Hot Wheels (TV series)

Hot Wheels
Genre	Animated series
Created by	Fred Crippen Eddie Smardan Ken Snyder
Voices of	Bob Arbogast Melinda Casey Casey Kasem Albert Brooks Susan Davis Nora Marlowe Michael Rye
Theme music composer	Mike Curb
Composer(s)	Jack Fascinato
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	17
Production
Executive producer(s)	Kenneth C.T. Snyder
Producer(s)	Fred Crippen Eddie Smardan Ken Snyder
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Ken Snyder Properties, in association with Pantomime Pictures
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 6, 1969 – September 4, 1971

Hot Wheels is a thirty-minute Saturday morning animated television series broadcast on ABC from 1969 to 1971, under the primary sponsorship of Mattel Toys.

Synopsis

The series mainly focused on the racing exploits of a high school student, Jack "Rabbit" Wheeler, who led the Hot Wheels Racing Club.

Voice cast

Bob Arbogast as Doc Warren
Melinda Casey as Janet Martin
Albert Brooks as Kip Chogi
Susan Davis as Ardeth Pratt
Casey Kasem as Dexter Carter
Nora Marlowe as Mother O'Hare
Michael Rye as Mike Wheeler

FCC action

Some time during the show's broadcast, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received complaints from toy companies who argued that it was actually a thirty-minute commercial for the toys; one of them was Topper, a rival to Mattel.^[1] The FCC obliged by ordering stations to log part of the airings as advertising time.^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 Owen, David (1988). "The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning". The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning—and Other Adventures in American Enterprise (Essay)|format= requires |url= (help). Villard Books (Random House). pp. 174–175. ISBN 0-394-56810-9.
↑ Wojahn, Ellen (1988). "Team Play". Playing by Different Rules. American Management Association (amacom). pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-8144-5861-0.

External links

Hot Wheels at the Internet Movie Database
Hot Wheels at TV.com

Hot Wheels

Television series	Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 characters episodes

Films	World Race AcceleRacers

Video games	Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver Turbo Racing Crash! Micro Racers Planet Hot Wheels Extreme Racing Burnin' Rubber Velocity X World Race Stunt Track Challenge Ultimate Racing Beat That! Battle Force 5 Track Attack

Children's programming on the American Broadcasting Company in the 1960s

First-run animated series	Rocky and His Friends (1959–64) The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963–70) Hoppity Hooper (1964–67) The Beatles (1965–69) The Porky Pig Show Milton the Monster (1965–68) The King Kong Show (1966–69) Fantastic Four (1967–70) Spider-Man (1967–70) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1967–69) George of the Jungle (1967–70) The Adventures of Gulliver (1968–70) Fantastic Voyage (1968–70) The Smokey the Bear Show The Cattanooga Cats Show (1969–71) Hot Wheels (1969–71) The Hardy Boys (1969–71) Skyhawks (1969–71)

First-run live-action series	Lunch with Soupy Sales (1959–61) The Magic Land of Allakazam (1962–64) Discovery (1962–71) American Bandstand (1957–87) Shenanigans (1964–65)

Rebroadcasts	Top Cat (1962–63) The Bugs Bunny Show (1962–68) My Friend Flicka The Jetsons (1962–64) Beany and Cecil (1962–88) Buffalo Bill, Jr. Annie Oakley The Magilla Gorilla Show

Schedules	1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70

Related	Animation in the United States in the television era

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