Een trouwring mag niet knellen

A nearly 30 minute long conversation in a living room party. Unlike in a regular TV play the jabber conversation can hardly be understood. Sometimes a line or two can be picked up. There's an intermezzo when Schippers alias Jacques Plafond comes to play one of his 'modern' piano pieces, to the disgust of the party's guests, whose chattering in the end isn't far removed from the piano play.

Television recording of the Dutch musical by Annie M.G. Schmidt (lyrics) and Harry Bannink (music) from 1971. Two fairies guide the life of young Frans. The good fairy wishes him that he will become a decent man, with a good job and an exemplary family. The evil fairy wishes him bad luck. Her goal is to make the boy as unhappy as possible. Both bring twists and turns in the boy's life. They accompany his life in different guises, as a teacher, as a cashier, as a customer in a shop, as a psychiatrist, as aunts at a reception. Their fight continues until morals begin to scramble. Because what is actually still good and what is really bad?

Yuri Petrovian, a Russian ballet dancer, decides to flee communist Russia and gets help from dancer Sabine Zorelli. Unintentionally, the other characters living in and around the house of Commander Snijders also become involved in the dancing duo's plans. This is the beginning of many difficulties and mistaken identities. With the help of his girlfriend Nanni Snijders, the commander's daughter, Boebi Bus tries to overcome these difficulties.

The poet Valentijn Boecke meets his former teacher Mieke. They have a short relation. After a while Mieke appears to be pregnant. Valentijn is through with Mieke and leaves her...

An aging cabaret singer, Jo, returns to the stage after a fifteen-year absence, determined to reclaim his lost glory.