15x1 - Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted

May 18, 1979

Mondo Nakamura’s wife and coworkers think he’s incompetent. But at night he sheds his civil servant disguise, and teams up with Tetsu and Jo to fight crime and corruption.

15x2 - The Bloody Wish Left in Prison

May 25, 1979

Is a mysterious woman killing wealthy Soybean wholesalers and leaving playing cards on their bodies? In a strange twist, they become bodyguards for the next likely target.

15x3 - No Pity for the Outcasts

June 1, 1979

When Kanoke and Nebutsu are arrested after assassinating a rapist without Mondo’s help, Mondo must rescue them from a corrupt police official who murders girls for profit.

15x4 - Human Trash, Human Payment

June 8, 1979

When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.

15x5 - Hang Buddha!

June 15, 1979

The ruthless Daihachi of the Back Daruma Gang wants to drive a sweet potato shop’s owner off his land, so the owner turns to his old prison buddy, Nenbutsu, for help.

15x6 - The Grudge Carved into the Walls

June 22, 1979

When a group of Samurai begin killing peasants in order to test their swords, the Punishers are hired by a local prostitute whose father and sister were murdered.

15x7 - Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes

June 29, 1979

When a young woman attempts to murder a blind money lender, Mondo is forced to turn her over for execution… but is the blind man truly who and what he claims to be?

15x8 - The Power of Bare Grass

July 6, 1979

A dog-obsessed noblewoman has a series of young women beaten and disfigured by her giant body guard, but the plans to punish her are stymied by the fact that she has a gun.

15x9 - The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used

July 13, 1979

Nenbutsu starts to have feelings for a new courtesan, but his hopes for romance go awry when it turns out that she is under the spell of a murderous pimp.

15x10 - Cloth Thief, Jet Black

July 20, 1979

When the father and fiancé of an old friend are murdered by one of the Shogun’s Concubine’s guards, Okin makes plans to infiltrate the Shogun’s harem.

15x11 - A Plot Behind Exile

July 27, 1979

Demon Iwa, an infamous lawman who frames innocent suspects to protect the wealthy, sets out to catch the Punishers, and his first target is Okin.

15x12 - A Woman's Hellish Journey

August 3, 1979

Han falls in love with a beautiful mute girl, whose entire family was enslaved and murdered by an ambitious Lord. Needless to say, it's Punishing Time.

15x13 - The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem

August 10, 1979

A potentially explosive crisis ensues when a rural samurai takes the daughter of a powerful retainer hostage in a shop filled with highly flammable oil and a lit candle.

15x14 - A Paper to Stake One's Life On

August 17, 1979

When Han’s mentor, a crusading tabloid sheet writer, takes on a developer whose negotiation techniques include blackmail and murder, the Punishers are drawn into the fray.

15x15 - The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs

August 24, 1979

On a dark and stormy night, a landslide traps Jo, Tetsu, and an assortment of unsavory travelers in a haunted Inn, while an unknown murderer picks them off one by one.

15x16 - The False Tears of a Scoundrel

August 31, 1979

A compulsive gambler is accused of a murder committed by a masked killer, the Punishers help to plot a temporary jailbreak, and fires break out across the city.

15x17 - To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death

September 7, 1979

The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.

15x18 - Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment

September 14, 1979

When a young bride to be is driven mad by a mysterious masked attacker, the Punishers must work around her amnesia to find clues that led toward the guilty party.

15x19 - Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner

September 21, 1979

As a famine strikes Edo, Mondo must figure out how to rescue Jo and Tetsu, who were caught in a roundup of vagrants and sentenced to the life in the mines.

15x20 - Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued

September 28, 1979

While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.

15x21 - Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell

October 5, 1979

When a young couple are cheated out of their land by corrupt authorities and businessmen, it is up to Nakamura, Jo, and Tetsu to dole out the appropriate punishment.

15x22 - No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship

October 12, 1979

It’s a different kind of family drama when a woman from Mondo and Tetsu’s past arrives in town with a child she claims is Mondo’s, and a ruthless killer in pursuit.

15x23 - Murdered for Going Too Far

October 19, 1979

When Mondo falls behind on his arrest quota and must also foil a plot to kill Boss Tenjin in jail, he comes up with one solution for both problems: arrest his friends!

15x24 - Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts

October 26, 1979

Ruthless developers and officials plot to tear down some row houses and build a giant pleasure garden… but unfortunately, those are the houses where Tetsu, Jo and Okin live.

15x25 - An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws

November 2, 1979

When an ambitious noblewoman’s son fails to gain admission to an exclusive school, the deadly Tiger Mom will stop at nothing, even murder, to get him in.

15x26 - No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo

November 16, 1979

When a drought causes most of the wells in Edo to go dry, the rich hoard the little water that remains while the poor become willing to do anything to get it.

15x27 - Episode 27

November 23, 1979

15x28 - Episode 28

November 30, 1979

15x29 - Episode 29

December 7, 1979

15x30 - Episode 30

December 14, 1979

15x31 - Episode 31

December 21, 1979

15x32 - Episode 32

December 28, 1979

15x33 - Episode 33

January 4, 1980

15x34 - Episode 34

January 11, 1980

15x35 - Episode 35

January 18, 1980

15x36 - Episode 36

January 25, 1980

15x37 - Episode 37

February 1, 1980

15x38 - Episode 38

February 8, 1980

15x39 - Episode 39

February 15, 1980

15x40 - Episode 40

February 22, 1980

15x41 - Episode 41

February 29, 1980

15x42 - Episode 42

March 7, 1980

15x43 - Episode 43

March 21, 1980

15x44 - Episode 44

March 28, 1980

15x45 - Episode 45

April 4, 1980

15x46 - Episode 46

April 11, 1980

15x47 - Episode 47

April 18, 1980

15x48 - Episode 48

April 25, 1980

15x49 - Episode 49

May 2, 1980

15x50 - Episode 50

May 9, 1980

15x51 - Episode 51

May 16, 1980

15x52 - Episode 52

May 23, 1980

15x53 - Episode 53

May 30, 1980

15x54 - Episode 54

June 6, 1980

15x55 - Episode 55

June 13, 1980

15x56 - Episode 56

June 20, 1980

15x57 - Episode 57

June 27, 1980

15x58 - Episode 58

July 4, 1980

15x59 - Episode 59

July 11, 1980

15x60 - Episode 60

July 18, 1980

15x61 - Episode 61

August 8, 1980

15x62 - Episode 62

August 15, 1980

15x63 - Episode 63

August 22, 1980

15x64 - Episode 64

August 29, 1980

15x65 - Episode 65

September 5, 1980

15x66 - Episode 66

September 12, 1980

15x67 - Episode 67

September 19, 1980

15x68 - Episode 68

September 26, 1980

15x69 - Episode 69

October 3, 1980

15x70 - Episode 70

October 10, 1980

15x71 - Episode 71

October 17, 1980

15x72 - Episode 72

October 24, 1980

15x73 - Episode 73

October 31, 1980

15x74 - Episode 74

November 14, 1980

15x75 - Episode 75

November 21, 1980

15x76 - Episode 76

November 28, 1980

15x77 - Episode 77

December 5, 1980

15x78 - Episode 78

December 12, 1980

15x79 - Episode 79

December 19, 1980

15x80 - Episode 80

December 26, 1980

15x81 - Episode 81

January 9, 1981

15x82 - Episode 82

January 16, 1981

15x83 - Episode 83

January 23, 1981

15x84 - Episode 84

January 30, 1981