Speed Racer season 1 The Car in the Sky - Metacritic

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TV-PG
Syndicated
Mar 1, 1968
22 m

TV-PG
Syndicated
Mar 1, 1968
22 m

Speed Racer

Summary Speed Racer is a show featuring a young racer named Speed and his ultimate driving machine, the Mach 5. Originally aired in Japan as Mahha Go Go Go (translation: Mach Five Go Go - "go" also means five), Speed Racer combines racing with international intrigue. Joining Speed is an unforgettable cast of characters, including Mom and Pops Ra...

Directed By: Hiroshi Sasagawa

Written By: Tatsuo Yoshida, Jinzô Toriumi

TV-PG
Syndicated
Mar 1, 1968
22 m

TV-PG
Syndicated
Mar 1, 1968
22 m

S1 • Episode 49

The Car in the Sky

Air Date: Mar 1, 1968

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Summary Speed Racer is a show featuring a young racer named Speed and his ultimate driving machine, the Mach 5. Originally aired in Japan as Mahha Go Go Go (translation: Mach Five Go Go - "go" also means five), Speed Racer combines racing with international intrigue. Joining Speed is an unforgettable cast of characters, including Mom and Pops Ra...

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Episode 1 • Apr 2, 1967 • 23 m

The Great Plan: Part 1

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 • Apr 9, 1967 • 24 m

The Great Plan: Part 2

Speed continues his race, and the robbers continue their attempts to capture Speed.

Episode 3 • Apr 16, 1967 • 24 m

Challenge of the Masked Racer: Part 1

Speed's first encounter with Racer X, a mysterious masked driver who is rumored to cause car crashes whenever he races.

Episode 4 • Apr 23, 1967 • 24 m

Challenge of the Masked Racer: Part 2

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 • Apr 30, 1967 • 24 m

The Secret Engine: Part 1

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 • May 7, 1967 • 24 m

The Secret Engine: Part 2

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 • May 14, 1967 • 23 m

The Race Against the Mammoth Car: Part 1

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 • May 21, 1967 • 23 m

The Race Against the Mammoth Car: Part 2

Speed and Trixie survive the Mammoth Car, but it continues its mysterious journey even beyond the racetrack. What is its secret?

Episode 9 • May 28, 1967 • 23 m

The Most Dangerous Race: Part 1

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 • Jun 4, 1967 • 23 m

The Most Dangerous Race: Part 2

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

Episode 11 • Jun 11, 1967 • 23 m

The Most Dangerous Race: Part 3

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 • Jun 18, 1967 • 24 m

Race for Revenge: Part 1

The son of murdered racecar driver Flash Marker seeks revenge on the rival drivers who killed him.

Episode 13 • Jun 25, 1967 • 24 m

Race for Revenge: Part 2

Speed and Trixie try to stop Flash Jr from carrying out his vengeance, but he swears to eliminate them for interfering.

Episode 14 • Jul 2, 1967 • 24 m

The Desperate Desert Race: Part 1

Speed is forced into a duel-race in the desert with Prince Kim Jugger, the wildest driver in the world.

Episode 15 • Jul 9, 1967 • 24 m

The Desperate Desert Race: Part 2

Speed and Kim team up together to save Kim's country of Flathill from being taken over by criminal revolutionaries.

Episode 16 • Jul 16, 1967 • 24 m

The Fire Race: Part 1

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 • Jul 23, 1967 • 24 m

The Fire Race: Part 2

The race in Kapetepek continues.

Episode 18 • Jul 30, 1967 • 23 m

Girl Daredevil: Part 1

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

Episode 19 • Aug 6, 1967 • 24 m

Girl Daredevil: Part 2

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 • Aug 13, 1967 • 24 m

The Fastest Car on Earth: Part 1

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 • Aug 20, 1967 • 23 m

The Fastest Car on Earth: Part 2

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 • Aug 27, 1967 • 24 m

Mach Five vs. Mach Five: Part 1

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

Episode 23 • Sep 3, 1967 • 24 m

Mach Five vs. Mach Five: Part 2

Cumulus attempts to take over the world, setting the stage for a showdown between the two Mach 5 automobiles.

Episode 24 • Sep 10, 1967 • 23 m

The Royal Racer: Part 1

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.

Episode 25 • Sep 17, 1967 • 23 m

The Royal Racer: Part 2

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

Episode 26 • Sep 24, 1967 • 23 m

Mr Trotter, a man who hates cars ever since his son perished in an auto accident, sets out to rid the world of cars.

Episode 27 • Oct 1, 1967 • 23 m

The Terrifying Gambler

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.

Episode 28 • Oct 8, 1967 • 23 m

The Race Against Time: Part 1

Speed and Trixie scour the Sahara for an archaeologist's daughter, and come across a fantastic kingdom.

Episode 29 • Oct 15, 1967 • 23 m

The Race Against Time: Part 2

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

Episode 30 • Oct 22, 1967 • 23 m

The Snake Track

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 • Oct 29, 1967 • 23 m

The Man on the Lam

Speed is taken hostage by Lawson Lamster, an escaped convict searching for the money he stole before being captured. Unfortunately, Lamster's partners are right on his tail.

Episode 32 • Nov 5, 1967 • 23 m

Gang of Assassins: Part 1

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 • Nov 12, 1967 • 23 m

Gang of Assassins: Part 2

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

Episode 34 • Nov 19, 1967 • 23 m

The Race for Life

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 • Nov 26, 1967 • 23 m

The Supersonic Car

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 • Dec 3, 1967 • 23 m

Crash in the Jungle: Part 1

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 • Dec 10, 1967 • 23 m

Crash in the Jungle: Part 2

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

Episode 38 • Dec 17, 1967 • 22 m

The Secret Invaders: Part 1

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

Episode 39 • Dec 24, 1967 • 23 m

The Secret Invaders: Part 2

Speed Racer fakes his death to draw out Elegantor and his assassins.

Episode 40 • Jan 7, 1968 • 24 m

The Man Behind the Mask

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

Episode 41 • Jan 14, 1968 • 23 m

The Car Destroyer

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 • Jan 21, 1968 • 22 m

The Desperate Racer

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 • Jan 28, 1968 • 23 m

The Dangerous Witness

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 • Feb 4, 1968 • 23 m

Race the Laser Tank

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 • Feb 11, 1968 • 23 m

The Great Car Wrestling Match

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 • Feb 18, 1968 • 23 m

Motorcycle Apaches

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

Episode 47 • Feb 23, 1968 • 23 m

Car with a Brain

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

Episode 48 • Mar 1, 1968 • 23 m

Junk Car Grand Prix

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 • Mar 1, 1968 • 22 m

The Car in the Sky

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 • Mar 8, 1968 • 23 m

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 • Mar 15, 1968 • 23 m

Race Around the World: Part 1

Speed takes part in the most important race of his career, the Around the World Grand Prix.

Episode 52 • Mar 15, 1968 • 23 m

Race Around the World: Part 2

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

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