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.

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

1x26 - The Drunken Man Who was Promoted

July 15, 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.