1x1 - The Star of Edo

January 7, 1978

Roughhousing daimyo Tokugawa Yoshimune of Kishu reluctantly becomes the Shogun so that he may bring prosperity to everyone in the country. On his procession to Edo Palace, he runs into his old friend Tatsugoro, and a little girl begging for a pardon for her father on death row. Yoshimune decides to sneak out of Edo Palace and do a little detective work.

1x2 - The Remarkable Charlatan

January 14, 1978

Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.

1x3 - The First Fireman Banner

January 21, 1978

Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.

1x4 - Mother From Long Past

January 28, 1978

A hatamoto's spoiled brat daughter is in the habit of thieving and blaming it on commoners. Meanwhile, Yoshimune becomes preternaturally obsessed with a den-den taiko (a type of child's toy).

1x5 - Spring in the O'oku

February 4, 1978

1x6 - The Splendid Potato Samurai

February 11, 1978

1x7 - The Man of River Styx

February 25, 1978

1x8 - The Befouled Truncheon

March 4, 1978

1x9 - The Chivalrous Thief

March 11, 1978

1x10 - The Blossoming Meyasubako

March 18, 1978

1x11 - The Finest Kiyari Song

March 25, 1978

1x12 - The Amazing Kishu Woman

April 1, 1978

Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.

1x13 - The Perilous Souvenir Gift

April 8, 1978

Yoshimune's old friends from Kishu, Sakichi and Onatsu of the lumber store, are leaving town, so Yoshimune comes to bring them a present. He ends up getting in the way of a drug bust and is mistaken for a drug dealer.

1x14 - The Golden Crow Charms

April 15, 1978

Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.

1x15 - The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring

April 22, 1978

Even though he has been made surgeon-general, nobody trusts Ogawa Shosen or Yoshimune's city hospital. Yoshimune decides to get himself admitted as Shin-san to investigate from within.

1x16 - Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara

April 29, 1978

1x17 - Love and the Guardian Deity

May 6, 1978

Satsuma domain bully a store that is in their debt by trying to steal the storekeeper's girlfriend, and by framing them for theft. Only a man of stone can save Tamba-ya from destruction!

1x18 - The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo

May 13, 1978

Yoshimune really wants to attend a festival in Edo, but he has important business to attend to in the palace. Jii says he can go out as long as he is back by 4 PM. This doesn't seem likely, since Yoshimune gets involved in a big fistfight and village drama.

1x19 - A Ballad of a Fireman

May 20, 1978

Tatsugoro's family is indebted to a samurai family, so Tatsugoro gives the samurai family his very best fireman to adopt, since the samurai have no heir of their own. The other samurai do not like him.

1x20 - Iris and Sympathy

May 27, 1978

1x21 - Fireman's Standard was Watching

June 3, 1978

1x22 - Friendships Support the World

June 17, 1978

1x23 - Rage of the Fishmonger

June 24, 1978

1x24 - The Dreadful Schichi-ri Messengers

July 1, 1978

1x25 - Heaven's! Great Trouble in Edo

July 8, 1978

1x27 - The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family

July 22, 1978

1x28 - A Flower Blooms in the Dark

July 29, 1978

1x29 - The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo

August 19, 1978

1x30 - The Misjudged Betrayer

September 9, 1978

1x31 - The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground

September 16, 1978

1x32 - The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan

September 23, 1978

Ryuko and Isonokaze were sumo wrestlers for a clan who tried to make them throw a match. Ryuko hides out at the fire house and meets Shin-san, who is very excitable (maybe he ate a lot of sugar) and really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...

1x33 - A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant

September 30, 1978

A certain han ruled by a child lord is having money trouble, so one of the han's samurai starts a sweet bean soup restaurant to try and raise funds. The samurai has some trouble getting customers...

1x34 - The Women Who Dance in a Tempest

October 7, 1978

1x35 - The Bride with an Explosive

October 14, 1978

A land reclamation project is taking place largely with Shogunate funds, carried out by contract with 2 companies (which are marrying their kids together as the ultimate symbol of the contract). One of the companies invents a bomb with a long fuse, to blow up a mountainous area in the reclamation zone. The other company decides to assassinate the first company, and steals the bomb...

1x36 - The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye

October 21, 1978

1x37 - Feel Her Heart

October 28, 1978

1x38 - The Woman Who Challenged Her Master

November 4, 1978

1x39 - A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu

November 11, 1978

1x40 - Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners

November 18, 1978

1x41 - Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate

December 2, 1978

1x42 - A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy

December 9, 1978

1x43 - The Shogun's Secret Ninja

December 16, 1978

Female ninja Osono's dad Seiemon comes to town. He is now a cotton-farming country samurai. Needs dried sardines for fertilizer. The hatamoto of sardineland is driving the fishermens' prices down so all the farmers secretly sell to Seiemon. The merchant tries to assassinate Seiemon and fails, since Seiemon is a ninja. Seiemon stays at the firehouse and plans to secretly assassinate the criminals, then kill himself, because he's depressed.

1x44 - Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword

December 23, 1978

1x45 - The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man

December 30, 1978

A man makes little pretty sugar candies for kids and tells funny stories. He used to be a counterfeiter because of his great manual dexterity, but vowed to turn his life around. Shin-san becomes "interested" in him (bastard we know you just want free candy) just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...

1x46 - A Grand New Year's Gift

January 6, 1979

1x47 - The Female Doctor with a Fist

January 13, 1979

Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.

1x48 - Hell in the Heavenly Bath

January 20, 1979

1x49 - The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

January 27, 1979

1x50 - The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman

February 3, 1979

1x51 - The Bride of the Fish Market

February 10, 1979

1x52 - The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami

February 17, 1979

A bad gang leader kidnaps Tadasuke's wife (who never appeared before or since), as she went to the shrine to pray for a baby. Tadasuke decides that justice outweighs his bride and prepares to prosecute the gang leader anyway, so Shin-san lets the prisoner go secretly to try and follow him to Tadasuke's bride...

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.