| Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines | |
|---|---|
| Distributed by | Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions |
| Written by | Flint Dille |
| Starring | Susan Blu Wally Burr Peter Cullen Pat Fraley Jerry Houser Vince Howard Chris Latta Lance LeGault Neil Ross Arthur Burghardt |
| Music by | Robert J. Walsh |
| Production company | Marvel Productions, Sunbow Productions, Toei Animation |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Running time | 53 minutes |
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines is a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series Super Sunday and Super Saturday containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each and every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids. The segments were combined and turned into a 53-minute feature-length film in 1985.
This cartoon and the other Super Sunday cartoons were animated by Toei Animation in Japan. The show featured animated versions of vehicles popular in real life competing under the United States Hot Rod Association banner, including Bob Chandler's Bigfoot monster truck, Allen Gaines' Orange Blossom Special two-wheel-drive pulling truck, Kenneth and Paula Geuin's Black Gold four-wheel-drive pulling truck, and Dan Patrick's War Lord pulling funny car.
The story is about five people who run a public monster truck show led by Yank Justice, driver of Bigfoot. The other members of the show include Red & Redder (twin sisters who drive Black Gold), Professor Dee (driver of the Orange Blossom Special), and Close McCall (driver of War Lord). A young woman named Jennifer McGraw steals an ancient map that leads to the Fountain of Youth in Florida by a group of terrorists led by an elderly billionaire named Adrian Ravenscroft (a.k.a. "Mr. Big"), and they are attempting to retrieve the map from her. Ravenscroft hires a couple of workers who helped him try to get the map back named Ernie Slye and Ravenscroft's limousine chauffeur. This band of criminals chases Yank Justice and his friends across the United States and try to kill them. In the end, Ravenscroft drinks heavily from the Fountain and is turned into a baby, after which Yank and the others use their trucks to destroy the Fountain.