1x53 - The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son

February 24, 1979

Clannish Edoite sake sellers turn against a travelling Osakan female sake seller to force her out of the market; only her long-lost son, an Edoite sake seller, can save her.

1x54 - The Female Doctor Who Loves Money

March 3, 1979

Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, is in charge of a temple that gives free medical service to orphans, but it is reputed that she is stealing all the money instead.

1x55 - This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago

March 10, 1979

Shoheiko, the official Shogunate college, has an admissions scandal where the bureaucrats turn out to have been accepting bribes for admissions. Yoshimune suggests opening it to commoners and calls up some obscure scholars; the vicious bureaucrats attack and kill one. Shin-san absolutely loses his mind, but Tatsugoro is there to give him a helping hand.

1x56 - The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring

March 17, 1979

Ryuko's friend is killed by a rice wholesaler. Shin-san investigates this and discovers a whole sordid rice-based drama, including collective punishment, famine, and assassination.

1x57 - Eliminations of Black Sheep

March 24, 1979

1x58 - The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo

March 31, 1979

1x59 - The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul

April 7, 1979

1x60 - Only the Sun Knew

April 14, 1979

1x61 - The Perished Love in a Spring Storm

April 21, 1979

1x62 - A Single Flower in the Dark

April 28, 1979

1x63 - The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance

May 5, 1979

1x64 - Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear

May 12, 1979

1x65 - The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip

May 19, 1979

1x66 - Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road

May 26, 1979

1x67 - Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri!

June 2, 1979

1x68 - A Bogus Complaint

June 9, 1979

1x69 - Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword

June 16, 1979

An unbalanced ronin wants to become the sword teacher to a daimyo, so he can get enough money to buy back his really sexy sword from the pawn shop. However, a competitor attacks him, crippling the ronin's hand. Shin-san is really mad about this, even though the ronin attacked him earlier.

1x70 - A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain

June 23, 1979

1x71 - The Best Godfather in Japan

June 30, 1979

1x72 - Revenge Colored with Safflowers

July 7, 1979

A pregnant safflower farmer's husband is run over by the local lord's horse. She's lured to the daikan's office to get compensated but is raped and turned into the lord's concubine instead. She schemes to have herself murdered so Ooka Echizen will enter the manor and discover these great crimes.

1x73 - A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji

July 14, 1979

A kind but untalented kitchen-supervisor samurai is assigned to accompany his domain's gift to the Shogun: big blocks of ice. Shin-san, tramping around Shinjuku, accidentally discovers this delivery and starts accompanying it too, and discovers a rival domain is trying to kill the ice to humiliate the first domain.

1x74 - Kick the Edo Illness Out!

July 21, 1979

A mysterious illness (beriberi) becomes common and Yoshimune calls his doctor to find out what the cause is. His doctor says only his own special blend of medicine (very expensive) can cure it. Oshino, the female doctor with a fist, however, believes the solution is more simple (and involves punching people).

1x75 - Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance

August 11, 1979

Kano Gorozaemon, who is practically Yoshimune's adoptive father, goes out into Edo to get a surprise present for the Shogun, and is kidnapped by a nutter who wants to frame him for murder to steal his job.

1x76 - Suspicion Begets Idle Fears

August 18, 1979

A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.

1x77 - The Bride That Came From Kishu

August 25, 1979

Kikue, the daughter of a potter. comes to Edo and meets her old friend Shin-san, who she recognizes as the Shogun. She came to marry Kano Gorozaemon, who proposed to her when she was eight (??!) but Kano backed out.

1x78 - A Man Hunting the Whole Country

September 8, 1979

The Ogobanshu (kind of like a guild of hatamotos) want to hunt, but in setting the borders of the hunting area they recklessly steal the corner of a VERY sensitive farmer's farm.

1x79 - Peerless! The Taste of Momma

September 15, 1979

Matsumae domain officials and the store Ebisu-ya are conspiring to give predatory loans to alcohol shops. Lady merchant Omasa from Osaka wants to get a better deal, and her son unfortunately took the debt from his main sake supplier, so now she needs to get money to save both their skins.

1x80 - The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild

September 22, 1979

Hatamotos, a domain, a runaway killer samurai from the domain, the firemen, and jii for some reason, all end up in a gigantic free for all fight.

1x81 - Heroes in the Darkness

September 29, 1979

1x82 - Angelic Neighborhood Bully

October 13, 1979

1x83 - Thief Targeting the Nation

October 20, 1979

1x84 - O-sai Flies!

October 27, 1979

1x85 - Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear

November 3, 1979

1x86 - The Shogun Permitted a Thief

November 10, 1979

1x87 - Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku

November 17, 1979

1x88 - Burn! Even If You Must Die

November 24, 1979

1x89 - Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation

December 1, 1979

1x90 - Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro

December 8, 1979

1x91 - Duel! In the Stormy Castle

December 15, 1979

1x92 - Cheers! Quack Doctor

December 22, 1979

1x93 - The Will of the Raging Samurai

December 29, 1979

1x94 - The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge

January 5, 1980

1x95 - I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames

January 12, 1980

1x96 - Get the Vermin Out of the Castle!

January 19, 1980

1x97 - I Don't Need a Mother!

January 26, 1980

1x98 - The Girl From the Wolf Village

February 2, 1980

1x99 - A Dohyori of Fire!

February 9, 1980

1x100 - The Fake Shogun

February 16, 1980

1x101 - The Eight Million Koku Porter

February 23, 1980

1x102 - The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head

March 1, 1980

1x104 - Japan's Most Wanted Bride

March 22, 1980

1x105 - Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage

March 29, 1980

1x106 - What is a Shogun?

April 5, 1980

1x107 - Watch Out! A Female Spy

April 12, 1980

1x108 - The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun!

April 19, 1980

1x109 - Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day

April 26, 1980

1x110 - Youth of Edo, Stand Up!

May 3, 1980

1x111 - Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama!

May 10, 1980

1x112 - The Proud and Naive Samurai

May 17, 1980

1x113 - The Man Who Didn't Stop

May 24, 1980

1x114 - I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat

May 31, 1980

1x115 - Beware of the Quick Bucks

June 7, 1980

1x116 - The Man Who Died and Flourished

June 14, 1980

1x117 - Courage in the Face of Injustice

June 21, 1980

1x118 - Thief Training

June 28, 1980

1x119 - The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy

July 5, 1980

1x120 - The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession

July 12, 1980

1x121 - The Flourishing of the Female Bushido

July 19, 1980

1x122 - The Sad Song of the South

July 26, 1980

1x123 - The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher

August 2, 1980

1x124 - The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning

August 9, 1980

1x125 - Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life

August 16, 1980

1x126 - Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu

August 23, 1980

1x127 - The Trap in the Wolf Village

August 30, 1980

1x128 - Melancholy Ninja Love

September 6, 1980

1x129 - Dad, You Used to Be Someone

September 13, 1980

1x130 - My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman

September 27, 1980

1x131 - There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder!

October 4, 1980

1x132 - Run! The Shogun's Horse!

October 11, 1980

1x133 - Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master

October 18, 1980

1x134 - A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell

October 25, 1980

1x135 - Duel on the Steam of Hell

November 1, 1980

1x136 - The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire

November 8, 1980

1x137 - Edo's Female Chief

November 15, 1980

1x138 - Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle

November 22, 1980

1x139 - The One Who Flirted Was to Blame

November 29, 1980

1x140 - The Wild Spear Everyone Fears

December 6, 1980

1x141 - The Bandit Harusame's Mother

December 20, 1980

1x142 - Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan

December 27, 1980

1x143 - I am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World

January 10, 1981

Shin-san accidentally gets involved with two low-class thieving morons, to Tatsugoro's horror. Tatsugoro finally manages to get rid of them, and one of them is promptly killed by evil ninjas for having seen something he should not have. Yoshimune learns they were raising a bunch of orphans in an awful shack with their scammed money, and decides he must avenge the dead criminal.

1x144 - One Life For One Isshou of Shochu

January 17, 1981

1x145 - The Silent Man's Divorce Letter

January 24, 1981

1x146 - Ah! Justice Has Tears!

January 31, 1981

1x147 - Megumi Clan's Love Bridge

February 7, 1981

1x148 - Japan's Number One Little Thief

February 14, 1981

1x149 - Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union

February 21, 1981

1x150 - The White Waves That Shame the Flowers

February 28, 1981

1x151 - Sado, the Shining Yellow

March 7, 1981

1x152 - The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat

March 14, 1981

1x153 - When a Man Sparks

March 21, 1981