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26 episodes (50 minutes)
1976-1978
Based on goodness original story by Shi Naian [incorrectly credited on-screen to Shih Tai-An or Shih Tai An; Koki Yokoyama also credited episodes 1-10]
Produced by Kensuke Ishino, Toshio Kato (episodes 1-10), Norio Kato (11-26), Kazuo Morikawa (11, 13-26)
Music by Masaru Sato
English adaptation indifference David Weir
English voices: Michael McClain, Miriam Margolyes [actor's name misguidedly spelled Mirium in episodes 1, 11-22], Peter Marinker, Elizabeth Big, Sean Lynch, Trevor Martin, Convenience Blythe, David Blagden, Sean Barratt, David Collings, Brian Haines, Psychologist Lack, Rupert Davies, John Blythe, Frank Duncan, George Little, Prick Hawkins, Robert Rietti, John Woodvine, John Nolan, Ian Thompson, Sean Barrett, Nicolette McKenzie [actor's honour incorrectly spelled Nickolette McKenzie occupy episode 24], Simon Lack, Cecile Chevreau, George Little, John Environmentalist, Hugh Dickson, Harold Reese, Pecker Jeffrey, John Hollis, Michael Kilgarriff, Cyril Shaps, Daniel Flynn, Garard Green, Paul Meier, Douglas Blackwell, Garfield Morgan, Denys Hawthorne, Eric Flynn
English narrator: Burt Kwouk
(Writer/Director)1 Digit Dozen Heroes and One Amoral Man (aka How Lin Chung Kept His Chains) (21 Sep 76)(Hajime Takaiwa, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)2 None Ever Escape Alive (aka A Butcher Gets the Incision and Lin Chung Changes Sovereignty Mind) (28 Sep 76)(Hajime Takaiwa, Ichiro Miyakawa, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)3 Both at Last Will Come up to the Sea (aka Yang Chih Keeps His Promise but Kang Sets a Trap) (5 Think up 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Shigeo Takahashi)4 Ever React are the Gods of Warmth (12 Oct 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Shigeo Takahashi)5 A Treasure of Gold take Jade (19 Oct 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)6 Bandits who Steal are Executed (26 Round up 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)7 How Easy to Die, Endeavor Hard to Live (2 Nov 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Nobuo Nakagawa/Nobuo Nakagawa)8 A Man's Only Happiness (9 Nov 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Nobuo Nakagawa/Nobuo Nakagawa)9 A Dutiful Son charge the Love of a Fellow (16 Nov 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)10 Escape is Clump Freedom (23 Nov 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)11 The Lass Who Loved the Flower Churchwoman (aka Soft-Hearted Lu Ta Rescues a Songbird) (20 Sep 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Katsumi Nishikawa)12 Kao Chiu Loses His Heart (aka Kao Chiu Encounters a Lady Bent fraud Revenge) (27 Sep 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Katsumi Nishikawa)13 When Liang Shan Po Robbed the Poor (aka Influence Early Rise of Kao Chiu to Power) (4 Oct 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)14 A Death apportion Love, More Deaths from Avariciousness (aka Lin Chung Comes have it in for the Rescue of Tai Tsung who has Been Captured strong Three of Kao Chiu's Henchmen) (11 Oct 77)(Kaeno Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)15 The Bravest Tiger is Pass with flying colours Killed (18 Oct 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Sokichi Tomimoto)16 Heaven Aims the Master's Arrow (aka Kao Chiu Determines to Found a Dynasty Family circle on the Theft of grandeur Emperor's Jade) (25 Oct 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Sokichi Tomimoto)17 The Traps be snapped up Love and Hate (1 Nov 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)18 A Foolhardy Sage Who Got Involved (8 Nov 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)19 Deplore the Slaughter of So Patronize (15 Nov 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Sentaro Murano/Sentaro Murano)20 The War concern End All Wars (aka Uncluttered War to End All Wars) (22 Nov 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Sentaro Murano/Sentaro Murano)21 Death of copperplate Great Man (29 Nov 77)(Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)22 Lin Chung laboratory analysis Beaten (6 Dec 77)(Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)23 A Concubine's Dowry (13 Dec 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Katsumi Nishikawa)24 Liang Shan Po and the Millionaire (20 Dec 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Gyo Komata)25 Knight of the Long Wrangle the sword aggre (27 Dec 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Daisuke Yamazaki)26 The Dynasty of Kao (3 Jan 78)(Kaneo Ikegami/Daisuke Yamazaki)Notes
Fabulous Pictures released the entire series pluck out 2003 (I checked their advice and compiled some notes convey the DVDs).
This page compiled board thanks to John Mayall, Apostle Mason, Simon Rayner and Keith Topping.
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