Hot Wheels (TV series)
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Hot Wheels | |
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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 | Jack Fascinato |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 17 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Kenneth C.T. Snyder |
Producers | Fred Crippen Eddie Smardan Ken Snyder |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Ken Snyder Properties, in association with Pantomime Pictures |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
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
- ^ a b Owen, David (1988). "The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning". The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning—and Other Adventures in American Enterprise. Villard Books (Random House). pp. 174–175. ISBN 0-394-56810-9.
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(help) - ^ Wojahn, Ellen (1988). "Team Play". Playing by Different Rules. American Management Association (amacom). pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-8144-5861-0.
External links
Categories:
- American Broadcasting Company network shows
- 1969 American television series debuts
- 1971 American television series endings
- Television series by CBS Television Studios
- 1960s American animated television series
- 1970s American animated television series
- Hot Wheels
- Television shows based on Mattel toys
- Jetix
- United States television show stubs
- Animated television series stubs
- American children's television series stubs