
Show-Off
- Studio
- Pantomime Pictures
Characters
Jack Wheeler, Doc Warren, Janet Martin, Mickey Barnes, Kip Chogi, Ardeth Pratt, Tank Mallory, Dexter Carter, Mother O'Hare, Mike Wheeler
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Sam Weiss, Stanley Green, John Freeman
- Supervising Director
- Irv Spector
Producing
- Producer
- Fred Crippen, Eddie Smardan, Ken Snyder
- Executive Producer
- Kenneth C. T. Snyder
- Associate Producers
- Jeanne Lindsay, Dick Reed, Charles Phalen, Paul Shively, Joe Bruno
Writing
- Writer
- Tony Asher, Art Browne Jr, Peter Dixon, Roy Freeman, Luanne Gwynne, Bill Hines, Scott Joseph, Keith Kelsay, Don Nicholl, Martin Smith, Larry Thor, Worley Thorne
- Script Consultant
- Clark Howat
Animation
- Animator
- George Canatta, Wesley Bennett, Dave Tendlar, Herb Rothwill, Bill Hutten, Bob Trochim, Dave Bran, Floyd Norman
- Assistant Animation
- Mary Peters, Fred Meyers, Wm Higgins
Voices
- Voice
- Bob Arbogast (Jack Wheeler, Doc Warren), Melinda Casy (Janet Martin), Albert Brooks (Mickey Barnes, Kip Chogi), Susan Davis (Ardeth Pratt), Casey Kasem (Tank Mallory, Dexter Carter), Nora Marlowe (Mother O'Hare), Michael Rye (Mike Wheeler)
Music
- Music
- Jack Fascinato
- Theme Music
- Mike Curb
Editing
- Editor
- Bob Linvall, John Casey, Dee Futch, George Nicholson, Skip Lusk, John Ritterath
- Supervising Editor
- Roger Donley
Crew
- Created By
- Fred Crippen, Eddie Smardan, Ken Snyder
- Layout
- C.L. Hartman, Lew Ott, Tony Sgroi, Raymond Jacobs, Jane Takamoto, Enrique Arnau, Jesse Cosio, Tom Ferriter, Tony Rivera
- Background Supervisor
- Lorraine Andrina
- Background
- Al Gmuer, Janet Brown, Donald Peters, Tony Rizzo, Ted Littlefield, Mike Kawaguchi, John Park, Peter Van Elk, David Lopez, Ann Guenther
- Production Supervision
- Sam S. Kai
- Checking
- Lynn Singer, Kathy Barrows, Anita Flynn, Ginny Chapman, Elaine Miller, Beverly Van Ware, Yvonne Batson, Renee Henning
- Ink and Paint
- Connie Crawley
- Camera
- Wally Bulloch, Fred Wellington, Ray Bloss
- Technical Design
- Leonard Stobar, Mel Ako
- Sound
- Peter Armstrong
- Special Assistants
- Nancy Waters, Fred Lorenzen
- Crew
- Introducing Perspectamation
Companies and other credits
- Theme Music: the Curbstones
- Camera: Animated Film Service
- A Production of Ken Snyder Properties
Production notes
This show ran one original season, with 17 episodes. It did return for a second season in 1970, but all shows were repeats.
Hot Wheels was based on a product by sponsor Mattel Toys. Because of that close connection with Mattel's Hot Wheels line of toy cars, the Federal Communications Commission deemed that the opening to the Hot Wheels cartoon, along with any references in the cartoon to the Hot Wheels title and any mention of the makes of cars, all be counted as commercial time. The FCC was, in effect, ruling that the whole cartoon show was a commercial for the Hot Wheels toy cars and not an entertainment program. This led ABC to cancel the popular series after only two years on the air. The FCC ruling remained in effect until 1983, when a new lineup in the FCC ended the restrictions.
Hot Wheels was based on a product by sponsor Mattel Toys. Because of that close connection with Mattel's Hot Wheels line of toy cars, the Federal Communications Commission deemed that the opening to the Hot Wheels cartoon, along with any references in the cartoon to the Hot Wheels title and any mention of the makes of cars, all be counted as commercial time. The FCC was, in effect, ruling that the whole cartoon show was a commercial for the Hot Wheels toy cars and not an entertainment program. This led ABC to cancel the popular series after only two years on the air. The FCC ruling remained in effect until 1983, when a new lineup in the FCC ended the restrictions.
