The House at Christianshavn
The series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of Rottehullet, where all the important decisions are made while running up the bar tab. The series was produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio TV station between the years 1970-77. The series' first director was Ebbe Langberg, then Erik Balling and Tom Hedegaard respectively. The series was conceived by an author team of well-known Danish authors such Leif Panduro, Benny Andersen, and Lise Nørgaard.
Seasons
1. Tue and Rikke get a small and quiet apartment
Air Date: 1970-05-16
The whole house is on its head as a new young couple is moving in.
2. The pianos meet
Air Date: 1970-05-23
Tue inherits a piano and Olsen is selling the family piano because his son would rather play the electric guitar.
3. Visitors
Air Date: 1970-05-30
Tue and Rikke overslept and Rikke panics as she has to get to work quickly, only to realise that it's Saturday. The couple instead decides to go for a picnic in the woods. Karla is getting a visit from her new boyfriend Egon, whom she hasn't told about her child yet. Later that day, the fire safety inspector shows up in the house following a report of someone living in the attic apartment, which is in violation of the fire regulations.
4. Stuck in the eye
Air Date: 1970-06-06
Mrs. Clausen gets something stuck in her eye while making liver paste and Mr. Clausen has to take her to the emergency room. Clausen asks Tue to look after the pet store while he is gone, but things get challenging when Tue's girlfriend, Rikke, drops of children from her job at the kindergarten.
5. You are cordially invited
Air Date: 1970-06-13
Karla and Egon are getting married, but before they leave for the church, a premarital argument breaks out because Egon does not want Karla's child, Bimmer, at the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Clausen are also fighting, and Mrs. Clausen ends up not wanting to go to the wedding. Both Karla and Mrs. Clausen lock themselves in their bedrooms. Luckily, expect help is at hand to grant the prospective groom and Mr. Clausen access to their bedrooms.
6. Striking gold
Air Date: 1970-06-20
There has been a rubbery at an insurance company and the police suspects Larsen. He is therefore taken to the police station. The same day, Clausen discovers a new parrot that he hasn't seen before in his store.
1. Lust of the flesh
Air Date: 1970-11-28
The peace in the attic apartment is disrupted when Tue and Rikke get into a fight. Peace is restored thanks to the calm and composed owner of Rottehullet, Emma.
2. The driving test
Air Date: 1970-12-05
Mrs. Olsen is getting her drivers license, much to the dismay of her husband. Things get worse when Olsen learns that his wife has failed the driving test three times and that she is attracted to the driving instructor.
3. Neighbourhood watch
Air Date: 1970-12-12
Alarming headlines in the newspapers scares the people of the house and Olsen takes the initiate and forms a neighbourhood watch.
4. Rodents
Air Date: 1970-12-19
Clausen, the owner of the pet shop, is giving a presentation for the 7th. grade and is suffering from stage fright and is on the brink of a breakdown.
5. A quiet Christmas
Air Date: 1970-12-23
Hr. Olsen is dreaming of a quiet Christmas with five types of cookies and without trouble or nerves.
6. New Year's Eve
Air Date: 1970-12-31
Olsen's New Year's Eve is almost spoiled due to various issues and conflicts with his fellow tenants.
1. Aquarius
Air Date: 1971-11-20
The house is without water much to the dismay of the tenant. While the men find a new water supply at Rottehullet, the city has a plan to solve the water crisis.
2. We are moving
Air Date: 1971-11-27
Olsen decides to move to the country side when he finds out that the house at Christianshavn needs more then just a loving hand from carpenters and masons.
3. A disservice
Air Date: 1971-12-04
Clausen never says no to animals, no matter what animal. This is how he ends up with a raccoon of questionable origins.
4. Midlife crisis
Air Date: 1971-12-11
Egon and Karla's marriage is running into issues as workout fever grips the nations.
5. Meatballs and gender roles
Air Date: 1971-12-18
The peaceful Sunday on Christianshavn is at risk when a young idealist shows up and make the women rebel.
6. The burden of fame
Air Date: 1971-12-28
Larsen becomes famous and is feeling his identity slowly getting lost in the undesired fame.
1. Chez Emma
Air Date: 1972-01-22
Rottehullet is under new management and has many new customers, but what about the regulars?
2. In the stars
Air Date: 1972-01-29
Mrs. Olsen has gotten interested in astrology and alternative healing, and now she is trying to convince Mr. Olsen that fruit and salad is better than meatballs.
3. Good vibrations
Air Date: 1972-02-05
The last tenant in Nr. 17 right down the street from the house is moving, but the building soon gets occupied by squatters.
4. Twelve
Air Date: 1972-02-12
Mr. Olsen gets twelve right on his betting ticket, but soon expectations prove to be better than the result.
5. The door is open
Air Date: 1972-02-19
Tue is returning from sensitivity training and he wants to share what he has learned with the whole house.
6. Going on vacation
Air Date: 1972-02-26
Everyone is going on holiday except for Karla and Egon, for whom a holiday seems to expensive. Olsen suggest to Egon that they could try a cancellation flight to Málaga, but Karla is afraid of flying. At the same time, Mr. Clausen has rented a caravan for their holiday, but Mrs. Clausen doesn't want to go on a caravan holiday.
1. The sorcerer's apprentices
Air Date: 1972-11-11
The customs department pay a visit to Rottehullet, forcing the owner Emma, to increase the price of beer and demand cash payment. This greatly upsets her regulars, who decide that it would be cheaper, if they brew their own beer and spirits.
2. Get well
Air Date: 1972-11-18
The flu epidemic has hit the house and the women are all sick, but there is no time to rest, someone has to take care of the men, who themselves begin to believe, that they to are sick. It's after all easier, than having to help around the house.
3. Lady trip
Air Date: 1972-11-25
Olsen and Clausen get mad a Egon after he reveals the result of last night football match. Peace is restored when the ladies of the house go on a trip to Sweden without the men. After not being home on the agreed time, the men gather together at Rottehullet to share their worries.
4. Northeast gales are blowing on the hebrides
Air Date: 1972-12-02
Clausen has had a special visitor in his store. He has been hypnotised and now believes he is a monkey. Tue in the meantime, is trying an experiment on the residents of the house involving hash.
5. Contraband
Air Date: 1972-12-09
Olsen unwittingly gets involved in a crime when he uses the company's moving van to make a little extra money.
6. Tues examination
Air Date: 1972-12-16
Tue is studying for his final exams and the whole house at Christianshavn are under strict orders to be quiet.
1. Honesty is still the best policy
Air Date: 1973-02-24
Larsen, thanks to the help of Mr. Olsen and Mrs. Olsen, Clausen, and Tue, narrowly avoids being arrested after a failed attempt of breaking into a safe at an insurance company. To pay them back for their help, he promises to turn over a new leaf, but that may be easier said than done.
2. Chairman Olsen
Air Date: 1973-03-03
The tenants of the house at Christianshavn form a tenants' association with Mr. Olsen as chairman.
3. Operation Mallorca
Air Date: 1973-03-10
Mrs. Olsen has three cancellation tickets on hand for Mallorca and she wants the other women of the house to join her, but how do the men feel about their wives going on holiday without them?
4. Fortune teller Emma
Air Date: 1973-03-17
With the wives away on holiday, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Clausen, and Egon are having fun until Meyer noticed that Larsen keeps coming late at night at leaving again in the early morning hours, just like back in the days when Larsen made his living as a thief. The men gather at Rollethullet to to discuss the situation and what can be done. There, using cards, Emma divines and foretells that all the men will meet blonde women.
5. Be my tulip
Air Date: 1973-03-24
The wives have just come home from their holiday to Mallorca, they and their husbands decide to celebrate being reunited with a fun night out of town. The next morning, the wives get together and agree that being drunk and having drunk husbands isn't that much fun. They decide to put the men on a diet consisting of salads and tulips.
6. You are so lovely
Air Date: 1973-03-31
It's spring and Meyer has cast his gaze on Emma.
1. A stranger moves in
Air Date: 1973-07-29
A new tenant is moving in, it's the photographer Bo, who knows how to make people work for him.
2. Could you put it in writing
Air Date: 1973-10-06
Karla has fallen for her graphology teacher and is creating uproar in the whole house when she starts analyzing everyone's personality from their handwriting.
3. Table singing
Air Date: 1973-10-13
Olsen is writing a poem for his brother's an wife's silver wedding anniversary. This turns out to be much more difficult than expected and before long, all the men of the house are involved.
4. The power of advertising
Air Date: 1973-10-20
Mr. Clausen and Mr. Olsen are doing laundry, and in the detergent boxes they find coupons for participating in a competition for a trip to Bali. Clausen submits his coupon but Olsen does not. Soon after, Clausen learns that he has won the competition which makes Olsen jealous. The detergent company wants to do a photo shoot with Mrs. Clausen, who soon gets fed up with the whole thing.
5. Bimmer is missing
Air Date: 1973-10-27
Meyer is watching Karla's son Bimmer while she is at the hairdressers. When Clausen needs help downstairs, Meyer leaves Bimmer alone in the apartment. When Egon comes home and finds Bimmer alone, he takes him over to Emma in Rottehullet, so that she can look after him until Karla gets home. When Karla gets home and finds Bimmer missing, all hell breaks loose.
6. Clausen has rubella
Air Date: 1973-12-31
Mr. Clausen has developed allergies and comes down with rubella
1. A fairwell to taxes
Air Date: 1974-04-06
Mr. Olsen, Larsen, and Emma have received their annual tax statements and are feeling resentment towards the government. Olsen comes up with a plan on how to never pay taxes again, but that is easier said than done, while Larsen reconsiders his honest and law abiding life.
2. Four beers battlecry
Air Date: 1974-04-13
Karla is home alone when a peeper looks through the letter slot. In response, the men decide to form a neighbourhood watch.
3. Getting to know each other
Air Date: 1974-04-20
Eva is one of Olsen's customers, but she has no place to live. Olsen tries to get her in with one of the tenants of the house, he even tries Bo who is always ready to help a woman, but his girlfriend says no. Eva ends up spending the night in Olsen's moving van.
4. In the interest of a monitor lizard
Air Date: 1974-04-27
A feminist named Tippe comes to the house at Christianshavn, and thanks to her, the wives begin to open their eyes to new things. This results in Mrs. Clausen wanting a divorce, and she is taking the monitor lizard with her.
5. To wake the dead
Air Date: 1974-05-04
The missionary needs money to help people in need, mostly himself. Therefore, the neighbourhood is called to a meeting at Rottehullet.
6. The fine arts
Air Date: 1974-05-11
The tenants of the house at Christianshavn have come to the realisation that paintings are best financial investment.
1. You know what you got
Air Date: 1974-10-19
The buildings supervisor Meyer has after many years of fateful service, decided that the time has come to enjoy his retirement.
2. Karla's banquet
Air Date: 1974-10-26
Karla and Egon are hosting Egon's boss for dinner. The hope is that he will be so impressed with the dinner, that Egon will be promoted to senior assistant and thus elevated into the illustrious 28th. pay grade.
3. Larsen's nightmare
Air Date: 1974-11-02
There has been theft at a watchmaker and the police suspects Larsen, who has an alibi, but the only witness proves hard to find. While being shadowed by the police, Larsen comes up with a traditional Larsen way of create a new and perfect alibi.
4. What does dad know about love?
Air Date: 1974-11-09
Olsen's son William is in love, and it's now his dads responsibility to tell him about the facts of life.
5. Don't talk about Harald
Air Date: 1974-12-14
The house on Christianshavn is getting a visit from Harald Jensen, an acquaintance of Larsen from the old days, who decides to move in with his old friend.
6. A womans place according to Olsen
Air Date: 1974-12-21
Following an argument with her husband, Mrs. Olsen decides to get a job as a bus driver to make a little extra money, something her husband finds very upsetting.
1. The bird watching trip
Air Date: 1975-04-05
Meyer is acting like a cock doing mating season. This leads to a lengthy discussion about birdsong between the tenants of the house. Clausen suggest that they go on a bird watching trip. Olsen takes the role as chairman of planning, Meyer signs up to be the samaritan, and Egon will provide the liquid refreshments.
2. Short lived joy
Air Date: 1975-04-12
Egon, being very interested in international relations, is studying French and ends up falling in love with his teacher, or maybe the teacher made him interested in those relations to begin with. After having a fight, Karla kicks him out and he ends up staying with Emma in the backroom at Rottehullet.
3. Children of summer and sunshine
Air Date: 1975-04-19
Clausen, being an old scout, has received the honour of substituting for the local scouts troop leader and Olsen has won a tent in the scouts' lottery. The two set off to test out the tent and their skills on the embankment, well laden with drinks.
4. The price of love
Air Date: 1975-04-26
Meyer is in love with the graceful and well dressed Mrs. Holmberg and spends a lot of money on meeting her lifestyle. The new couple is enjoying an expensive dinner at Rottehullet, when a strange man named Freddy shows up and claims to be Mrs. Holmberg's fiancée.
5. Building your own house
Air Date: 1975-05-03
Karla and Egon want to buy a house, but they have very different vision for what their new home should look like, and what it should cost.
6. The state of genius
Air Date: 1975-05-10
The result of a nationwide survey shows that Olsen's son Willian, is one of the country's most gifted children.
1. If only mother knew
Air Date: 1975-09-11
The house at Christianshavn gets a new owner.
2. A lively environment
Air Date: 1975-09-27
Cockroaches have invaded the house at Christianshavn.
3. Our man, Olsen
Air Date: 1975-09-27
Olsen comes home from the office party drunk and has to be carried up the stairs. The next day, Mrs. Olsen finds lipstick on the collar of her husband's shirt, but being mature adults, Mrs. Olsen knows that it's nothing serious and Mr. Olsen tells everyone, that he believes in marriage equality. But this is easier said than done.
4. Karla's calling
Air Date: 1975-10-11
Karla receives an offer to be test photographed by a fashion photographer.
5. Meyer's father
Air Date: 1975-10-18
Clausen's niece Lise is visiting and ends up spending time with Bo, who despite having a girlfriend, begins to fall for Lise. Bo and Lise have dinner that evening, and Lise reveals that she is pregnant. Clausen thinks that Bo is the father, but Lise tells him, that she has come to Copenhagen, in order to meet father, Jimmy.
6. Larsen's inheritance
Air Date: 1975-10-25
Larsen inherits the personal belongings of an associate from the old days by the name of Ludwig. Among the few items is a letter, asking Larsen to settle the score with the fence who cheated Ludwig out of the money from the theft of a valuable bracelet.
1. Thief above thief
Air Date: 1976-05-01
Olsen unwittingly gets involved in a major case of art theft.
2. The day after the day after that
Air Date: 1976-05-08
After a wild night of partying and drinking, in the midst of the worst handover of their lives, the residents of the house at Christianshavn decide to abstain from alcohol.
3. Don't judge a book by its cover
Air Date: 1976-05-15
Bo falls hard and passionately for a beautiful and intellectual woman named Mette. Before he knows it, he has replaced 70's rock with classical music, partying with long walks, lazy living with exercise, and his apartment even gets curtains.
4. It is quite evident
Air Date: 1976-05-22
Egon and Emma are over in Rottehullet when they hear a small piece of gossip, and before long, a little gust has grown into a full-blown storm.
5. To be a father
Air Date: 1976-05-29
Clausen becomes the center of a paternity suit.
6. House for sale
Air Date: 1976-06-05
The residents of the house at Christianshavn are offered the opportunity to purchase the house, but do they want to?
1. Perspectives from the attic
Air Date: 1976-09-04
Bo is getting married and is moving out of the apartment in the attic. He leaves behind unpaid bills for beer, food, and other items. Good thing that his friends are more than willing to pay on his behalf. Olsen, Clausen, and Egon all fight over what to do with the newly available space.
2. A true lady
Air Date: 1976-09-11
The apartment in the attic gets a new tenant, the widow Mrs. Hammerstedt.
3. A gentleman turns 50
Air Date: 1976-09-18
Mr. Olsen is turning 50 and is feeling a bit depressed. Everyone decides to throw him a birthday party over in Rottehullet.
4. Between heaven and earth
Air Date: 1976-09-25
The house at Christianshavn is haunted. The ball from the handrail is floating and Mr. Olsen has a new drinking buddy that only he an see. All of this started when Mrs. Hammerstedt took delivery of an old dresser.
5. Chamber music
Air Date: 1976-09-25
A few of the tenants at the house at Christianshavn have become practicing chamber music at the widow Mrs. Hammerstedts apartment.
6. When nature calls
Air Date: 1976-12-31
Karla and Egon are spending the vinter in Mallorca while the rest of the house's tenants decide to spend the vinter at a cottage.
1. A matter of honour
Air Date: 1977-10-22
Gambling debt is a matter of honour, and unfortunately for Mrs. Hammerstedt, her deceased spouse managed to accrue a lot of it. The house rallies behind her and hatch a plan for how she can get the money back.
2. The old man is always right
Air Date: 1977-11-05
Egon buys a Citroên 1939 using the money he and Karla had saved up, but Karla already bought a new washing machine for the money. To make matters worse, the car isn't exactly in pristine condition, despite the dealer proving Egon with roadworthiness certificate.
3. You win some, you lose some
Air Date: 1977-11-19
The widow Mrs. Hammerstedt is choosing the results on her football betting ticket by spinning a picture frame of her deceased spouse, but the picture frame doesn't quiet agree with her own predictions. Later in the week, when she needs money, she sells half of the betting ticket to Karla, who is convinced that they are going to win big and Mrs. Hammerstedt can't wait to spend their winning.
4. Old friends and favours
Air Date: 1977-12-03
Tue stops by the older neighbourhood and asks his old friends for help with a survey he is conducting. After Tue uses a lot of big words and no one really understands what the survey is about, they agree to help him. Later, when everyone is gathered at Rottehullet trying to help Tue, Rikke stop by, and she is not happy. Tue hasn't really changed in the years since the two lived at the house at Christianshavn, and he has run out of household tasks as usual. At this point, another former tenant stops by, Bo. He to as come to ask his former friends for help with a project on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
5. Over and out
Air Date: 1977-12-17
Olsen's boss at the moving company has passed away, and Olsen is offered the opportunity to buyout his moving van by the widow. Olsen decides to buy the van and become an independent mover. But first he jumps on the latest trend and installs a radio in the van.
6. All good things
Air Date: 1977-12-31
The house at Christianshavn is being demolished and everyone is moving on with their lives, almost everyone.
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Rating
8.0/10
Release Date
1970-05-16
Episodes
84 (14 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Nordisk Film Denmark
DR TV