E01 · The Star of Edo 45m
1/7/1978
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.
E02 · The Remarkable Charlatan 45m
1/14/1978
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
E03 · The First Fireman Banner 45m
1/21/1978
Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
E04 · Mother From Long Past 45m
1/28/1978
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).
E05 · Spring in the O'oku 45m
2/4/1978
E06 · The Splendid Potato Samurai 45m
2/11/1978
E07 · The Man of River Styx 45m
2/25/1978
E08 · The Befouled Truncheon 45m
3/4/1978
E09 · The Chivalrous Thief 45m
3/11/1978
E10 · The Blossoming Meyasubako 45m
3/18/1978
E11 · The Finest Kiyari Song 45m
3/25/1978
E12 · The Amazing Kishu Woman 45m
4/1/1978
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
E13 · The Perilous Souvenir Gift 45m
4/8/1978
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.
E14 · The Golden Crow Charms 45m
4/15/1978
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
E15 · The Quack Who Calls Forth Spring 45m
4/22/1978
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.
E16 · Showdown at Beautiful Yoshiwara 45m
4/29/1978
E17 · Love and the Guardian Deity 45m
5/6/1978
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!
E18 · The Beat of a Taiko Drum in Edo 45m
5/13/1978
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.
E19 · A Ballad of a Fireman 45m
5/20/1978
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.
E20 · Iris and Sympathy 45m
5/27/1978
E21 · Fireman's Standard was Watching 45m
6/3/1978
E22 · Friendships Support the World 45m
6/17/1978
E23 · Rage of the Fishmonger 45m
6/24/1978
E24 · The Dreadful Shichi-ri Messengers 45m
7/1/1978
E25 · Heavens! Great Trouble in Edo 45m
7/8/1978
E26 · The Drunken Man Who was Promoted 45m
7/15/1978
E27 · The Woman Who Challenged the Yagyu Family 45m
7/22/1978
E28 · A Flower Blooms in the Dark 45m
7/29/1978
E29 · The Goofiest Pickpocket in Edo 45m
8/19/1978
E30 · The Misjudged Betrayer 45m
9/9/1978
E31 · The Woman Who Disappeared from the Hunting Ground 45m
9/16/1978
E32 · The Best Announcement of the Winner in Japan 45m
9/23/1978
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 and really, really wants to wrestle him. Eventually Shin-san learns of the wrestling drama that is unfolding...
E33 · A Daimyo's Famed Shiruko Restaurant 45m
9/30/1978
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...
E34 · The Women Who Dance in a Tempest 45m
10/7/1978
E35 · The Bride with an Explosive 45m
10/14/1978
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...
E36 · The Deceiving Mole Under a Woman's Eye 45m
10/21/1978
E38 · The Woman Who Challenged Her Master 45m
11/4/1978
E39 · A Sweet Snare from RyuKyu 45m
11/11/1978
E40 · Go! The Prodogy of the Commoners 45m
11/18/1978
E41 · Hara-Kiri! The Drunkard Magistrate 45m
12/2/1978
E42 · A Hot Man and a Brazen Hussy 45m
12/9/1978
E43 · The Shogun's Secret Ninja 45m
12/16/1978
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.
E44 · Fresh Blood on the Bestowed Sword 45m
12/23/1978
E45 · The Counterfeit Coins and the Candy Man 45m
12/30/1978
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 candy just when the guy's old friends force him to counterfeit again...
E46 · A Grand New Year's Gift 45m
1/6/1979
E47 · The Female Doctor with a Fist 45m
1/13/1979
Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
E48 · Hell in the Heavenly Bath 45m
1/20/1979
E49 · The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword 45m
1/27/1979
E50 · The Great Packed Lunch of a Woman 45m
2/3/1979
E51 · The Bride of the Fish Market 45m
2/10/1979
E52 · The Downfall of Ooka Echizen No Kami 45m
2/17/1979
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...
E53 · The Best Dry Sake for Mother and Son 45m
2/24/1979
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.
E54 · The Female Doctor Who Loves Money 45m
3/3/1979
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.
E55 · This Small Incident Occured Ten Years Ago 45m
3/10/1979
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.
E56 · The Man Who Died in the Light Snowfalls in Spring 45m
3/17/1979
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.
E57 · Eliminations of Black Sheep 45m
3/24/1979
E58 · The Best Cherry Blossom Dance in Edo 45m
3/31/1979
E59 · The Firemen's Standard is the Firemen's Heart and Soul 45m
4/7/1979
E60 · Only the Sun Knew 45m
4/14/1979
E61 · The Perished Love in a Spring Storm 45m
4/21/1979
E62 · A Single Flower in the Dark 45m
4/28/1979
E63 · The Fallen Flower in the Game of Chance 45m
5/5/1979
E64 · Holding a Fire Standard for a Spear 45m
5/12/1979
E65 · The Troublesome Tea Urn Trip 45m
5/19/1979
E66 · Daruma Smiled on Joshu Road 45m
5/26/1979
E67 · Commissioner Ooka Committs Hara-Kiri! 45m
6/2/1979
E68 · A Bogus Complaint 45m
6/9/1979
E69 · Very Proud of the Celebrated Sword 45m
6/16/1979
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.
E70 · A Loach Pot Rather Than A Domain 45m
6/23/1979
E71 · The Best Godfather in Japan 45m
6/30/1979
E72 · Revenge Colored with Safflowers 45m
7/7/1979
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.
E73 · A Man Passionate About the Snow on Mount Fuji 45m
7/14/1979
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.
E74 · Kick the Edo Illness Out! 45m
7/21/1979
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).
E75 · Gorozaemon Kano's Disappearance 45m
8/11/1979
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.
E76 · Suspicion Begets Idle Fears 45m
8/18/1979
A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
E77 · The Bride That Came From Kishu 45m
8/25/1979
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.
E78 · A Man Hunting the Whole Country 45m
9/8/1979
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.
E79 · Peerless! The Taste of Momma 45m
9/15/1979
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.
E80 · The Direct Retainers of the Shogun Run Wild 45m
9/22/1979
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.
E81 · Heroes in the Darkness 45m
9/29/1979
E82 · Angelic Neighborhood Bully 45m
10/13/1979
E83 · Thief Targeting the Nation 45m
10/20/1979
E85 · Mount Fuji Saw The Wild Spear 45m
11/3/1979
E86 · The Shogun Permitted a Thief 45m
11/10/1979
E87 · Bullet Aiming At 8 Million Koku 45m
11/17/1979
E88 · Burn! Even If You Must Die 45m
11/24/1979
E89 · Embarrased To Recieve Flowers in Congratulation 45m
12/1/1979
E90 · Beast Battle! Master Tatsugoro 45m
12/8/1979
E91 · Duel! In the Stormy Castle 45m
12/15/1979
E92 · Cheers! Quack Doctor 45m
12/22/1979
E93 · The Will of the Raging Samurai 45m
12/29/1979
E94 · The Lanterns of Early Spring and Noon Emerge 45m
1/5/1980
E95 · I Saw a Rainbow in the Sea of Flames 45m
1/12/1980
E96 · Get the Vermin Out of the Castle! 45m
1/19/1980
E97 · I Don't Need a Mother! 45m
1/26/1980
E98 · The Girl From the Wolf Village 45m
2/2/1980
E99 · A Dohyori of Fire! 45m
2/9/1980
E100 · The Fake Shogun 45m
2/16/1980
E101 · The Eight Million Koku Porter 45m
2/23/1980
E102 · The Collector Who Collected the Villain's Head 45m
3/1/1980
E103 · Catastrophe! We Shouldn't Have Gotten Out of the Way! 45m
3/8/1980
E104 · Japan's Most Wanted Bride 45m
3/22/1980
E105 · Stop! Uncontrolled Official Carriage 45m
3/29/1980
E106 · What is a Shogun? 45m
4/5/1980
E107 · Watch Out! A Female Spy 45m
4/12/1980
E108 · The Man Who Gives Orders to the Shogun! 45m
4/19/1980
E109 · Snacks Delight on a Sunny Day 45m
4/26/1980
E110 · Youth of Edo, Stand Up! 45m
5/3/1980
E111 · Love Blossoms in Ubasuteyama! 45m
5/10/1980
E112 · The Proud and Naive Samurai 45m
5/17/1980
E113 · The Man Who Didn't Stop 45m
5/24/1980
E114 · I Saw the Real One! The Hayabusa Brat 45m
5/31/1980
E115 · Beware of the Quick Bucks 45m
6/7/1980
E116 · The Man Who Died and Flourished 45m
6/14/1980
E117 · Courage in the Face of Injustice 45m
6/21/1980
E119 · The Fox Woman Cries, the Banner of Empathy 45m
7/5/1980
E120 · The Princess Take - Tears from a Wedding Procession 45m
7/12/1980
E121 · The Flourishing of the Female Bushido 45m
7/19/1980
E122 · The Sad Song of the South 45m
7/26/1980
E123 · The New Boss! - Osai, of the Fire Extinguisher 45m
8/2/1980
E124 · The One Who Stood Out After Being at Risk of Drowning 45m
8/9/1980
E125 · Floating Lanterns That Mark a New Beginning in a Man's Life 45m
8/16/1980
E126 · Love Sold for 20,000 Ryu 45m
8/23/1980
E127 · The Trap in the Wolf Village 45m
8/30/1980
E128 · Melancholy Ninja Love 45m
9/6/1980
E129 · Dad, You Used to Be Someone 45m
9/13/1980
E130 · My Childhood Friend is an Oku Woman 45m
9/27/1980
E131 · There was a Bullet in the Clam Chowder! 45m
10/4/1980
E132 · Run! The Shogun's Horse! 45m
10/11/1980
E133 · Listen! The Chronicles of the Old Man and the Young Master 45m
10/18/1980
E134 · A Silly Dance in an Oily Hell 45m
10/25/1980
E135 · Duel on the Steam of Hell 45m
11/1/1980
E136 · The Woman Who Bet on the Mountain of Fire 45m
11/8/1980
E137 · Edo's Female Chief 45m
11/15/1980
E138 · Hakone's Melancholic Drizzle 45m
11/22/1980
E139 · The One Who Flirted Was to Blame 45m
11/29/1980
E140 · The Wild Spear Everyone Fears 45m
12/6/1980
E141 · The Bandit Harusame's Mother 45m
12/20/1980
E142 · Munenryu Shintoism and Confucianism According to the Hayashi Clan 45m
12/27/1980
E143 · I Am the Most Unpleasant Person in the World 45m
1/10/1981
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.
E144 · One Life For One Isshou of Shochu 45m
1/17/1981
E145 · The Silent Man's Divorce Letter 45m
1/24/1981
E146 · Ah! Justice Has Tears! 45m
1/31/1981
E147 · Megumi Clan's Love Bridge 45m
2/7/1981
E148 · Japan's Number One Little Thief 45m
2/14/1981
E149 · Tops Spinning Beneath a False Union 45m
2/21/1981
E150 · The White Waves That Shame the Flowers 45m
2/28/1981
E151 · Sado, the Shining Yellow 45m
3/7/1981
E152 · The Shogun, the Horse Thief, and the Brat 45m
3/14/1981
E153 · When a Man Sparks 45m
3/21/1981
E154 · The Love That Blooms Inside a Coffin 45m
3/28/1981
E155 · I Don't Want to Be the Shogun's Bride 45m
4/11/1981
E156 · Jongara with a Munen-Ryu Kid 45m
4/18/1981
E157 · The Cursed Box of 1000 Ryos 45m
4/25/1981
E158 · Hell's Bells Ring at 6.00 p.m 45m
5/2/1981
E159 · Rest in Peace, Onaka - The Flowing Lanterns 45m
5/9/1981
E160 · The Flowers That Fall Without Waiting for Spring 45m
5/16/1981
E161 · The One Who Smiled in the End 45m
5/23/1981
E162 · The Blooming Ginseng Flower That the Firefighter's Matoi Made Flourish 45m
5/30/1981
E163 · The Cowardly Samurai Who Made a Demon Woman Cry 45m
6/6/1981
E164 · Break the Chains of the Heart With Human Kindness 45m
6/13/1981
E165 · Whose Ungrateful Son is it 45m
6/20/1981
E166 · Promise of the Bell the Girl With Bangs and a Sword 45m
6/27/1981
E167 · The Decisive Duel of the Lantern Samurai 45m
7/4/1981
E168 · Legitimate Marital Fight 45m
7/11/1981
E169 · Clear Sky - The Hungry Lancer 45m
7/18/1981
E170 · The Duel! Blood in the Fuefuki River of Koshu 45m
8/1/1981
E171 · Burning Tears of the Traitor 45m
8/8/1981
E172 · The Flower in the Shadow That Made a Man Bloom 45m
8/15/1981
E173 · Waves of the Seto Maiden 45m
8/22/1981
E174 · Onomichi - Sunset of Revenge 45m
8/29/1981
E175 · The Million Kokus Dependent 45m
9/5/1981
E176 · The Bond of Hatred Between Father and Daughter 45m
9/12/1981
E177 · The Morning When Demons Wept 45m
9/19/1981
E178 · The Bet For the Dance Fan in the Sumo Ring 45m
9/26/1981
E179 · The Samurai Tanuki Performs a Great Feat 45m
10/3/1981
E180 · The Man Who Steals While Preaching 45m
10/10/1981
E181 · Oath of Brothers 45m
10/17/1981
E182 · The One Who Eats From the Table and the One Who Doesn't 45m
10/24/1981
E183 · The Night Flower That Blooms Once 45m
10/31/1981
E184 · The Man Who Danced in the Shadows 45m
11/7/1981
E185 · The Man Who Danced in the Shadows 45m
11/14/1981
E186 · The Love Story of a Man and His Taiko Drum 45m
11/21/1981
E187 · Sorry, Shogun! The Change of a Monk 45m
11/28/1981
E188 · Call of the Storm! The Bride From Megumi 45m
12/5/1981
E189 · The Heart of a Mother That Made Demons Cry 45m
12/12/1981
E190 · The Number One Rain Man in Japan 45m
12/19/1981
E191 · Cold Wind of Yoshiwara, Tears of a Woman 45m
12/26/1981
E192 · Laughter and Tears, The Dramatic Life of the People of Kawachi 45m
1/9/1982
E193 · The First Snow is the Make-Up of the Dead of a Sad Woman 45m
1/16/1982
E194 · The Poor and Nameless Grass 45m
1/23/1982
E195 · The Fragrance of the Sea, Tastes Like Mama 45m
1/30/1982
E196 · Why Sadness in Sharing an Umbrella? 45m
2/6/1982
E197 · A Remora That is More Frightening Than a Pufferfish 45m
2/13/1982
E198 · Sadness. Fallen Flowers of Those Who Stay 45m
2/20/1982
E199 · The Villain Who Laughed Last 45m
2/27/1982
E200 · Laughter and Tears, Three Girls From Edo 45m
3/6/1982
E201 · The Greatest Achievement of a Drunken Jitte 45m
3/13/1982
E202 · The Tale of the Fame of the Fool Kanpachi 45m
3/20/1982
E203 · The Flower That Disappeared in an Avalanche 45m
3/27/1982
E204 · Farewell Flower, Night Gust 45m
4/10/1982
E205 · Spring Has Come Again! Spouses' Kanzashi 45m
4/17/1982
E206 · You're a Child. Don't Cry, Torokichi! 45m
4/24/1982
E207 · The Farewell of the 808 Towns 45m
5/1/1982