Thursday, December 28, 2006

"The same procedure as last year, miss Sophie?"

Every New Year's Eve year since 1976, you can see this TV program in Sweden known as "Grevinnan och Betjänten"(in English the title is "Dinner for one"). The program was recorded in 1963 and is the most recurrent TV program in the world.

I saw this program every New Years Eve (almost as important as the Donald Duck show on Christmas Eve...) until I was big enough to have other plans on New Year's than to be home watching TV...





Not only Swedish Television shows this program on New Year's Eve - if you happen to spend New Year's Eve in for example Germany, Switzerland and Austria (as well as a bunch other countries), you can catch miss Sophie celebrating her 90th birthday having her butler James be the stand in for her dead friends Sir Toby, Amiral von Schneider, Mr Pomeroy and Mr Winterbottom and get more and more drunk...

What is it about this program that makes millions of European tune in every New Year....?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am with you. I lived in Sweden from 1977 - 1980. I still wish I could watch this film here in the states but can't seem to find a US compatible DVD. Frustrating and sad. I would like to share the tradition with my children.

JaCal said...

Anonymous -well now you have YouTube! ;-) And if you're lucky your dvd is hackable and can be made into be region free.