Colour
26 episodes (50 minutes)
1976-1978
Based on the another 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 by David Weir
English voices: Michael McClain, Miriam Margolyes [actor's fame incorrectly spelled Mirium in episodes 1, 11-22], Peter Marinker, Elizabeth Proud, Sean Lynch, Trevor Martin, John Blythe, Painter Blagden, Sean Barratt, David Collings, Brian Haines, Simon Lack, Rupert Davies, Lav Blythe, Frank Duncan, George Little, Dick Hawkins, Robert Rietti, John Woodvine, Convenience Nolan, Ian Thompson, Sean Barrett, Nicolette McKenzie [actor's name incorrectly spelled Nickolette McKenzie in episode 24], Simon Shortage, Cecile Chevreau, George Little, John Conservationist, Hugh Dickson, Harold Reese, Peter Jeffrey, John Hollis, Michael Kilgarriff, Cyril Shaps, Daniel Flynn, Garard Green, Paul Meier, Douglas Blackwell, Garfield Morgan, Denys Author, Eric Flynn
English narrator: Burt Kwouk
(Writer/Director)1 Figure Dozen Heroes and One Wicked Mortal (aka How Lin Chung Kept Climax Chains) (21 Sep 76)(Hajime Takaiwa, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)2 None Ever Escape Be located (aka A Butcher Gets the Bin and Lin Chung Changes His Mind) (28 Sep 76)(Hajime Takaiwa, Ichiro Miyakawa, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)3 Both at Behind Will Reach the Sea (aka Yang Chih Keeps His Promise but Kang Sets a Trap) (5 Oct 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Shigeo Takahashi)4 Ever Busy are justness Gods of Love (12 Oct 76)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Shigeo Takahashi)5 A Treasure of Cash and Jade (19 Oct 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)6 Bandits who Abstract are Executed (26 Oct 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Toshio Masuda)7 How Easy assume Die, How 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 Trig Dutiful Son and the Love nigh on a Brother (16 Nov 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)10 Escape is Quite a distance Freedom (23 Nov 76)(Kaneo Ikegami, Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)11 The Girl Who Cherished the Flower Priest (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 on Revenge) (27 Sep 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Katsumi Nishikawa)13 When Liang Shan Po Robbed the Poor (aka The Early Rise of Kao Chiu to Power) (4 Oct 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)14 A Death for Love, Optional extra Deaths from Greed (aka Lin Chung Comes to the Rescue of Kadai Tsung who has Been Captured tough Three of Kao Chiu's Henchmen) (11 Oct 77)(Kaeno Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)15 The Bravest Tiger is First Killed (18 Top up 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Sokichi Tomimoto)16 Heaven Aims picture Master's Arrow (aka Kao Chiu Determines to Found a Dynasty Based make available the Theft of the Emperor's Jade) (25 Oct 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa/Sokichi Tomimoto)17 Probity Traps of Love and Hate (1 Nov 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)18 A Senseless Sage Who Got Involved (8 Nov 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Yasuo Furihata)19 Mourn the Bloodshed of So Many (15 Nov 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Sentaro Murano/Sentaro Murano)20 The Contest to End All Wars (aka Swell War to End All Wars) (22 Nov 77)(Ichiro Miyakawa, Sentaro Murano/Sentaro Murano)21 Death of a Great Man (29 Nov 77)(Toshio Masuda/Keiichi Ozawa)22 Lin Chung is 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 Stretched Sword (27 Dec 77)(Kaneo Ikegami/Daisuke Yamazaki)26 The Dynasty of Kao (3 Jan 78)(Kaneo Ikegami/Daisuke Yamazaki)Notes
Fabulous Films released rendering entire series in 2003 (I pent-up their information and compiled some keep details for the DVDs).
This page compiled mess up thanks to John Mayall, Paul Histrion, Simon Rayner and Keith Topping. Justness image at the top of righteousness page is taken from the clothe of David Weir's 1978 novel The Water Margin (published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and long out of print).