怪盗鲁邦三世（ルパン三世，Lupin III）与搭档——“酷枪汉”次元大介，“什么东西都要劈两半的危险男人”石川五右卫门，谜一样的美女峰不二子，展开的一系列冒险故事。 这是《鲁邦三世》动画系列的第一部，1971-1972年上映。又称《鲁邦三世之绿夹克系列》（因为片中鲁邦三世的正装为绿色外套），原计划拍摄26话，最终完成23话。据说这是第一部面向非青少年观众的动画作品，因为其中出现较多（相对当时的动画作品而言）暴力，欺诈。而藏在这些背后的则是大量令人捧腹的喜剧成分。本作基于Monkey Punch(加藤一彦)的《鲁邦三世》漫画系列，监督大塚康生，并有宫崎骏等多位后来的动漫重量级人物担任制作班底。本作奠定了整个鲁邦动画系列的基调，后来的鲁邦系列作品还多次从本系列中攫取素材。鲁邦从此进军荧屏，并一跃成为日本国民级动画经典，活跃至今。
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
Dan Halen's most recent business venture takes off when he advertises Rusty's chalk art as cave drawings created by ancient aliens.
