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Season 1

  • S01E01 Man in a Maze

    • October 6, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E02 Little Giant

    • October 13, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E03 Strange Tale of Lasagna

    • October 20, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E04 Immortal Man

    • October 27, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E05 Paris Under the Roof

    • November 3, 1998
    • NHK

    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...

  • S01E06 White Goddess

    • November 10, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E07 Memories of Summer Pudding

    • November 17, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E08 Negotiator's Rule

    • November 24, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E09 Journey with a Lady

    • December 1, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E10 Charlie

    • December 8, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E11 Special Menu

    • December 15, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E12 A Case for Ladies

    • December 22, 1998
    • NHK

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

  • S01E13 A Peaceful Death

    • January 5, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E14 Wall in One's Heart

    • January 12, 1999
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E15 Long Hot Day

    • January 19, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E16 The Elm Tree Forever

    • January 26, 1999
    • NHK

    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?

  • S01E17 A Mansion of Roses

    • February 9, 1999
    • NHK

    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!

  • S01E18 Faker's Miscalculation

    • February 16, 1999
    • NHK

    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?

  • S01E19 Into the Vast Sky...

    • February 23, 1999
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E20 The Island of the Cowards

    • March 2, 1999
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E21 The Thistle Emblem

    • March 9, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E22 Chateau Lajonchee 1944

    • March 16, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E23 No Way Out

    • March 23, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E24 The Day the Op Was Born

    • March 30, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E25 Kahriman Of The Desert

    • December 22, 1999
    • NHK

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

  • S01E26 Family

    • December 22, 1999
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E27 The Red Wind

    • December 22, 1999
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E28 A Message From Alexeyev

    • January 21, 2000
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E29 The Forbidden Fruit

    • January 21, 2000
    • NHK

    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!

  • S01E30 The Highlands In Your Eyes

    • January 21, 2000
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E31 The Scent Is The Key

    • February 21, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E32 The Back Street

    • February 21, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E33 Devil Like An Angel

    • February 21, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E34 The Agate Color Of Time

    • March 23, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E35 Love In May

    • April 21, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E36 Blue Friday

    • May 24, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E37 Interview Day

    • May 24, 2000
    • NHK

    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.

  • S01E38 Hunting Season (Part 1)

    • June 21, 2000
    • NHK

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

  • S01E39 Hunting Season (Part 2)

    • June 21, 2000
    • NHK

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