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The House at Christianshavn
1970 - 1977 8.0 (16 votes) 14 Seasons
Genres
Comedy Drama
Networks
DR1
Created By
Erik Balling
Henning Bahs

The House at Christianshavn (Huset på Christianshavn)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Erik Balling

Creator: Henning Bahs, Erik Balling

Top Cast

Poul Reichhardt
Poul Reichhardt

Hr. Olsen

Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen

Meyer

Helle Virkner
Helle Virkner

Fru. Olsen

Paul Hagen
Paul Hagen

Hr. Clausen

Willy Rathnov
Willy Rathnov

Egon

Lis Løwert
Lis Løwert

Fru. Clausen

Kirsten Walther
Kirsten Walther

Karla

Bodil Udsen
Bodil Udsen

Emma

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1970)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Tue and Rikke get a small and quiet apartment
1970-05-16

The whole house is on its head as a new young couple is moving in.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: The pianos meet
1970-05-23

Tue inherits a piano and Olsen is selling the family piano because his son would rather play the electric guitar.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Visitors
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Stuck in the eye
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: You are cordially invited
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Striking gold
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1972)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The sorcerer's apprentices
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Get well
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Lady trip
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Northeast gales are blowing on the hebrides
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Contraband
1972-12-09

Olsen unwittingly gets involved in a crime when he uses the company's moving van to make a little extra money.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Tues examination
1972-12-16

Tue is studying for his final exams and the whole house at Christianshavn are under strict orders to be quiet.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 6 poster
Season 6 (1973)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Honesty is still the best policy
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Chairman Olsen
1973-03-03

The tenants of the house at Christianshavn form a tenants' association with Mr. Olsen as chairman.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Operation Mallorca
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?

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Fortune teller Emma
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Be my tulip
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: You are so lovely
1973-03-31

It's spring and Meyer has cast his gaze on Emma.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 7 poster
Season 7 (1973)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A stranger moves in
1973-07-29

A new tenant is moving in, it's the photographer Bo, who knows how to make people work for him.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Could you put it in writing
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Table singing
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: The power of advertising
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Bimmer is missing
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: Clausen has rubella
1973-12-31

Mr. Clausen has developed allergies and comes down with rubella

Runtime: 25 min
Season 8 poster
Season 8 (1974)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A fairwell to taxes
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Four beers battlecry
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Getting to know each other
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: In the interest of a monitor lizard
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: To wake the dead
1974-05-04

The missionary needs money to help people in need, mostly himself. Therefore, the neighbourhood is called to a meeting at Rottehullet.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: The fine arts
1974-05-11

The tenants of the house at Christianshavn have come to the realisation that paintings are best financial investment.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 10 poster
Season 10 (1975)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The bird watching trip
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: Short lived joy
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: Children of summer and sunshine
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: The price of love
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Building your own house
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: The state of genius
1975-05-10

The result of a nationwide survey shows that Olsen's son Willian, is one of the country's most gifted children.

Runtime: 25 min
Season 14 poster
Season 14 (1977)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A matter of honour
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 2: The old man is always right
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 3: You win some, you lose some
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 4: Old friends and favours
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 5: Over and out
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.

Runtime: 25 min
Episode 6: All good things
1977-12-31

The house at Christianshavn is being demolished and everyone is moving on with their lives, almost everyone.

Runtime: 25 min

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