This article is a list of episodes from the television show Speed Racer in order by production number.
| # | Episode Name | Original air date |
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| 01 | "The Great Plan (Part 1)" | September 14, 1967 (1967-09-14) |
| Aspiring race driver Speed Racer learns that his father, Pops, has quit his job at a major automotive factory because the factory rejected his proposed design of a new engine, so he enters a dangerous mountain race to earn money needed to build the engine, unaware that a rival of Pops has hired Ace Deucy, a hitman, to steal the engine design and it has been drawn in invisible ink into Speed's windshield. At the same time, Speed must deal with an extremely aggressive racer named Skull Duggery. | ||
| 02 | "The Great Plan (Part 2)" | September 15, 1967 |
| Backed by his gang, Ace Deucy pursues Speed and a rival driver who runs afoul of the gang. | ||
| 03 | "Challenge of the Masked Racer (Part 1)" | September 16, 1967 |
| When The Masked Racer, a mysterious race driver considered a dangerous jinx because of fatal crashes in past races, enters a major race, Speed becomes determined to face off against him, a determination that increases when The Masked Racer tries to dissuade Speed from entering – brought on because of the secret that the Masked Racer is in fact Speed's exiled eldest brother, Rex. | ||
| 04 | "Challenge of the Masked Racer (Part 2)" | September 17, 1967 |
| Speed foolishly challenges The Masked Racer to a dangerous pursuit in a driving rainstorm and when a crash ensues he is injured and taken to the mysterious racer's home to regain consciousness. When he awakens he notices an array of white roses, known to be the favorite flowers of his mother (the first hint of suspicion of The Masked Racer's identity by Speed). Trying on the man's mask, he is mistaken for The Masked Racer by gunmen for a rival team and kidnapped. | ||
| 05 | "The Secret Engine (Part 1)" | September 18, 1967 |
| The elderly son of a deceased gangster drives a Model T that contains a code for a missing haul of stolen money, a haul that Tongue Blackguard, a brutal gang leader, is determined to find. | ||
| 06 | "The Secret Engine (Part 2)" | September 21, 1967 |
| Tongue Blaggard captures Speed and also Pops and Speed's girlfriend Trixie Shimura and they find the missing loot, but Blackguard's gang is assaulted by The Masked Racer. | ||
| 07 | "The Race against the Mammoth Car (Part 1)" | September 22, 1967 |
| A 600-foot-long train-like monstrosity is entered in a dangerous open competition race through a mountain area, cover for international gangster Cruncher Bloch to smuggle out $50 million in gold, and when Speed and Trixie run afoul of Bloch's plan in their effort to win the race, the Mammoth Car pursues them and blasts them into a deep lake. | ||
| 08 | "The Race against the Mammoth Car (Part 2)" | September 23, 1967 |
| Speed's pursuit of the Mammoth Car takes him to a vast harbor where the machine is hijacked and disaster ensues. | ||
| 09 | "The Most Dangerous Race (Part 1)" | September 24, 1967 |
| Speed enters The Great Alpine Race, a brutally dangerous mountain contest, after being challenged by a belligerent racer and stunt driver, Snake Oiler, a part of a dangerous cult-like racing team, The Car Acrobatic Team. The race's danger is such that Speed's crew chief, Wilson Sparkolemew, warns him against it, and infuriates Speed to where their relationship nearly ends, and even Racer X – aka The Masked Racer – warns Speed against it. | ||
| 10 | "The Most Dangerous Race (Part 2)" | September 25, 1967 |
| Sparky and Trixie rescue Speed when his brakes prove ineffective in a lethal mountainside curve, and after he rejoins the race he and others run into brutal rains that wash out overhangs, forcing them to have to jump the dangerous chasms. Snake Oiler and Racer X succeed, but when Speed makes the jumps his car crashes into a canyon, and amid the wreckage and loss of life the only sign of Speed in the fatal storm is a small doll given him by his baby brother, Spritle. | ||
| 11 | "The Most Dangerous Race (Part 3)" | September 28, 1967 |
| By a miracle Speed has survived but has suffered a concussion and hysterical blindness, but his determination to win the race against literally all odds touches Racer X to the point he deliberately fakes injury to help navigate Speed to safety – and to warn Oiler when a leakage of oil from his car leads to a near-fatal explosion short of the finish. | ||
| 12 | "Race for Revenge (Part 1)" | September 29, 1967 |
| During a test session Speed is overtaken by a mysterious car numbered X3, whose distinctive engine hum is familiar to a vicious gang of racers known as The Three Roses Club because the engine is from a car whose driver they killed years earlier in a mountain race. When the mysterious driver turns out to be a robot who repeats a prerecorded warning, "Melange still races," it turns out to be the work of "Flash" Marker, the son of the deceased racer who has vowed to destroy the Three Roses Club at the same mountain course where his father was killed. | ||
| 13 | "Race for Revenge (Part 2)" | September 30, 1967 |
| Lilly, the sister of the vengeful Flash Marker, is dragooned into driving the rebuilt Melange to destroy the present members of the Three Roses Club, but disaster strikes when Speed thwarts Marker's plan for vengeance. | ||
| 14 | "The Desperate Desert Race (Part 1)" | October 1, 1967 |
| Speed and another racer, Kim, are airlifted, along with their cars, to Flat Hill Country for a dessert race. When a mysterious time-bomb destroys Kim's race car, the Black Tiger, after it is unloaded from the plane, Spritle is blamed. However, Spritle, while hiding, witnessed the saboteur. Now, Speed must convince Kim, who are sworn enemies to each other, that Spritle is innocent. | ||
| 15 | "The Desperate Desert Race (Part 2)" | October 2, 1967 |
| Kim, who is a leader in the Flat Hill Rebel Army, learns that his car was actually blown up by one of his own in order to ensure he would stay with the army and not enter the dessert race. Kim believes the Flat Hill government is corrupt and that his rebel cause is just. To determine who is the better racer, Speed and Kim decide to race each other. While they are out racing, members of the Rebel Army kidnap Trixie. We learn that it was all a hoax and that their intention was to rule Flat Hill Country for their own selfish purposes. We also learn that they planted a scorpion in Speed and Kim's cars to get rid of them permanently. The government of Flat Hill Country comes to the aid of Kim and Speed, who by now discovered the trick and decide to join forces to fight the Rebels and rescue Trixie. In the end, they succeed and Speed alone enters the Dessert Race, easily winning, with Kim on the sidelines cheering. | ||
| 16 | "The Fire Race (Part 1)" | October 5, 1967 |
| To get the country of Kapetapek to open its boarders the world has agreed to a race with Kabala, a racer who is rumored to cause accidents. The leader of Kapetapek adds that the winner will get to marry his daughter. The race must be completed through a volcano in 5 hours. Adding to the problem a group of racers want to steal the treasure of Kapetapek. In defending the treasure Speed finds out that Racer X has imitated Kabala to repay Kabala for his kindness in teaching him mountain racing skills {the real Kabala was killed in a landslide}. The race ends in a tie with Speed and Racer X the only survivors out of a group of 96 racers. Kapetapek agrees to partly open its boarders. | ||
| 17 | "The Fire Race (Part 2)" | October 6, 1967 |
| 18 | "Girl Daredevil (Part 1)" | October 7, 1967 |
| A car stunt-driver named Twinkle tries to cross Niagara Falls on two rope cables and gets into trouble and Speed naturally drives out to save her. They both fall in and discover a hidden cave where some gangsters lead by a infamous art thief, Brotch, are searching for treasure. Speed and his friends follow Brotch to his hideout in Mount Rushmore, defeat him and rescue Twinkle's father. | ||
| 19 | "Girl Daredevil (Part 2)" | October 8, 1967 |
| 20 | "The Fastest Car on Earth (Part 1)" | October 9, 1967 |
| A woman named Oriena Flux and her henchmen uncover a powerful and dangerous high speed engine called the GRX in order to ensure that they win the Oriental Grand Prix. When they test it on the track, Pops recognizes the sound of the engine and warns Speed not to go near it. Out of suspicion, Pops takes Spritle and Chim-Chim to the cemetery where the engine was buried. They go to Oriena's house afterwards, where Pops demands the engine so he can destroy it like he should've 10 years ago when it was first built. Speed decides that he wants to learn more about the car so he can find a way to beat it in the race, and ends up driving it. The high speed was thrilling to him at first, but they soon overpowered him and he fell unconscious while driving. | ||
| 21 | "The Fastest Car on Earth (Part 2)" | October 12, 1967 |
| Pops, Spritle and Chim-Chim manage to catch up to the car with the GRX's engine and, thanks to Chim-Chim, stop it before it crashes into the ocean. After getting into a fight with Oriena's henchmen, Pops takes Speed home. Speed later wakes up, and after Pops splashes water in his face, is back to normal. During the trial, Oriena and her Henchmen spray the driver of the GRX with a special gas in order to make him able to tolerate the high velocity. However, while he is driving, he drinks water out of desperation and ends up wrecking. Since the old driver is unable to race, Oriena persuades Speed to drive the GRX. They repair it, and spray Speed with the special gas so he can take it out for a test run. During the practice, Pops, Trixie and Spritle find him, and take him away despite his protests. ON the drive home, Trixie lets him have water, which makes him terrified of going fast at all. Pops helps him to overcome his fears, and he finally gets over it during the big race. | ||
| 22 | "Mach 5 vs. Mach 5 (Part 1)" | October 13, 1967 |
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Dr. Nightcall and his daughter trick Speed and use the Mach Five to steal a device called the Mizmo beam and build another Mach Five for their boss Cumulus. In addition to the Mizmo beam, the duplicate Mach Five can sprout small wings allowing it to fly and contains an atom bomb. In this episode Mach Five vs. Mach Five Spritle and Chim Chim make their own Mach Five with A: auto jacks and B: grip tires. Needless to say these features fail so badly that a police officer comments that he should arrest them for such a pathetic display. |
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| 23 | "Mach 5 vs. Mach 5 (Part 2)" | October 14, 1967 |
| Speed chases Cumulus to his undersea base where he learns that Cumulus plans to destroy all the military bases in the world. Dr. Nightcall's daughter is killed trying to stop Cumulus. Cumulus himself is killed when Speed throws him from the duplicate Mach Five. Dr. Nightcall promises to devote his live and the base to undersea research in memory of his daughter. | ||
| 24 | "The Royal Racer (Part 1)" | October 15, 1967 |
| A race for 8 to 13 year olds. Spritle complains about being allowed in the race, but Pops reminds him that he will not turn 8 until two days after the race. In escaping from a kidnap plot to put Prince Sugarin on the throne, Prince Jam and Spritle collide into each other and are mistaken for each other. During the race, the plotters try to take out 'Prince Jam'. Later there is a rush to find the real prince and finally Prince Jam is crowned. The race is rerun the next day and Spritle is allowed in because they crossed the International Date line flying to Saccharin making it one day later than they thought it was. | ||
| 25 | "The Royal Racer (Part 2)" | October 16, 1967 |
| 26 | "The Car Hater" | October 19, 1967 |
| 27 | "The Terrifying Gambler" | October 20, 1967 |
| A criminal hijacks the Mach Five during the Monte Carlo Rally. Speed later identifies the man, who is a famous gambler, Mr. Fastbucks, but can't prove it. When he confronts Mr. Fastbucks, Speed is told his master plan: Mr. Fastbucks has bought up coal and train companies and by blowing up the world's gas supplies, he will become fabulously rich. Instead it is Mr. Fastbucks who gets blown up. | ||
| 28 | "The Race against Time (Part 1)" | October 21, 1967 |
| Speed Racer meets a scientist named Digger O. Bone who asks him with his dying breath to take care of his daughter Calcia. Unfortunately for Speed, Calcia has hit her head and thinks she is Cleopatra. Under the evil influence of Splint Femur, Calcia has kidnapped Trixie threatening her with death. Speed must survive lions and guards while racing the clock to save Trixie. | ||
| 29 | "The Race against Time (Part 2)" | October 26, 1967 |
| 30 | "The Snake Track" | October 27, 1967 |
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Speed is training for the Super Car Race on the Snack Track which is a new course that has seven curves. After a day of training Speed meets Rock Force who outmaneuvers some gangsters by driving his car on two wheels. While talking to Rock Force Speed notices that the car has a special automatic transmission. After the gangsters wreck his car Mr. Force comes to Pops Racer to have it fixed. Speed and Mr. Force get into a fight and Mr. Force reveals that he cannot use his right arm and wears a metal brace on it. Mr. Force tells how he accepted money to throw a race but won it anyhow. The gangsters then crippled his right arm to prevent him from racing and have now wrecked his car. While Pops fixes the car Speed challenges him to drive the Mach Five with its manual transmission to help 'wake up' his right arm. The next day Mr. Force wins the Snake Track race but the gangsters come forward and reveal that he cannot use his right arm. Mr. Force proceeds to punch out the gangsters and Speed grabs his arm. They then both realize that he punched out the men with his right arm; his arm has completely healed. The racing official then chastises the gangsters for lying to him. Speed then tells his friend Rock that he will beat him the next time they meet. Given the bad puns that seem to abound in Speed Racer it should be obvious that Dr. Digger O. Bone and Splint Femur are both archeologists. |
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| 31 | "The Man on the Lam" | October 28, 1967 |
| 32 | "Gang of Assassins (Part 1)" | November 2, 1967 |
| Ninjas kidnap ``the worlds diplomats from some peace conference, because they want to start a war. | ||
| 33 | "Gang of Assassins (Part 2)" | November 3, 1967 |
| 34 | "The Race for Life" | November 4, 1967 |
| Speed is in Mexico and must obtain a serum to save the life of a the mayor of a village that is in danger of falling into the hands of the man whom poisoned him. | ||
| 35 | "The Supersonic Car" | November 9, 1967 |
| Vavoom Motor Co. is trying to build a supersonic car, which Speed is testing. Agents from Forthebird Motor Co. sabotage the car, and blame Speed for the accident. They demand a new test driver, but Speed enters their driving tests, and proves again that he is the best driver. Agents from Forthebird Motors put a bomb on the finish line to destroy the car, but Spritle overhears them, and warns Speed. | ||
| 36 | "Crash in the Jungle (Part 1)" | November 10, 1967 |
| After a plane crash, Speed is stranded on an island where the exiled General Smasher is creating giant monsters. Speed becomes essentially a ``jungle boy (complete with swinging on vines and clothes ripped to shreds) trying to stop General Smasher. | ||
| 37 | "Crash in the Jungle (Part 2)" | November 11, 1967 |
| 38 | "The Secret Invaders (Part 1)" | November 16, 1967 |
| 39 | "The Secret Invaders (Part 2)" | November 17, 1967 |
| An assassin is foiled while trying to kill Princess Gracious of Ambrocia. They know that some racer flashed his mirror, blinding the assassin. It was actually Racer-X, but they assume it was Speed and try and take him out. After Speed saves President Montebank from being blown up the assassins show up and knock out Speed. One of them uses a Speed Racer face mask (al la Mission Impossible) to take Speed to a remote location and push him and the Mach Five over a cliff. Faking his own death Speed then goes and defeats the gang of assassins. {This may have been followed up in 'the Trick Race'}. | ||
| 40 | "Man Behind the Mask" | November 18, 1967 |
| Speed is scheduled to compete in the North American Grand Prix and rides on the same plane as Dr. Fantasty. At the same time, Spritle and Chim Chim stow away to see Speed race. While Speed and Trixie are learning of Dr. Fantasty's rocket fuel engine, the plane they are on is hijacked by strange masked men who direct the plane to an uncharted island. Once their, Speed, Trixie, Spritle, Chim Chim, and Dr. Fantasty meet the masked men's masked leader Mark Meglaton who plans to force Speed and Dr. Fantasty to help steal art from around the world followed by a plot for world domination by launching missiles at the Earth's major cities. It's up to Pops and Racer X to come to the rescue and help to defeat Mark Meglaton. | ||
| 41 | "The Car Destroyer" | August 18, 1968 |
| A man uses small cars which allow him to control real cars that he then melts down and uses to build a forest complete with robotic animals. He is destroying cars because his son was crippled by a hit and run driver, but it is reveled that his son can really walk and was kept in the wheelchair by his father. | ||
| 42 | "The Desperate Racer" | August 19, 1968 |
| Speed has entered the Pineapple Grand-Prix, where each driver has to carry a pineapple in his car. Someone has hidden a diamond in one of the pineapples, so criminals are stealing the fruits from the drivers. | ||
| 43 | "The Dangerous Witness" | August 22, 1968 |
| 44 | "Race the Laser Tank" | August 23, 1968 |
| 45 | "Great Car Wrestling Match" | August 24, 1968 |
| 46 | "Motorcycle Apaches" | August 25, 1968 |
| 47 | "Car with a Brain" | August 26, 1968 |
| 48 | "Junk Car Grand Prix" | August 29, 1968 |
| 49 | "The Car in the Sky" | August 30, 1968 |
| 50 | "The Trick Race" | August 31, 1968 |
| 51 | "Race Around the World (Part 1)" | September 1, 1968 |
| 52 | "Race Around the World (Part 2)" | September 2, 1968 |
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