Season 1

01 宝石泥棒に子守唄を Episode 15th October 1974 Osamu, a gangster who works for "Ayabe Information Services" as a "private detective", is given a very interesting job: he has to pretend to rob a jewelry store, hide the "goods", and let himself get arrested... 02 悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを Episode 212th October 1974 Osamu and Akira team up with a girl who has come into possession of a truck full of illegal bootleg silverware; they are determined to sell it, but nobody will buy! 03 ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を Episode 319th October 1974 Akira and Osamu are hired to try to convince two strippers to return to their loving families, but end up in the middle of a yakuza turf war. 04 港町に男涙のブルースを Episode 426th October 1974 Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town. 05 殺人者に怒りの雷光を Episode 52nd November 1974 Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy... 06 草原に黒い十字架を Episode 69th November 1974 Akira and Osamu are hired to protect a priceless European painting on display, but they manage to get it stolen right out from under their nose, by a tiny little cat burglar... 07 自動車泥棒にラブソングを Episode 716th November 1974 Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water. 08 偽札造りに愛のメロディーを Episode 823rd November 1974 A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself. 09 ピエロに結婚行進曲を Episode 930th November 1974 Ayabe feels the love-lights (or maybe feels her biological clock ticking) and has decided to marry a suave older (?) gentleman, but all 3 remaining gang members are against it because the guy gives them bad vibes. 10 金庫破りに赤いバラを Episode 107th December 1974 Akira and Osamu are supposed to steal certain documents for Ayabe, but someone frames them (and a rival thief) for murder. Panicking, they form an unlikely (and surprisingly homoerotic) alliance to try to save their own skins. 11 シンデレラの死に母の歌を Episode 1114th December 1974 Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune. 12 非情の街に狼の歌を Episode 1221st December 1974 When Osamu breaks his leg, Akira must take his place in an undercover operation meant to flush out a man who stole millions of dollars from his company and ran away from his wife. 13 可愛いい女に愛の別れを Episode 1328th December 1974 Akira and Osamu are keeping a rich girl in their apartment. Ayabe tricked her into voluntary captivity with them while Ayabe tries to shake down her father for money. Things get bad when Osamu runs out of money and turns into a shrieking harpy, and worse when the girl's father goes missing... 14 母のない子に浜千鳥を Episode 144th January 1975 Osamu discovers his young son is missing, abducted by his late wife's sister, who is using the child to try and get child support payments from... a gangster who is also a hairdresser. 15 つよがり女に涙酒を Episode 1511th January 1975 Osamu must find the kidnapped son of a magnate. The son was known to consort with a cabaret singer, so Osamu goes to investigate her first... 16 愛の情熱に別れの接吻を Episode 1618th January 1975 Osamu spends the night with a go-go girl, then must discover the secret mistress of a corporate bigwig. (Surprisingly, these are not in fact the same woman.) 17 回転木馬に熱いさよならを Episode 1725th January 1975 A man attempts to embezzle money from a kids' park; Ayabe Co. is hired to figure out who and stop the impending doom of the merry go round. 18 リングサイドに花一輪を Episode 181st February 1975 Osamu and Akira are sent to cause a ruckus in a local boxing gym to lower its land value and drive the owner out of business. 19 街の灯に桜貝の夢を Episode 198th February 1975 Osamu and Akira can't get any work, so they try to open a snack bar. This isn't very successful, until they hit on making it a sexy snack bar. Then they have the genius idea of trying to blackmail the patrons. 20 兄妹に十日町小唄を Episode 2015th February 1975 Akira and Osamu wake up to discover a baby left on their doorstep. They have no means to take care of it, so they entrust it to a local doctor, who wants to adopt it, and hires them to find its parents (to draw up real adoption papers). 21 欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を Episode 2122nd February 1975 Osamu and Akira are sent to steal a rich man's deposit in a tax-shelter bank. However, they don't know which bank it is, so they have to get that info out of him first. 22 くちなしの花に別れのバラードを Episode 221st March 1975 Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage. 23 母の胸に悲しみの眠りを Episode 238th March 1975 A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river. 24 渡辺綱に小指の思い出を Episode 2415th March 1975 Osamu is hired to play a "real" yakuza and deal false cards to a group of gamblers. Unbeknownst to him, the client is using him to dominate the others in the group. 25 虫けらどもに寂しい春を Episode 2522nd March 1975 Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether. 26 祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を Episode 2629th March 1975 Osamu goes to see if Ayabe has any work for him, but it turns out her operation has been shut down by the police, and he and Akira are evicted. They begin to search for Ayabe to try and get some money from her, but Akira takes ill.