De Familie Backeljau
De Familie Backeljau
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De Familie Backeljau

8.5 / 10
1994
5 seasons
60 episodes
Comedy

This Flemish sitcom is entirely about the entirely wacky lower-class family Backeljau, which always speaks the most common Antwerp dialect. It consists of father François 'Cois' Backeljau, his wife Maria, the rather cunning Bomma ('granny' Thérèse, his mother), the even older pet (in dog years) Blacky, their son Franky and his wife Janine, daughter Sabrina and her husband Antonio and little nephew Lionel, the youngest but more intelligent then all his dumb relatives together and various lovers, friends and regular guests, such as the mailman and the policeman.

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Cast

Seasons

  • De eerste aflevering

    1.De eerste aflevering

    01-01-199430m

    Het staat in de krant en dus zal het wel waar zijn : "de familie Backeljau komt op TV". Çois Backeljau kan er hoegenaamd niet mee lachen. Hij weigert het spelletje mee te spelen, w...

  • Alles voor de sport

    2.Alles voor de sport

    08-01-199430m

    F.C. Superbeton, the indoor football team of 'Magic Maria' Backeljau, has to compete against K.V. Ferrometal. Reason enough to make the football uniforms slightly more feminine. Th...

  • Ep 3

    3.Een leven vol voorarrest

    15-01-199430m

    Blacky, according to bomma Thérèse, is suffering a lot from a dry throat again. The police question Thérèse about a shoplifting and do not believe a word of her story. Bomma ends u...

  • Ep 4

    4.Een criminele actie

    22-01-199430m

    Neighbors. Sooner or later everyone will have to deal with it. Marcel De Neudt, the neighbor of the Backeljaus, however, deserves better. Not a day goes by, or his eccentric neighb...

  • Ep 5

    5.Alles voor de kunst

    29-01-199430m

    Çois Backeljau has discovered his true talent. He got a role in 'Art after the Metsen', the amateur theater group of his company. He already feels like an artist. He boldly studies...

  • Ep 6

    6.Mobiele mensen

    05-02-199430m

    Sabrina Backeljau has its birthday and that has to be celebrated. Her wish list is anything but modest. But yes, a girl only turns twenty once. A great party is therefore inevitabl...

  • Ep 7

    7.De nieuwe vaders

    12-02-199430m

    The last word has not yet been said about paternity at the Backeljaus. When Johnny and Marina win the German lotto, Çois gets the chance of his life to prove how clever he is with...

  • Ep 8

    8.De rijkste man ter wereld

    19-02-199430m

    Çois is in a good mood until he sees his tax bill. Also for Maria and Sabrina, this means a line through their annual bargains account. They had seen such a nice, sexy lingerie in...

  • Ep 9

    9.Pizza-time

    26-02-199430m

    It seems as if everybody in the Backeljau family has a fight. According to Thérèse it is because everyone is bored. The TV is in fact broken. Maria sees only one solution: to have...

  • Ep 10

    10.Recessie

    05-03-199430m

    Sabrina was fired, even though the rest of the family did not even know she had found work. Apparently she was not very good as a waitress in Marie-Jeanne's ice cream parlor. Maria...

  • Ep 11

    11.De rechten van het konijn

    12-03-199430m

    The hunting season is open. Thérèse does not like such a cowardly slaughter at all and protests. Not only indoors but also with the local police officers. Sabrina, who starts her f...

  • Ep 12

    12.Miljaar!

    19-03-199430m

    Thanks to Blacky's oblivion, a pile of unpaid invoices is waiting for Çois Backeljau. The bailiff has little understanding of the situation and threatens to remove the entire conte...

  • Ep 13

    13.De dertiende

    26-03-199430m

    On Friday the thirteenth to go skiing on brushes in the Belgian Deurne is asking for trouble. The Mujnamur-Vishna-Hoeniw-Mahal-Prahati knows all about it. His disciples also had be...

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