Speed Racer

Speed Racer show opening.

The richest man in the world has offered a mountain of gold and the hand of his lovely daughter as first prize. Join Speed in the grandest of grand finales in the final episode of the Classic Speed Racer television series.

Speed Racer and his best friend Sparky are competing in the most fantastic race ever held, the grueling 25,000 mile race around the world Grand Prix.

It’s been one year since Speed Racer beat the car acrobatic team, and now they want revenge! Meanwhile, the syndicate, International Spies, led by Mr. Supremo, plans to get rid of Speed’s protector, Racer X.

In honor of his missing daughter, Baron Von Vondervon puts up a huge amount of money for the Junk Car Grand Prix, a race in which the competing cars must be constructed from piles of junk and only female drivers may enter.

Speed needs to compete in one more Grand Prix in order to qualify for the world championship. En route to the qualifying race, his plane crashes on a remote island and the Mach 5 is damaged.

Speed is asked to help the Office of Space Development to get a shipment of Uraniumtane through to the International Space Development Base which is being built somewhere in “the American West”.

From somewhere in the hills of Scotland, a mad scientist, Dr. McFife, unleashes a monster car with a brain and no one is safe.

Speed enters a dangerous car wrestling match in which heavily armed cars try to smash each other to bits.

Speed Racer has just won the Great Eastern Central Grand Prix when he is fired on by unknown assailants. Later, after arriving in Hawaii for his next race, he is still being pursued by a gang of criminals wanted by the International Secret Service.

On the way to the Hong Kong International Grand Prix, Speed Racer is witness to a horrible crime and is thrust into a world of international espionage and intrigue.

Speed Racer is all revved up for the distinguished Southern Hemisphere Pineapple Grand Prix in which the drivers must carry a pineapple in their car as they cross the finish line.

Speed Racer and Trixie are on their way to the North American Grand Prix when the plane they are flying in is hijacked bu a band of masked men.

It’s one of those rare times when Speed Racer is at a race as a spectator and not as a participant. All of sudden the race cars start up by themselves and smash through the guardrails, speeding off without their drivers!

The mysterious RacerX foils the assassination plot in Ambrocia when the race is moved to the country of Abalonia. The assassins follow, intent on killing their next target, President Montebank of Abalonia.

The exotic city of Ambrocia hosts the world famous Mystic Grand Prix. A gang of terrorists plan a take over the country, deposing the ruling monarchy, Prince Snowier and Princess Gracious. The mysterious RacerX foils the assassination plot.

Speed uncovers a diabolical scheme involving human and animal mutations, warring political factions and the evil General Smasher - all of which Speed has to deal with before he competes in the race.

Days before the Trans Africa Grand Prix, Speed Racer meets a professor investigating the local legend of huge monsters that inhabit a mysterious island. Little does Speed know that he too will soon come face to face with unexpected creatures.

Speed Racer has been hired by the Baboom Motor Company to test drive the Supersonic Rocket Car, a new rocket-powered car designed by Pops Racer. Expected to break all known speed records, the car blows up soon after tests begin.