The BEST episodes directed by Olle Hellbom

#1 - Pippi Looks for Ghosts

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 5

Two thieves on the run visit Pippi to steal her gold-coins, but when she tells them that Mr. Nilsson is sleeping in the other room, they get frightened and run away, not knowing that Mr. Nilsson is only a small monkey. In the evening Pippi has invited Tommy and Annika to her birthday-party. She takes them to the attic, to see if they can find any ghosts. In the night the thieves come back, but they cannot overpower Pippi, the strongest girl in the world.

#2 - Pippi Moves to Villekulla

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 1

Tommy and Annika live with their parents in a small town. Beside their house is an uninhabited house called Villa Villekulla. One day a girl moves into Villa Villekulla with a horse and a monkey, but no parents. She tells Tommy and Annika that her name is Pippi Longstocking, that her mother is in heaven and that her father is a local king at an island in the South Pacific. Miss Prysselius asks the police officers Kling and Klang to bring Pippi to an orphanage, but they cannot seize her, because she is the strongest girl in the world.

#3 - Pippi Goes Shopping

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 3

Pippi takes a handful of gold-coins from her old suitcase and brings Tommy and Annika on a shopping-spree. In a sweet-shop Pippi buys almost all the sweets they have for sale. Outside the shop a lot of children are gathering and when Pippi steps out of the door, she gives an abundance of sweets to all of them. She also brings the children to a toyshop, where she buys toys to all of them.

#4 - Sjörövarna

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 6

#5 - Melker får napp

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 13

#6 - Vad händer på Kattskär?

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 7

#7 - When Emil cought the rat

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 1

Emil sets out to catch a rat, a lot of food is spilled, and he locks himself into the tool-shed with the intention to spend the rest of his life in there, carving wooden figures for his collection.

#8 - Ett litet djur åt Pelle

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 9

Today it's Tjorven and Pelle's turn to go and get some milk at the farmer's place. But the trip becomes a little bit longer than they've planned, and when they come back home again they've brought a new little citizen to Saltkråkan.

#9 - Far ända in i baljan

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 8

#10 - When Emil made a new friend

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 11

Emil has his own piglet to take care of and teach tricks.

#11 - When Emil became a hero

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 13

Alfred cut his thumb and must go to the doctor.

#12 - Pippi's Farewell Party

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 12

Pippi introduces Tommy and Annika to her father and the sailors on his sailing-ship Hoppetossa. She will go away with him and the ship the next morning and invites all children in the town to a big farewell-feast at Villa Villekulla. During the feast Pippi and her father perform some trials of strength, to find out who is the strongest. Tommy and Annika are sad about losing Pippi, and she admits feeling the same, but she tries not to think about it.

#13 - Pippi Goes Ballooning

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 10

Pippi repairs the old hot air balloon her father has left at the attic in Villa Villakulla. Meanwhile the two thieves Dunder-Karlsson and Blom steal her bag with gold coins. Miss Prysselius sees Pippi, Tommy and Annika up in the air in the balloon and orders the policemen Kling and Klang to stop them. The policemen start chasing both the balloon and the two thieves, without succeeding to get hold of any of them.

#14 - Pippi's Treasure Hunt and Party

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 2

Pippi leads Tommy and Annika on a hunt for things thrown away. Pippi finds a rusty can and a wooden spool, but Tommy and Annika find nothing until Pippi gives them some hint of where to look. In the afternoon Pippi is invited to a coffee party at Tommy's and Annika's home. When she arrives to the party, she immediately breaks all rules of etiquette, smashes things and makes all the ladies totally shocked.

#15 - When Emil fed cheries to the animals

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 12

Emil's pig goes crazy after eating fermented cherries.

#16 - Pippi Goes Onboard

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 13

Pippi is embarking on her father's sailing-ship Hoppetossa. On the quay all children in the town, the policemen Kling and Klang, Miss Prysselius and a brass-band are gathered for a farewell-salutation. Tommy and Annika are sitting at the ground weeping. Pippi tries to console them, but in vain. She becomes uncertain if she really should go away with her father, or change her mind and stay with her friends.

#17 - When Emil pulled Little Ida up the flag pole

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 3

The family have invited all their friends and acquaintances to a big feast, and Emil pulls his little sister Ida up to the top of the flag pole so she can see far into the distance.

#18 - Pippi Goes on a Trip

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 4

Pippi takes Tommy and Annika on a ride to a desolate landscape by the sea. She has made kites on strings for all of them. On her own kite she places her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, so he can experience how it is to fly as a bird. From the kites on the strings the children get the idea to let Pippi play a dragon in a cave, who chases Tommy and Annika. Meantime Mr. Nilsson disappears, so they have to go around searching for him.

#19 - Pippi and the Christmas Party

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 8

Pippi prepares for Christmas. She bakes a huge number of gingerbread biscuits. In the big tree outside her house she has hung lots of Christmas presents. At Christmas Eve she sits at her window, looking out in the darkness at all the presents hanging in the tree. She feels lonely and thinks with sadness about having no one to give the presents to.

#20 - When Emil went to the auction

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 6

The story about the day Emil went to the auction on a nearby farm.

#21 - When Emil made a feast for the poor

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 5

The story about the day Emil organized a feast for the old people from the poorhouse and thought he had caught a werewolf.

#22 - The First Snow

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 7

It's two days before the Christmas holidays begin, but Pippi cannot have any holiday because she isn't a pupil. To set this right she decides to go to school for the first time in her life. At school she finds almost everything ridiculous and breaks all rules. When she is out playing in the snow, the two thieves Dunder-Karlsson and Blom seize the opportunity to sneak into Villa Villekulla and steal her bag with gold-coins.

#23 - When Emil had only good resolutions

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 10

Over the course of one year, Emil fish crayfish with Alfred, celebrate a traditional Christmas and scare people with a wild horse ride.

#24 - Denna dagen - ett liv

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 5

#25 - When Emil wanted to pull Lina's tooth

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 8

The maid Lina has a terrible toothache and Emil sells the old letters he found in the box he bought at the auction to the pastor for a lot of money.

#26 - Vilse i dimman

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 3

The fog is coming in from the sea at the outskirt of the archipelago. When Johan, Niklas, Teddy, Freddy and Båtsman leaves the rocky islet out there, they get lost with their boat in the fog. Back home on Saltkråkan people hear about the fog in the weather report. Melker is alarmed. Nisse tries to calm him down, by pointing out that the sea is anyhow dead calm. The four young friends and the dog finally arrive at an island. They rove about until they find out it's the island where the school is.

#27 - Pippi Goes to Tivoli

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 6

A traveling funfair visits the town. Pippi tries many of the amusements. She makes the highest score at the shooting-booth and the trial-of-strength. When no one succeeds to overpower Adolf the Strong Man, Pippi mounts the stage and overturns him. At the snake-charming Pippi grabs one of the pythons during the performance, without being attacked by the snake.

#28 - When Emil got stuck in the serving bowl

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 2

Emil gets his head stuck in the serving bowl when he tries to lick the last bit of soup off the bottom.

#29 - When Emil outsmarted a cow

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 7

At an auction, Emil buy both useful items and a one-legged hen.

#30 - When Emil went to the fair

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 4

The story about the day Emil went to Vimmerby on the day of the fair.

#31 - Pippi Looks for Spunk

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 9

Pippi has invented a new word - spunk - but she doesn't know what it is. Together with Tommy and Annika she tries to figure out what a spunk could be. They build a trap at Villa Villekulla in case it is some kind of a monster. But they don't believe much in this hypothesis, so they go out in town to find out if there is anything else that could be called a spunk.

#32 - When Emil went to school

Emil of Lonneberga - Season 1 - Episode 9

A new chapter of Emil's life begins as he starts school. But he still has plenty free time to get into mischief.

#33 - En dag i juni

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 1

One day, the usual serenity at Saltkråkan breaks. The Melkersson family have just moved into the island. Things will never be the same again.

#34 - Pippi Gets Shipwrecked

Pippi Longstocking - Season 1 - Episode 11

Miss Prysselius shall take care of Tommy and Annika for some days, while their parents are away. They find this unbearable and ask Pippi what to do. Pippi suggests that they run away together in a rowing-boat, get shipwrecked and run ashore on a desert island. The plan is carried out, but when they wake up in the morning on the island, they discover that their boat is missing. Tommy and Annika start longing for their parents, and Pippi for her father.

#35 - Midsommar på Saltkråkan

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 4

Christer is coming back to Saltkråkan with the ferry-boat to court Malin during the Midsummer festivities. When Johan and Niklas notice this, they decide to stop him, because they don't want to loose their sister. Björn is also interested in Malin, but during the festivities Christer is the one who arrests Malin's attention. Christer and Malin try to sit spooning at the rocks in the enchanting Midsummer Night, but the children disturb them all the time.

#36 - Ro, ro till Fiskeskär

Life on Seacrow Island - Season 1 - Episode 2

Teddy and Freddy take their new friends Niklas and Johan on a trip to one of the rocky islets in the outskirt of the archipelago. They also take Båtsman with them, which makes their little sister Tjorven angry, because it's her dog. When Tjorven's parents don't recognize her complaints, she decides to leave the family and become a housekeeper to Söderman. Johan moors the boat too loosely at the rocky islet and when the four young friends are eating fish by a fire, the boat drifts away. Their boat is saved by the girls teacher Björn, who happens to be in his boat in the neighbourhood.

#37 - Pippi on the Run

Pippi Longstocking - Season 0 - Episode 2

#38 - Pippi in the South Seas

Pippi Longstocking - Season 0 - Episode 1