1988 • 86 Episodes
February 13, 1988
Iyami comes to town.
February 20, 1988
Iyami gets suspicious of fortune telling.
February 27, 1988
Iyami makes a potion to ruin Dekapan's reputation.
March 5, 1988
Chibita wants to become a Prima Donna.
March 12, 1988
Chibita unknowingly falls in love with a pig.
March 19, 1988
Iyami fakes his death.
March 26, 1988
Chibita takes care of an abandoned baby.
April 2, 1988
Iyami creates a hat that can invert anybody's personality.
April 9, 1988
Iyami and Chibita become second-hand dealers.
April 23, 1988
Iyami meets a Shinigami.
April 30, 1988
Iyami and Chibita get arrested.
May 7, 1988
Iymai becomes a famous author when he starts writing lies about his neighbors.
May 14, 1988
Chibita is an Edo lord with a crush on Totoko.
May 21, 1988
Osomatsu and Choromatsu get kidnapped by aliens.
May 28, 1988
Iyami saves Osomatsu's life.
June 4, 1988
Chibita shrinks the Sextuplets.
June 11, 1988
After getting framed for one of Iyami's tricks, Hatabou tries to stand up for himself.
June 25, 1988
Chibita is a former safecracker who's trying to go straight, but a detective, Iyami, keeps hounding him.
July 2, 1988
Dekapan invents a serum that allows people to switch psyches when they bump heads.
July 9, 1988
Iyami and Chibita build a bomb.
July 23, 1988
Chibita takes care of a cat.
July 30, 1988
A mysterious gunslinger, Chibita, shows up at the Dekapan Ranch just in time to drive off six bullying brothers.
August 6, 1988
There's a mystery at Iyami's mansion.
August 13, 1988
Totoko becomes infected with personality-altering becteria from Iyami's body.
August 27, 1988
Chibita gets framed for stealing oden.
September 3, 1988
The Sextuplets try to help their Dad stop smoking.
September 10, 1988
Dekapan and Hatabou try to make offerings to a stone god, while everyone else enjoys the good life.
September 17, 1988
The Sextuplets and Totoko go camping.
October 1, 1988
Iyami starts an insurance company.
October 8, 1988
Chibita seeks vengeance through ninjutsu.
October 15, 1988
Chibita's kindness is rewarded by the spirit of a rose.
October 22, 1988
When a new girl moves next door to the Sextuplets, Totoko is deposed as the neighborhood's number one idol.
October 29, 1988
Iyami and Chibita are trapeze artists. Totoko the ringmaster's daughter, comes between them.
November 5, 1988
Exhausted and feeling unloved by his six sons, Dad runs away from home and pledges to raise fellow runaway Chibita.
November 12, 1988
Minister Iyami plots to assassinate Princess Totoko so his son, Prince Hatabou, can take over.
November 19, 1988
Iyami and Chibita become superheroes.
November 26, 1988
Chibita sets out to find lost treasure, but soon gets captured by pirates.
December 3, 1988
Iyami and Chibita pretend to be a poor elderly couple to mooch off of Osomatsu's family.
December 10, 1988
When Hatabou commits seppuku Chibita plots his revenge on Iyami.
December 17, 1988
The Sextuplets are froced to babysit their Dad's Boss' son.
December 24, 1988
Chibita is a bellboy working at the Dayon Hotel when he takes in Totoko, a poor girl who's lost her beautiful singing voice.
January 14, 1989
Iyami and Chibita swindle Dayon.
January 21, 1989
Everyone competes in a wacky car race to sweep the wealthy Totoko off her feet.
January 28, 1989
French director Iyami and his cameraman Chibita travel to Japan to film a documentary on the "real Japan."
February 4, 1989
The Sextuplets go skiing with their instructor Iyami.
February 11, 1989
Detective Chibita is transferred to a town where oden is prohibited, but is sold in a black market controlled by a shady character.
February 18, 1989
Iyami wins the lottery from a ticket he made Chibita purchase a year earlier, but he only has one day left to collect.
February 25, 1989
The Sextuplets are sent to a zen temple to be straightened out by Iyami, a monk who's in it for the money.
March 4, 1989
Iyami is a police officer who isn't really good at his job.
March 11, 1989
Chibita finds a baby T-Rex that he wants to keep as a pet.
March 18, 1989
Osomatsu's family goes on vacation to an inn that they realize is too expensive for them.
March 25, 1989
Hatabou creates an explosive lie detector for Iyami.
April 1, 1989
Chibita has to decide whether Iyami or Osomatsu's Dad will get a promotion.
April 8, 1989
A woman falls in love with Iyami, but she doesn't know how poor he is.
April 15, 1989
Dad and the boys run into trouble when they encounter Iyami on the road.
April 22, 1989
Iyami tries to change all the restaurants in town to oden shops in order to please the mega-rich Chibita.
April 29, 1989
Iyami gets to pilot a rickety plane to Hawaii.
May 6, 1989
Osomatsu gets adopted by Dekapan.
May 13, 1989
Presidential candidate Iyami hires hitman, Hatabou, to take out his rival, Dayon.
May 20, 1989
Iyami and Chibita get revenge on the Sextuplets with remote-controlled model airplanes.
May 27, 1989
Chibita is smitten with Jajako, Hatabou's cousin, but she hates his favorite thing in the world, oden.
June 3, 1989
When Dad loses his bonus, suspicion quickly falls on Iyami, who's actually turned over a new leaf.
June 17, 1989
Iyami and Chibita duplicate the sextuplets.
June 24, 1989
The powerful, rambunctious Chibita Songoku is imprisoned under a rock for 500 years before being rescued by an ambitious monk, Iyami.
July 1, 1989
Iyami tries to steal Totoko Buddha's sutras so he can kickstart his own religion, but they're already held as collateral by moneyleader and Chibita's former master, Hatabou.
July 15, 1989
Nasty teacher Iyami is tormented by Chibita, the one student who dotes on him.
July 22, 1989
Stifled by his royal burdens and constant handlers, Prince Chibiru slips the leash and finds action in a local department store as he gives chase to a pickpocket, Iyami.
July 29, 1989
Dad and the boys think they're getting a good deal by hanging out at Iyami's Beach House, but the owner and his assistant, Chibita, gouge their guests for everything they're worth.
August 19, 1989
Mom and Dad get to start their lives over again thanks to a magic wish that reverts them to teenagers.
August 26, 1989
Oden stand owner Chibita trains to fight the Akatsukadai boxing champion, Iyami.
September 2, 1989
It's a war between the parents when Dad becomes frustrated that Mom is a better salesperson than he is.
September 9, 1989
Honeybee Chibita is in search of his long-lost mother, but his quest is impeded by a trickster, Iyami Katydid, and the ravenous Dayon Spider.
September 16, 1989
Ridde Temple Master Dekapan gives monks Iyami and Chibita the challenge of stumping locals with riddles.
September 23, 1989
Inspector Chibita teams up with "great detective" Iyami to capture Phantom Thief Dayon.
October 14, 1989
30 years later, the Sextuplets are middle-aged salarymen scientists slaving away under their boss, Dekapan, and his demanding daughter, Totoko
October 21, 1989
Iyami tries to sell camera film for his failing company.
October 28, 1989
Dekapan invents a robot vaccum cleaner that goes out of control and threatens to destroy the country.
November 4, 1989
God (Dekapan) grants Chibita the power to make all of his wishes come true.
November 11, 1989
Chibita's mother comes back into his life by having him kidnapped away from Dekapan, the poor man who raised him.
November 18, 1989
With winter on its way, Iyami wants to be jailed for the sake of shelter and warm meals, however all of his attempted crimes turn into good deeds.
November 25, 1989
Would-be burglar Iyami is drafted into posing as the director of a hospital, a ruse that works until he's forced to treat a yakuza boss.
December 2, 1989
Iyami is haunted in his dreams by the spirit of a vengeful samurai, Chibita.
December 9, 1989
When Iyami's circus goes out of business, he gives the lion to the Osomatsu's family, which doesn't sit well with Chibita, the lion's only friend.
December 16, 1989
In ancient Japan, secret retired vice-shogun Hatabou and his companions go up against crooked magistrate Iyami.
December 23, 1989
To prepare for invading Earth, aliens abduct Iyami and sift through memories of his worst moments.
December 30, 1989
When everyone has finally had it with them, Iyami and Chibita's only escape is a long swim across the Pacific.