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The Best Episodes of Master Keaton Season 1

Every episode of Master Keaton Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Master Keaton Season 1!

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

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 31 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".

  • Man in a Maze
    8.3/1031 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

  • Little Giant
    8.4/1027 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

  • Strange Tales of Lasagna
    8.5/1026 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

  • Immortal Man
    8.6/1022 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

  • Paris Under the Roof
    8.9/1020 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

  • White Goddess
    8.8/1018 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

  • Memories of Summer Pudding
    8.7/1018 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

  • The Negotiator's Rule
    9.1/1017 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

  • Traveling with a Lady
    8.8/1018 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

  • Charlie
    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

  • Special Menu
    8.6/1019 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

  • A Case for Ladies
    8.8/1020 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

  • A Peaceful Death
    9.1/1018 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

  • Wall in One's Heart
    9.1/1018 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

  • A Long and Hot Day
    9.0/1017 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

  • The Elm Tree Forever
    8.9/1017 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

  • A Mansion of Roses
    9.1/1018 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

  • Faker's Miscalculation
    8.9/1017 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

  • Into the Vast Sky...
    8.8/1017 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

  • The Island of Coward
    8.8/1017 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

  • The Thistle Emblem
    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

  • Chateau Lajonchee 1944
    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

  • No Way Out
    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

  • The Day the Op Was Born
    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

  • Kalihman of the Desert
    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