Operation: Mystery - Season 1

First aired: 9/15/1968 26 episodes

The SRI confronts enigmatic scientific crimes disguised as inexplicable incidents. An eerie moth that dissolves humans with phosphorous powder. A French doll wielding a knife and attacking people. A phosphorescent human fused with sulfur. Bizarre and unsettling incidents, along with the hidden human darkness behind them, are exposed through scientific investigation.

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Episodes

1. Man Through the Wall

Aired: 9/15/1968

A mysterious figure claiming to be the phantom thief King Aladdin has announced the theft of the golden Kannon Bodhisattva statue. Despite stringent security measures, the thief appeared and vanished into the wall along with the stolen statue. An investigation by SRI revealed that the culprit is the genius magician Harumitsu Ittettsai. The motive behind this crime, perpetrated by Harumitsu, who once captivated an entire era, remains to be unveiled...

2. Man-Eating Moths

Aired: 9/22/1968

A human figure melting into scales falling from swarming moths—. Blastomyces, once rampant in the American West, is detected from the skeletal remains of a decomposed body. Misawa becomes convinced of the crime based on information obtained from an old acquaintance at Mars Motors, but he ends up being captured by the criminal group. Within the hideout where he's been abducted, a large number of moths are being kept.

3. White Face

Aired: 9/29/1968

Junoko Mizukami, an office lady, has a father who was a physicist and a world-renowned authority on lasers, but he suffered facial burns in an accident and concealed his face, leading a reclusive life. When men around Junoko begin to die mysteriously one after another, and it's revealed that the crimes involve the use of laser beams, SRI attempts to meet with Junoko's father...

4. Fearful Phone Calls

Aired: 10/6/1968

One night, a call came to the Takiguchi household. Reiko answered the phone for her father, but in an instant, her father's body burst into flames, turning into a charred corpse! Later, another spontaneous human combustion incident occurs right before Reiko's eyes. Maki confines Reiko to an anechoic chamber for intense interrogation. Unable to bear it, Misawa takes Reiko outside, but at that moment, Maki's intuition leads to a decisive conclusion!

5. The Grim Reaper's Lullaby

Aired: 10/13/1968

On a deserted night road, a black figure aims a gun at a woman fleeing from pursuers. A flash emanates from the gun, and the woman's body becomes frozen solid! Radioactivity is detected from the victim's body, and it's speculated that Spectral G-rays, still a mystery in the scientific world, were used in the crime. Misawa realises that the lyrics of a hit song sung by Kyoko Takagi match the circumstances of the murder.

6. Vampire Hell

Aired: 10/20/1968

Nina, presumed dead in a car accident, resurrects as a hideous-faced vampire. Nina wanders the streets at night in search of prey. Attacking a patrolling police officer, she drinks plenty of fresh blood, transforming back into the beautiful Nina. Upon learning of this, her lover Shusaku seeks out new victims for Nina, who experiences seizures, craving blood...

7. The Woman With Blue Blood

Aired: 10/27/1968

Misawa, who had been rekindling his old friendship with his longtime friend Onijima at his house, ended up staying the night there. However, someone attacked him while he was in bed! Immediately afterwards, a passerby, a salaryman on a nearby street, was attacked and killed by a doll with a knife concealed in its hand. Misawa, with injuries from the attack, finds himself being interrogated instead.

8. The Shining Street Killer

Aired: 11/3/1968

Housing Authority employee Yoko was escorted home by her superior, Shimizu, and returned to her apartment. Shimizu persistently inquired about their missing colleague, Yamamoto, when suddenly a phosphorescent object attacked. Shimizu eerily illuminated before succumbing. Maki suggests the appearance of a phosphorescent human, but the Metropolitan Police Department concludes that a crime involving sulfur dioxide gas has occurred and proceeds with the investigation. Subsequently, Yoko's fiancé is also approached by the same entity...

9. The Strolling Head

Aired: 11/10/1968

While on a tour, a couple witnesses the phenomenon of a "strolling head" at the mountain pass. Terrified, the man on the motorcycle, fearing for his life, swerves off the road and crashes into a tree, igniting in flames. Subsequent similar accidents occur, but they are revealed to be orchestrated by Hoshino, the sole survivor of one such incident. Pretending to be the tragic protagonist in the shack where the bodies are brought, Hoshino is confronted by the man who discovered the accidents...

10. Radio Waves Summoning Death

Aired: 11/17/1968

Looking forward to watching a boxing match on TV, Muraki turned on the television. Suddenly, the channel changed automatically, and a beam emitted from the gun of a man projected on the TV screen, causing Muraki's death. SRI launches an investigation, but danger also looms over Muraki's father.

11. The Jaguar's Eyes Are Red

Aired: 11/24/1968

Taro and Kenji, brothers, put on sunglasses handed to them by a person dressed as Ultraseven after a baseball game. Before their eyes, the view of the Grand Canyon unfolds, but when the eyes of a jaguar inside a cave glow red, Taro's figure disappears.

12. Fairy Tale of Fog

Aired: 12/1/1968

A young man, pursued by a fallen warrior from the Warring States period, falls from a cliff and sustains serious injuries. Misawa, visiting the village of Onimura for an investigation, befriends a boy named Kenichi. This village has a legend of fallen warriors passed down from ancient times. The village is in turmoil due to a national highway project and the construction of a factory by a major American automobile manufacturer.

13. Gallows of Ice

Aired: 12/8/1968

There was a man who woke up in an old, deserted building. Rising from the cultivation tank, he left the laboratory and encountered an old man whom he strangled to death. Furthermore, he approached a young woman on her way home and shocked her to death. Maki, noticing that the mark on the murdered old man's neck is frostbite, speculates on the possibility of Frozen Human.

14. Good Night

Aired: 12/15/1968

Yuki and Ryu were having a private party at a mountain hut in late autumn. However, when Yuki playfully threw a feather ornament, it accidentally pierced Ryu's chest, causing his death. While out hunting, Maki happened upon the hut and was offered a place to stay overnight. As Maki fell asleep, he was plagued by nightmares.

15. 24th Year of Revenge

Aired: 12/22/1968

Late at night in Yokosuka Port. American soldier Joe is suddenly dragged into the sea and drowned by someone who emerges from the water. Along with Chieko, who was at the scene, Maki disguises himself as an American soldier to lure the culprit out. However, a suspicious man with a gun appears before Maki and Chieko. The man hits Maki with the gun and then disappears into the sea...

16. Kamaitachi

Aired: 12/29/1968

A woman feels someone's presence behind her after getting off the train. Suddenly, accompanied by a roaring sound, a gust of wind attacks her, tearing her body apart. Later, a second murder occurs at the same scene. It was a crime committed while the police officers who were asked for help briefly looked away. It is speculated that the weapon was not a blade, but rather a phenomenon resembling a "kamaitachi" occurred...