Eccentric and absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm's often-disastrous inventions lead him into comical scrapes, much to the exasperation of his housekeeper, Mrs Flittersnoop.
With the arrival of the family of Agha Hanaei and Gol Baghali Khanum with their two children, the peace of the grandmother's house for makhmal (grandmother's cat) is disturbed .
Driven by faith, family and American tradition, three young cowboys - Bubba Thompson, Cody Harris, and Chris "Booger" Brown - work hard to build their cattle business in South Alabama and live according to an old-fashioned cowboy code.
After Mizusawa Yume's mother becomes ill and passes away, she finds a picture of a man holding a baby in her mother's keepsake box. On the back of the picture it says "Loving Papa and Yume, at Raku no Yu." Yume has never known or even seen a picture of her father, but she believes that this guy must be him. Also in the box there is a lighter with the initials RM.
After she finds that the "Raku no Yu", is a 'sento' (public bath) in Shibuya, Tokyo, she's off to meet her long lost father and to get as much money out of him as possible. The debts her mother left her after her death left nothing for Yume. Yume blames her father for her mother's death because if it wasn't for him she wouldn't have had to work so hard and wouldn't have gotten ill and died young.
Once she arrives in Tokyo and finds 'Raku no Yu' she finds a name plaque with the inscription Mannaka Rokku, so she is sure this is the place.
It was broadcast for the first time in April 1978 by Televisión Nacional de Chile and remained on the air for 26 seasons, originally being broadcast by the state signal until 1981 and subsequently from 1983 to 1989. In July 1992 it was broadcast by the newly created private station Megavisión, where it remained in regular broadcasts until 2004.
During the New Year Water Festival, Nway Thit, decides that he has reached the age where he should confess to his childhood sweetheart, Ngu Wah, but finds his attempts keep getting interfered with by his best friend A-Ta, putting their friendship at risk. Will A-Ta muster up the courage to confess to his friend why he is being so meddlesome and, more importantly, how he really feels about him? Just how will Nway Thit deal with the truth when it is finally revealed?