The Ten Planets in the Night Sky

Editor 2
	Yusaku's editor;

Editor 1
	Yusaku's editor;

	OVA The Ten Planets in the Night Sky
	Information
Title:	The Ten Planets in the Night Sky
Japanese Title:	夜空に飛び立つ10個の惑星 ; (Yozora ni Tobitatsu Jikko no Wakusei)
Original airdate:	December 22, 1999
	Case
Cast:	Yukiko Kudo ; Shinichi Kudo ; Yusaku Kudo
Case solved by:	Yukiko Kudo
	Staff
Director:	Osamu Nabeshima
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Osamu Nabeshima
Technical Director:	Osamu Nabeshima
Animation Director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice cast:
	Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo ; Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo ; Minami Takayama as Shinichi Kudo ; Isshin Chiba as Editor ; Takashi Nagasako as Editor ; Hiromichi Kogami as Editor ; Hiroyuki Yokoo as Editor ; Seijirou Chouda as Editor ; Mari Tomokawa as Nishiyama

Chronology
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Cast

Characters

Yukiko Kudo

Shinichi Kudo (baby)

Yusaku Kudo

People

Editor 3
	Yusaku's editor

Editor 4
	Yusaku's editor

Editor 5
	Yusaku's editor

Editor 6
	Yusaku's editor

Mishiyama
	Kojima Planetarium official interpretor

Plot

This short episode stars Shinichi Kudo's mother as the main character. The episode starts out with a narration of Yukiko's current situation. In the beginning, Yusaku Kudo disappears for an unknown reason, leaving a hint for his wife and several desperate men that needs his manuscript by the next morning. Throughout a series of events, it seems as the baby Shinichi was giving hints to his frazzled mother.

Resolution

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Trivia

Yukiko's cellphone photo along with Yusaku and baby Shinichi in The The Wizard of the Ripples is from this short story.
One of the poster in the Planetarium contains the picture of nine planets. It is because the episode was filmed before the 2006 IAU reclassification of the planets, which rules out Pluto and thus there are only eight planets left.
Editor 6 looks a lot like Kogoro Mouri and is modeled like a younger version of him.
The sunset beach woman in the hotel room appeared before in Aquacrystal restaurant from The Fourteenth Target; in the apartment building front entrance from The Historical Actor Murder Case, but cut out the woman; and in the Sunset Manor's dining room from The Gathering of the Detectives, but divided into two an with an inverted orientation. In The Shaking Restaurant, the past scene when Aiko Morimura, a girl on Hachijou Island, looked at the sunset sea waiting twenty-one years for her lover's return from Tokyo while bringing up her secret daughter and then died alone last spring after suffered all the hardships, is clearly modeled after this oil painting. Open spoiler box to see images.