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(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 |
Camera setup | I |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Ken Snyder Properties, in association with Pantomime Pictures |
Distributor | CBS Television Distribution Mattel Creations |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | September 6, 1969 – September 4, 1971 |
Team Hot Wheels is an American animated series of movies by Mattel Playground Productions, Titmouse for the second to fourth films and Mercury Filmworks for the first film. Based on Mattel's Hot Wheels toyline, the franchise currently consists of four features released through a multitude of distribution platforms. The first film, The Origin of Awesome, debuted in 660 theatres through a.
Hot Wheels is a thirty-minute Saturday-morning cartoon series broadcast on ABC from 1969 to 1971, under the primary sponsorship of Mattel Toys.
Synopsis[edit]
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[edit]
- 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 Jack 'Rabbit' Wheeler
FCC action[edit]
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 Toys, a rival to Mattel.[1] The FCC obliged by ordering stations to log part of the airings as advertising time.[1][2]
References[edit]
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- ^ abOwen, David (1988). 'The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning'. The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning—and Other Adventures in American Enterprise (Essay). Villard Books (Random House). pp. 174–175. ISBN0-394-56810-9.
- ^Wojahn, Ellen (1988). 'Team Play'. Playing by Different Rules. American Management Association (amacom). pp. 98–99. ISBN0-8144-5861-0.
External links[edit]
- Hot Wheels on IMDb
- Hot Wheels at TV.com
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