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The Desperate Racer

S1 : E42

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Aired: 02.09.68

Trixie wants Speed to lose a race, so that her friend's brother will win and use the prize money to heal her.

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An 18-year-old driver competes on the international racing circuit.

Cast

Peter Fernandez, Jack Grimes, Jack Curtis

Executive Producers

Tatsuo Yoshida

full-episodes (52)

The Great Plan: Part 1

S1 : E1 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 09.23.67

Speed Racer enters his first race to win money for his family.
The Great Plan: Part 2

S1 : E2 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 09.24.67

Speed continues his race, and the robbers continue their attempts to capture Speed.
Challenge Of The Masked Racer: Part 1

S1 : E3 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 09.30.67

Speed's first encounter with Racer X, a mysterious masked driver who is rumored to cause car crashes whenever he races.
Challenge Of The Masked Racer: Part 2

S1 : E4 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 09.30.67

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.
The Secret Engine: Part 1

S1 : E5 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 10.07.67

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.
The Secret Engine: Part 2

S1 : E6 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 10.07.67

Speed leads Blaggard's men to the treasure but manages to alert his family and Trixie. The stage is set for a great battle.
The Race Against The Mammoth Car: Part 1

S1 : E7 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 10.14.67

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.
The Race Against The Mammoth Car: Part 2

S1 : E8 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 10.14.67

Speed and Trixie survive the Mammoth Car, but it continues its mysterious journey even beyond the racetrack. What is its secret?
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 1

S1 : E9 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 10.21.67

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.
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 2

S1 : E10 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 10.21.67

The Alpine Car Race continues, but a yawning chasm causes a major standstill. Who will risk their lives to cross over it?
The Most Dangerous Race: Part 3

S1 : E11 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 10.21.67

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?
Race For Revenge: Part 1

S1 : E12 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 10.28.67

The son of murdered racecar driver Flash Marker seeks revenge on the rival drivers who killed him.
Race For Revenge: Part 2

S1 : E13 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 10.28.67

Speed and Trixie try to stop Flash Jr from carrying out his vengeance, but he swears to eliminate them for interfering.
The Desperate Desert Race: Part 1

S1 : E14 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.04.67

Speed is forced into a duel-race in the desert with Prince Kim Jugger, the wildest driver in the world.
The Desperate Desert Race: Part 2

S1 : E15 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.04.67

Speed and Kim team up together to save Kim's country of Flathill from being taken over by criminal revolutionaries.
The Fire Race: Part 1

S1 : E16 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.11.67

The Inca land of Kapetepek, noted for its secrecy and treasures, hosts a race with foreign and native drivers.
The Fire Race: Part 2

S1 : E17 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.11.67

The race in Kapetepek continues.
Girl Daredevil: Part 1

S1 : E18 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 11.18.67

The Mach 5 team befriends Twinkle Banks, an acrobat whose family circus is being rendered bankrupt by a gang of crooks.
Girl Daredevil: Part 2

S1 : E19 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.18.67

Brotch and his cronies imprison Speed and Twinke in a cave and head off to their Mt Rushmore lair.
The Fastest Car On Earth: Part 1

S1 : E20 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 11.25.67

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.
The Fastest Car On Earth: Part 2

S1 : E21 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 11.25.67

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?
Mach 5 vs Mach 5: Part 1

S1 : E22 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 12.01.67

Speed is framed for robbery by Mr Cumulus, who has had a duplicate Mach 5 built for his own ends.
Mach 5 vs Mach 5: Part 2

S1 : E23 | TV-Y7 | 25 min | Aired: 12.01.67

Cumulus attempts to take over the world, setting the stage for a showdown between the two Mach 5 automobiles.
The Royal Racer: Part 1

S1 : E24 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.08.67

While the Racers enjoy a trip to the Eastern Kingdom of Saccharin, Spritle is mistaken for Prince Jam, heir to the throne, and the two end up swapping lives.
The Royal Racer: Part 2

S1 : E25 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.08.67

Spritle and Prince Jam team up to save the Racer family and the kingdom of Saccharin.
The Car Hater

S1 : E26 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.15.67

Mr Trotter, a man who hates cars ever since his son perished in an auto accident, sets out to rid the world of cars.
The Race Against Time: Episode 1

S1 : E27 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.22.67

Speed and Trixie scour the Sahara for an archaeologist's daughter, and come across a fantastic kingdom.
The Race Against Time: Episode 2

S1 : E28 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.22.67

Speed and Trixie are made slaves and ordered to dig up treasure. But Speed has an escape and rescue plan in mind.
The Snake Track

S1 : E29 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.29.67

Speed learns to master the Snake Track, a course with strategically placed curves, with the help of Rock Force, a one-armed driver.
The Man On The Lam

S1 : E30 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.29.67

Speed is taken hostage by Lawson Lamster, an escaped convict searching for the money he stole before being captured.
Gang Of Assassins: Episode 1

S1 : E31 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.05.68

While sightseeing in Japan, the Mach 5 team crosses paths with a gang of assassins who are out to sabotage an international peace conference.
Gang Of Assassins: Episode 2

S1 : E32 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.05.68

Speed learns to his disgust that Racer X has joined the assassins. But is it for real?
The Race For Life

S1 : E33 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.12.68

The young mayor of the South American village of Tonado is dying of poison.
The Supersonic Car

S1 : E34 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.12.68

A supersonic car built by the Racers is sabotaged and they are framed for its bad performance.
Crash In The Jungle: Episode 1

S1 : E35 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.19.68

Speed heads to Nairobi for the Trans-African Grand Prix.
Crash In The Jungle: Episode 2

S1 : E36 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.19.68

Speed, Trixie, Sprytle and Chim-Chim are captured by a ruthless dictator's jungle army who plans to take over the world.
The Terrifying Gambler

S1 : E37 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 12.15.67

The Mach 5 team crosses paths with Mr Fastbucks, a wanted criminal with a taste for gambling and who's rigged Speed's latest race with explosives.
The Secret Invaders: Episode 1

S1 : E38 | TV-Y7 | 23 min | Aired: 01.26.68

The Mach 5 team come across yet another band of assassins seeking to take over the kingdoms of Ambrocia and Abalonia.
The Secret Invaders: Episode 2

S1 : E39 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 01.26.68

Speed Racer fakes his death to draw out Elegantor and his assassins.
The Man Behind The Mask

S1 : E40 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.02.68

A masked maniac takes the Mach 5 team hostage and forces Speed to carry out art gallery robberies.
The Car Destroyer

S1 : E41 | TV-Y7 | 23 min | Aired: 02.02.68

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.
The Desperate Racer

S1 : E42 | TV-Y7 | 23 min | Aired: 02.09.68

Trixie wants Speed to lose a race, so that her friend's brother will win and use the prize money to heal her.
The Dangerous Witness

S1 : E43 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.09.68

Speed is asked by the Chinese Princess Pedal to be her bodyguard, as a gang of assassins have taken a job on her.
Race The Laser Tank

S1 : E44 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.16.68

A gang of crooks have captured top-secret plans for a new weapon: a tank with a laser device.
The Great Car Wrestling Match

S1 : E45 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.16.68

Speed discovers that a former racing driver Gadge Zoomer has taken to car wrestling (demolition derbies) to support his family.
Motorcycle Apaches

S1 : E46 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.23.68

A astronomical base in the Southwest is being terrorized by a band of apaches on motorcycles, and calls Speed for help.
Car With A Brain

S1 : E47 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 02.23.68

A mad scientist brings to life a monster car that wreaks mayhem and destruction across the country. Can Speed stop it?
Junk Car Grand Prix

S1 : E48 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 03.01.68

The Junkyard Grand Prix is hosted by a rich baron in honour of his missing daughter.
The Car In The Sky

S1 : E49 | TV-Y7 | 23 min | Aired: 03.01.68

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.
The Trick Race

S1 : E50 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 03.08.68

Exactly a year after the Alpine Race, the Car Acrobat Team challenges Speed Racer to a race to determine the superior driver.
The Race Around The World: Episode 1

S1 : E51 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 03.15.68

Speed takes part in the most important race of his career, the Around the World Grand Prix.
The Race Around The World: Episode 2

S1 : E52 | TV-Y7 | 24 min | Aired: 03.15.68

Hindered by unscrupulous rivals, obstacles, and his own self, can Speed win the most important race of his career?

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