January 7, 1978 · 45 min
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.
January 14, 1978 · 45 min
Ogyu Shosen is called a quack doctor, but Yoshimune thinks he should be made surgeon-general.
January 21, 1978 · 45 min
Hatamoto firemen are causing a nuisance and thieving in town, so fiery Tatsugoro and his gang of construction workers aim to take them down.
January 28, 1978 · 45 min
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).
February 4, 1978 · 45 min
February 11, 1978 · 45 min
February 25, 1978 · 45 min
March 4, 1978 · 45 min
March 11, 1978 · 45 min
March 18, 1978 · 45 min
March 25, 1978 · 45 min
April 1, 1978 · 45 min
Yoshimune's old friend from Kishu, a female lumberjack, comes to Edo to engage in lumber trade, but gets in trouble.
April 8, 1978 · 45 min
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.
April 15, 1978 · 45 min
Fireman Genzo wins the lottery, but is then reported to the police for having a forged ticket.
April 22, 1978 · 45 min
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.
April 29, 1978 · 45 min
May 6, 1978 · 45 min
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!
May 13, 1978 · 45 min
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.
May 20, 1978 · 45 min
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.
May 27, 1978 · 45 min
June 3, 1978 · 45 min
June 17, 1978 · 45 min
June 24, 1978 · 45 min
July 1, 1978 · 45 min
July 8, 1978 · 45 min
July 15, 1978 · 45 min
July 22, 1978 · 45 min
July 29, 1978 · 45 min
August 19, 1978 · 45 min
September 9, 1978 · 45 min
September 16, 1978 · 45 min
September 23, 1978 · 45 min
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...
September 30, 1978 · 45 min
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...
October 7, 1978 · 45 min
October 14, 1978 · 45 min
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...
October 21, 1978 · 45 min
October 28, 1978 · 45 min
November 4, 1978 · 45 min
November 11, 1978 · 45 min
November 18, 1978 · 45 min
December 2, 1978 · 45 min
December 9, 1978 · 45 min
December 16, 1978 · 45 min
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.
December 23, 1978 · 45 min
December 30, 1978 · 45 min
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...
January 6, 1979 · 45 min
January 13, 1979 · 45 min
Edo is invigorated by an unusually aggressive and outspoken female doctor, Oshino, who physically beats her patients if they do not obey her.
January 20, 1979 · 45 min
January 27, 1979 · 45 min
February 3, 1979 · 45 min
February 10, 1979 · 45 min
February 17, 1979 · 45 min
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...
February 24, 1979 · 45 min
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.
March 3, 1979 · 45 min
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.
March 10, 1979 · 45 min
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.
March 17, 1979 · 45 min
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.
March 24, 1979 · 45 min
March 31, 1979 · 45 min
April 7, 1979 · 45 min
April 14, 1979 · 45 min
April 21, 1979 · 45 min
April 28, 1979 · 45 min
May 5, 1979 · 45 min
May 12, 1979 · 45 min
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May 26, 1979 · 45 min
June 2, 1979 · 45 min
June 9, 1979 · 45 min
June 16, 1979 · 45 min
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.
June 23, 1979 · 45 min
June 30, 1979 · 45 min
July 7, 1979 · 45 min
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.
July 14, 1979 · 45 min
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.
July 21, 1979 · 45 min
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).
August 11, 1979 · 45 min
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.
August 18, 1979 · 45 min
A lord lets 3 master ghost actresses into his house as maids, somehow doesn't connect this with supernatural happenings in his house.
August 25, 1979 · 45 min
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.
September 8, 1979 · 45 min
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.
September 15, 1979 · 45 min
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.
September 22, 1979 · 45 min
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.
September 29, 1979 · 45 min
October 13, 1979 · 45 min
October 20, 1979 · 45 min
October 27, 1979 · 45 min
November 3, 1979 · 45 min
November 10, 1979 · 45 min
November 17, 1979 · 45 min
November 24, 1979 · 45 min
December 1, 1979 · 45 min
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December 15, 1979 · 45 min
December 22, 1979 · 45 min
December 29, 1979 · 45 min
January 5, 1980 · 45 min
January 12, 1980 · 45 min
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January 26, 1980 · 45 min
February 2, 1980 · 45 min
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November 1, 1980 · 45 min
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November 29, 1980 · 45 min
December 6, 1980 · 45 min
December 20, 1980 · 45 min
December 27, 1980 · 45 min
January 10, 1981 · 45 min
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.
January 17, 1981 · 45 min
January 24, 1981 · 45 min
January 31, 1981 · 45 min
February 7, 1981 · 45 min
February 14, 1981 · 45 min
February 21, 1981 · 45 min
February 28, 1981 · 45 min
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