1 | * BannedEpisode: Several episodes involving sexual assault cannot be rerun on Japanese terrestrial stations, likely due to their explicit nature. |
2 | * ContestWinnerCameo: Variation with Episode 277 as its plot was selected by the producers as a winner of a contest to decide what would be the show's 5th anniversary special. |
3 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: |
4 | ** Shigeru Araki's (Detective Akira Tsugami) were Episodes 68 and 69. |
5 | ** Kenichi Sakuragi's (Detective Jiro Taki) were Episodes 108 and 169, which were his debut and final episodes, respectively. |
6 | ** Katsuhiko Yokomitsu's (Detective Junichi Kurebayashi) were Episode 129 and 212. The latter is also a favorite of the producer's. |
7 | ** Natsu Yusuke's (Detective Junichi Kano) was Episode 148, his debut episode. |
8 | ** Naoya Makoto's (Detective Ryuji Hoshino) were Episodes 200 and 201, the Paris/Rome [[VacationEpisode Vacation Episodes]]. |
9 | ** Shukei Nagasaka's (the series' most prolific teleplay writer), were Episodes 260 and 418. |
10 | * DirectedByCastMember: Episodes 278 and 490 were directed by Hideaki Nitani. |
11 | * EditedForSyndication: The TVMovie [[https://twitter.com/makaroni1986/status/1683464023227142148 was split into two parts during reruns]], [[MissingEpisode but this version hasn't resurfaced]] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes on home video yet.]] |
12 | * GuestStar: Takeshi Sasaki, better known as [[Series/KamenRider Kamen Rider #2]], guest stars in Episode 48 as Natsuko Kamio's fiancee. [[spoiler: Sadly, his appearance ends up becoming DeathByCameo]]. |
13 | * HeyItsThatPlace: Being a Toei production, after all, the legendary Toei gravel pit from ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' appears a few times across the show. In Episodes 1 and 161 it serves as the locales for the episode's climaxes, in Episode 65, it serves as a testing ground for the villain-of-the-week's weapon, and it serves as the location of a car chase in the MadeForTVMovie. |
14 | * KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The [=DVDs=] unfortunately collect around 167 episodes out of a 509-episode run, leaving the remaining 342 episodes unavailable on home video. The fact that the show was never released on home video prior to them further complicates matters for completionists. |
15 | * LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The [[https://www.toei-video.co.jp/special/tokusou/ ''Best Selection Box'' collections]]. They come in slipcases, contain interviews with the cast and crew, and have booklets containing reprinted episode scripts and magazine articles. |
16 | * MilestoneCelebration: |
17 | ** Episodes 275-276 and 277 were for the 5th anniversary. The former were the show's [[VacationEpisode Vacation Episodes]] set in Hawaii while the latter's plot was selected as a winner from a fan submission contest. |
18 | ** Episodes 359 and 360 were for the 7th anniversary, and are considered the show's best episodes by fans. |
19 | ** Episodes 407 and 408 were for the 8th anniversary, and are set in Belgium. |
20 | ** Episodes 460 and 461 were for the 9th anniversary. |
21 | ** The last episode was aired a week before the exact date of the show's 10th anniversary. |
22 | * NoExportForYou: Averted, surprisingly. The series was shown, subbed, on Hawaiian TV in the 70s and 80s. The show's cast of tokusatsu alumni might be part of the reason it was given an export. |
23 | * OfficialFanSubmittedContent: The plot of Episode 277, part of the show's 7th anniversary celebration, was adapted by Shukei Nagasaka from a winner of an episode idea submission contest. |
24 | * RealLifeRelative: Hideaki Nitani's wife, Yumi Shirakawa, had a semi-recurring role late in the series. |
25 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot / TroubledProduction: |
26 | ** In a manner similar to his costar Hiroshi Fujioka's departure from ''Series/KamenRider'', Hideaki Nitani suffered serious injuries while skiing during the shoot for the show's 97th and 98th episodes, leading to a brief absence. |
27 | ** Takasugi's actor started to make more infrequent appearences due to his schedule, culminating in his departure in Episode 105. |
28 | ** Naoya Makoto eventually left the show due to conflicts with the writing staff, and with series writer Shukei Nagasaka in particular. Thankfully, they reconciled a few years after the show ended. |
29 | ** Nagasaka also left the show for a brief while due to conflicts with the producers. |
30 | ** Hiroshi Fujioka left twice during the series, due to his commitments to other projects. |
31 | ** Hideki Otani also took a few absences due to health issues and to film ''Film/{{Kagemusha}}''. |
32 | * ShoutOut: In Episode 70, the antagonists are a criminal organization in the search for a microfilm. The organization's name? [[Series/KamenRiderStronger Black Satan.]][[note]]Made even funnier as this was made during Shigeru Araki's run on the show, and he was the CharacterFocus for it.[[/note]] |
33 | * SpiritualSuccessor: The show is this to an earlier and longer-running Toei cop show, ''Special Mobile Investigation Team'', which ran from 1961 to 1977 for 801 episodes and was then succeeded by ''Tokusou Saizensen''. The former show notably had [[Creator/SonnyChiba Sonny Chiba]] in an early role as a detective. |
34 | * ThematicSeries: The show had several small story arcs based around a theme, which included location-based series and women-related shows. |
35 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
36 | ** There were plans for a second Hawaiian show, but it never came to be. |
37 | ** There was also talk of the cast reuniting for a couple of yearly [[ReunionShow Reunion Shows]], but this too, didn't happen. |
38 | * YouLookFamiliar: |
39 | ** Before joining the cast as detectives, Katusuhiko Yoshimitsu (Kobayashi), Natsu Yusuke (Kano), and Kiyokata Mitsugi (Inuyo) were all guest stars in various episodes. |
40 | ** In the show's most shocking example, Naoya Nakoto returns in Episodes 499-500 as an entirely different character from Hoshino: Tetsuji Matsuda, a ''yakuza'' working for the episode's syndicate-of-the-week. The episode even lampshades it when Detective Kano even calls Matsuda "Hoshino". |
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