Season 1

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  8.6/1031 votes

  Message from the Dead

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/13/1994

  On a dark and stormy night, Chinami kills her business partner in her remote manor house in the hills. Then the doorbell rings. As luck would have it, it's none other than Inspector Furuhata seeking refuge from the rain.

  Director: Koki Mitani

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1018 votes

  The Moving Corpse

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1994

  After killing a woman in a hit and run, a famous Kabuki actor decides to kill the only witness, a theatre security guard, and stage it to look like an accidental fall. Only Furuhata Ninazburo is not convinced.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.5/1019 votes

  The Laughing Corpse

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1994

  Furuhata is called to a scene where a woman has just killed a burglar but a chicken in the oven and a cigarette in the bin make the wily inspector suspicious.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1024 votes

  The Killing Fax

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/4/1994

  An action-packed night is in store for the police department after a famous writer's wife is kidnapped and he is tasked with delivering the money by the fax-using kidnapper. However, a grammatical question niggles at Furuhata.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1019 votes

  The Dirty King

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1994

  Shogi 8-dan Yonezawa is no match for Furuhata Ninzaburo after murdering the overseer at the Ryujin Tournament.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/1020 votes

  The Piano Lesson

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/18/1994

  Furuhata Ninzaburô gets involved in the drama surrounding an elite musical academy when he begins suspecting a fierce piano teacher of murdering the school's headmaster.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.7/1019 votes

  Rehearsal for Murder

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1994

  During a rehearsal, a beloved samurai movie star kills the despised studio executive. Was it an accident or murder? Furuhata Ninzaburo investigates.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/1018 votes

  Murder Express

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/1994

  A trip should be enjoyable but Dr Nakagawa's trip was ruined when he realized he was being tailed by his wife's private eye. He decides to kill the nosy gumshoe on the train home but unfortunately for him, Furuhata Ninzaburo is on board.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/1020 votes

  Broadcast Murder

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/1994

  During a live broadcast, a TV psychic desperately in need of validation pretends to find a corpse of a man he himself had killed earlier. The only person in the audience not convinced is Inspector Furuhata.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.3/1017 votes

  The Contradictory Corpse

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/1994

  A politician's secretary murders his boss and the boss' mistress staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide. However, one of his victims survives and is taken to the hospital for recovery.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.7/1017 votes

  Sayonara DJ

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/1994

  Furuhata and Shintaro are assigned to bodyguard a radio DJ who's been receiving threatening messages. However, the DJ turns out to be the killer with a devious plan and a watertight alibi.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.8/1018 votes

  The Final Greeting

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/1994

  What happens when the killer you are hunting is your superior? Furuhata is about to find out after he begins suspecting the legendary Superintendent Kogure of murdering the man who killed his daughter.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown