[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'160687\' date=\'Aug 15 2007, 11:02 AM\']
The DVD of the series is supposed to include a documentary about the development of the show. I'm almost tempted to buy the thing (it was a childhood favorite of mine, though I imagine today I'd find it awfully redundant) just to see what they say -- if anything -- about the Heatter-Quigley involvement.
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There's not a lot on there, IIRC (I have the DVD) about the H-Q connection, though they do talk quite a bit to the two main designers of the show, Iwao Takamoto (who has since passed) and Jerry Eisenberg. One of the more interesting aspects of the show is that Dick Dastardly's plots always seem to backfire - which is noteworthy, as one of the "Wacky Races" writers was Michael Maltese, who wrote almost all the classic Road Runner cartoons, where everything the Coyote tried blew up in his face.
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'160692\' date=\'Aug 15 2007, 11:31 AM\']
And the end titles don't have Dave Willock's voice-over on them (I remember something like "The Wacky Races go on, all over the world..."). Seems to me like Dick Dastardly had some dialogue on the end titles around the time the "THE END" title card falls on his car.
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That was done to eliminate the references to "next week" in the end titles. When the films were first syndicated, the shows had the "next week" bleeped out, but later on the entire closing narration was removed, just about the time the shows started showing up on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.