The BEST Episodes of Better Times
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: May 25, 2020
Network: DR1
In 1949, the young Ida Nørregaard travels from Jutland to Copenhagen to enroll in a home economics school and an evening school programme. When she is told that she can't do both, she chooses the evening school. Her parents are unhappy with her choice, but Ida is decided upon making it on her own in the big city. She finds a job as a secretary at a radio factory, but when her boss's son Erik Nielsen has a crush on Ida, he causes her to lose her job. While Erik is trying to convince his father of the future of television, he also succeeds in attracting Ida's attention. Meanwhile, Erik's lively sister Søs Nielsen is engaged to a man she doesn't love. When he tries to rape her one night, she is helped by Palle From who is a working class university student and lives next door to Ida. When Søs finds him to thank him an attraction builds between them.
#1 - 1954
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Feb 22, 2004
8.50 
#2 - 1950
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 11, 2004
Det truer Idas studenterkursus, at hun ikke kan finde et arbejde efter fyringen fra radiofabrikken. Hun bliver dog reddet af en uventet anbefaling fra "Bella". Som tak indvilger hun i at se Erik igen, men hans ubetænksomhed er kilde til stadig irritation. Det kulminerer aftenen før hendes vigtige årsprøve, hvor Erik uforvarende kommer til at låse hende ind i "Bella"s udviklingsafdeling, hvor han har vist hende sit hemmeligt-byggede fjernsyn. Ida beslutter aldrig at se ham igen, men kommer alligevel på andre tanker. Søs' forældre tror ikke på, hun er blevet forulempet nytårsaften. Hun finder frem til sin redningsmand Palle, der forklarer sagens rette sammenhæng i direktørhjemmet.
8.00 
#3 - 1951
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Jan 25, 2004
8.00 
#4 - 1956
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Feb 29, 2004
7.50 
#5 - 1958
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 16, 2005
7.50 
#6 - 1959
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 30, 2005
7.50 
#7 - 1962
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 13, 2005
7.50 
#8 - 1954
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Feb 15, 2004
7.33 
#9 - Part 16, Two years later, 1964
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 8, 2006
7.33 
#10 - 1969
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 12, 2006
7.33 
#11 - Part 1, Copenhagen 1949
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 4, 2004
For at få råd til sit studenterkursus, tager Ida arbejde som sekretær på Radiofabrikken "Bella". Her bliver hun glad for direktørens søn Erik, som netop har hjembragt et dyrt fjernsyn fra Amerika, hvilket hans far er oprørt over. Da direktøren sætter Ida til at kigge Eriks regnskaber efter, kastes hun uforvarende ud i en loyalitetskonflikt imellem far og søn. Hun mister sit job og bringer sit studenterkursus i fare. Eriks søster Søs er netop blevet forlovet, men den udvalgte vil ikke tillade hun fortsætter sit modelarbejde. Hun overfaldes nytårsaften, men reddes i sidste øjeblik af Idas nabo Palle, der er på vej for at mødes med Jens Otto Krag.
7.19 
#12 - 1950
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 18, 2004
7.10 
#13 - 1952
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 8, 2004
7.06 
#14 - Part 14, August 1961
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 6, 2005
7.06 
#15 - 1951
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 1, 2004
7.03 
#16 - 1959
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 23, 2005
7.03 
#18 - 1968
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 5, 2006
7.03 
#21 - 1957
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Mar 7, 2004
6.83 
#22 - Part 21, Three years later, Småland, summer of 1972
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Dec 25, 2006
1.43