Master Keaton

Name: Master Keaton
Genre: Mystery, Animation, Drama, Crime
Released: 1998-10-06
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Norihiro Inoue, Houko Kuwashima, Ichiro Nagai, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masashi Sugawara

ENDED1 Season39 Episodes★ 7.2

Master Keaton is an animated mystery series on NHK BS1 that ran from 1998 to 2000, ending after 1 season and 39 episodes.

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NetworkNHK BS1

First AiredOct 6, 1998

Last AiredJun 21, 2000

GenreMystery, Animation, Drama, Crime

Runtime24 min

Original Titleマスターキートン

LanguageJapanese

CountryJapan

ProductionMadhouse, VAP, Shogakukan

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, and survival with his experience as a professor, a Falklands Conflict veteran and a SAS agent to unravel the often dangerous challenges in each riveting episode.

Cast

Norihiro Inoue

Taichi Hiraga-Keaton (voice)

Houko Kuwashima

Yuriko Hiraga (voice)

Ichiro Nagai

Taihei Hiraga (voice)

Shinpachi Tsuji

Daniel O'Connell (voice)

Masashi Sugawara

Charlie Chapman (voice)

Seasons & Episodes1 season · 39 episodes

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E1Man in a Maze

Oct 6, 199825m

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

E2Little Giant

Oct 13, 199825m

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

E3Strange Tales of Lasagna

Oct 20, 199825m

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

E4Immortal Man

Oct 27, 199825m

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

E5Paris Under the Roof

Nov 3, 199825m

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...

E6White Goddess

Nov 10, 199825m

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

E7Memories of Summer Pudding

Nov 17, 199825m

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

E8The Negotiator's Rule

Nov 24, 199825m

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

E9Traveling with a Lady

Dec 1, 199825m

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

E10

E10Charlie

Dec 8, 199825m

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

E11

E11Special Menu

Dec 15, 199825m

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

E12

E12A Case for Ladies

Dec 22, 199825m

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

E13

E13A Peaceful Death

Jan 5, 199925m

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

E14

E14Wall in One's Heart

Jan 12, 199925m

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.

E15

E15A Long and Hot Day

Jan 19, 199925m

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

E16

E16The Elm Tree Forever

Jan 26, 199925m

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?

E17

E17A Mansion of Roses

Feb 9, 199925m

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!

E18

E18Faker's Miscalculation

Feb 16, 199925m

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?

E19

E19Into the Vast Sky...

Feb 23, 199925m

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.

E20

E20The Island of Coward

Mar 2, 199925m

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.

E21

E21The Thistle Emblem

Mar 9, 199925m

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

E22

E22Chateau Lajonchee 1944

Mar 16, 199925m

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

E23

E23No Way Out

Mar 23, 199925m

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

E24

E24The Day the Op Was Born

Mar 30, 199925m

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

E25

E25Kalihman of the Desert

Dec 22, 199925m

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

E26

E26Family

Dec 22, 199925m

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.

E27

E27The Red Wind

Dec 22, 199925m

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.

E28

E28A Message from Alexeyev

Jan 21, 200025m

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.

E29

E29The Forbidden Fruit

Jan 21, 200025m

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!

E30

E30The Highlands in Your Eyes

Jan 21, 200025m

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.

E31

E31The Scent is the Key

Feb 21, 200025m

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

E32

E32The Back Street

Feb 21, 200025m

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

E33

E33Devil Like an Angel

Feb 21, 200025m

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

E34

E34The Agate Color of Time

Mar 23, 200025m

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

E35

E35Love in May

Apr 21, 200025m

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

E36

E36Blue Friday

May 24, 200025m

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

E37

E37Interview Day

May 24, 200025m

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.

E38

E38Hunting Season Part 1

Jun 21, 200025m

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

E39

E39Hunting Season Part 2

Jun 21, 200025m

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

About Master Keaton

Master Keaton is a mystery, animation, drama, crime series on NHK BS1. The show first aired on Oct 6, 1998 and currently has 1 season and 39 episodes. Master Keaton has ended. It has a rating of 7.2/10 based on 20 votes. The cast includes Norihiro Inoue, Houko Kuwashima, Ichiro Nagai, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masashi Sugawara.