Season 1

宝石泥棒に子守唄を

October 5, 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...

S01E02

悪女にトラック一杯の幸せを

October 12, 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!

S01E03

ヌードダンサーに愛の炎を

October 19, 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.

S01E04

港町に男涙のブルースを

October 26, 1974

Osamu is sent to find a rival gang's heroin shipping lane and goes to a remote port town.

S01E05

殺人者に怒りの雷光を

November 2, 1974

Someone is murdering Ayabe's gang members in brutal and unusual ways, and as their numbers dwindle, they begin to get crazy...

S01E06

草原に黒い十字架を

November 9, 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...

S01E07

自動車泥棒にラブソングを

November 16, 1974

Akira and Osamu are sent to break up a car-thieving ring, but end up in hot water.

S01E08

偽札造りに愛のメロディーを

November 23, 1974

A master counterfeiter wants to give up the profession, but Ayabe sends Osamu to take him for herself.

S01E09

ピエロに結婚行進曲を

November 30, 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.

S01E10

金庫破りに赤いバラを

December 7, 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.

S01E11

シンデレラの死に母の歌を

December 14, 1974

Osamu and Akira must decide which of two women is the real heir to an old millionaire's fortune.

S01E12

非情の街に狼の歌を

December 21, 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.

S01E13

可愛いい女に愛の別れを

December 28, 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...

S01E14

母のない子に浜千鳥を

January 4, 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.

S01E15

つよがり女に涙酒を

January 11, 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...

S01E16

愛の情熱に別れの接吻を

January 18, 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.)

S01E17

回転木馬に熱いさよならを

January 25, 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.

S01E18

リングサイドに花一輪を

February 1, 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.

S01E19

街の灯に桜貝の夢を

February 8, 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.

S01E20

兄妹に十日町小唄を

February 15, 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).

S01E21

欲ぼけおやじにネムの木を

February 22, 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.

S01E22

くちなしの花に別れのバラードを

March 1, 1975

Osamu and Akira have to kidnap a disabled bride away from a forced marriage.

S01E23

母の胸に悲しみの眠りを

March 8, 1975

A mother hires Akira and Osamu to find the cause of death of her daughter, who was found floating dead in a river.

S01E24

渡辺綱に小指の思い出を

March 15, 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.

S01E25

虫けらどもに寂しい春を

March 22, 1975

Osamu and Akira are hired by a prominent writer's lover to discover why he has seemingly "changed" into a different personality altogether.

S01E26

祭りのあとにさすらいの日々を

March 29, 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.