Häxan Surtant (The Sour-Hag Witch), also called "Världens suraste och elakaste häxa" ("The sulkiest and meanest witch in the world") 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 (called Pratgubben), 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 prince who lives in an apartment in the same house as Häxan, and he is going to his kindergarten. Häxan asks him what he'll do at kindergarten and (in one of the programs) he answers "Spela fotboll" ("Play football"). Then Häxan also goes out and plays football, but it isn't going as she planned and she becomes so angry that she conjures away everything which is relevant to football.
When the prince comes home from kindergarten, he and the princess, his bigger sister, watch the TV program Sagonytt ("Story News") where they say that someone has conjured away something, for example footballs, and then they know that Häxan did it, and they tell Häxan to conjure it back and play with them so she understands that it's funny to do it.
In the end, Häxan always becomes angry; she listens to what the prince and the princess say through the walls:
Aktiebolaget Häxan Surtant
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 or "The Häxan Surtant Joint-stock company") without knowing just what the company should do. Everyday, she arranges something for the display window, although as she waits in the shop she hopes that no one will enter. Nevertheless, without reason, she puts a pizza box in the shop window.
Trollet Trygve happens past the shop everyday and on 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 does not know how to make a pizza so tells him to "komma tillbaka i eftermiddag" ("come back at afternoon") to pick up his order. She then meets someone (Riddaren Ragnar) who can help her make the pizza. This scenario happens in each episode but with different goods.
In the pizza episode, it is a while before the pizza will be picked up and she starts to eat it until it is all gone. She becomes so angry that she conjures 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 the problem before Trollet returns for the pizza, and depending on the episode, often goes away to another place and leaves it to others to fix the problem.
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Häxan Surtant och den fruktansvärda fritiden
This TV series ("The Sour-Hag Witch and The Terrible Playtime") 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" (half-mad), 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" (for example ceramic in the 2nd program) and goes to Sagofolkets hus ("House of Fairytale People") 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 hasn't 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, when she finds a new hobby but becomes unhappy on the hobby. And when she sleeps, she dreams about "elaka saker man kan göra mot barn" ("bad things one can do to children").
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Häxan Surtant och landet Häxania
"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 (koja in Swedish). 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" ("tired of playing country").