Fender Bender 500 (partially found episodes of "Wacky Races" reboot animated series; 1990s)

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Status: Partially Found

Fender Bender 500 is a series of cartoon shorts featuring iconic Hanna-Barbera characters racing each other in monster trucks; it's a 1990s update of the classic Wacky Races series from 1968 . It is historically significant as it would be the last time that Top Cat and Dick Dastardly would be voiced by the original actors, Arnold Stang and Paul Winchell, before their passing.

Release History

It was originally broadcast as a segment of Wake, Rattle and Roll, a Hanna-Barbera produced live-action children's show. The first season was aired in syndication and then afterward moved to the Disney Channel and re-named Jump, Rattle and Roll. The Fender Bender 500 segments also aired as part of TV Mayhem in the UK.

The only commercial home video release was in Japan where the majority of episodes were released on both VHS and Laserdisc in six volumes. These sets were missing the episodes Unfathomable 500 and The Yukon Win It 500 which were exclusive to a laserdisc box set of Wacky Races Four of these volumes were preserved by YouTube user RailRon and five were preserved by Archive.org user RyanKeim13 The majority of the English language episodes are currently considered lost media.

Availability

Out of the 50 episodes produced 18 have currently been found in English and 40 episodes have been found in Japanese Currently six episodes are unavailable publicly in any language.

In May 2021, a folder containing all episodes available at the time, was uploaded to Mega.

In July 2023, five volumes of the Japanese home video release were uploaded to Archive.org

#	Episode Title	Episode Status
01	The Nippon Tuck 500	Found - Japanese
02	The Cow Sow & Plow 500	Found - Japanese
03	The Calypso 500	Found - Japanese
04	The Philly Freedom 500	Found - English
05	The Hup, Two, Three, Four 500	Found - English
06	The Frances a Lot 500	Found - Japanese
07	The Wooden Shoe Like to Win 500	Found - Japanese
08	The Rocket Gibraltar 500	Found - Japanese
09	The Bombay Flambe 500	Found - Japanese
10	The Way Down Under 500	Found - Japanese
11	Fondue 500	Found - Japanese
12	The Kenya Win It 500	Found - English
13	The Fettuccini 500	Found - Japanese
14	Monumental 500	Found - English
15	The High Stakes 500	Found - English
16	The Great Golden Gate 500	Found - Japanese
17	The Highland Fling 500	Found - Japanese
18	Rush to Rushmore 500	Found - Japanese
19	Pound for Pound 500	Found - English
20	The Great Greek 500	Found - Japanese
21	The Log Jammer 500	Found - Japanese
22	The Clambake 500	Found - Japanese
23	We'll Get Bayou 500	Found - Japanese
24	The Funhouse 500	Found - Japanese
25	Space Race 500	Found - English
26	The Wicki Wacki 500	Lost
27	Big Apple 500	Lost
28	The Panda-Monium 500	Lost
29	The Tumbleweed 500	Found - English
30	The Jungle Bungle 500	Lost
31	Silver Screen 500	Lost
32	Sheik to Sheik 500	Found - English
33	The Cotton Pickin 500	Found - Japanese
34	The Oom-pa-pah 500	Found - Japanese
35	The Fountain of Youth 500	Found - Japanese
36	The Fiesta Fantastica 500	Found - Japanese
37	The Big Top 500	Found - English
38	The Russian Around 500	Found - English
39	The Dash to Nashville 500	Found - Japanese
40	The Trans-Transylvania 500	Found - English
41	The Run Down to Ghost Town 500	Found - Japanese
42	The Go for the Gold 500	Found - Japanese
43	The Golden State 500	Found - Japanese
44	The Hit'n Mississippi 500	Found - English
45	The Alligator Alley 500	Found - Japanese
46	The Brazilian Million 500	Found - Japanese
47	The Emerald Isle 500	Found - Japanese
48	The Nile a Minute 500	Found - English
49	Unfathomable 500	Found - English
50	The Yukon Win It 500	Lost

See Also

• Boss Cat (found British opening and ending titles of "Top Cat" animated series; 1962-1989)
• CBS Storybreak "What Happened in Hamelin" (lost episode from animated series; 1987)
• Dastardly & Muttley - Operation: Pigeon Pursuit (lost build of unreleased PlayStation 2 video game; 2007-2008)
• Jetsons: The Movie "Gotcha" (partially found full version of song from Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1990)
• Jetsons: The Movie - Janet Waldo performance (lost audio of animated film; 1988-1989)
• Jokebook (partially found Hanna-Barbera animated series; 1982)
• Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone (partially found episodes of syndicated animated series; 1990)
• Return of the Bunjee (lost ABC Weekend special; 1985)
• Rock Odyssey (partially lost Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1987)
• Showbiz Pizza's Yogi Bear and Boo Boo Showtape (found animatronic audio showtape; 1987)
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (partially found Hanna Barbera live action-animated TV series; 1968-1969)
• The Flintstones (cancelled Seth MacFarlane reboot of animated series; 2013)
• The Flintstones Movie (partially found Sega Channel exclusive build of 2D movie tie-in platformer; 1995)
• The Funny World of Fred and Bunni (partially found live-action/animated variety show pilot; 1978)
• The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (partially found NBC comedy variety show; 1978)
• The Moxy Show (partially found episodes of CGI anthology series; 1993-2000)
• The New Teen Titans "Just Say No!" (partially lost Hanna-Barbera anti-drug animated PSA; 1983)
• The Ruff and Reddy Show (found episodes of NBC Hanna-Barbera animated series; 1957-1960)
• The Snorks (partially found unaired pilot of Hanna-Barbera animated TV series; 1982)