1. I'm Lum the Notorious!

This episode opens with a baseball game and Ataru getting hit with a left field fly ball. Ataru is soon escorted home and discovers he's been chosen to fight an invading alien force's champion in a 9 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.



2. It's Raining Oil All Over Town

This episode opens with Ataru friends Megane and Lum's Guards 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.



3. Space Mail Arrival of Ten-chan!

This is the first episode with Jariten, Lum cousin. Jariten arrives in a giant peach and he and Ataru are fiends at once.



4. Mrs. Swallow and Mrs. Penguin

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.



5. The Metamorphic Handsome Man Rei is Here!

This show features the first appearance of Rei, Lum's former fiancee. 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 chal- lenges Ataru to a duel for Lum.



6. Drop Dead You Lady-Killer!

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.



7. Kintaro of the Autumn Sky

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.



8. Live Vigorously!

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.



9. The Mysterious Seductive Beauty Sakura

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.



10. Tormenting Virus

Arriving at school one morning, Ataru is greeted by all boys in the school who are waiting for the new nurse, Sakura, arriving at school today. Ataru appears to be sick, but in reality he is possessed; and Sakura performs the exorcism.