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Speed Racer takes a victory lap

It must have been the theme song. When that whirring, whirring, whirring prelude came on the TV set in those afternoon-cartoon days of 1967, when there wasn't much else on for your average 10-year-old, you knew the bouncy strains of some clean-cut guitar band was about to draw you in: "Here he comes/Here comes Speed Racer/He's a demon on wheels...."

It did have a look, this 52-episode, redubbed...

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