The BEST episodes directed by Marc Wasik
#1 - Use Your Loaf
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 74
Waiting for his brother Hlaford, who's coming for a visit, Halvar goes and fetches him on boat, ignoring his brother is actually coming on foot through the woods. Hlaford, a Viking warrior with a fearsome reputation, turns out to now be a peaceful baker. When Flake is attacked by Ivar the Ruthless, Hlaford's nemesis, Vic saves the day by building a 'skjaldborg' or 'shield wall' from burnt bread loaves to repel the attack.
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#2 - The Kraken
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 61
Fishing for Giant Clams and in search of a Giant Pearl for Ylva, the Vikings face an underwater monster, the Kraken (in fact a Giant Squid), which prevents them to collect the Clams and the Pearl. Vic will have to find a way to lure the Kraken away and eventually find the Giant Pearl for Ylva.
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#3 - Mushroom Picking
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 66
In the woods to pick mushroom for their mother, Vic, Gilby and Ylvi cross the river they know they're not allowed to. When they are caught into heavy rain, which makes the river grow, they can't cross it anymore. It would be fine for them to wait if they didn't upset a bear in a cave, which is now on their toe. They hide up a tree and Vic has to invent a "flying fox" to get them out of there and back to the village.
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#4 - Gilby the Pirate
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 68
While the Vikings prepare the drakkar for an expedition, Sven plans to steal their loaded drakkar. But when Gilby, frustrated not to be a Viking, offers Sven some more supplies, Sven fools Gilby into making him believe he can become a Pirate. Vic and Halvar will have to get on board the stolen drakkar to get their supplies back and to save Gilby.
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#5 - Mistaken Eye-dentity
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 70
The King of Sweden visits Flake unexpectedly and accuses Halvar of stealing his jeweled scepter - and he has an eyewitness - himself! It's up to Vic to discover why the king thinks that he saw Halvar take his scepter, and prove to him that Halvar is innocent... and of course not hurt the King's feelings in the process.
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#6 - Grandpa Olaf
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 72
Near Greenland, Vic finds a man frozen in an iceberg : Olaf, Halvar's grandfather. But when they thaw him, Grandpa Olaf wakes up and wants to defeat the Giant that froze his companions and stole his drakkar and treasure. Halvar agrees, hoping to get part of that treasure as a reward. Vic will have to find a solution to defeat the mean Giant, and will give him a taste of his own medicine.
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#7 - Back to Flake
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 53
Halvar and the Vikings are on their way back to Flake, Halvar delighted to have his invincible sword, when they come face to face with Sven. Halvar wants his revenge after Sven broke his sword, but Vic warns him about the danger of such a battle, even with an invincible sword. Despite Vic's recommendations, Halvar attacks Sven, but soon finds himself in a dire situation, that only Vic can save him from.
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#8 - Princess Badoura
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 60
The Vikings are passing through an Arabian desert on their way back to the coast when they come to the rescue of a Princess on an out of control camel. The Princess soon escapes, taking Vic with her. When the princess' Governess reaches Halvar and his men, she pair up with them to get the princess back before a sandstorm falls on them. Vic and the princess find shelter in a cave during the sandstorm, and then the Princess takes Vic to her final destination; a storytelling festival where she can hear all the tales from her country. When Halvar and the Governess find them, they are all happy and the Governess understands that the Princess needs some freedom.
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#9 - Silent Night
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 42
Halvar and his crew expected raiding the island of dreams would be easy, but the rich golden loot is protected by the resident order's sleep-inducing chants. After Halvar is caught sneaking into the treasury, Wickie can barely get a single chance to have them released: showing the stars to the order's superior, who is always fast asleep at night.
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#10 - Trojan Snorre
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 46
On a distant island, the Vikings are refueling when Tjure and Snorre have their biggest argument yet and Snorre decides to leave. But soon he disappears and Vic and his friends decide to go after him. They are surprised to find him amongst a tribe of people with a lisp, who think he is their new king. When they try to rescue him, the Vikings are defeated. Vic understands that the second in charge plans to harm Snorre to take his place. Tjure then creates a Trojan horse (in the shape of the new king Snorre) to enter the fortress and save Snorre before he gets injured.
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#11 - Being a Leprechaun
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 69
In Ireland, the Vikings meet Puck, who looks for his friend Bernard, lost in the woods. They decide to help him (Urobe and Halvar thinking he's a Leprechaun) but are startled when they realise Bernard is a bear and Puck a juggler dressed as a Leprechaun. But having a bear in Irish woods can be hazardous, and Vic will have to save his new friends from the king's guards.
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#12 - Faxe and the Whale
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 31
After a whale is rescued from beaching itself by Faxe, it starts to follow Faxe everywhere. When the whale's infatuation and its taste for playing peekaboo start to be dangerous for the drakkar (it bumps into the drakkar), Vic has the idea to lead the whale to a larger pod, with which it can make friends. On their way back, they see Sven and the Pirates on their way to kill the whales. With Faxe's help, Vic uses the whale's taste for peekaboo to defeat Sven.
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#13 - Shallow Waters
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 35
As they storm a castle's treasure room, the Vikings run into Sven and his Pirates. When the Treasure Guard (a Giant) comes back and find them, Sven and Halvar have to pair up to escape with some loot. As they're sailing away with shallow waters ahead, the Vikings are trapped by Sven, who wants their share of the treasure. Halvar wants to fight but Vic has an idea. The Vikings give their share of the treasure, which overloads Sven's ship and leaves the drakkar lighter. The drakkar crosses the shallow waters, when Sven founders on the reef. With his ship immobilized, Sven is vulnerable when the Guard chases them on his boat and has no choice but to give up his treasure.
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#14 - Ylva in Charge
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 37
The village is out of supplies, but Halvar is too sick too lead a voyage. Druid Urobe stands in as captain, but is quite happy to leave the decisions to the headman's wife, who came along to shop. Due to improbable luck and naive impudence, they get the slippery better of Sven's pirated during a raid.
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#15 - Druid Needs a Ride
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 41
Fat Flaxe is flattened by stomachache and druid Urobe can't cure him, so the ship brings him to his old mentor's island. They are received by an impostor, who convinces Halvar a cure can only be made from seaweed from another island. While the men gather that, he overpowers the skeleton crew, including Wickie, who must hastily prevent the ship from being stolen.
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#16 - Up the River
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 51
Travelling along the Dnieper River in Eastern Europe to get a new sword, reputably invincible, for Halvar, who broke his own, the Vikings think they find the real deal around a statue of Angantyr, the king of the Goths. But when they come back to their drakkar, it drifts away downstream. To catch up with it, they borrow horses from local farmers. The situation aggravates when the drakkar drifts away to a waterfall. Vic must find a way to save the Vikings' drakkar.
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#17 - The Invincible Sword
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 52
Looking for the magical sword Tyrfing, Halvar and Vic discover that the gem in their possession acts like a GPS locator. As they locate the sword, an evil Warlord plans to let them gather the sword then steal it from them.
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#18 - Strangers in a Strange Land (1)
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 57
After a tornado takes the drakkar away, it lands in China, where Vic and the Vikings meet a young girl, Mingzhu, and her uncle Quan, whose rice is eaten by ducks that got lost in the storm too. But the Vikings have more urgent problems than that; a Chinese General arrests them for invasion and wants to know their secret to make the drakkar fly. Vic will have to find a way to escape the General, and free the ducks at the same time! Zith Mingzhu's kites; the drakkar flies away above the Great Wall of China... until a rain of arrows tears the kites apart.
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#19 - Strangers in a Strange Land (2)
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 58
Having being shot down from the sky above the Great Wall of China, the Vikings have to find a way to reach the ocean. Their plan is thwarted when the General catches up with them and takes them to the Signal Tower as he wants to know their secret to fly, as he always wanted to fly himself. Vic will give him his first "parasail" experience and will get the Vikings to be released and on their way.
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#20 - Bamboo Surprise
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 59
Sailing home from China, the Flake Vikings see a dragon. Rushing to get the mythical creature, they realize the dragon is in fact a costume, worn by the villagers to scare away a real monster that is terrorizing them. Village elder, Junjie, believes they're cursed by his son Qi's refusal to learn their traditional ways. Frustrated by the old ways, Qi is determined to prove there are no such things as monsters. Vic will help Qi uncover the mystery and will capture the "spirit", in fact a wounded panda. Junjie will see how his son was right and he will trust him from then on.
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#21 - The Tunnel
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 36
Looking for a treasure, the Vikings enter a tunnel system full of traps. Even with Vic's clever ideas, they soon get lost in the tunnel, right before escaping death when a large rock ball rolls towards them. Soon after, they think they found the way to the treasure room, only to be caught in a maze. But the biggest trap of all is the one protecting the treasure room itself, and Vic will need Ulme's musical talents to get them all out of trouble, with the treasure.
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#22 - Free Ylvi
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 34
When Ylvi is captured by Pox to become a maid on Sven's ship, Vic and the Vikings rush to rescue her. While the drakkar catches up with the Pirates, Ylvi creates arguments aboard Sven's ship (she's way too young to be a maid!), and proves she can be a mischievous girl when needed. When the Vikings catch up, Sven thinks he's got the upper hand as he threatens to throw Ylvi overboard. But Vic creates flippers and snorkels and swims near the Pirates' ship to rescue Ylvi as she is dropped in the ocean.
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#23 - A True Viking
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 43
It's time for Wickie to pass the Vikings's local initiation rite, the quest for Erci's jeweled shield. Halvar and some cahoots stage it to seems dangerous but remain safe enough for his smart but frail son. However the bumblers' plans all go wrong, so father and son prove more valor then intended.
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#24 - The War of the Berries
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 50
Halvar takes the children of Flake with their teacher, Mrs Flart, on an island for a field trip. On the island, two teams are made for the children to compete and bring back a flag from the top of the island and a bucket full of berries. Gibly is with Mrs Flart's team and Vic and Ylvi are with Halvar's team. But soon, the picking of berries turns into a game of Viking-style paint ball, and each child hit by berry juice is eliminated. The last standing are Gilby and Vic. Vic wins after Gilby tries to cheat as much as he can.
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#25 - Trouble in Flake
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 75
Vic and the Vikings arrive back in Flake to find the women enraged against a lazy Tjure, who didn't help them in any chores while his friends went on expedition. Soon it's a war between the men and women of Flake, and only Vic will be able to reunite them without bruising any ego.
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#26 - Resort Island
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 49
The Vikings discover the true meaning of the saying "there is nothing like a free lunch" when, enjoying a well deserved rest in a hot spring "spa resort" in Iceland, they realise they have been conned by the owners of the place. To make them reveal where they have hidden the stolen Vikings loot, Vic will find a way to con the con artists.
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#27 - The Treehouse
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 76
As Ylvi is about to enjoy the new tree house Tjure made for her birthday, Gilby invades the place and holds it like a fort against Vic and Ylvi.
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#28 - It's Not What You Sink
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 67
After his ship has sunk, Sven is rescued by the Vikings, following the Seafarers' Code. But as soon as the Pirates are on board, they overpower the Vikings and take their drakkar. They leave them on an island, and start to sail; away, but Vic finds a way to lure them back on the island and get the drakkar back.
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#29 - Who Let the Bear In?
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 73
The Vikings stop on the arctic coast and build an igloo style shelter when a blizzard heads for them. When they wake up the next morning, the ice sheet where they are drifts away from the mainland with the drakkar attached. All would be well if it wasn't for the polar bear stuck on the ice sheet with them!
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#30 - The Thief Among Us
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 47
When gear disappears from Shlake's drakkar, Baltak accuses Halvar of theft. Halvar denies it, but Baltak is convinced, especially discovering that Halvar "found" new gear for his drakkar, in fact the stolen goods from Shlake. Vic tries to defuse things and must find the real thief to exonerate his father. He is stunned to discover that it's Baltak's pregnant wife, Morqg, desperate to keep him near for the birth of their baby.
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#31 - The Canal
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 39
Back from an expedition with a fully loaded cargo, the Vikings decide to use a shortcut through a Danish canal, without paying the toll for it. They are caught and soon they either have to sail back or pay all their loot. Halvar decides to go back, only to face the prospect of a huge storm if he takes the long way home. When they come back to the canal and its toll, Vic tricks the Dane into believing the Vikings have been attacked and ransacked, when he actually hid their treasures under the drakkar.
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#32 - Andalusia
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 40
Halvar goes raid Andalusia, in Southern Spain. It's actually where bulls are raised for the arena, fierce enough to scare even Vikings. The crew gets mixed up in a conflict between a nasty hacienda owner with bully goons and a noble local whose champion bull Toro those stole.
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#33 - Victory Dance
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 38
In Ireland, Halvar and his men make fun of a dance-off duel between two Irishmen, a local custom. Unimpressed, the local Chief, Fergus, challenges Halvar, who accepts. But when he realizes he will have to dance, Halvar freezes from stage fright. This is another insult for the Irishmen, who put the Vikings in a dungeon. Thanks to Vic, they escape the dungeon, only to get caught again. Vic challenges Fergus into a dance-off for their freedom. He wins using arrowheads on the flint slab to create sparks and the first real tap dance ever.
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#34 - Castaways
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 44
Rascals pack leader Gilby plans to humiliate physically weaker Wickie by daring him to a wide jump, but ends up the wet looser as Wickie invents pole jumping. Thure's cousin and his wife visit to show their newborn baby, but get shipwrecked on the local rocks. To out-stage Wickie, the rascal pole-jumps to their rescue, but that proves hard even for all the village men, until Wickie devises and improves a pulley system.
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#35 - He’s My Son
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 48
Ulme is kidnapped by Sven who quickly regrets his catch (he's noisy and nobody is interested to get him back). Vic claims he wants to exchange Ulme against their new loot. Sven is thrilled and accept. Vic manages to get Ulme back and fool Sven with a fake treasure.
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#36 - Topsy Turvy
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 62
After a battle on an ice bank, Halvar and Sven bump into each other on the head and their personalities change.
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#37 - Arabian nights
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 45
During a trip in Tunisia, Vic and the Vikings meet Sabu, the Caliph, who has been tricked out of his throne by his Vizier Harun. They will help him get his throne back, putting themselves in danger in the process. Paraphrasing the tale of Aladdin, Vic will use the powers of a genie in a lamp to defeat Harun.
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#38 - For the Love of Cake
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 78
The Annual Dessert Contest is around the corner and this year, Ylva decides to make her special Myrthus Cake to retain the trophy in Flake. But Baltak, spying on her, gives the same idea to Morag, his wife. The only problem is that Myrthus is hard to find and only grows on one island south of Flake. A race starts between Halvar and Baltak to get to the Myrthus first, and only Vic will be able to prevent traps and cheats along the way.
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#39 - The Olympics
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 64
Vic and the Vikings participate in the Olympic Games organized this year in Spain and hosted by their friend Rodrigo (from "Andalusia"). The Games are the occasion to meet tribes our Vikings haven't seen for a long time, and to have a healthy competition, from which Halvar wants to come out victorious.
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#40 - Oops a Daisy
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 63
Preparing a gift for Vic's birthday, Ylvi and Ylva end up stranded on a ledge in the middle of a cliff. With his father and crew on an expedition, Vic will have to find a solution to help his mother and cousin without the strength of the men. He will create a trampoline to save them.
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#41 - Cow Express
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 65
On his way back to Flake, Halvar loses the ring he plans to give Ylva for their anniversary... in a cow's stomach! the crew doesn't have a choice but to take the cow with them and hope to get the ring once it poops. The travel with the cow is an expedition in itself, but back in Flake, they also have to hide the cow from Ylva, who thinks it's a very unusual (and rather lame) anniversary present. As the banquet is about to start and the ring hasn't reappeared yet, Vic has to work his genius to get the cow to "deliver her package".
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#42 - Loki the Trickster God
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 54
It's the Balder-festival in Flake and the Vikings are performing a play telling the story of Balder and her demise by Loki, the trickster god who was jealous of her. An incursion into the Norse mythology where Vic plays Thor and Halvar is Odin as they defeat the evil plans of Loki, played by Gilby.
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#43 - Stronger Together
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 55
Ork and his Berserkers rob the villages of Flake and Shlake. Vic thinks the Vikings need to stand unite if they want victory over Ork. But with Halvar's and Baltak's pride, it's going to be complicated! Vic manages to reunite both village against the Bersekers for a fine naval battle!
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#44 - License to Sail
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 56
While Vic is at the helm of the drakkar, the Vikings are stopped by the Dane (seen in The Canal), who has now moved over to sea traffic control. Well, Vic doesn't have his drakkar driving licence! The drakkar will be impounded if Vic doesn't pass his driving test. Although Vic passes the theory test without much trouble, he fails the practical test because of Halvar! The Dane takes the helm of the drakkar... only to get it stuck accidentally in an ice maze. Will they end up as ice cubes? It's only thanks to Vic's ingenuity that they pull through and that, finally, he gets his licence.
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#45 - Moby Vic
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 71
The Vikings are sailing home when Halvar decides to let Faxe take over the steering for a while. A whale appears and Faxe involves the drakkar in a game of chasey with the whale but in all the excitement he accidentally chases it towards shallow waters. The whale becomes stuck between two rocks and as the tide goes down, it becomes beached. When the Vikings aren't strong enough to move it Vicky comes up with a solution that you couldn't even dream of.
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#46 - Summer Residence
Vic the Viking (2013) - Season 1 - Episode 77
The inhabitants of Flake are awaken at dawn by loud hammering noises: the king's foreman is requisitioning the village to build the new royal summer residence! The Vikings are faced with the possibility of eviction. To avoid a war between the villagers and the king's army, Vic sets out to convince the foreman that their village is a very inhospitable place, and thus get him to leave.
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