Speed Racer
Many Speed Racer fans thought that this was an American series from the moment it first aired in the United States in 1967. The episode scripts were written in Hollywood, with animation produced in Japan. Other American producers followed the lead of this series in farming out animation.
Episode guide
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The Great Plan, Part 1
After winning a practice race, Speed Racer is offered a position on a team set to race in the Grand Prix. The company who employs his father, Pops Racer, a top engineer, owns the team. Howe…
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The Great Plan, Part 2
Speed resumes the Sword Mountain Race, neck and neck with Duggery. Ace and his gang approach from the opposite direction. Speed swerves off the road and uses his rotary saws to cut a path t…
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Challenge Of The Masked Racer, Part 1
Speed and Trixie drive to the shipyard where the Masked Racer's car is being unloaded for the upcoming Trans Country Race. Trixie hints to Speed that he should enter the race. He hesitantly…
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Challenge Of The Masked Racer, Part 2
The Masked Racer takes Speed to his house. He is really Speed's older brother, Rex Racer. Speed awakens. A quick look around the room finds the Masked Racer in the shower and his mask on th…
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The Secret Engine, Part 1
Speed, Spritle, and Chim Chim take the Mach 5 out for a test drive. The radio announces that Tongue Blaggard has escaped from prison. The Racers meet a girl and her grandfather whose Model…
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The Secret Engine, Part 2
Speed avoids colliding with Tongue Blaggard's squad of motorcyclists. But Tiny, Blaggard's sumo bodyguard knocks him out. To save Mr. Clepto from Tiny's death-grip, Speed tells Blaggard the…
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The Race Against The Mammoth Car, Part 1
Trixie wins the position of Speed's assistant in the No Limit World Race. Before the race begins Inspector Detector and his officials search each entry looking for $50 million in stolen gol…
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The Race Against The Mammoth Car, Part 2
Satisfied that the Mach 5 is forever submerged in Lake Icy Chill, the Mammoth Car drivers resume the race. Through his telescanner, Speed sees them leave as he reaches soil. Trixie sends a…
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The Most Dangerous Race, Part 1
At the racetrack, the Stunt Car Spectacular promises action and thrills. Two contestants attempt to scale a ramp and clear a stack of cars, but fail. Daredevil driver (and member of the Car…
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The Most Dangerous Race, Part 2
Speed is competing in the Big Alpine Race. At a checkpoint, an official warns Speed of impending bad weather. Meanwhile, fearful that the Mach 5's brakes will fail, Sparky, Spritle and Chim…
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The Most Dangerous Race, Part 3
It is the second day of the Big Alpine Race and no one has been able to cross the chasm except for Racer X. In a nearby lodge, Trixie, Sparky, Spritle, and Chim Chim await the passage of th…
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Race For Revenge, Part 1
While out on a practice race, Speed is almost run off the track by a mysterious black car. Later that night, the black car gains on an automobile whose driver recognizes it as the X3. Befor…
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Race For Revenge, Part 2
With Lilly passed out at the wheel, Speed realizes that Slash Jr. is driving the Melange via remote control. Unable to overtake it, Speed pulls over and discovers that Trixie has stowed awa…
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The Desperate Desert Race, Part 1
Speed, along with Trixie, Sparky, and the Mach 5 are on their way to Sandoland to compete in the Desert Race. Kim Jugger tells Speed that he doesn't have a chance of winning. He orders the…
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The Desperate Desert Race, Part 2
When the Flathill Army soldiers set the Mach 5 aflame, Speed attacks one of the rebels. The General announces that he ordered Ali Ben Schemer, his cousin, to b low up his son's racecar beca…
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The Fire Race, Part 1
At the meeting of the League of Countries, the representative from Kapecapek announces his government's decision to close its borders to the outside world. An official proposes that if Kape…
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The Fire Race, Part 2
In the volcanic mountains of Kapecapek, Speed is competing in the most unusual race of his life. Kadar and his men find diamonds encrusted in the mountain wall. A creeping vine grabs his me…
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Girl Daredevil, Part 1
At the base of a tall building, Speed and company watch Twinkle Banks, star of the Universal Circus, dive off the top. Then, at the circus, they watch Twinkle drive a racecar and perform da…
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The Girl Daredevil, Part 2
Speed and Twinkle awake back into consciousness. They enter the cave behind the Falls. Cornpone Brotch (identified as Cornpone Brush in the previous episode) and his thugs arrive with the t…
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The Fastest Car On Earth, Part 1
At midnight in a cemetery, the GRX racecar engine is unearthed. The following day Spritle and Chim are trapped inside a truck. It takes them to Oriana Flub's house, where Chim Chim is tied…
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The Fastest Car On Earth, Part 2
Speed has passed out behind the wheel of the GRX. Eventually, the car comes to a half at the edge of an aqueduct. Spritle and Chim Chim drag Speed out of the racecar. One of Oriana's thugs…
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The Mach 5 Vs. The Mach 5, Part 1
Late one night, Professor Power, inventor of the Mizmo Ray, leaves the Secret National Science Institute. Shortly thereafter, the Mach 5 roars toward the Institute and autojacks over its ga…
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The Mach 5 Vs. The Mach 5, Part 2
Speed guns his engine and autojacks over the Mizmo Ray beam. The Mach 5 copy blasts off into the air. Meanwhile, in the police helicopter, Inspector Detector, Spritle, and Chim Chim spot th…
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The Royal Racer, Part 1
The King of Saccarin has asked Pops to build a mini racecar for the Baby Grand Prix to be held in celebration of the coronation of Prince Jam. Spritle pleads with his father to build him a…
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The Royal Racer, Part 2
The mini race car and the Mach 5 tumble into the jungle, where the royal racer explodes. Offendem convinces the King that Pops Racer is to blame. Also, Offendem urges him to agree that Prin…
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The Car Hater
Trixie is behind the wheel of the Mach 5. A car full of bullies pulls alongside and taunts her. Fortunately, Speed's quick reflexes help to avoid a collision. The Mach 5 autojacks over the…
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The Terrifying Gambler
Speed and Trixie are competing in the Monte Carlo Rally. On an icy mountain road, an old man driving an old-fashioned car catches up to the Mach 5 and shoots at them. Speed skids to a halt.…
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The Race Against Time, Part 1
While competing in the Sahara Race, Speed rescues an old man who's running away from a low-flying airplane. The man identifies himself as Dr. Digger O. Bone, archaeologist. With his last br…
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The Race Against Time, Part 2
Speed is near the top of the pyramid. He is being shot at from an airplane. He throws the homing robot, attached to the climbing rope, toward the plane. The rope is wound around the propell…
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The Snake Track
At an international airport, Rock Force is met by a mysterious man and confronted by a group of thugs wanting to know if he will compete in the upcoming Super Car Race. A fight ensues. Rock…
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The Man On The Lam
On a rainy night, Lawson Lamster escapes from prison. He comes to Delicia's house. Lawson embraces the child, noticing that she is blind. He learns that her mother is away trying to earn mo…
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Gang Of Assassins, Part 1
Early morning in Japan, the Gang of Assassins breaks into an ancient castle to plant a time bomb. Later, at the Fujiyama Grand Prix, Speed wins, and Racer X vows to beat him the next time.…
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Gang Of Assassins, Part 2
Inside the ancient Japanese castle, Speed meets Pat Gunsel, who vows to get rid of him. Speed is shoved past a jail cell filled with the diplomats from the sightseeing boat. Speed watches a…
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The Race For Life
In the city of Dominico, where the South American Grand Prix is being held, several gunmen chase a young man named Jose', who carries a first aid box. Jose' collapses amid Speed's victory c…
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The Supersonic Car
On the Saline Flats, the Supersonic Rocket Car, designed by Pops, is to be tested for the Baboom Motor Company. From the control tower, Pops watches Speed blast off into the desert terrain.…
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Crash In The Jungle, Part 1
In two days Speed will compete in the Trans Africa Grand Prix. Having finished checking the course, Speed returns in an airplane. On the flight, he meets Professor Robert Carnivory, a biolo…
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Crash In The Jungle, Part 2
A gang of monster gorillas forces speed off a cliff. Smasher reunites the uncooperative Professor with an old cohort, Professor Loon. Various giant creatures are revealed. Although Carnivor…
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The Secret Invaders, Part 1
In the exotic and mysterious city of Ambrocia, the Mystic Grand Prix is about to take place. Speed is driving Pops' new design, the Supercharged Formula 1. Princess Gracious, along with her…
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The Secret Invaders, Part 2
Although Speed saved Montebank's life, both men have incurred injuries from the explosion. While they recuperate at National Hospital, a cowardly Vice President Duper and Rudolph Elegantor…
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The Man Behind The Mask
Speed and Trixie are leaving for the North American Grand Prix. The Mach 5 is loaded onto an airplane along with a rocket. In flight, Speed meets Dr. Fantasty, inventor of the rocket's fuel…
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The Car Destroyer
Before the start of an auto race and before the drivers can get to their cars, the vehicles speed away. As the driverless cars leave the stadium, Dr. J. D. Crepit looks on with glee. Later,…
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The Desperate Racer
Speed, Trixie, and Sparky study a map of the Southern Hemisphere Pineapple Grand Prix. A young woman named Eloisa hazard comes to the door. She asks Speed to lose the race so her brother, H…
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The Dangerous Witness
On a plane headed for Hong Kong, Speed is witness to a woman firing a poisonous needle at a man in a nearby seat. When he confronts the woman, he sees that she was hit by a needle the same…
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Race The Laser Tank
Speed wins the Eastern Central Grand Prix. Later that day, a man aims a camera at a young woman named Tanna. A bullet shoots from the camera. The target is missed when Speed and Trixie pull…
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The Great Car Wrestling Match
The mysterious masked driver X (not Racer X) is proclaimed automotive wrestling champion. At the famous Universal Motor Show, Speed, Trixie, Sparky, and Spritle meet Gizmo and his father, w…
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Motorcycle Apaches
Somewhere in the American West, a tribe of motorcycle Apaches attack a convoy of trucks headed for the International Space Development Base. Nearby, Speed wins the Southwest Grand Prix. Tha…
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Car With A Brain
In Scotland, an old retired scientist named Dr. McFife waits for lightning to awaken his armadillo like monster tank. The tank comes to life. It plows through town, destroying everything in…
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Junk Car Grand Prix
In his palatial mansion, Baron Von Vondervon announces that he will hold a Junk Car Grand Prix in honor of his daughter, Yvonne Von Vondervon, who disappeared twelve years ago. The winner w…
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The Car In The Sky
On a stormy night, a bolt of lightning strikes an airplane, causing it to catch fire and crash on an uninhabited island. Pops discovers that the Mach 5 is a casualty while Trixie consoles a…
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The Trick Race
The surviving members of the Car Acrobatic Team meet high in the Bavarian Alps. Their leader, Captain Terror, vows not only to defeat Speed but to destroy him. Late at night Speed dreams ab…
