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- At school the children of the favela are told how the Portuguese crown was brought to Brazil, when Napoleon attacked Portugal. Acerola conceives Napoleon as something equivalent to the local gang-leader BB in his fights with other criminal gangs in the favela. Soon the schoolboys Acerola and Laranjinha get stuck in the middle of one of these fights.
- A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to reach a dry spot in the village. There a young man in a car offers her a lift. They drive around in circles, trying to find a way out of the area, but all ways are blocked by the water. Concurrently with the ever rising water the emotions within the two young people also start rising. At last they find their way out of the flooded area. When they reach Paris and the young woman looks up at the Eiffel Tower, she knows that she is going to spend the night with this man.
- After four years as a sailor at various ships all around the world Per Löfgren returns to his parents and the little village where he grew up. On the surface the village looks much the same, but Per notices that underneath a sweeping alteration is on its way. An official from the agriculture committee tries to convince the small-scale farmers to sell their estates. The village shop-keeper is on the brink of closing his shop.
- The Persson family tries to adapt itself to a new life in the city. At the same time the Mohlin family tries to adapt itself to the social life in the village. Lars-Erik Dahl gets an exemption warrant from the military service. He feels worthless and moves to Stockholm with the intention of never coming back to the village again. Gunnar Löfgren calls his parents, Henning and Jenny Löfgren, and asks them if his son, Göran Löfgren, could stay at their farm for a while. Göran has become drug addicted. Some months in the countryside would keep him away from bad influences in the city.
- While visiting the Dahl family Per Löfgren discovers that his old schoolmate Karin Dahl is confined to a wheel-chair after a car accident. Per frequently visits another old schoolmate, Willy Strid, and becomes a witness of the harsh quarrels between Willy and his wife Lena. Per's sister, Ingrid Löfgren, has a clandestine liaison with Karin's brother, Mattias Dahl.
- Göran Löfgren feels at ease at his grandparents' farm in the village. Leif and Bambi, two of his old pals from Gothenburg, suddenly turn up in a car, which is decorated with symbols and slogans connected with the hippie movement. When Willy Strid one morning finds out that a burglary has been committed in his garage, he suspects Leif and Bambi, and vehemently accuses Göran for bringing these two drug addicts to the village.
- Two officials, one from the agriculture committee and one from the county employment board, try to persuade the small-scale farmers to sell their estates, as the government won't support these farmers with capital any more. They also try to persuade the large-scale farmer Berndt Andersson to buy Evert Persson's small estate, which engenders a conflict between the two neighbours.
- It's autumn and the villagers gather for the annual elk-hunting. Mattias Dahl is the best shot of them all, but when he shoots at an elk, which comes very close to him, the elk runs away. His father, Ragnar Dahl, criticizes him and Mattias feels humiliated in front of all the others. He gets drunk to kill his annoyance. One of the hunters notifies that his dog has found Mattias's elk. The shot had gone straight to the heart of the elk, which had dropped dead some hundred metres away. Mattias wants his father to beg him forgiveness, but Ragnar refuses.
- Many of the villagers have love-problems. The marriage between Willy and Lena Strid is in crisis, and the marriage between Mattias and Elisabeth Dahl is even worse. Mattias has a love-affair with Ingrid Löfgren, while his son, Lars-Erik Dahl, is emotionally and sexually frustrated by not finding any woman to love. The teen-agers Lennart Andersson and Eva Persson fall in love, but their first attempt at having sex doesn't work.
- The Persson family has hard time adjusting themselves to life in the big city. Evert Persson sees the wretched life of a fellow-worker, his daughter Eva cannot find a work or a friend, and his son Anders is mobbed by his schoolmates. At the same time the Mohlin family cannot adjust themselves to life in the countryside, when the days become darker. The sailor Per Löfgren is in port in Gdansk. After a visit to an art exhibition, he has hard to find his way back to the ship. He arrives one hour too late, and is provoked into a fight with the first mate.
- When the love-affair between Mattias Dahl and Ingrid Löfgren becomes the talk of the village, Ingrid breaks off the liaison. Her daughter Gunilla arrives from Stockholm to spend her summer vacation in the village, but she leaves again after only two days, finding life in the countryside too boring. Ingrid takes an overdose of sleeping pills and is brought to a mental hospital. The large-scale farmer Berndt Andersson marries his fiancée Lillemor. During the wedding dinner the small-scale farmer Evert Persson puts a damper on the jollity by announcing that he has to sell his farm.
- Evert Persson sells his farm, cattle and implements by auction. The dwelling-house is bought by a young couple, Björn and Lotta Mohlin, who converts it into a summer house. The Persson family moves to a modern apartment in one of the new, big suburbs outside Gothenburg. Per Löfgren announces that he too will leave the village soon, going back to the sea as a sailor.
- The Sheriff in Bonanza orders his assistant to bring the murderer Jim Hardy to the state prison, where Hardy is going to be hanged. On the way the assistant is killed by a shot from a man, who releases Hardy and brings him to his boss, Jim Holbrook. Holbrook plans to kill his employer, the ranch owner Henry P. Murdock, and replace him with Hardy, who resembles Murdock. Through this switch, Holbrook will get control over the ranch himself. The sheriff thinks that it is Cisco who has killed his assistant. Cisco and Pancho have to solve the whole mystery to prove that they are innocent.
- The postman cannot deliver the post in the favela, because the streets have no names and the houses no numbers. The ruling gangsters order Acerola to invent names for all the streets and put up signboards in all corners. But when the police gets hold of Acerola's handwritten map, the gangsters are in great danger.
- Cisco and Pancho are asked by Marshal Ben Lane to track down a gang of counterfeiters in Durado. Cisco suspects the local banker and his clerk to be involved in the counterfeit, but cannot prove anything. He sets some traps for the gang. One of the traps involves arresting Pancho as an alleged bank robber.
- Börje Hallberg was once a famous football player, but now he is ignored by people in his surrounding. He takes Möller off to see a football match at the stadium. During the match they gulp down some alcohol, and Hallberg gets more and more noisy. After the match he wants to see the players, but the guard won't let him in. At a beer-house he starts talking about his former football feats, but everybody is tired of his old stories.
- In a book Melker finds the maxim "This day - a life". He decides to make the maxim come true this very day, but despite his good intentions, all his undertakings end in disaster. He builds a water-conduit to the kitchen, only to find out that the whole kitchen-floor is flooded with water. He cook fishes for the dinner, but the food is uneatable because of too much salt. Christer invites Malin to a boating excursion and is not happy when she brings along her little brother Pelle. In the end Christer leaves Saltkråkan with the intention of never coming back.
- While Mrs. Swedberg is on holiday, her niece Ulla moves into her apartment with another girl, Kerstin. The two young women soon find out that the caretaker, Nisse, is a charming elderly man, living on his own. They start a little flirt with him, just for fun. Nisse and the two girls spend a merry day at the amusement park Bakken in Copenhagen, and Nisse falls in love with Kerstin. They meet hairdresser Jonasson, who becomes jealous of Nisse, and decides to revenge himself by a practical joke.
- The Melkersson family arrive on the island where they have rented a house for the summer, only to find out that it's not as wonderful and idyllic as they had pictured.
- Herbert has applied for part-ownership in a sailing-boat, which will take ten young people on a trip around the world. He is 35 years old and this will be his chance to break off from his father and experience the world on his own. As he will be away for some years, he has decided to put his father in a home for old people. When Albert hears about this, he becomes shocked, angry and depressed. When Herbert leaves him at the nursing home, Albert refuses to talk with his son anymore.
- Albert's and Herbert's old horse Herkules drops dead when drawing the scrap-wagon along the streets. When Herbert tells the sad news to Albert, the latter falls into a depression. Albert was present when the horse was born 38 years ago and they have been together all those years. Herbert buys a new horse, but Albert won't even take a look at it. For him there can never be another horse in his life beside Herkules.
- Sadly, there is nothing more left between Nadja and her husband, and as a grim epilogue, Rainer has to pack and go. But even now, is there a chance to salvage what's left of their tattered marriage?
- Mr. Pickwick, Mr. Tupman, Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle constitute The Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club. The purpose of the society is to make reports of excursions outside London. At the stage-coach to Rochester they are accompanied by a charming stranger, who they invite for dinner at The Bull Inn, the first stop of the journey. When the others fall asleep after too much wine, Mr. Tupman and the stranger sneak upstairs to a ball. The stranger has no fine clothes and borrows Mr. Winkle's tail-coat. At the ball he insults a Dr. Slammer, who the next day wants to duel with "the man in the blue tail-coat", which happens to be the perplexed Mr. Winkle.
- When the duel is going to start, Dr. Slammer discovers that Mr. Winkle is not the man that insulted him the evening before. Back at the Bull Inn he finds the offender. It's the stranger, who is now identified as a strolling player, a person not worthy of a duel. Mr. Pickwick and his friends are invited by Mr. Wardle to his manor farm at Dingley Dell. In the morning they go out rook-hunting. Mr. Winkle's reputation as a good shot is immediately spoiled. Instead of shooting any rook, he fires an accidental shot in the arm of Mr. Tupman.
- Mr. Pickwick and his friends happen to meet the strolling player again, who now identifies himself as Mr. Jingle. He is invited by Mr. Wardle to join the other guests at the manor farm in Dingley Dell. Mr. Wardle's sister, Rachel, who is a spinster, falls in love with Mr. Tupman. When Mr. Jingle finds out about this, he starts intriguing to win Rachel himself. He calumniates Mr. Tupman and elopes with Rachel, in order to marry her before her brother can stop them. Mr. Wardle, Mr. Pickwick and the others go out in search of the couple in London. At last a young man, Sam Weller, reveals that they are staying at The White Hart Inn.
- Mr Pickwick's lawyer, Mr. Perker, persuades Mr. Jingle to cancel the wedding licence if he gets 120 pounds in compensation from Rachel's brother, Mr. Wardle. Mr. Jingle accepts the money and rushes away from the crying Rachel. Mr. Pickwick is impressed of the helping Sam Weller and employs him as his servant. Mr. Perker is also engaged as an election agent in Eatanswill, and invites Mr. Pickwick and his friends to come and follow the election. At a party at The Den Inn Mr. Pickwick once again recognizes Mr. Jingle, who now calls himself Mr. Fitz Marshall. Mr. Pickwick tries to grab Mr. Jingle, who rushes away.
- Jasper King has asked his old friend Cisco to help him stop the marriage between his niece Nancy and the gangster Duke Ralston. Cisco and Pancho break the wedding ceremony and run away with the protesting bride. During a quarrel about this Duke kills Jasper. Nancy tells the sheriff that it is Cisco and Pancho who have killed her uncle. To prove their innocence Cisco and Pancho have to find the real murder and deliver him to the sheriff.
- Alice and her sister Moa live in a dysfunctional family. Their father Olle is an alcoholic and their mother Kerstin cannot handle the situation. At Alice's birthday Olle hasn't bought any present to his daughter. Although he is drunk, he takes her on a ride in his car, to buy her a dog. In a turn he crashes into a garden and hurts a man with his car. He and Alice run away from the accident in the car. Alice promises not to tell anybody about what has happened. When things are getting worse in the family, Alice decides to find the man in the garden and tell him that it is her father who hurt him.
- A man knocks at the door, steps in and declares that he is Åke, the eldest son of Albert. Albert hasn't seen him since he was a baby, and Herbert has never heard about any elder brother. Albert is happy and makes Åke a partner of the family firm. It turns out that Åke is work-shy and in great need of money. Herbert thinks he is just a parasite and leaves the family firm to start a scrap business of his own.
- Herbert tries to convince Albert to undergo an X-ray examination of his chest, but Albert refuses. When Herbert says that he will undergo the examination himself, Albert cannot shirk any longer. It turns out that Albert is healthy, but Herbert is informed that because of some technical problems there are no results from his examination. Herbert is sure that the clinic is just saying this, because they don't dare to tell him that he is actually dying.
- Herbert is going to be married. He and all the wedding guests are waiting in the church for the bride, who is late. Albert, who doesn't want to lose his son, starts to question the wedding, the bride and the bride's family in a loud voice. During the wedding ceremony the bride suddenly says no and runs away. As the wedding is canceled, the wedding guests now want to have their presents back.
- Albert thinks that Herbert has forgotten his birthday, but Herbert has planned a whole evening with pleasant surprises for Herbert, to celebrate this occasion. But things don't turn out the way Herbert has planned them. A drink at a modern bar, a visit to the theatre and a meal at a Chinese restaurant are too sophisticated amusements for Herbert. He would prefer a hot dog and a soft porno at the local cinema.
- When visiting the bank as a customer, George Burns finds out that Lucy is instinctively funny and asks her to become a partner in his show. Mr. Mooney, who thinks this is an opportunity to get rid of her, accepts being her agent. The show opens in Santa Monica, where the new pair appear in a Burns and Allen-style act. George Burns is the straight man and Lucy the comedienne, who delivers the punchlines.
- 1974–197930m7.6 (15)TV EpisodeAlbert is taking a bath in an old tub in the middle of the living-room. When Herbert discovers this he becomes very distressed, because a new girl friend will arrive in 15 minutes. In the last minute Herbert succeeds to get the reluctant Albert out of the tub, which he covers with a blanket. The girl arrives, seats herself on the blanket, which she thinks covers a chair, and falls into the water in the tub. The next day Herbert starts building a real bathroom in the attic, to avoid a similar catastrophe in the future.
- After forty years as a postman it's time for Ture Björk to retire. Now he can spend every day in his allotment-garden, growing vegetables. After some weeks he has a lot of lettuces. Möller promises to help him sell these in the market-place. The lettuces are fine, but to their dismay they discover that there are worms among the leaves.
- On midsummer, Malin is courted by Christer but the children do their best to stop him.
- 1952–195526mNot Rated6.2 (21)TV Episode1. Alvin is studying nursery rhymes to be prepared for the visit of Elizabeth's four year old niece. 2. Elizabeth is in distress when Alvin for the first time in their marriage is going away on a short business trip. 3. Alvin and Elizabeth is staying over the weekend in Moosie's cabin and Elizabeth won't go to bed because of spiders.
- In the end of 1939 the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack also this country. The years passes by without much drama. There are some confrontations with German soldiers on the other side of the border, but the problems the men in the unit encounter are mainly of a more social nature. The young staff sergeant develops a liaison with a woman in a nearby village although he is already engaged with a girl back home, and in Stockholm Loffe's wife gets entangled in a sexual affair with a rich black-marketeer. When the war ends in May 1945 the men in the unit have been together for more than five years, but they never meet again.
- The gang-leader Deco falls in love with Acerola's sister Mirka. Because of this the social status of Acerola is changed in a twinkling. The young boy uses his new power to domineer and humiliate his former tormentors. When the love story between Mirka and Deco cracks, Acerola loses his protection and is in big trouble.
- Albert and Herbert play cards when two bank robbers on the run suddenly burst into the apartment. When the robbers find out that Albert and Herbert haven't got any money, food, telephone connection or car, they feel trapped and become menacing. The younger of them starts to complain about the inconvenience of being on the run with an old and slow companion. Herbert recognizes this as being the same as his own problem. Albert defends the old robber angrily, and suddenly the situation has turned into a conflict between the generations.
- The con artist Stitch discovers two weak spots in the character of the eccentric millionaire Titus Meely: a greed for earning lots of money with small investments and a passion for clairvoyance. Stitch gives himself out as being a famous expert in clairvoyance, who has invented an apparatus for projecting the inner visions of clairvoyants on a film screen. He persuades Meely to invest a huge sum of money in a project, where a clairvoyant will project information for new, epoch-making inventions on a screen.
- Tommy and Annika live with their parents in a small town. Beside their house is an uninhabited house called Villa Villekulla. One day a girl moves into Villa Villekulla with a horse and a monkey, but no parents. She tells Tommy and Annika that her name is Pippi Longstocking, that her mother is in heaven and that her father is a local king at an island in the South Pacific. Miss Prysselius asks the police officers Kling and Klang to bring Pippi to an orphanage, but they cannot seize her, because she is the strongest girl in the world.
- Pippi takes a handful of gold-coins from her old suitcase and brings Tommy and Annika on a shopping-spree. In a sweet-shop Pippi buys almost all the sweets they have for sale. Outside the shop a lot of children are gathering and when Pippi steps out of the door, she gives an abundance of sweets to all of them. She also brings the children to a toyshop, where she buys toys to all of them.
- Pippi is embarking on her father's sailing-ship Hoppetossa. On the quay all children in the town, the policemen Kling and Klang, Miss Prysselius and a brass-band are gathered for a farewell-salutation. Tommy and Annika are sitting at the ground weeping. Pippi tries to console them, but in vain. She becomes uncertain if she really should go away with her father, or change her mind and stay with her friends.
- A traveling funfair visits the town. Pippi tries many of the amusements. She makes the highest score at the shooting-booth and the trial-of-strength. When no one succeeds to overpower Adolf the Strong Man, Pippi mounts the stage and overturns him. At the snake-charming Pippi grabs one of the pythons during the performance, without being attacked by the snake.
- Pippi has invented a new word - spunk - but she doesn't know what it is. Together with Tommy and Annika she tries to figure out what a spunk could be. They build a trap at Villa Villekulla in case it is some kind of a monster. But they don't believe much in this hypothesis, so they go out in town to find out if there is anything else that could be called a spunk.
- Pippi introduces Tommy and Annika to her father and the sailors on his sailing-ship Hoppetossa. She will go away with him and the ship the next morning and invites all children in the town to a big farewell-feast at Villa Villekulla. During the feast Pippi and her father perform some trials of strength, to find out who is the strongest. Tommy and Annika are sad about losing Pippi, and she admits feeling the same, but she tries not to think about it.
- It's two days before the Christmas holidays begin, but Pippi cannot have any holiday because she isn't a pupil. To set this right she decides to go to school for the first time in her life. At school she finds almost everything ridiculous and breaks all rules. When she is out playing in the snow, the two thieves Dunder-Karlsson and Blom seize the opportunity to sneak into Villa Villekulla and steal her bag with gold-coins.
- 196927m6.9 (84)TV EpisodeTwo thieves on the run visit Pippi to steal her gold-coins, but when she tells them that Mr. Nilsson is sleeping in the other room, they get frightened and run away, not knowing that Mr. Nilsson is only a small monkey. In the evening Pippi has invited Tommy and Annika to her birthday-party. She takes them to the attic, to see if they can find any ghosts. In the night the thieves come back, but they cannot overpower Pippi, the strongest girl in the world.
- Pippi takes Tommy and Annika on a ride to a desolate landscape by the sea. She has made dragons on strings for all of them. On her own dragon she places her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, so he can experience how it is to fly as a bird. From the dragons on the strings the children get the idea to let Pippi play a dragon in a cave, who chases Tommy and Annika. Meantime Mr. Nilsson disappears, so they have to go around searching for him.