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- Novelist Tom Brinkman appears to have killed his wife Annelies during an argument. The first policeman on the scene, Bert Verhagen, turns out to be an old army buddy of Tom's and is persuaded to stow Annelies in the bathroom when her mother arrives. But things go from bad to worse and soon Tom's publisher Frans and another inspector find themselves up to their necks in dead women.
- It's the 1920s. Five young student girls from Leiden are on holiday on the Veluwe and hear about a young man of noble title staying in the house next door. When Robbert, the Jonker in question overhears them talking, he decides to pull their collective and shapely legs by pretending to be his own chauffeur. His three best friends are all up for playing along, with the foppish Gerrit-Jan delighted to play the part of Jonker Robbert himself.
- They took a lesson from the Little Dragon When it comes to fightin', they're not above bitin'!
- Painter Peter Hartman is arrested at the scene of a murder. He soon turns out to have ties to the victim's young widow. As Inspector Stroomer begins to unravel the mystery, two very different sides of the story are presented to him. Now it is up to Stroomer to find enough photographic evidence to make out which version is the truth.
- 20 million people across the UK helped to raise £26.9 million on the second Red Nose Day. At night, the BBC once again gave over their studio's to Lenny Henry, Griff Rhys Jones and Jonathan Ross to present a marathon of mirth, mayhem and fund raising.
- Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old Scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogene Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
- Anna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two lovers, she becomes pregnant and realizes she doesn't know which is the father, so she goes to a weekend retreat on her own. After Marco sees her off at the train station, he and Antonio meet, hit it off, and decide to have a guys' night out on their free weekend.
- A young girl called Annetje Lie is staying with her grandmother for an undisclosed period after her father unceremoniously dropped her off and left. At night, Annetje disappears into a dream world in which her friend the Moon transports her back to her elderly home. There she gets into all sorts of nightmarish adventures with the King of Mice and the mysterious Heintje Vaar. Meanwhile, her grandmother is beginning to suspect Annetje might be seriously ill.
- Austin Powers presents his own kind of shagadellic swinging shindig courtesy of MTV to promote his movie, Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. Edited in the style of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In', Austin shows clips from his film, including a spotlight on Elizabeth Hurley and explains how he is adjusting to the nineties after being frozen for thirty years.
- The technical process of motion capturing Robert Zemeckis' 'Beowulf' is explained in 10 chapters: The Volume; "T" Pose Prep; What is E.O.G.?; Lay of the Land; Givin' props; Scanners; Stunts and rigs; Plan of Attack; Fight me and Baby, it's cold inside.
- Twelve year old Jan Grovers spends more time in the alleys of Rotterdam than with his family (though he occasionally looks after his tree younger sisters, all of whom are called Mientje). Together with his best friend and partner in crime Pietje Puk he plans to travel to America to get rich. When a local clergyman takes pity on the boy and tries to teach him good manners, Boefje at first rebels. However, once he is sent to a strict boarding school, he takes an interest in music, specifically the pipe organ.
- Playboy Paul is having affairs with three stewardesses of different nationalities. He manages to keep track of their flight schedule so they never suspect anything. But when air flights become faster thanks to the new Boeing 747, Paul has to call in help from his old friend Freek and his reluctant housekeeper Bertha to make sure the ladies don't bump into each other.
- Captain Power takes you under his wing as you become the latest Soldier of the Future, designated 'Pilot One'. In a series of training missions, you learn to fly the Powerjet XT-7 and fight the mechanical forces of Lord Dread in preparation for your first actual combat against the Bio-Dreads.
- Mees Goedkoop runs a café in Amsterdam by name of "De Kip Met Gouden Eieren". His brother in law Manie Palfrenier deals in photographic equipment. Circumstances force Mees and his wife Toos to move in with Manie and his fiancé Sjeenie. Things get even more cramped when Toos & Manie's father 'Ome' Akkie joins them in his son's little flat.
- Having taken a year off to spend all the money from the previous two Red Nose Days, Comic Relief returns with 'The Stonker', the biggest and baddest fund raising night of comedy yet, helped along by Hale and Pace performing their anthem 'The Stonk' (put a Red Nose on your conk).
- Dik Voormekaar & Meneer de Groot present a brand new radio show on television with the help of old favorites like Meneer & Mevrouw de Bok, Meneer Wijdbeens and new characters like Twan de Stuntman and Piet Konijn. Other regular features include Teletheater, Muzikalis and of course, the ever popular 30 seconds devoted to Meneer de Groot.
- Businessman Bob is meeting call girl Mimi in a hotel room, but finds shy Karen much more interesting. So he asks Hotel manager Jacob if he can swap rooms, leaving Karen's even more timid computer date Dick to meet the call girl. But instead of her, Bob's wife Liesbeth shows up.
- A gang of city children is secretly practicing to enter a musical competition. All of them plunder their parents' supplies in order to build their own stage and amplifiers. Baffled by these unexplained thefts, the parents decide to hold a meeting as their suspicions turn to a group of camper folks living across from their flat. The tables are turned when the residents take a camping holiday of their own and end up being mistrusted by the locals as much as they themselves did their own neighbors. Meanwhile, the children's gang meets a rival group of kids who are planning to enter the same competition.
- Vagabond Bob finds a suitcase belonging to stockbroker Peter and returns it to his hotel. There he meets Marion, who happens to be Peter's mistress. Unfortunately in doing so he loses his only possession of value: a lottery ticket.
- The world famous Karthoum diamond, which is worth some 2 million extremely hard Dutch Guilders, is being transported to the Netherlands from Pretoria to be on display in a museum. Director Sondag feels the diamond isn't getting enough protection and resorts to hiring a private detective to keep an eye on it. Unfortunately for him, some Italian mobsters are planning a jewel heist and make sure Sondag hires the bumbling and incompetent Sherlock Jones. In fact, Sherlock's basset hound Watson has a better grasp of the situation than his master.
- Burglar and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny has to be protected by him and his pal De Bonk. He is soon proved correct and winds up a scapegoat in Van Borsen's scheme. After his release from prison, Glimmie plans his revenge with some help from a young cleaning girl called Slofje.
- This documentary looks back on the making of the 1969 television series 'Floris'. It was the breakthrough for Paul Verhoeven and Rutger Hauer, who are interviewed in Hollywood. Other cast and crew-members revisits the filming locations after 30 years.
- While keeping an eye on his small time crook brother in law, Inspector Nico Giraldi gets involved in a murder case set in the world of Formula One racing. Giraldi is suspended for trying to cover up for his brother in law and becomes afraid his wife and son may be targeted next. Therefore he calls in the help of his childhood friend and chief informant, Venticello.
- Playboys Paturon & Gigolet are meeting their mistresses in a little out of the way place in Paris. The head waiter, Alfred there is no stranger to such goings on, having been thrice married, twice divorced. However, the women are playing games of their own and nothing turn out to be quite as straight forward as it all seems.
- Crippled as a young girl, Sabine vows to become a nun if cured. But when it turns out the original diagnosis was faulty and she regains the use of her legs, she decides to marry instead. Wreaked with guild when her first child is stillborn, Sabine enters a monastery where her sister Gertrude also resides. But after her sister dies of an illness, Sabine leaves the nuns behind and travels to India seeking peace.
- Several people led by Onno Bosman gather in an extravagant mansion in Crans-sur-Sierre in the summer of 1976. Their purpose: to find the most suitable clips from "De Fred Haché Show", "Barend Is Weer Bezig", "Waar Heb Dat Nou Voor Nodig" & "Van Oekel's Discohoek" to be entered in a Zurich competition.
- When Sint Nicholaas' steam boat gets stuck on the IJsselmeer on it's way to Holland, a young girl named Annabel and an old skipper called Eeltje Steur come to the rescue. When asked what kind of present Annabel would like to receive in her shoe on December 5th, she replies 'A house'.
- Shortly after the end of World War II, Amsterdam is coping with a lack of living quarters. Market vendor Heintje Davids gets a tip from her sister that a couple of rooms are available in the Van Laar residence on the stately Apollolaan. Although the master of the house is quite amused by the common Heintje, his wife most certainly is not. Their son, however takes an immediate liking to Heintjes daughter Daisy, despite the objections of their combined parents
- Joeri Petrovian, a famous Russian ballet dancer attempts to defect to the West by hiding in the trunk of a Navy Officer's car. Once inside the Commandant's stately home, the daughter of the house, Nannie, persuades her fiancée, Boebie Bus to pretend to be her father in order to get rid of all callers. This task proves to be more difficult than it at first seemed, as more and more people arrive looking for Joeri and Boebie's lies become more and more convoluted.
- Hein Slotter, unpopular director of a pram factory, reluctantly agrees to celebrate his 25th anniversary. His only wish is that his successor and mentor, Slieps, gives a speech. Unfortunately Slieps is quite senile and only occasionally has a bright moment. Meanwhile, the party committee learns of a rumor concerning Slotter's younger days and plans to embarrass him during this festive occasion.
- Gofer, Mo and Pengolin, collectively known as the Three Rats, are looking for a two part treasure map and will kill anyone who gets in their way. A young girl named Shao Wa seeks to avenge the murder of her father. In order to defeat the Rats, she must learn the eight strikes of the Wild Cat from an old Kung Fu Master, while trying to evade his amorous assistant, Lee Ta Fa.
- Peter Moll has to serve one day in jail for plagiarism. There he learns about a jewel hidden inside a black brassiere from a cell mate. The next day he sets out to find the undergarment with his friend and band mate Paul, only to discover that five of the same model have been sold. The search is on to find the diamond hidden inside the BH which is now being used to support the breasts of five possible suspects.
- Bernard has invited Robert to stay for the weekend, so he can also get his girlfriend Brigitte into the house and claim she's with Robert. But he is unaware that his wife Jacqueline has been having an affair with Robert. To complicate matters even more, Jacqueline has hired a new maid who is also called Brigitte.
- On returning from Japan, Chan Jun learns that the Japanese have hatched a plot to kill Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Together with his fellow students from the Ching Wu School, he foils the plot.
- Paul Flanagan is released from jail after serving for 8 years. He only has two things on his mind. First: to retrieve the money from the robbery he was convicted for. Secondly: to get revenge on his partners in crime (his half-brother Paul and his ex-lover Cathy), who got away Scot free and never once visited him in jail.
- Robert invites a small group of friends on a fishing trip to Scheveningen. His best friend Bruno takes advantage of the situation by bringing along a young lady friend. What's worse, Robert's estranged wife Lies invites herself along. This leads to complications as Robert is having an affair of his own with Paulien, a colleague's wife. Lucky for them her husband Joop keeps losing his contacts and can't see a thing without them.
- Johnny Kraaykamp is released from jail. His pal Rijk de Gooyer comes up with a plan to rent themselves out as handymen, especially since Johnny is able to fix anything with just one slap of his hands. After getting a loan and a phone-number from auntie Toetje (who runs a thinly disguised brothel in Amsterdam) the pair of them set to work. Things get complicated when a developer named Koster wants to buy out Toetje in order to build a parking garage just as the 'Geen Paniek' business is starting to boom.
- A young man seeks to learn martial arts from an old master to avenge his father who was killed by a skilled martial artists who travels the land killing his opponents.
- Traveling salesman Tim bumps into his old mate Bodde, who persuades him to join him for a couple of hustles and cons. Along the way they pick up a young girl, Aafke, who soon takes to the world of hustling. They also meet a couple of competitors, Kwint & Dolores. All the while, Tim keeps calling home to his wife and children trying to explain what's keeping him from coming home.
- When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
- 15 year old Sara, a Jewish girl living in the Netherlands during the German occupation slowly begins to realize the danger she and her family are in. When her parents are forced to move to a ghetto in Amsterdam, she decides to follow them rather than live with her brother and his girlfriend. She also keeps in touch with Greet, a girlfriend she met while in hospital, despite the fact that Greet's father is collaborating with the Germans.
- When De Dikke Deur offers to swap his Circus wagon for Pipo's attic apartment, Pipo gladly accepts. Unfortunately the crafty Dikke Deur did not provide him with a horse, so Pipo has to pull the wagon himself. In the woods Petra meets Felicio, a big Gypsy who is accompanied by a donkey called Nononóno and a parrot called Foefie.
- When grocer's son Daantje Pieters is drafted, he falls for a girl in a blue hat he spots aboard the train to the garrison. At the barracks in The Hague, crafty conman Toontje takes Daantje under his wing (not to mention his grocery supplies). Toontje decides to help Daan look for his dream girl, Betsy, but draws the line at them planning an engagement, for such things are not for soldiers.
- When grocers's son Daantje Pieters is drafted, he falls for a girl in a blue hat he spots aboard the train to the garrison. At the barracks in The Hague, crafty conman Toontje takes Daantje under his wing (not to mention his grocery supplies). Toontje decides to help Daan look for his dream girl, Betsy, but draws the line at them planning an engagement, for such things are not for soldiers.
- Comedian Wim Sonneveld has had enough of his most popular character, Willem Parel the organ grinder. He feels his creation is becoming more popular than himself. Indeed, Parel proves to have enough life in him to step down from a dressing room poster into the real world. When he start to lead actual organ grinders from all over the country into lobbying for equal rights, the police naturally, go after Wim Sonneveld.
- Stefano Pelloni is an Italian highwaymen known as Il Passatore, loved by women but despised by lawmen. Together with his two man band he always manages to escape the law and head back to his woman, Mora, who would just as soon see him hanging up his pistols and going straight. But the police commissioner has had enough and begins to conceive of every possible means to catch Il Passatore red handed.
- Han Wei, a young man who waits tables at a small establishment and learns the Butterfly Fist from his old, blind Grandfather. A mischievous old beggar then shows up at the restaurant to solicit wine and irritate Han Wei.
- Barend and Vera are struggling to find a way to tell their rich aunt Minnie about their divorce plans. When Vera invites the old lady to Barend's practice, the two estranged lovers must pretend that they are still together. This means that their new flames, Freek and Dolly, to pretend to be a couple as well in order to keep an eye on Barend and Vera.
- Mechanic Romeo and grocery deliverer Felice lead two rival gangs and the local discotheque is not big enough for the both of them. When Romeo falls for Felice's sister, conveniently called Giulietta, the entire town becomes too small for the two rivals. Romeo is adamant to keep on seeing Giulietta while keeping clear of Felice, while Felice is forcing other suitors onto his sister that are more to his liking.
- Willem van Dieren has handed over the reigns of his shoe polish factory to his son Hubert and taken up sculpting. Together with his wife Gaby he decides to go back to basics and live on a farm with out any electrical appliances. Hubert and his wife Bea move in next door, but they still depend on all kinds of modern luxuries, including a hired help, Truus, who is married to local postman Rinus.