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.

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

1x103 - Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way!

March 8, 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