Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday Morning Cartoon: Penelope Pitstop



The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an animated cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that premiered on CBS on September 13, 1969. The show lasted two full seasons, with a total of 17 half-hour episodes produced and released.

The series was patterned on the silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial, The Perils of Pauline using the most successful characters of Wacky Races, namely Penelope Pitstop, the members of Ant Hill Mob and originally Dick Dastardly and Muttley though Dastardly and Muttley were later dropped in pre-production according to this series DVD release information. Those characters would be later reused in their own series.

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