
- This item is used Description Box with episodes 11 - 15 plus 1.5 hours of extra material! Episode 111958. Erik has become stuck as sales manager on 'Bella', but still plans to return to America, as Kaj Holger asks him to help with the expansion of the factory and at the same time recommends him for admission to the Freemasons. It foreshadows an improved relationship between father and son - but all has its limits. Ida has found a peace in her life as a divorcee. At the publisher she rejects a translator’s work, and receives unexpectedly help from editor Sander. Palle tends to his Jutland constituency in the best possible way, but discovers that the chairman is most preoccupied with pursuing his own interests. Søs is bored as a housewife and tries to become a presenter’s assistant - but in vain. Episode 121959. Erik suggests to Ida that they move in together, but she hesitates to give him space in her life again. It doesn’t help that Erik forgets all about his waiting sons when he feels demeaned in the promotional round happening on 'Bella.' Erik is close to leaving, but is talked into reason by the family friend Vang, who tries to help him adapt to his father’s expectations. Palle waits patiently for Søs to want another child, but the ambitions for a job keep pulling at her. When Palle invites an unemployed bricklayer home to help him get back on track with a nice set of clothes and a recommendation, Søs has trouble keeping up the facade. Episode 131959. Erik would like Ida to join him on a vacation in Paris. When she refuses, the invitation falls to Lisbet, who is the daughter of Kaj Holger’s lodge brother, master carpenter Knudsen. When the affair is discovered, Erik chooses to marry her to preserve the good relationship with his father. Søs must cancel the family vacation to Jutland, as she becomes production assistant at the television theatre. Palle and Ida take off alone with the children, and while Palle contemplates whether a political career is right for him, Ida decides to accept Kaj Holger’s offer of work on 'Bella'. In contrast, Erik suddenly discovers that Kaj Holger had a hand in the game when Erik’s television factory went bankrupt. He cuts contact with his father. Episode 141961. After Erik’s break with Kaj Holger and a failed attempt to restart Meyer & Nielsen’s television factory, Erik enters the oil-furnace business. One day, he suddenly reappears – to the boys’ great joy – and takes them out to hand out brochures. Ida is strongly cautious. She senses that he drinks too much, while Erik, for his part, has trouble with Ida apparently thriving in her new job as head of education at Kaj Holger on 'Bella'. Erik’s marriage to Lisbet stalls, and when, in a drunken attempt to raise money for his beleaguered oil-furnace company, he sells all their furniture, he is kicked out by Lisbet’s father. Palle’s entry into practical political life presents new paradoxes. He struggles to understand the game rules of political power, and his marriage is put to a serious test when Søs begins an affair with her boss at the television theatre. Episode 151962. With Karin’s help, Erik has his life under control, and his deal with the oil-furnace looks good. He is just about to finalize a large delivery to a prefabricated house company when the agreement unexpectedly collapses. Søs has applied for a job as technical producer, and when she saves Friis from a precarious situation, the job becomes hers. Things also progress in Palle’s career. He appears on television, but his principled stance is so strong that Prime Minister Krag chooses to offer him the post as chairman of the tax committee, so he can learn a bit about the ‘political realities’. After several days of drinking, Søs picks up Erik at a pub and brings him home to Karin, while Kaj Holger is on a business trip. The arrangement is that Erik should begin rehab, as Karin finds him lifeless in bed from an overdose of sleeping pills. Ida learns that Erik lost his deal with the prefab company because Kaj Holger had told them about his mental health problems. She decides to resign from 'Bella'. Region code Running time in minutes 300 Production year 2005