Sell Your Life, Get Gibbeted

S15 E01 • Friday, May 18, 1979 • May 18 • 45m

Mondo Nakamura’s wife and coworkers think he’s incompetent. But at night he sheds his civil servant disguise, and teams up with Tetsu and Jo to fight crime and corruption.

The Bloody Wish Left in Prison

S15 E02 • Friday, May 25, 1979 • May 25 • 45m

Is a mysterious woman killing wealthy Soybean wholesalers and leaving playing cards on their bodies? In a strange twist, they become bodyguards for the next likely target.

No Pity for the Outcasts

S15 E03 • Friday, Jun 1, 1979 • Jun 1 • 45m

When Kanoke and Nebutsu are arrested after assassinating a rapist without Mondo’s help, Mondo must rescue them from a corrupt police official who murders girls for profit.

Human Trash, Human Payment

S15 E04 • Friday, Jun 8, 1979 • Jun 8 • 45m

When a mentally unstable gangster launches a series of bloody attacks against other Yakuza, Crime Boss Koroku hires Mondo to be his personal bodyguard.

Hang Buddha!

S15 E05 • Friday, Jun 15, 1979 • Jun 15 • 45m

The ruthless Daihachi of the Back Daruma Gang wants to drive a sweet potato shop’s owner off his land, so the owner turns to his old prison buddy, Nenbutsu, for help.

The Grudge Carved into the Walls

S15 E06 • Friday, Jun 22, 1979 • Jun 22 • 45m

When a group of Samurai begin killing peasants in order to test their swords, the Punishers are hired by a local prostitute whose father and sister were murdered.

Deep Abysses in Closed Eyes

S15 E07 • Friday, Jun 29, 1979 • Jun 29 • 45m

When a young woman attempts to murder a blind money lender, Mondo is forced to turn her over for execution… but is the blind man truly who and what he claims to be?

The Power of Bare Grass

S15 E08 • Friday, Jul 6, 1979 • Jul 6 • 45m

A dog-obsessed noblewoman has a series of young women beaten and disfigured by her giant body guard, but the plans to punish her are stymied by the fact that she has a gun.

The Ones Who Use People, the Ones Who Are Used

S15 E09 • Friday, Jul 13, 1979 • Jul 13 • 45m

Nenbutsu starts to have feelings for a new courtesan, but his hopes for romance go awry when it turns out that she is under the spell of a murderous pimp.

Cloth Thief, Jet Black

S15 E10 • Friday, Jul 20, 1979 • Jul 20 • 45m

When the father and fiancé of an old friend are murdered by one of the Shogun’s Concubine’s guards, Okin makes plans to infiltrate the Shogun’s harem.

A Plot Behind Exile

S15 E11 • Friday, Jul 27, 1979 • Jul 27 • 45m

Demon Iwa, an infamous lawman who frames innocent suspects to protect the wealthy, sets out to catch the Punishers, and his first target is Okin.

A Woman's Hellish Journey

S15 E12 • Friday, Aug 3, 1979 • Aug 3 • 45m

Han falls in love with a beautiful mute girl, whose entire family was enslaved and murdered by an ambitious Lord. Needless to say, it's Punishing Time.

The Worse They Are, the Better They Seem

S15 E13 • Friday, Aug 10, 1979 • Aug 10 • 45m

A potentially explosive crisis ensues when a rural samurai takes the daughter of a powerful retainer hostage in a shop filled with highly flammable oil and a lit candle.

A Paper to Stake One's Life On

S15 E14 • Friday, Aug 17, 1979 • Aug 17 • 45m

When Han’s mentor, a crusading tabloid sheet writer, takes on a developer whose negotiation techniques include blackmail and murder, the Punishers are drawn into the fray.

The Inn at Which Night Bares its Fangs

S15 E15 • Friday, Aug 24, 1979 • Aug 24 • 45m

On a dark and stormy night, a landslide traps Jo, Tetsu, and an assortment of unsavory travelers in a haunted Inn, while an unknown murderer picks them off one by one.

The False Tears of a Scoundrel

S15 E16 • Friday, Aug 31, 1979 • Aug 31 • 45m

A compulsive gambler is accused of a murder committed by a masked killer, the Punishers help to plot a temporary jailbreak, and fires break out across the city.

To Throw Love Away and Wish for Death

S15 E17 • Friday, Sep 7, 1979 • Sep 7 • 45m

The Punishers become involved when two vengeful sisters seek to expose a group of oil merchants who had their father wrongfully executed for arson.

Everything's Prepared, Now for the Punishment

S15 E18 • Friday, Sep 14, 1979 • Sep 14 • 45m

When a young bride to be is driven mad by a mysterious masked attacker, the Punishers must work around her amnesia to find clues that led toward the guilty party.

Hate the Sin, Hate the Sinner

S15 E19 • Friday, Sep 21, 1979 • Sep 21 • 45m

As a famine strikes Edo, Mondo must figure out how to rescue Jo and Tetsu, who were caught in a roundup of vagrants and sentenced to the life in the mines.

Darkness Smites the Woman Pursued

S15 E20 • Friday, Sep 28, 1979 • Sep 28 • 45m

While the police scour the town for a knife-wielding murderer, Okin finds herself trapped in her home with a very unwelcome guest.

Let Live Trees Flourish in This Living Hell

S15 E21 • Friday, Oct 5, 1979 • Oct 5 • 45m

When a young couple are cheated out of their land by corrupt authorities and businessmen, it is up to Nakamura, Jo, and Tetsu to dole out the appropriate punishment.

No Parent Knows Joy Without Hardship

S15 E22 • Friday, Oct 12, 1979 • Oct 12 • 45m

It’s a different kind of family drama when a woman from Mondo and Tetsu’s past arrives in town with a child she claims is Mondo’s, and a ruthless killer in pursuit.

Murdered for Going Too Far

S15 E23 • Friday, Oct 19, 1979 • Oct 19 • 45m

When Mondo falls behind on his arrest quota and must also foil a plot to kill Boss Tenjin in jail, he comes up with one solution for both problems: arrest his friends!

Evil Encroaches Upon a Love That Doubts

S15 E24 • Friday, Oct 26, 1979 • Oct 26 • 45m

Ruthless developers and officials plot to tear down some row houses and build a giant pleasure garden… but unfortunately, those are the houses where Tetsu, Jo and Okin live.

An Incompetent Crow Sharpens His Claws

S15 E25 • Friday, Nov 2, 1979 • Nov 2 • 45m

When an ambitious noblewoman’s son fails to gain admission to an exclusive school, the deadly Tiger Mom will stop at nothing, even murder, to get him in.

No Love Lost for Resplendent Edo

S15 E26 • Friday, Nov 16, 1979 • Nov 16 • 45m

When a drought causes most of the wells in Edo to go dry, the rich hoard the little water that remains while the poor become willing to do anything to get it.

Episode 27

S15 E27 • Friday, Nov 23, 1979 • Nov 23 • 45m

Episode 28

S15 E28 • Friday, Nov 30, 1979 • Nov 30 • 45m

Episode 29

S15 E29 • Friday, Dec 7, 1979 • Dec 7 • 45m

Episode 30

S15 E30 • Friday, Dec 14, 1979 • Dec 14 • 45m

Episode 31

S15 E31 • Friday, Dec 21, 1979 • Dec 21 • 45m

Episode 32

S15 E32 • Friday, Dec 28, 1979 • Dec 28 • 45m

Episode 33

S15 E33 • Friday, Jan 4, 1980 • Jan 4 • 45m

Episode 34

S15 E34 • Friday, Jan 11, 1980 • Jan 11 • 45m

Episode 35

S15 E35 • Friday, Jan 18, 1980 • Jan 18 • 45m

Episode 36

S15 E36 • Friday, Jan 25, 1980 • Jan 25 • 45m

Episode 37

S15 E37 • Friday, Feb 1, 1980 • Feb 1 • 45m

Episode 38

S15 E38 • Friday, Feb 8, 1980 • Feb 8 • 45m

Episode 39

S15 E39 • Friday, Feb 15, 1980 • Feb 15 • 45m

Episode 40

S15 E40 • Friday, Feb 22, 1980 • Feb 22 • 45m

Episode 41

S15 E41 • Friday, Feb 29, 1980 • Feb 29 • 45m

Episode 42

S15 E42 • Friday, Mar 7, 1980 • Mar 7 • 45m

Episode 43

S15 E43 • Friday, Mar 21, 1980 • Mar 21 • 45m

Episode 44

S15 E44 • Friday, Mar 28, 1980 • Mar 28 • 45m

Episode 45

S15 E45 • Friday, Apr 4, 1980 • Apr 4 • 45m

Episode 46

S15 E46 • Friday, Apr 11, 1980 • Apr 11 • 45m

Episode 47

S15 E47 • Friday, Apr 18, 1980 • Apr 18 • 45m

Episode 48

S15 E48 • Friday, Apr 25, 1980 • Apr 25 • 45m

Episode 49

S15 E49 • Friday, May 2, 1980 • May 2 • 45m

Episode 50

S15 E50 • Friday, May 9, 1980 • May 9 • 45m