When Black Jack puts the lives of a cat and a baby before a politician during a disaster aboard a ferry boat, the politician sues him, but the tables turn when the politician becomes diagnosed with cancer and requires Black Jack's surgical skills.

After Black Jack performs surgery on a young boy, an IV needle breaks and becomes embedded in his vein, and Black Jack cannot extract it.

Black Jack observes a handicapped boy's effort to walk 400 kilometers from Hiroshima to Osaka.

A stray dog runs away with Pinoko's purse and is hit by a car during the ensuing chase; Pinoko convinces Black Jack to operate on the dog to save its life.

A boy whose sister suffers from tuberculosis attempts to raise her spirits by having a friend visit while pretending to be the famed surgeon Black Jack.

Black Jack meets Dr. Shiitake, an underappreciated doctor at a hospital whose top doctors face embezzlement charges, creating a crisis that turns into an opportunity for Dr. Shiitake to show what he can do.