

De Familie Backeljau
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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Seasons

1.De eerste aflevering
01-01-199430mHet 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...

2.Alles voor de sport
08-01-199430mF.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
15-01-199430mBlacky, 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
22-01-199430mNeighbors. 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
29-01-199430mÇois 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
05-02-199430mSabrina 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
12-02-199430mThe 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
19-02-199430mÇois 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
26-02-199430mIt 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
05-03-199430mSabrina 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
12-03-199430mThe 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!
19-03-199430mThanks 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
26-03-199430mOn 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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