8.3/1032 votes#1 - 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
- 8.4/1029 votes
#2 - 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
- 8.5/1027 votes
#3 - 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
- 8.6/1023 votes
#4 - 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
- 8.9/1021 votes
#5 - 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
- 8.8/1019 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.7/1019 votes
#7 - 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
- 9.1/1018 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.8/1019 votes
#9 - 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
- 9.1/1018 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.6/1020 votes
#11 - 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
- 8.8/1021 votes
#12 - 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
- 9.1/1020 votes
#13 - 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
- 9.1/1019 votes
#14 - 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
- 9.0/1018 votes
#15 - 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
- 8.9/1018 votes
#16 - 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
- 9.1/1019 votes
#17 - 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
- 8.9/1018 votes
#18 - 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
- 8.8/1018 votes
#19 - 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
- 8.8/1018 votes
#20 - 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
- 9.0/1017 votes
#21 - 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
- 8.5/1016 votes
#22 - 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
- 9.1/1017 votes
#23 - 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
- 9.0/1017 votes
#24 - 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
- 9.1/1017 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Master Keaton Season 1
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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,...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Man in a Maze" is the best rated episode of "Master Keaton" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Shin'ichi Masaki and written by Shinzo Fujita, it aired on 10/6/1998. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Little Giant".