1x1 - ... an unusual story about "spaghetti"

April 27, 1963

It all starts when a husband wants to cook a wonderful Italian pasta dish for his wife: spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino. This should bring a little southern holiday mood into your home. But this long-awaited Sicilian ambience suddenly becomes more realistic than planned.

1x2 - ... an unusual story about the "Bombardon"

May 11, 1963

Is it a bombardon or a kettledrum? Either way, the musical instrument has nothing to do during a performance in a box. When she wants it removed, but he makes no move to take action, a solid argument develops - even during the overture.

1x3 - ... the story of the "promise"

May 25, 1963

After the war, a Berlin bricklayer foreman ended up in southern Germany, where he found work and a lovely wife. A dispute develops between the two about the dear money, because he financially supports the wife of his deceased brother

1x4 - ... the story of the "salary increase"

June 8, 1963

A small, humble accountant is urged by his wife to finally ask for a raise. The conversation does not lead to the desired result. In order not to disappoint his wife, he secretly takes money from the company's coffers.

1x5 - ... the story of the "gentleman from the police"

June 22, 1963

Fred is a police officer in Los Angeles and is summoned to see Mrs. Brown about a break-in, who turns out to be his childhood sweetheart Helen. She actually wanted to make a career in Hollywood, but she never succeeded. Fred admits that he still loves her, but soon has bad suspicions: is he facing a murderer?

1x6 - ... the story of "fish with sauce"

July 6, 1963

Cooking and painting are at the heart of this story, in which a successful businessman has little sense of his wife's artistic ambitions. Nevertheless, he buys her pictures unrecognized. However, the secret is revealed over dinner.

1x7 - ... the story of "diamonds, rubies, emeralds"

July 20, 1963

A lawyer returns with his wife from a cocktail party given by a client to mark the opening of a jewelry store. Interestingly, a precious necklace has been stolen and reappears in his wife's handbag.

1x8 - ... the story of a "reunion"

August 3, 1963

After 20 years, an actor returns to the site of his previous triumphs and gives a guest appearance as Wallenstein. The mayor's wife still raves - to the displeasure of the husband - about the cultivated Casanova.

1x9 - ... the story of a "rendezvous"

August 17, 1963

A taxi driver in Paris overhears his two passengers - a falling out couple - discuss the divorce. As soon as his wife has got out, the noble husband is looking forward to his adventurous life in freedom - and the taxi driver should take him to a rendezvous immediately. But the two gentlemen have no idea what surprise awaits them there

1x10 - ... the story of the "correspondence"

August 31, 1963

A man from distant Canada comes to meet his beloved, with whom he has had a loving correspondence for a year. But when the time comes, she is embarrassed and does not want to reveal herself to the Canadian. It takes an understanding innkeeper who very cleverly arranges the introductory conversation.

1x11 - ... a story from the "Hotel Sacher"

September 14, 1963

An extraordinary encounter takes place at the Vienna Hotel Sacher: a woman hired her daughter as a kind of private detective to spy on her second husband during his amusements in Salzburg. However, the fact that the observed stepdaughter has never seen the stepdaughter who has returned from America leads to an unforeseen development: the young girl has fallen in love with her own stepfather. What now?

1x12 - ... the story of a "rendezvous"

October 26, 1963

An employee returns home angry and confesses to his wife, Maria, that he has committed a hit-and-run. The victim is a badly drunk cyclist. In truth, he is protecting his boss's wife.

1x13 - The Dreamers

November 1, 1963

A married couple simply cannot handle money, is constantly in debt and has the bailiff in the house again and again. When the husband comes up with the idea of becoming a property speculator in the future and his wife thinks that is excellent, his collar bursts: He wants his wife to kindly bring him back from his fantasies to the bottom of the facts. But apparently no power in the world can tear the two out of their dream worlds.

Curd Jürgens

Self - Host