HB show and want it done right.

Greg Huckleberry Hound [I]Chenoweth[/I] said that they had to be split individually as each cartoon had to have credits at the beginning and end, my guess is that WB at the time of the DVD era figured the set would sell better if they promoted it as 34 episodes over just 17.

 

[oldtvshowbuff]

The upcoming The Magilla Gorilla Show release looks like it's going to be completely intact, so I would think the same would go for this one too. WB Archive seems to be paying more attention and treating these series with better care with the new blu-ray editions than what WHV did to the original H-B DVD era.

Why would lawyers tell WB for the original DVD release that the episodes had to be split into individual episodes each and not the original broadcast 2 per episode? That doesn't make sense to me?

That would have been something for Sam Benedict and his associate Henry Tabor to deal with!

 

[Greg Chenoweth]

The upcoming The Magilla Gorilla Show release looks like it's going to be completely intact, so I would think the same would go for this one too. WB Archive seems to be paying more attention and treating these series with better care with the new blu-ray editions than what WHV did to the original H-B DVD era.

Why would lawyers tell WB for the original DVD release that the episodes had to be split into individual episodes each and not the original broadcast 2 per episode? That doesn't make sense to me?

On Facebook, Warner Archive has stated that after they complete a series for release they have to send it over to the legal department to make sure there are no issues with licensing, music, unions, etc. before it is released for sale. This is the way I understand it. When they released Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear on DVD they had the same issue. They had to show the syndicated versions of the cartoons that came out with credits before the ‘toon played so everything was properly notated. I believe with Wacky Races it was to give the impression that each segment had all these credits intact, so there was no possibility of lawsuits of somebody who worked on the show saying that they didn’t receive their credit from the unions that are involved in making these shows. I know it makes no sense that I can think of.

 

[darkrock17]

On Facebook, Warner Archive has stated that after they complete a series for release they have to send it over to the legal department to make sure there are no issues with licensing, music, unions, etc. before it is released for sale. This is the way I understand it. When they released Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear on DVD they had the same issue. They had to show the syndicated versions of the cartoons that came out with credits before the ‘toon played so everything was properly notated. I believe with Wacky Races it was to give the impression that each segment had all these credits intact, so there was no possibility of lawsuits of somebody who worked on the show saying that they didn’t receive their credit from the unions that are involved in making these shows. I know it makes no sense that I can think of.

It makes sense now, I see how it is better to make sure that everything's been covered so as you said that no one get's cut out of getting their royalty checks.

 

[Mark Y]

The upcoming The Magilla Gorilla Show release looks like it's going to be completely intact, so I would think the same would go for this one too. WB Archive seems to be paying more attention and treating these series with better care with the new blu-ray editions than what WHV did to the original H-B DVD era.

Why would lawyers tell WB for the original DVD release that the episodes had to be split into individual episodes each and not the original broadcast 2 per episode? That doesn't make sense to me?

The only thing that makes any sense to me is to justify the "34 episodes" statement on the cover -- because each of the 17 shows included two cartoons. I'm just trying to think like a lawyer, I really don't know.

Of course, they could have just not written "34 episodes" on the box.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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