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The amazing Taichi Keaton works on cases around the globe that always lead to adventure! He combines his arsenal of multidisciplinary expertise in investigation, archeology,...
Genres:MysteryAnimationDrama
Network:NHK BS1
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Season 1

  • Man in a Maze
    8.3/1032 votes
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    Man in a Maze

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1998

    The mysterious death of a soldier in Greece causes suspicion. Lloyd's sends Keaton as an insurance investigator.

    Director: Shin'ichi Masaki

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • Little Giant
    8.4/1029 votes
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    Little Giant

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1998

    Bounty hunters stakes out a former German Red Army member, Rosa. Keaton is hired by her wealthy family to protect her.

    Director: Masayuki Kojima

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • Strange Tales of Lasagna
    8.5/1027 votes
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    Strange Tales of Lasagna

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1998

    Keaton is hired to retrieve nine year old Flora from Italy. They flee for France where her mother waits.

    Director: Mamoru Kanbe

    Writer: Yuji Moriyama

  • Immortal Man
    8.6/1023 votes
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    Immortal Man

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1998

    Keaton saves the "immortal man" from the Russian Mafia. The man reveals the secret of the Romanov Treasures.

    Director: Hiroshi Hara

    Writer: Hideo Takayashiki

  • Paris Under the Roof
    8.9/1021 votes
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    Paris Under the Roof

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1998

    After being fired from a college in Tokyo, Keaton finds a job as an instructor at an adult education center in France. There he meets...

    Director: Shinsaku Sasaki

    Writer: Hideo Takayashiki

  • White Goddess
    8.8/1019 votes
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    White Goddess

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1998

    Keaton meets Anna in Scilly Islands in England, who is protecting an archaeological site all by herself.

    Director: Hiroshi Aoyama

    Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

  • Memories of Summer Pudding
    8.7/1019 votes
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    Memories of Summer Pudding

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1998

    Keaton, hoping to spend the summer vacation alone with Yuriko, heads for a farmhouse where he spent summers as a boy.

    Director: Nanako Shimazaki

    Writer: Hideo Takayashiki

  • The Negotiator's Rule
    9.1/1018 votes
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    The Negotiator's Rule

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1998

    Keaton heads for the countryside in England to rescue a kidnapped manager of a Japanese electronics corporation.

    Director: Mitsuo Hashimoto

    Writer: Hideo Takayashiki

  • Traveling with a Lady
    8.8/1019 votes
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    Traveling with a Lady

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1998

    Keaton meets an arrogant old lady on a train from Germany to Switzerland who claims to be pursued by the Czech Secret Service.

    Director: Hiroshi Hara

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Charlie
    9.1/1018 votes
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    Charlie

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1998

    Keaton helps a childhood friend Charlie Chapman, also a world-renowned detective, with the murder case of an art dealer.

    Director: Joji Shimura

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • Special Menu
    8.6/1020 votes
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    Special Menu

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1998

    Keaton assists an Englishman to become a Chinese chef with the help of a secret recipe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Case for Ladies
    8.8/1021 votes
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    A Case for Ladies

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1998

    Keaton and an elderly woman who loves detective movies pursue the truth behind a high-profile murder case.

    Director: Nanako Shimazaki

    Writer: N/A

  • A Peaceful Death
    9.1/1020 votes
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    A Peaceful Death

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1999

    A terrorist finds his conscience and seeks Keaton's help to locate and defuse two IRA bombs in a crowded London shopping mall.

    Director: Masayuki Kojima

    Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

  • Wall in One's Heart
    9.1/1019 votes
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    Wall in One's Heart

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1999

    Keaton helps a German businessman to locate his long-lost daughter while she seeks to avenge her mother's death in a labor camp in East Germany.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Long and Hot Day
    9.0/1018 votes
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    A Long and Hot Day

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1999

    An attack dog ruthlessly stalks Keaton deep in the mountains of Spain.

    Director: Ko Matsuo

    Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

  • The Elm Tree Forever
    8.9/1018 votes
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    The Elm Tree Forever

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1999

    Earl Fenders' bankruptcy leaves him a broken man, but his son, Robert, needs his fathers overbearing personality to inspire his music - can Keaton restore the father's domineering arrogance?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Mansion of Roses
    9.1/1019 votes
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    A Mansion of Roses

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1999

    Edmond Layman was found murdered in his rose garden and his widow fears for her life. Their gardener, Eric, disappeared and is the chief suspect but Keaton soon unburies a thorny secret!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Faker's Miscalculation
    8.9/1018 votes
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    Faker's Miscalculation

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1999

    Professor Bennington runs for Chancellor to save the college only to be targeted by a team of con men. But will the con men's professional pride lead them to change their minds?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Into the Vast Sky...
    8.8/1018 votes
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    Into the Vast Sky...

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1999

    Keaton's daughter meets a childhood friend who wants to free a hawk. Keaton and the boy's father secretly follow out of concern for the boy who also desperately wants to be free.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Island of Coward
    8.8/1018 votes
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    The Island of Coward

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1999

    The Polish Mafia takes over Keaton's hotel in a blaze of gunfire. Although accused of being cowards for their inaction, Keaton and a secret legend use their experience to win despite the terrible odds.

    Director: Nanako Shimazaki

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • The Thistle Emblem
    9.0/1017 votes
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    The Thistle Emblem

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/9/1999

    Keaton flies to Scotland to investigate a watch preserved in a shrine in Japan.

    Director: Shinsaku Sasaki

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Chateau Lajonchee 1944
    8.5/1016 votes
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    Chateau Lajonchee 1944

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/16/1999

    Keaton visits Burgundy to insure the extraordinary vintage wine Chateau Lajonchee 1944.

    Director: Kitaro Kosaka

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • No Way Out
    9.1/1017 votes
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    No Way Out

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/23/1999

    Keaton must escort a fugitive through a perilous road across a bottomless swamp.

    Director: Toshiharu Sato

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • The Day the Op Was Born
    9.0/1017 votes
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    The Day the Op Was Born

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1999

    Keaton recalls the first time he met Daniel and became the insurance investigator 10 years ago...

    Director: Hiroshi Aoyama

    Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

  • Kalihman of the Desert
    9.1/1017 votes
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    Kalihman of the Desert

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 12/22/1999

    Keaton and the excavation team are left for dead in the Taklimakan Desert.

    Director: Hiroshi Hara

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Family
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    Family

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 12/22/1999

    Keaton, asked to recruit a former East German Olympic swimmer, but first Keaton must deal with the swimmer's depression and face off against a group of skinheads.

    Director: Toshiharu Sato

    Writer: Hideo Takayashiki

  • The Red Wind
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    The Red Wind

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 12/22/1999

    Razin left Russia to attend an air show in the UK, but after his two bodyguards are murdered, Keaton finds himself between Razin and a killer KGB agent.

    Director: Ko Matsuo

    Writer: Seishi Minakami

  • A Message from Alexeyev
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    A Message from Alexeyev

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 1/21/2000

    While visiting a resort on a Spanish island, Keaton meets Sendel who reveals a tale of passion and betrayal between Russian agents and locals the Spanish Civil War 50 years ago.

    Director: Masayuki Kojima

    Writer: Daisuke Aranishi

  • The Forbidden Fruit
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    The Forbidden Fruit

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 1/21/2000

    Keaton crashes a party for the newest board member of the premiere accounting firm in the UK after he suspects the board member of murdering his way to the top!

    Director: Yasuhiro Matsumura

    Writer: Yuji Moriyama

  • The Highlands in Your Eyes
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    The Highlands in Your Eyes

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 1/21/2000

    Keaton attempts to rescue an artist forced to paint forgeries who has been held hostage in a house by his extreme shortsightedness and his shattered confidence.

    Director: Shinsaku Sasaki

    Writer: Toshiki Inoue

  • The Scent is the Key
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    The Scent is the Key

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 2/21/2000

    A man requests Keaton to investigate the untimely death of his friend who lacked a "scent of death."

    Director: Hiroshi Hara

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • The Back Street
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    The Back Street

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 2/21/2000

    A reluctant Keaton believes he is handing enticement money to a woman on behalf of her father, but soon discovers quite a different story.

    Director: Nanako Shimazaki

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Devil Like an Angel
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    Devil Like an Angel

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/21/2000

    Keaton searches for a Japanese art student in Italy only to discover the student has become involved with a terrorist group!

    Director: Susumu Ishizaki

    Writer: Daisuke Aranishi

  • The Agate Color of Time
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    The Agate Color of Time

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 3/23/2000

    Keaton shares stories of his youth in Cornwall with his daughter, Yuriko.

    Director: Masayuki Kojima, Masaaki Kumagai

    Writer: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

  • Love in May
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    Love in May

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 4/21/2000

    Keaton's daughter becomes involved in a purse-snatching investigation in London while her father rests his broken leg in the hospital.

    Director: Kitaro Kosaka

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Blue Friday
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    Blue Friday

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 5/24/2000

    While Keaton chases after an elusive insurance beneficiary, his parter Daniel pursues a new beauty.

    Director: Hiroshi Hara

    Writer: Tomoko Konparu

  • Interview Day
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    Interview Day

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 5/24/2000

    Keaton, unsure about pursuing a career as an archaeologist, allows himself to be distracted by his father on his way to an interview at Tozai University.

    Director: Shigeru Kimiya

    Writer: Tatsuhiko Urahata

  • Hunting Season Part 1
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    Hunting Season Part 1

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/21/2000

    Two knife murders in London drags Keaton into a chase tying the SAS to a vicious drug ring.

    Director: Shinsaku Sasaki

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita

  • Hunting Season Part 2
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    Hunting Season Part 2

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/21/2000

    Two knife murders in London drags Keaton into a chase tying the SAS to a vicious drug ring.

    Director: Masayuki Kojima

    Writer: Shinzo Fujita