The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

1969
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

6.4 | en | Animation

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American animated television 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 last first-run episode airing on January 17, 1970. Repeats aired until September 4, 1971. It is a spin-off of the Wacky Races cartoon, reprising the characters of Penelope Pitstop and the Anthill Mob. This show airs reruns on Cartoon Network classic channel Boomerang.

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EP17  London Town Treachery
Jan. 17,1970
London Town Treachery

In one peril she's tied to a pole slowly being wound in bandages from her feet to her head, yet before they can cover her all the way the Ant Hill Mob comes along to save her. And in this one there's also a formidable Clock Tower wherein she's trapped and The Hooded Claw has her in another elaborate peril again, this time involving a cat and mouse.

EP16  Game of Peril
Jan. 10,1970
Game of Peril

In this one The Hooded Claw thinks he's going to make a game of it, and in one peril, a piano is playing by itself while Penelope is tied to a post that keeps going round, which is about to fall with the whole roof and everything about to collapse on top of her. And The Ant Hill Mob come to rescue her just in time.

EP15  Big Top Trap
Dec. 20,1969
Big Top Trap

Penelope is kidnapped and taken to the circus.

EP14  Bad Fortune In a Chinese Fortune Cookie
Dec. 13,1969
Bad Fortune In a Chinese Fortune Cookie

Penelope first finds herself trapped inside the mouth of a Chinese dragon heading towards a crash. But thanks to the bubble gum she has, she is able to make a bubble large enough that cushions her crash and bounces her to safety at the same time. In another peril she is bound in dough and set on a conveyor belt ready to be cut up in Chinese Fortune Cookie like pieces by a formidable machine.

EP13  Big Bagdad Danger
Dec. 06,1969
Big Bagdad Danger

In one peril she is trapped inside a tent.

EP12  Cross Country Double Cross
Nov. 29,1969
Cross Country Double Cross

Penelope finds herself in peril when she wants to go an important ceremony. The Bully Brothers are in here and they along with the Hooded Claw try to make a couple traps for her which she manages to escape. When skiing she escapes an avalanche, escapes a bunch of logs that are about to fall on her. And she usually does it with only a little help.

EP11  Tall Timber Treachery
Nov. 22,1969
Tall Timber Treachery

The Bully Brothers kidnap her from inside a forest. In one peril she is tied to a log and sent on a stream to go over the side of a waterfall. In a second one she is dangling above a pit of alligators. And in another she is suspended by a rope inside a cave about to fall dozens of feet to her doom. On board a train, Penelope finds herself being chased and then trapped in one of the train compartments. Tied up to the wall, she helplessly watches while the compartment is fast filling up with water. Afraid she will perish by drowning, she soon finds a way to escape. She slips off one of her long, white boots and hits the lever so the water stops. Some pretty narrow escapes this time, but she makes it.

EP10  North Pole Peril
Nov. 15,1969
North Pole Peril

Stuck inside a cabin atop a snowy hill, Penelope must await her terrible fate when a snowball rolls down hill, gaining momentum and growing larger so it can ultimately crush the cabin she is in. Luckily, the Ant Hill Mob come in their car, Chuggaboom, and saves her just in time. In another peril she is tied to a pole and about to be killed inside a bear trap which she escapes from.

EP9  Hair Raising Harness Race
Nov. 08,1969
Hair Raising Harness Race

The Hooded Claw attempts to sabotage Penelope's efforts of winning a harness race.

EP8  The Diabolical Department Store Danger
Nov. 01,1969
The Diabolical Department Store Danger

When Penelope goes to a department store to attend a fashion show she finds herself in all kinds of trouble. Trapped inside an elevator that goes out of control, she nearly gets crushed, but likely her worst peril is when she is tied up and pinned to a slide with a lawn mower precariously tied above her which threatens to come mowing her down. And, if the little choo choo train cuts the string that is attached to the lawn mower then it will come down on her. The Ant Hill Mob make it there to help her, but she ends up going out through a window, subsequently getting caught by the hook of a crane. It's operated by the Hooded Claw who begins to swing her into a pile driver at a construction site next to the store. After a few close calls she swings to an open window of the Pitstop Department Store and gets a beachball. She pops it, using the air jet to escape. Then, back in the store, she is sent waterskiing with her hands tied to the tow bar of a pilotless speedboat. She goes through t

EP7  Arabian Desert Danger
Oct. 25,1969
Arabian Desert Danger

The Hooded Claw attempts to sabotage Penelope's plans to escort a rare baby camel to its home in Egypt. In one peril she is trapped inside a tent with a sandstorm about to come knock it down. And in another one she is kept inside a chest with a bomb nearly ready to go off. The Ant Hill Mob find the caravan the chest is in and save her.

EP6  The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot
Oct. 18,1969
The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot

In this one The Hooded Claw lures Penelope onto a fake film set by pretending to make a movie with her and a giant mechanical gorilla. In one peril she is tied to a torpedo set to launch off, and when it does takes her through the blue waters of an ocean. The Ant Hill Mob come in their car and, in the water, manage to save her, but you'll never guess how. They make a chain of themselves on top of their car with Penelope sitting at the very top as if she were in a director's chair. In another peril she is tied to a buoy. And in another one The Hooded Claw is cranking up a strange looking machine while Penelope is trapped in a small room below.

EP5  Carnival Calamity
Oct. 11,1969
Carnival Calamity

Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob go to a carnival. While Penelope is riding the loop-the-loop, the Hooded Claw locks the door on her and spins the ride rapidly, hoping to launch her into space. She manages to pick the lock and escapes. The Hooded Claw grabs her again and ties her to an oversized duck in a shooting gallery. The trap is set to drop a suspended merry-go-round over the game tent after a shooter hits enough ducks to light up the score counter. Dum-Dum wanders in and is persuaded by The Hooded Claw to give it a try. Dum-Dum, not knowing that Penelope is in danger, says that he is a born sharpshooter. Soon the rest of the Ant Hill Mob step in, rescue Penelope, and the merry-go-round crashes in upon The Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers. In the final peril, Penelope is tied to the tracks of a rollercoaster. A lever that releases the rollercoaster is set up to be struck by a counterbalance when a bird has finished eating its birdseed in a bowl. The coaster then must complete a

EP4  Wild West Peril
Oct. 04,1969
Wild West Peril

In one peril The Hooded Claw ties Penelope to a giant boulder using a spring tree, but the Ant Hill Mob foil him. She is also left tied, sitting on top of a runaway stagecoach. Then a tipi is set on the edge of a cliff, designed to lure the Mob in and fall off the edge, hitting a board that will catapult Penelope in a barrel, and the Ant Hill Mob into the near-bottomless canyon. To lure them there is a gramophone inside the tipi playing Penelope's famous call for ""Help!"". She is then finally placed in a miner's car filled with explosives which is set to rocket down to the bottom of a steep and deep mine shaft.

EP3  The Boardwalk Booby Trap
Sep. 27,1969
The Boardwalk Booby Trap

Penelope is spending a relaxing day at the beach being buried in the sand by the Ant Hill Mob. The Hooded Claw has mixed in cement with the sand so she cannot get out. Along comes a bulldozer driven by the Bully Brothers. The Ant Hill Mob cannot pull her up, so they dig a tunnel to pull her down. They save her in the nick of time. Later, Penelope is kidnapped by the Bully Brothers during a scavenger hunt and taken to an abandoned fishing village, where the Hooded Claw awaits her. Will the Ant Hill Mob come crashing in to save her in time?

EP2  The Terrible Trolley Trap
Sep. 20,1969
The Terrible Trolley Trap

The Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers tie Penelope to some trolley tracks hoping to get rid of her once and for all. After that, she is taken into the ocean, on a ship that belongs to the Hooded Claw, where he plans to get rid of her permanently. Will the Ant Hill Mob be able to find Penelope before it is too late?

EP1  Jungle Jeopardy
Sep. 13,1969
Jungle Jeopardy

In this one the Hooded Claw captures her and she is in peril of wild animals. In one peril she is put inside a sack which is cinched at the top, she is being guided down a pulley while a giraffe eats a bit of hay stuffed at the top of of the sack, thereby propelling her way downward to where another animal tries to kill her. It's one of those times she tries calling for help and the Ant Hill Mob come to save her.

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Released: 1969-09-13 | Released Producted By: Hanna-Barbera Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is an American animated television 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 last first-run episode airing on January 17, 1970. Repeats aired until September 4, 1971. It is a spin-off of the Wacky Races cartoon, reprising the characters of Penelope Pitstop and the Anthill Mob. This show airs reruns on Cartoon Network classic channel Boomerang.

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Cast

Gary Owens , Paul Winchell , Janet Waldo

Director

William Hanna

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Reviews

chielamangus I liked this series when I was a boy. The horrid cackle of the evil Hooded Claw (brilliantly voiced by veteran US actor the late Paul Lynde)used to give me goosebumps. I recently watched the whole series online and while I still very much enjoyed it,I was rather bemused at all the elaborate traps devised by HC to bump off his female victim The finale ending the series was inconclusive. I had hoped the evil Claw might himself be killed by one of his own devices thus ridding Penelope of him for good or being captured and unmasked as the treacherous Sneekley Indeed he did blow himself up at the very end by accidentally tripping and falling on a detonator plunger but sadly he survived it,and swearing to continue to think up further nefarious ideas to murder Penelope. Verdict? Still very watchable but disappointed there was no definite outcome to the series.
Dawalk-1 I've known about Wacky Races and this other Hanna Barbera cartoon for several years. I've never seen either of them growing up as they were before my time and I probably would've watched it sooner if my parents had gotten Boomerang (or if that cable channel had already been a part of our cable package). But I've always been curious about it and, if not the most curious, as well as interested in checking it out, more so than Wacky Races. The former show I might explore eventually in the future. At last, instead of having access of viewing it via Boomerang, I did begin watching the first three episodes of it so far (on different late nights) at the Kiss Cartoon site. I'd like to start off by stating that this is one of the few H-B productions that stand out more, so I've got to give it that, as at least it isn't one nor does it follow any of the three formulas that were the norm of most H-B shows, especially throughout the 1960s and '70s: Talking animals who impersonate comics of the day, mysteries that crib from Scooby Doo, and family-centric series that came from the Flintstones. I haven't seen every H-B program growing up, but I learned and now know just how formulaic the majority of them were once I began reading about what others were saying about them on the 'net. Secondly, despite the few flaws there may be with it, according to some people's comments I read outside of this site, I still find it enjoyable. It's not the first nor one of the first by H-B that I'd have high on my list of favorites, as I like some of their movies and specials/one or two-off productions even more, which should've been expanded into series, but I still like it just the same and might at least consider it a late '60s/early '70s animated series favorite. I wouldn't say this is all bad nor a total loss. The notion is a former race-car driving, blonde Southerner who frequently gets kidnapped by her guardian, Sylvester Sneakly, disguised as his alter ego, the Hooded Claw, and puts her in jeopardy one way or another in order to steal her inheritance. Somebody in one thread on a forum on another site compared her to Princess Peach of Super Mario Bros. fame, but times 10. Another person in a thread on a second forum on a second site complained about her never noticing her guards having gone missing. Although Penelope is a blonde, therefore the point is the creators of this may have been simply pandering to the ditsy blonde stereotype. I'll admit it would've been nice to see her wise up to that in due time, even though that recurring gag went on for too long. Her obliviousness to that fact is one bad quality about her but I've got to counter it with a good quality. What else I've got to say is that she hasn't always been totally incapable of getting herself out of predicaments nor has she always been reliant on the Ant Hill Mob, who are gangster parodies/versions of the seven dwarfs. I must admit that Penelope is also resourceful and sometimes gets herself out of jams. Did Princess Peach ever do that? I may be somewhat defending this, but I just have to give my take/viewpoint on it. Some may have beef with the Ant Hill Mob often failing to rescue Penelope as one of the shticks of the show. I know that they should've done better at their rescue attempts, but at the same time, the point of that shtick is to provide comic relief to balance out the perils. However, it would've been nice to see them succeed, at least once. Clyde, the leader, seems to be the most competent out of them though. Another good quality Penelope has about her is she is a lady of many talents and sometimes she uses her cleverness to her advantage. Somehow, things still manage to work out well for her in the end. In addition to those, she's not that bad of a protagonist/heroine. The settings in this show aren't too much of the same, which is another thing I like about it.I, too, would still consider it to be one of the strongest productions as far as H-B series go. So I'd still check it out any way if anyone reading it is as curious as I was. Don't listen to what anybody outside this site says otherwise. It may not be one of the best, but it isn't one of the worst either. I rather this than any of the gross-out, sick-humored, mindless cartoons any day, even though I know there have been other shows that are free of those. One other thing: I wish this series had a more proper ending rather than being open-ended. It would've been nice to see just how this whole thing is resolved.
Stephen Holloway This spin off is good not great, but still good. Penelope is in line for an vast fortune but her guardian, Selevester Sneekley aka, the Hooded Claw. For you see, he wants her money. To stop him she teams up with her Wacky Races co stars The Ant Hill Mob. The cast are Gary Owens, Mel Blanc, Janet Waldo, Paul Winchell, Don Messick, and Paul Lynn. The henchmen of the Claw, The Bully Brothers always seem to bungle it. The series was based on an old silent film series featuring an girl named Pauline who always gets herself in trouble as well. Most likely it was set in the early 20th century and still good after all these years and the cast was perfect. Today, Bommerang has the season on the air and it's on DVD so if you want to see it those are your only ways to see the series.Overall score: an 9 out of 10
dootuss I've been catching reruns of this old cartoon on Cartoon Network over the last couple of weeks, and frankly I'm probably in the minority. I actually like this show. It stars Penelope Pitstop (a female racer from "Wacky Races") who is being constantly on the run by her laywer Sylvester Sneekly (aka The Hooded Claw who is just Sneekly in disguise) whom wants to elude of her since she inherited a fortune, and would give it to him if something were to happenn to her (you know like death or something like that for an example). But Penelope has protection thanks to my fave characters from "Wacky Races" the Ant Hill Mob (those guys rule!!!!!) who will keep our damsel in distress from being captured by the Hooded Claw.I really like this cartoon a lot. I know that Hanna Barbera has made some lame spinoffs in the past, but this is great. 10/10