Based on Fujio Akatsuka's subversive family comedy, the series follows naive 10-year-old Bakabon and his folks: Papa, the patriarch and idiot supreme, Mama, Bakabon's darling mother and voice of reason, and Hajime, the newly-born baby boy who, due to being in the womb for an extended period, gained super-intelligence and an extensive bevy of worldly knowledge. Much of the comedy revolves around the idiotic natures of Bakabon and his Papa, and the people who have to put up with it.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Bakabon Ikkada Konyanyachiha / Aka-chan is really good | 1971-09-25 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | If you were born soon, come on / Konyanyachiha Aka-chan | 1971-10-02 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aka-chan is Hajime-chan / Hajime-chan talked for the first time. | 1971-10-09 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The sugar beet is Hajime-chan / Hajime-chan's Chukei is Chushinada | 1971-10-16 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Do you have a driver's license? / Bakabon's robot is good. | 1971-10-23 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aladdin's Lamp Haotokonoda / Daddy's Muscohadarenanoda | 1971-10-30 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Next to Tosei Kitaseda / Hello Mr. Otsuki Good evening | 1971-11-06 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Dad's Keikangokuro-san / Ahoya Hoyama Heiko | 1971-11-13 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | How about Kana Naruki / The feast is Levanilla | 1971-11-20 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The idiot is Japanese / white denpo | 1971-11-27 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Finally this is Kowai / Today is the important Hinano | 1971-12-04 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | It's a thing-like person / dogs are dads and cats are idiots. | 1971-12-11 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Christmas is a Christmas, it's a strange, mysterious chapel. | 1971-12-18 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Soujiki Nakahigashi / Mochi Nakahirobo is good | 1971-12-25 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Otoshidama I want to be happy! Noda / Octopus only Octopus | 1972-01-01 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | It's a kite when you're kiting fortune | 1972-01-08 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | I'm scared around you, and I'm scared of you. | 1972-01-15 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Bakabon and Papan Journey Glass Nada / School teachers rush | 1972-01-22 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Daddy Caixas and Konya Nachiha / Shoes Shine is perfect for kids. | 1972-01-29 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Undokai is left to Papa / Bakabon's University of Arts and Sciences | 1972-02-05 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Daddy's Jumanen is a dream / Ken Kakuhama Hanazuka Kashiida | 1972-02-12 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Kaiju No. 8 has appeared on the TV / Gadman is a ghost | 1972-02-19 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Still, Dad is lively / it's a fool's chick festival. | 1972-02-26 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Bakabon's Living Elections / Napoleon Sleeps Soundly | 1972-03-04 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | Daddy is a leaky squirrel / Bakabon's cool light is Hawaii | 1972-03-11 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Episode 26 | 1972-03-18 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Episode 27 | 1972-03-25 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | Episode 28 | 1972-04-01 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | Episode 29 | 1972-04-08 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Episode 30 | 1972-04-15 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | Episode 31 | 1972-04-22 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | Episode 32 | 1972-04-29 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | Episode 33 | 1972-05-06 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | Episode 34 | 1972-05-13 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Episode 35 | 1972-05-20 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Episode 36 | 1972-05-27 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | Episode 37 | 1972-06-03 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | Episode 38 | 1972-06-10 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | Episode 39 | 1972-06-17 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | Episode 40 | 1972-06-24 | min |
| Directing | Eiji Okabe | Director |
| Visual Effects | Tsutomu Shibayama | Animation Director |