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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

1969

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EP1 Jungle Jeopardy Sep 13, 1969

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.

EP2 The Terrible Trolley Trap Sep 20, 1969

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?

EP3 The Boardwalk Booby Trap Sep 27, 1969

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?

EP4 Wild West Peril Oct 04, 1969

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.

EP5 Carnival Calamity Oct 11, 1969

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

EP6 The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot Oct 18, 1969

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.

EP7 Arabian Desert Danger Oct 25, 1969

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.

EP8 The Diabolical Department Store Danger Nov 01, 1969

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

EP9 Hair Raising Harness Race Nov 08, 1969

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

EP10 North Pole Peril Nov 15, 1969

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.

EP11 Tall Timber Treachery Nov 22, 1969

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.

EP12 Cross Country Double Cross Nov 29, 1969

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.

EP13 Big Bagdad Danger Dec 06, 1969

In one peril she is trapped inside a tent.

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

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.

EP15 Big Top Trap Dec 20, 1969

Penelope is kidnapped and taken to the circus.

EP16 Game of Peril Jan 10, 1970

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.

EP17 London Town Treachery Jan 17, 1970

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.
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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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BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Miss Naughtia We had this cartoon on VHS and I remember watching it SO many times when I was a kid. The one thing that gets stuck in my head from this cartoon is the theme song. I can still hear the theme song of Dastardly and Muttley called '..Catch the pigeon, catch the pigeon..' it is very funny.Although I wasn't that fond of Penelope Pitstop, my favorite character was Muttley.This is one of the good creations from Hanna-Barbera and this cartoon (also the series about Dastardly and Muttley) is widely known by almost all children born in the 70's and the 80's. I'm feeling quite nostalgic thinking about this, so I just might watch it again soon on Youtube.
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) As a fan of Hanna/Barbera, I would watch a few of their TV series, and films like "Charlotte's Web" and "Heidi's Song." I remember watching Wacky Races when it was Teletoon a long time ago, and the lovely Penelope Pitstop and her Compact Pussycat was my favorite racer. Though I didn't know why her car was called The Compact Pussycat, it didn't look like a cat. The series became successful, that they made spin-off series like Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Although Wacky Races was set in the then-contemporary 1960s, the characters and settings of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop were strongly reminiscent of the 1920s; well the 1930s that is.I'd bought the complete series on DVD, and after watching all 17 episodes, I thought it's a very funny show; it has scenes you will remember and laugh your head off. In this series, Penelope is an heiress to a vast fortune and is constantly chased by her sinister guardian (voiced by Paul Lynde) Sylvester Sneekly aka The Hooded Claw; she doesn't even know it. But always to her rescue is her seven friends/protectors The Ant Hill Mob (also from Wacky Races) and their anthropomorphic car Chug-A-Boom (like Herbie from Disney's The Love Bug). But they sometimes screw up the rescue and it's always Penelope who ends up saving them.They never explain why Penelope is a wealthy woman? or why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends? and so forth, they just jump right through it; but I do have imagination like: Penelope was the beloved daughter of a wealthy family; but when her mama and papa died, it was always her "dear daddy's" secretary Sylvester Sneekly who was with her all her life, because to a girl's daddy (or male guardian) he's her oracle, her guidance and her hero. Maybe that's why she refuses to believe that Sylvester is the Hooded Claw. And as to why the Ant Hill Mob are her friends? well she might have reformed the crooks because of her kind heart; or maybe the seven had reformed years ago. So overall I love this series, and would watch it again and again.
shadejford One of Hanna-Barbera's better comedies. It was a good parody of cliffhangers that were popular during the early 20th century. Penelope herself had feminist overtones. The Ant Hill Mob were supposed to be her saviors, yet they usually botched their rescue attempts and Penelope would save herself from her predicaments. Last Tuesday, I viewed an episode in which she saved the Ant Hill Mob.// Another highlight is the way she ran. The animators humorously displayed her femininity by having her run like a ballet dancer.// And Paul Lynde was at a peak in his career at this time by doing the voice of The Hooded Claw in this series and that of the prissy suburbanite in another Hanna-Barbera series Where's Huddles? Lynde was almost as much a creative asset to the studio as was Mel Blanc. Art fans should appreciate the mixture of expressionism and impressionism in the cartoon's backgrounds. Adults enjoyed this show as much as kids.
diggemthefrog I have two major problems with "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop". First, it isn't completely consistent with the original cartoon, "The Wacky Racers", of which it's a spin off. On that show, Penelope was a professional race car driver. Now she's supposedly an "heiress to a vast fortune", as the narrator said at the beginning of each episode, and she has a legal guardian. So presumably she's still under the age of 21. Don't you have to be at least 21 to race professionally? Or was the spin off supposed to be a prequel, and didn't they say so in order to keep us in suspense about whether Penelope would survive the series? (I don't mean to spoil it for you, but she did.) The second problem is one of basic, psychological plausibility, and it's a question that I'm sure everyone who's ever watched at least one season of this show has asked: How could this girl possibly have gone two seasons without ever realizing that the mysterious masked stranger who called himself the Hooded Claw, who tried to kill her in every single episode, was none other than her own guardian, Sylvester Sneekly? Okay, maybe she just couldn't handle the truth; after all, how would you feel if you woke up one day and realized that your late parents entrusted your very life to someone who wants you dead? So I could go along with it for a little while, maybe, but two whole years? She must have been the dumbest professional racer ever.

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