Häxan Surtant


Häxan Surtant, also called "Världens suraste och elakaste häxa" in the beginning of the programs, is a Swedish fictional character who appears in SVT. Now 4 TV series about "Häxan Surtant" have been broadcast, and all of them are directed and written by Carl Englén. The narrator, who always appears, is Sven Björklund. On 28 August 2009 "Häxan Surtant" received the Kristallen Award for being "the 2009 best children's TV program".

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Häxan Surtant

This TV series was broadcast in the 2004/2005 "Jullovsmorgon" Jonas jullov and had 6 programs.
Every morning Häxan Surtant stops a young prince who lives in an apartment in the same house as Häxan, and he is going to kindergarten. Häxan asks him what he'll do at kindergarten and in one episode he answers "Spela fotboll". Häxan also wants to play football then and goes out to play it, but it doesn't go as she planned and she becomes very angry, so she conjures away everything which is relevant to football.
When the prince comes home from kindergarten, he and the princess, watch the TV program Sagonytt where they say that someone has conjured away something, for example footballs, and they know Häxan did it, so they tell her to conjure it back and play with them so she understands that playing football can be fun and isn't as bad as she thought.
In the end, Häxan always becomes angry; she listens to what the prince and the princess say through the walls:
This TV series was broadcast as Jullovsmorgon 2006/2007 in 15 episodes.
Häxan Surtant has nothing to do. She wants to work but hates mates, so she works alone for herself in her newly founded company Aktiebolaget Häxan Surtant, without knowing just what the company should do. Every day, she arranges something random for the display window without reason, a pizza box in this case. While she is in the shop she hopes that no one will enter.
Trollet Trygve happens to pass the shop every day and upon seeing the pizza box decides to order a pizza. Häxan believes that she has to get a pizza for him so that he does not continue coming to the shop. She tells him to come back at afternoon to pick up his order. She then goes outside to find someone who can help her make the pizza. This scenario happens in each episode but with different goods.
In the pizza episode, the pizza was finished long before afternoon, so she ate it while it was warm. Then when she realized that she hasn't got the pizza for Trollet Trygve as she promised, she became so angry, that she conjured away every pizza in the world. The TV program Sagonytt reporter Älvan Ellen comes to the shop and tells Häxan that if the things have disappeared, she can't do something "bad" with the things. Häxan understands that she must make the things that have disappeared come back. She then realizes that she must fix pizza before Trollet returns for his order. Depending on the episode, Häxan often goes away to another place and leaves it to others to fix the problem. She then returns to her shop just before Trollet Trygve arrives, upon Trygves arrival he asks Häxan how much it'll cost, which she replies with "12 000 kronor".

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This TV series was broadcast first during November 2008-January 2009 and had 10 programs.
Häxan Surtant hasn't paid her apartment for more than 200 years and Gråtmilda Gråvätten Greger, Häxan's landlord, wonders if she'll pay soon. Häxan doesn't want to pay and it's difficult to find a new apartment so she must move back to her mother, Halvgalna Häxmamman Harriet. But she's not so "halvgalen", she is very kind and Häxan hates that she is kind and nice and goes away.
Häxan wants to go to work but can't because it's Sunday and Sundays are work-free days. Then she gets a "play-time-hobby" and goes to Sagofolkets hus where Trollet Trygve works as chief and 2 other story-figures are there and have fun with the same hobby as Häxan. But suddenly it doesn't go as Häxan planned and she becomes angry and conjures away everything which has to do with the hobby. When she suddenly doesn't have some hobby, she must go home to her mother who tells her that they said on TV that someone conjured her favourite things, so she can't go out and have fun. Häxan wants to be alone and her mother promises to leave her alone at home if she conjures the things back, so she does it.
After that she sleeps in her mother's sofa until the next Sunday, she finds a new hobby, but becomes unhappy about the hobby because it didn't go as she planned. And when she sleeps, she dreams about "elaka saker man kan göra mot barn".

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"The Sour-Hag Witch and the country Häxania" was broadcast first during January-March 2012 and had 10 programs.
Häxan Surtant hates nice people on the streets etc. She is so angry that she goes to a forest where she believes she can be alone, but suddenly she finds two princesses and a prince who stop her from coming into their country Kojania where they live in a tree house. Then she also wants to start a country where she can be alone. She buys Gråtmilda Gråvätten Greger's holiday village and pays only a banana and forces away Greger, and calls the new country Häxania.
But suddenly she isn't alone, she is together with Riddaren Ragnar, Fen Felicia, Trollet Trygve and Trollmor who are on holiday in the "former" holiday village. Riddaren Ragnar says that they may stay in Häxania because they are citizens and citizens can't be forced away. But Häxan has an own house where she lives alone and sulk.
The next day Häxan becomes angry when she wakes up and sees something "nice" so she angrily goes to the forest. She meets the children in Kojania who say that they are doing something, and then Häxan goes back to Häxania and says that the citizens of Häxania should do it too.
In the final episode, Greger gets his holiday village back, but Trollet Trygve thinks it's "expensive", because Häxan Surtant says that "it costs 12 000 SEK". In the final program Kojania is also cancelled; the children say that they miss their home and are "trötta på att leka land".

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