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===Television series===
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Two full-fledged television series based on the manga have been broadcast to date.

The first, ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (''Kozure Ōkami''), was produced in a typical [[jidaigeki]] format and broadcast for three seasons from 1973 to 1976, each episode 45 minutes long. Season one originally aired 27 episodes, but the original 2nd episode "Gomune Oyuki (Oyuki of the Gomune)" was subsequently deleted from all rebroadcasts in Japan and VHS and DVD releases; the reasons why this episode has been excluded are currently unclear. Seasons two and three ran for 26 episodes each. [[Kinnosuke Yorozuya]] played Ogami Ittō, and later reprised the role in a 1984 TV movie; Daigoro was played by Katzutaka Nishikawa in the first two seasons and by Takumi Satô in the final season.

The series was co-produced by Union Motion Picture Co, Ltd. ([[:ja:ユニオン映画|ユニオン映画]]) and Studio Ship ([[:ja:小池書院|スタジオシップ]]), a company formed by manga author Kazuo Koike, and originally aired on [[Nippon TV]] in Japan. It was subsequently broadcast in the United States as ''The Fugitive Samurai'' in the original Japanese with English subtitles, and released for the Toronto, Canada market by CFMT-TV (now [[OMNI 1]]) in the original Japanese with English subtitles as ''The Iron Samurai''. It has also been aired in Germany dubbed in German, in Italy dubbed in Italian; around 1980, a Portuguese dub was aired in Brazil as ''O Samurai Fugitivo (The Fugitive Samurai)'' on TVS, actually SBT, and in Spanish, as ''El Samurai Fugitivo'' on the American Spanish TV station Univision.

The first season was released on DVD in Japan on December 20, 2006, apparently without subtitles. Twelve of the first 13 episodes were released on DVD in Germany as ''Kozure Okami'', with audio in Japanese and German. In the U.S., [[Media Blasters]] released the first season on DVD on April 29, 2008, under its [[Tokyo Shock]] Label, containing the original Japanese with English subtitles. All of these releases excluded the deleted-from-distribution second episode "Gomune Oyuki".

The latest television series, also titled ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (''Kozure Ōkami''), aired from 2002 to 2004 in [[Japan]] on [[TV Asahi]] with [[Kin'ya Kitaōji]] in the role of Ogami Ittō and Tsubasa Kobayashi as Daigoro. This series has not yet been made commercially available on DVD or Blu-ray; however, beginning in September 2023 English-subtitled episodes began being uploaded to the YouTube website, courtesy of the "Samurai vs. Ninja" YouTube Channel,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VwnFdRB5yU |title="Lone Wolf and Cub - Episode 01 - Martial Arts Adventure - Ninja vs Samurai" |website=YouTube |date=September 2023 |access-date=September 3, 2023 |archive-date=September 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903171749/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VwnFdRB5yU |url-status=live }}</ref> and currently all three seasons of the series have been uploaded.