Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Urusei Yatsura All-Star All-Out Attack! 1982-03-31 · 26 min
Mrs. Moroboshi narrates a recapping of the series up to this point.
S0 · E2The School Excursion! Run, Kunoichi! 1982-03-31 · 26 min
First episode with Kaede, the ninja girl. On a school trip to a rustic village, Ataru finds a scroll dropped by a female ninja, Kaede. Her ninja master has her try to get it back by pretending to have a fondness for Ataru. But Lum shows up to protect her darling. So the master gets two more female ninjas and a clan of baby ninja's.
S0 · E3Ryoko's September Tea Party 1985-09-24 · 26 min
A bored Ryōko invites all the non-gentlemen to a tea party to enjoy some conversation.
S0 · E4Memorial Album 1986-09-15 · 26 min
A satellite of the Mendō family develops a will of its own and uncovers its origin through events in Tomobiki it had been recording thus becomes independent.
S0 · E5Inaba the Dreammaker 1987-07-18 · 26 min
It’s summertime and Shinobu happens upon a boy wearing a rabbit costume who drops a key that leads to the room of destiny, a dimension filled with infinite doorways to various possible futures upkeep by a group of sentient rabbits. Together with the bunny boy named Inaba, Shinobu, Lum, and Ataru seek happy futures for themselves.
S0 · E6Raging Sherbet 1988-08-08 · 26 min
Oyuki plans to make a business out of flying sherbets, little bird creatures capable of quickly reproducing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces her to let her borrow one so she can open a sherbet stand on Earth to make some money, but the combination of being overworked and under the heat drives the sherbet to become cranky and escape. For fear of Oyuki’s retribution, Ran must catch the pesky bird that an angry Benten is pursuing for trashing her bike while going on a rampage shooting cones all over Tomobiki.
S0 · E7Nagisa's Fiancé 1988-08-08 · 26 min
Mr. Fujinami opens an abandoned tea shop on a remote island that is still inhabited by the ghosts of its former owners who are none other than his best friend and his daughter named Nagisa. Much to Ryūnosuke’s dismay, Nagisa is completely amorous of Ryūnosuke as the two fathers had them engaged and wishes to kiss her.
S0 · E8The Electric Household Guard 1989-04-04 · 26 min
Much to Mendō’s surprise, his father got him a personal bodyguard who turns out to be the jungle boy Shingo. Now a ninja, Shingo does nothing but irritate his master as he is still brainless as ever and meets Ryōko who decides to use him for her own fun, leading to some delirious disarray.
S0 · E9I Howl at the Moon 1989-04-04 · 26 min
Lum makes some sakuramochi for Ataru to enjoy flower-viewing together. However, she mistakenly made something that is not suitable for human consumption and turns Ataru as well as Onsen-Mark into wolfmen, thus she must quickly prepare an antidote and force an elusive Ataru to take it or he’ll remain a wolf forever.
S0 · E10Goat and Cheese 1989-07-22 · 26 min
Lum, Ataru, Shinobu, and Shūtarō Mendō visit the statue of a goat that an ancestor of Mendo owned. While there, Mendō's father takes some pictures of them, which triggers a curse: the ghost of that goat will come and eat those photos, and the people in the photos will die. So everyone tries to find a way to lift the curse and save their lives. Are the gang gonna be able to revert the curse of the goat?
S0 · E11Catch the Heart 1989-07-22 · 26 min
Ran purchases a pouch of heart candies that cause a heart to appear over whoever eats one who becomes entirely devoted to the person who grabs that heart and tries to use them with Rei only to fail. The candies then fall in the hands of Lum who eats one and it quickly becomes obvious to her lovestruck male classmates at school that the one who grabs the heart over her head will win her unquestioning devotion while Ataru tries to use those candies to get the other girls’ devotions.
S0 · E12The Terror of the Girly-Eyes Measles 1990-04-29 · 26 min
Ataru contracts an alien disease from Ten that makes a boy’s eyes shiny and sparkly like that of a girl’s and spreads the virus to the male population while trying to do his usual girl-hunting in vain.
S0 · E13Date with a Spirit 1990-11-17 · 26 min
Tsubame wakes up to find a young teenage girl in his bed strongly attached to him on the day he has to go on a date with Sakura who was reported by Ten as having seen them together in his home, although she is revealed to be a ghost, her infatuation with him makes Sakura jealous and could jeopardize their relationship.
S0 · E14The Obstacles Course Swim Meet 2008-12-23 · 26 min
Ataru and the others will join the competition of 'The Obstacle Course Swim Meet', organized by the Principal and Onsen-Mark. Each of the students needs to face different kinds of obstacles during the competition, only a few of them reach the finalists and their situation is getting harder and harder than previous obstacles.
S0 · E15Urusei Yatsura: Symphony 1986-07-21 · 26 min
A laserdisk to accompany the CD release of the same name. It contains highlights and reflections from the TV show put to a scored symphonic version of various background music pieces. The music was preformed by a group known as "Apricot Systematic".
S1 · E1I'm Lum the Notorious! 1981-10-14 · 12 min
This episode opens with a baseball game and Ataru getting hit with a left field flyball. Ataru is soon escorted home and discovers he's been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 10-day game of tag. If he loses, the aliens will invade. But if he wins, the aliens will go home. Ataru isn't at all willing to play tag until he sees the alien's champion: the beautiful Lum.
S1 · E2It's Raining Oil All Over Town 1981-10-14 · 12 min
This episode opens with Ataru friends Megane and Lum's Stormtroopers at school who are watching films of the tag game. In this episode, a space taxi gives Ataru a ride home by accident and the fee is...too much. Since Ataru cannot pay, the space Taxi Collection Agency starts stealing all the oil in the world.
S1 · E3Mail from Space - Ten-chan Arrives! 1981-10-21 · 12 min
This is the first episode with Jariten, Lum's cousin. Jariten arrives in a giant peach and he and Ataru are enemies at once.
S1 · E4Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin 1981-10-21 · 12 min
This episode opens with Lum putting on makeup to go meet Darling at school. A swallow swallows some food Jariten gives it and it grows such that it looks like a penguin. It's appearance in school is just the start of a full day of panic.
S1 · E5The Coming of Rei the Handsome Shapechanger! 1981-10-28 · 12 min
This show features the first appearance of Rei, Lum's former fiance. This episode opens with Ataru in his room watching a storm, and Lum trying to coax him to bed. Shinobu meets Rei and brings him to Ataru's house. After a lot of arguing, Rei challenges Ataru to a duel for Lum.
S1 · E6Die Dreamy-Man! 1981-10-28 · 12 min
Ataru, Megane, and friends are going to a Gyudon restaurant for lunch and are quite shocked to see Rei munching down food like a black hole. During the rest of the episode, Rei is chasing Lum, Ataru and friends and as the chase goes on, the chaos grows on.
S1 · E7Kintaro of the Autumn Sky 1981-11-04 · 12 min
First episode with Kintaro, the vicious little boy with the pet flying bear and the red haired alien nanny. Lum and Jariten meet Kintaro inside a wind carp, and Kintaro tells them he's was looking for his nanny in the carp. Ataru, Shinobu, Lum, and Jariten try to help Kintaro find his nanny by asking around.
S1 · E8Live Vigorously! 1981-11-04 · 12 min
Kintaro's nanny, with Ataru's help takes the alien children on a tour of Earth and a Earth child's school. Ataru tells the myth of the real Kintaro who grew up in the wild and slew a demon. So Kintaro decide to live up to his name.
S1 · E9Sakura - Raving Beauty of Mystery 1981-11-18 · 12 min
First appearance of Sakura, The Shinto maiden. Ataru can no longer endure Lum, so he has gone undercover. Unfortunately, at a restaurant, the appearance of Lum, Ataru parents, Shinobu, and Cherry blows his cover; and a mob chases after him. He manages to duck them and bumps into Sakura, who takes him home for exorcising.