TV Series
The lyrics of the ending theme of the TV show changed every week depending on the plot line. In the TV series, the closing credits show a coin, based on the kan'eitsūhō coin thrown by Heiji, with Zenigata Heiji written on it.
TV serias about Zenigata Heiji include:
- 銭形平次捕物控 Zenigata Heiji Torimono-Hikae (1958–1960) - 103 episodes
- 銭形平次捕物控 Zenigata Heiji Torimono-Hikae (1962–1963) - 48 episodes
- 銭形平次 Zenigata Heiji (1966–1984) - 888 episodes. The longest-running Zenigata Heiji, Hashizō Ōgawa (大川橋蔵 Ōgawa Hashizō) made a total of 888 programmes, with several different co-stars, from 1966 until his death in 1984. Hashizō Ōgawa is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest running actor in a one-hour long television series for his performance as Heiji. (Hashizō Ōgawa was originally an onnagata, an actor who plays women's parts in kabuki.) Sanae Tsuchida was in the cast from 1970 to 1973.
- 銭形平次 Zenigata Heiji (1987) - 26 episodes
- 銭形平次 Zenigata Heiji (1991–1997) Kin'ya Kitaōji played Heiji in the 1990s, and in 2005, a new cast features Hiroaki Murakami in the lead role.
- 銭形平次 Zenigata Heiji (2004–2006)
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