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wrote the music for the show, and Saigō sang the theme songs. The series has been rebroadcast many times. The first series of ''Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi'' is available on DVD. The Jidaigeki Channel distributed it via satellite and cable in September 2008.時代劇専門チャンネル　8月のオススメ企画　「あばれ医者嵐山」
The production was in color. Episodes lasted 45 minutes within the time slot. TV Tokyo regularly broadcasts ''jidaigeki'' in the Friday 9:00–9:54 time slot.

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as Tetsunosuke Yamazaki *

as Sayuri * Miyuki Kanō * Junichi Nitta *

* Umenosuke Nakamura as

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