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Speed Racer Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
52 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
The Great Plan: Part 1
Sat, Sep 23, 196723 mins
Speed Racer enters his first race to win money for his family. Meanwhile, a gang of robbers are after Pops's secret plans... which he hid in the windshield of Speed's car.
Episode 2
The Great Plan: Part 2
Sat, Sep 23, 196724 mins
Speed continues his race, and the robbers continue their attempts to capture Speed.
Episode 3
Challenge of the Masked Racer: Part 1
Sat, Sep 30, 196724 mins
Speed's first encounter with Racer X, a mysterious masked driver who is rumored to cause car crashes whenever he races.
Episode 4
Challenge of the Masked Racer: Part 2
Sat, Sep 30, 196724 mins
Speed Racer and Racer X participate in the Trans-Country race... as well as competitors who stoop to dirty tricks to get rid of them.
Episode 5
The Secret Engine: Part 1
Sat, Oct 7, 196724 mins
Speed tries to help an old man find his stolen car. It turns out the car has a map to a treasure, which a criminal mastermind is prepared to get at any cost.
Episode 6
The Secret Engine: Part 2
Sat, Oct 7, 196724 mins
Speed leads Blaggard's men to the treasure but manages to alert his family and Trixie. The stage is set for a great battle.
Episode 7
The Race Against the Mammoth Car: Part 1
Sat, Oct 14, 196723 mins
Speed takes part in a race where any sort of car can participate. He soon faces off with a very dangerous 200-yard mammoth car.
Episode 8
The Race Against the Mammoth Car: Part 2
Sat, Oct 14, 196723 mins
Speed and Trixie survive the Mammoth Car, but it continues its mysterious journey even beyond the racetrack. What is its secret?
Episode 9
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 1
Sat, Oct 21, 196723 mins
Speed takes part in a mountain race, considered with its gorges and landslides to be the most dangerous race ever. It's about to live up to that reputation.
Episode 10
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 2
Sat, Oct 21, 196723 mins
The Alpine Car Race continues, but a yawning chasm causes a major standstill. Who will risk their lives to cross over it?
Episode 11
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 3
Sat, Oct 21, 196723 mins
It's the final lap of the Alpine Race, but Speed Racer is blinded and Racer X's legs are broken. How can they go on?
Episode 12
Race for Revenge: Part 1
Sat, Oct 28, 196724 mins
The son of murdered racecar driver Flash Marker seeks revenge on the rival drivers who killed him.
Episode 13
Race for Revenge: Part 2
Sat, Oct 28, 196724 mins
Speed and Trixie try to stop Flash Jr from carrying out his vengeance, but he swears to eliminate them for interfering.
Episode 14
The Desperate Desert Race: Part 1
Sat, Nov 4, 196724 mins
Speed is forced into a duel-race in the desert with Prince Kim Jugger, the wildest driver in the world.
Episode 15
The Desperate Desert Race: Part 2
Sat, Nov 4, 196724 mins
Speed and Kim team up together to save Kim's country of Flathill from being taken over by criminal revolutionaries.
Episode 16
The Fire Race: Part 1
Sat, Nov 11, 196724 mins
The Inca land of Kapetepek, noted for its secrecy and treasures, hosts a race with foreign and native drivers. To ensure their land's privacy, the Kapetepekan drivers must win, at any cost.
Episode 17
The Fire Race: Part 2
Sat, Nov 11, 196724 mins
The race in Kapetepek continues.
Episode 18
Girl Daredevil: Part 1
Sat, Nov 18, 196723 mins
The Mach 5 team befriends Twinkle Banks, an acrobat whose family circus is being rendered bankrupt by a gang of crooks.
Episode 19
Girl Daredevil: Part 2
Sat, Nov 18, 196724 mins
Brotch and his cronies imprison Speed and Twinke in a cave and head off to their Mt Rushmore lair. But it doesn't take long before the two escape and a major fight breaks out.
Episode 20
The Fastest Car on Earth: Part 1
Sat, Nov 25, 196724 mins
Pops is horrified at the return of the GRX, a supernaturally powerful engine that has ended up killing or harming every one of its drivers.
Episode 21
The Fastest Car on Earth: Part 2
Sat, Nov 25, 196723 mins
Speed is crippled with a fear of driving after one round in the GRX. Can he pull himself back together in time for his next race?
Episode 22
Mach Five vs. Mach Five: Part 1
Fri, Dec 1, 196724 mins
Speed is framed for robbery by Mr Cumulus, who has had a duplicate Mach 5 built for his own ends.
Episode 23
Mach Five vs. Mach Five: Part 2
Fri, Dec 1, 196724 mins
Cumulus attempts to take over the world, setting the stage for a showdown between the two Mach 5 automobiles.
Episode 24
The Royal Racer: Part 1
Fri, Dec 8, 196723 mins
Pops has been commissioned by the King of Sakarin to build a smaller race car for his young son, Prince Jam, to race in the Baby Grand Prix. The race will be held to celebrate his coronation to King. Spritle is anxious to go and race but Pops firmly tells him no. Naturally, Spritle and Chim Chim stow away and upon landing promptly get into trouble. Spritle and the Prince are dead ringers for each other and as the Prince is dodging villains out to kidnap him he and Spritle are mistaken for each other and Spritle prepares to race and the Prince is held at bay by Pops and Speed. Spritle is in a great deal of trouble as there is a plot to put Jam's brother Sugarin on the throne.
Episode 25
The Royal Racer: Part 2
Fri, Dec 8, 196723 mins
Spritle survives the attempt on his life by the Effendum's henchmen thanks to Speed's timely rescue. Effendum blames Pops for the car's failure to perform and has Pops and Trixie arrested. The Effendum convinces the King that Prince Jam was killed in the race and his plot to put Sugarin on the throne commences. It's up to Speed and Spritle to rally the other racers to the cause and defeat the Effendum and his nefarious plot.
Episode 26
The Car Hater
Fri, Dec 15, 196723 mins
Due to his son's death by way of car accident, a father thinks to rid the world of automobiles by booby trapping them one by one. His estranged daughter, Jeannine, along with Speed and Trixy try to stop him. Sparky also makes an appearance in this episode.
Episode 27
The Terrifying Gambler
Fri, Dec 15, 196723 mins
Speed is competing in the Monte Carlo Rally in order to qualify for the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. As he is driving he is shot at by a mysterious man named Mr. Flashbucks, who then demands that the duo drive him to Monte Carlo. Speed and Trixie later confront him in the casino where he denies ever meeting them. Speed then visits Flashbucks in his hotel room and he later admits that he is the man who carjacked them and that he is on the run. He then captures Speed and takes him to his hideout in the Alps where he reveals a plan to destroy all the oil refineries in the world in order to realize his scheme of forcing the world to run on electricity only, due to the fact that he owns a lot of stock in electric trains. He demonstrates this by blowing up the cars on the starting grid of the race. Trixie, Sparky, Sprytle and Chim Chim head off to the alps to try to find Speed. Can they stop Flashbucks before he carries out his mad scheme.
Episode 28
The Race Against Time: Part 1
Fri, Dec 22, 196723 mins
Speed and Trixie scour the Sahara for an archaeologist's daughter, and come across a fantastic kingdom.
Episode 29
The Race Against Time: Part 2
Fri, Dec 22, 196723 mins
Speed and Trixie are made slaves and ordered to dig up treasure. But Speed has an escape and rescue plan in mind.
Episode 30
The Snake Track
Fri, Dec 29, 196723 mins
Speed learns to master the Snake Track, a course with strategically placed curves, with the help of Rock Force, a one-armed driver.
Episode 31
The Man on the Lam
Fri, Dec 29, 196723 mins
An escaped convict returns to his home to encounter his very young, sightless daughter, Delicia. He himself takes the blame for her blindness. Spritle is her best friend, and he, Speed and Chim-Chim are soon arriving at her home. A scuffle ensues and the convict leaves in the Mach 5 taking Speed and Spritle with him as hostages. He's on his way to recover hidden money but unfortunately a criminal gang has heard about his escape and are in pursuit as well.
Episode 32
Gang of Assassins: Part 1
Fri, Jan 5, 196823 mins
While sightseeing in Japan, the Mach 5 team crosses paths with a gang of assassins who are out to sabotage an international peace conference.
Episode 33
Gang of Assassins: Part 2
Fri, Jan 5, 196823 mins
Speed learns to his disgust that Racer X has joined the assassins. But is it for real?
Episode 34
The Race for Life
Fri, Jan 12, 196823 mins
The young mayor of the South American village of Tonado is dying of poison. Speed volunteers to drive to Dominic and back to get the antidote, but someone is out to stop him.
Episode 35
The Supersonic Car
Fri, Jan 12, 196823 mins
A supersonic car built by the Racers is sabotaged and they are framed for its bad performance. Now they must work to foil the saboteurs and save their reputation.
Episode 36
Crash in the Jungle: Part 1
Fri, Jan 19, 196823 mins
Speed heads to Nairobi for the Trans-African Grand Prix. But en route he is dumped into the jungle and must fend for himself amidst giant spiders and gargantuan gorillas.
Episode 37
Crash in the Jungle: Part 2
Fri, Jan 19, 196823 mins
Speed, Trixie, Sprytle and Chim-Chim are captured by a ruthless dictator's jungle army who plans to take over the world.
Episode 38
The Secret Invaders: Part 1
Fri, Jan 26, 196822 mins
The Mach 5 team come across yet another band of assassins seeking to take over the kingdoms of Ambrocia and Abalonia.
Episode 39
The Secret Invaders: Part 2
Fri, Jan 26, 196823 mins
Speed Racer fakes his death to draw out Elegantor and his assassins.
Episode 40
The Man Behind the Mask
Fri, Feb 2, 196824 mins
A masked maniac takes the Mach 5 team hostage and forces Speed to carry out art gallery robberies.
Episode 41
The Car Destroyer
Fri, Feb 2, 196823 mins
Dr J.D. Crepit, a mad scientist who hates cars because his son was crippled in an auto accident, plots to destroy all the cars in the world.
Episode 42
The Desperate Racer
Fri, Feb 9, 196822 mins
Trixie wants Speed to lose a race, so that her friend's brother will win and use the prize money to heal her. Meanwhile, a royal jewel is hidden inside a pineapple - one of many given to the competing racers.
Episode 43
The Dangerous Witness
Fri, Feb 9, 196823 mins
Speed is asked by the Chinese Princess Pedal to be her bodyguard, as a gang of assassins have taken a job on her.
Episode 44
Race the Laser Tank
Fri, Feb 16, 196823 mins
A gang of crooks have captured top-secret plans for a new weapon: a tank with a laser device. When Speed tries to interfere, they decide to test the tank on him.
Episode 45
The Great Car Wrestling Match
Fri, Feb 16, 196823 mins
Speed discovers that a former racing driver Gadge Zoomer has taken to car wrestling (demolition derbies) to support his family, and attempts to get him to leave this destructive sport.
Episode 46
Motorcycle Apaches
Fri, Feb 23, 196823 mins
A astronomical base in the Southwest is being terrorized by a band of apaches on motorcycles, and calls Speed for help.
Episode 47
Car with a Brain
Fri, Feb 23, 196823 mins
A mad scientist brings to life a monster car that wreaks mayhem and destruction across the country. Can Speed stop it?
Episode 48
Junk Car Grand Prix
Fri, Mar 1, 196823 mins
The Junkyard Grand Prix is hosted by a rich baron in honour of his missing daughter. But in fact she appears in the race as an unknowing competitor to Speed.
Episode 49
The Car in the Sky
Fri, Mar 1, 196822 mins
When the Racers crash on a deserted island with no food or water, they turn the Mach 5 into a makeshift aircraft in order to go for help.
Episode 50
The Trick Race
Fri, Mar 8, 196823 mins
Exactly a year after the Alpine Race, the Car Acrobat Team challenges Speed Racer to a race to determine the superior driver. But all is not what it seems...
Episode 51
Race Around the World: Part 1
Fri, Mar 15, 196823 mins
Speed takes part in the most important race of his career, the Around the World Grand Prix.
Episode 52
Race Around the World: Part 2
Fri, Mar 15, 196823 mins
Hindered by unscrupulous rivals, obstacles, and his own self, can Speed win the most important race of his career?