Patlabor: The TV Series — Season 1

Aired 11 October 1989 • 25 min

SV2 is going to get new AV 98 ingrams soon. Asuma and Ota go to Shinohara Heavy Industries to get it. Noa also heads there to take her labor aptitude test. When someone steals the ingram, Noa goes to save it.

Aired 11 October 1989 • 25 min

Kanuka comes to Japan from America. She participates in a labor combat tournament. Noa and the gang also compete in it.

Aired 1 November 1989 • 25 min

Noa must adapt to living in SV2.

Aired 8 November 1989 • 25 min

A monster is seen somewhere in the forest. The police sends SV2 to go capture the monster.

Aired 15 November 1989 • 25 min

Runaway Labor X-10 is loose in the forest. Division 2 is sent to go stop it.

Aired 22 November 1989 • 25 min

Tower 1 of Tower City gets on fire. Division 1 and 2 go to stop it and save the people in the fire.

Aired 29 November 1989 • 25 min

The new 97 model is visiting Division 2.

Aired 6 December 1989 • 25 min

Noa, Asuma, and Hiromi are sent to investigate on a tree. People believe that there is curse on the tree.

Aired 13 December 1989 • 25 min

Noa and Asuma are sent to investigate on a terrorist who is gonna steal a red labor, a military labor.

Aired 20 December 1989 • 25 min

Kanuka's grandma from Hawaii visits Tokyo for Christmas. Then she suddenly disappears. The only clue to find her is "The Christmas of 50 years ago". When they try to find her, they are called off to duty.

Aired 27 December 1989 • 25 min

Kanuka's grandma is still missing. Shinshi and some guy is sent to go find her. Kanuka uses Ota's labor to help Noa in the mission.

Aired 10 January 1990 • 25 min

Ota is having an arranged marriage. Noa and the gang helps Ota out on his dates.

Aired 17 January 1990 • 25 min

A prince from the desert joins Division 2 for a couple of days so he can establish a labor team at his homeland. A sniper is out to kill the prince, so Division 2 goes to stop him.

Aired 24 January 1990 • 25 min

Goto takes Division 2 out to drink in order for them to get to know each other more.

Aired 31 January 1990 • 25 min

An endangered humpback whale enters the Tokyo Bay. The city and Division 2 try to get the whale to leave the bay and go back to the ocean.

Aired 7 February 1990 • 25 min

Noa's hometown is having a winter festival and Division 2 is helping out. They also try to help out a boy named Satoru who hates labors.

Aired 14 February 1990 • 25 min

Goto starts to act very strangely lately. Also, there are a lot of random attacks coming at Goto. Could these attacks have anything to do why Goto is acting strangely?

Aired 21 February 1990 • 25 min

A famous entertainer named Kana is joining Division 2 for one week. Everybody is trying to teach Kana how to pilot a labor. A crime gang tries to kidnap Kana so they can get one of Division 2's ingrams. However, they accidently steal Noa. Now, they have to save Noa without having to give the gang one of their ingrams.

Aired 28 February 1990 • 25 min

A terrorist implants a bomb in Geo-City. Division 2 go to disarm the bomb. Kanuka goes on the mission with Noa instead of Ota.

Aired 7 March 1990 • 25 min

Noa and Asuma get into a fight concerning Asuma's personal life. When Division 2 get's assigned a special mission, Asuma is sent to Hajioji to pick up Unit 3.

Aired 14 March 1990 • 25 min

Asuma heads to Hajioji to get back Unit 3. He now heads to the battle. However, in the meantime, Noa and Ota are getting their butts kicked by the enemy.

Aired 21 March 1990 • 25 min

Noa and Kanuka meet up with some old guy and shows them his labor collection. He also gets training on how to pilot a labor from them. The old guy's friend owns a very powerful labor, but that's it. And he doesn't know how to pilot it. Later, the old man and his friend fight with their labors. Who will win, the old man with some piloting skills with a weak labor or his friend with no piloting skills with a powerful labor?

Aired 4 April 1990 • 25 min

Kanuka is now leaving Division 2 and going back home to America. Asuma, Ota, and the others decide to throw her a farewell party. Noa is sent to spy on Kanuka. When the guys finish setting up the party, they come across Kanuka's reports on Division 2 and decide to read them.

Aired 11 April 1990 • 25 min

Kanuka is heading back to America. However, there is a hijacker trying to hijack the plane Kanuka is riding on. How is Kanuka going to stop this, and without her gun?

Aired 18 April 1990 • 25 min

Shinshi takes control of Kanuka's position in Division 2. However, he is really bad at it. Then, he is offered a new job. Will Shinshi stay with Division 2 or will he take the new job? And how is his wife going to react?

Aired 25 April 1990 • 25 min

Takeo Kumagami now joins Division 2. Noa is worried that Goto will reassign positions and that Takeo will take her place as the pilot for Unit 1.

Aired 2 May 1990 • 25 min

SV2 now owns this old mansion. While they work on the mansion, everyone starts to see ghosts.

Aired 9 May 1990 • 25 min

Noa and Asuma meet Utsumi and Bud in an arcade. Utsumi is giving Bud a new special labor called the Griffon. Bud will use it to fight Noa in the future.

Aired 23 May 1990 • 25 min

SV2 orders their lunch from Shanghai Restraunt, as usual. But they never get it. They intend to find out why and won't work until they get their food.

Aired 30 May 1990 • 25 min

Utsumi plans to unveil the Griffon to the public. Meanwhile, H.Q. wants to put in more divisions, so they will get rid of the ingrams and replace them with a bunch of economy models, but the decision isn't final yet.

Aired 6 June 1990 • 25 min

Division 2 is on duty at the International Labor Show. Asuma takes Noa's movement disk to test out the new economy model. But then, the Griffon is unleashed. He beats up Asuma and Ota. Noa enters the fight after getting her disk back, but the Griffon retreats since it was raining.

Aired 13 June 1990 • 25 min

The Griffon has crashed and Noa is relieved. However, the Griffon is being fixed up. Kanuka comes back to Tokyo and temporarily takes control of command of Machine 1.

Aired 20 June 1990 • 25 min

Noa and the gang that the Griffon didn't really crash, the crash was faked. SCHAFT must not let Utsumi get to Tokyo, but he gets there. Noa must prepare for the fight against the Griffon.

Aired 27 June 1990 • 25 min

Noa and Alphonse begin the fight with Bud and the Griffon. Noa is given a rifle to use but she can't use it because there are stupid people in the way. She tries using it like a sword but it didn't work out.

Aired 4 July 1990 • 25 min

Noa and Alphonse continue her fight with the Griffon. But the Griffon gets away in order for Utsumi to escape. Kanuka must go back to America.

Aired 11 July 1990 • 25 min

Division 2 goes to stay by the mountains for a week for training. While out buying dinner, Noa finds 20,000 yen and goes to find where the money came from all by herself.

Aired 18 July 1990 • 25 min

Division 2 must get the Patlabor Insurance to cover for the cars they destroyed.

Aired 25 July 1990 • 25 min

Something is out stealing stuff from Division 2. It appears to come from an old tunnel. Ota and Shinshi go to check it out. When Division 2 loses contact with them, Noa, Asuma, Hiromi, and Takeo go to find them.

Aired 1 August 1990 • 25 min

Shinohara Industries has finished the new production model of a police labor. Noa, Ota, and Gomioka tests them. What will they think of them?

Aired 8 August 1990 • 25 min

People claim to have seen some kind of monster on the beach. Division 2 investigates this.

Aired 15 August 1990 • 25 min

Division 2 must save 2 very lousy terrorists that set off a bomb in the wrong place.

Aired 22 August 1990 • 25 min

Three old terrorists team up to steal some money.

Aired 29 August 1990 • 25 min

Momoko Sakurayama is interviewing Noa for "The Working Girl" show. Meanwhile, a sick man steals a labor in order to commit suicide.

Aired 5 September 1990 • 25 min

Shige is being sent to New York. However, he gets hurt before he goes and has a dream that he is in New York working with CLAT.

Aired 12 September 1990 • 25 min

Noa is offered to become a pilot for a Helldiver. While Noa tries to make her decision, she must stop a criminal without Alphonse.

Aired 19 September 1990 • 25 min

SV2 gets a new patlabor model called the Zero. It is superior to the ingram. After messing up during a mission, Noa is worried that she will lose Alphonse.

Aired 26 September 1990 • 25 min

Noa goes back to her hometown and sees the grave of her dog Alphonse. Asuma goes to get her when a terrorist comes. Division 1 and 2 must find the terrorist without using weapons since it would cause a fire.