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The Best Episodes of Matador Season 2

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Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Matador Season 2 Episode 1 - The Birthday
    8.9/10(100 votes)

    #1 - The Birthday

    S2:E1

    While Mads Skjern continues to expand his businesses, Hans Christian Varnæs battles a new dynamic force in the board of his bank, the state lawyer Viggo Skjold Hansen, who has obtained his shares and board seat from the spiraling Jørgen Varnæs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Matador Season 2 Episode 2 - The stranger in town
    8.8/10(97 votes)

    #2 - The stranger in town

    S2:E2

    The internationally renowned painter Professor Ernst Nyborg lands in Korsbæk. He is a former art teacher and romantic interest of Maude Varnæs. Also arriving to witness Nyborg's exhibit is Gitte Graae, Jørgen Varnæs' home-wrecking and increasingly expensive lady friend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Karen Smith

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  3. Matador Season 2 Episode 3 - What about the dresser
    8.7/10(90 votes)

    #3 - What about the dresser

    S2:E3

    The Varnæsses' maid, Agnes Jensen, quits her job to get married to railway employee and local communist, Lauritz "Red" Jensen, but to her dismay, Red quickly invites a German refugee, the poet Herbert Schmidt, to live with them in the spirit of solidarity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Paul Hammerichs

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  4. Matador Season 2 Episode 4 - Nowadays
    8.7/10(88 votes)

    #4 - Nowadays

    S2:E4

    Mads' building project is well under way, but Mrs. Møhge supported by Skjold Hansen continues to fight him. Skjold Hansen's daughter Iben arrives in town, having cancelled an upcoming wedding in Germany, and begins flirting with Kristen Skjern. Elisabeth Friis causes a furor, when openly supporting an abortion doctor, bringing her at odds with her and her sister's social circle.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Matador Season 2 Episode 5 - In a Pinch
    8.7/10(82 votes)

    #5 - In a Pinch

    S2:E5

    Agnes delivers a boy, while Vicki, widow of Arnesen, returns to Korsbæk as a traveling vaudeville actress and reconciles with her father, the Colonel. Via Oluf Larsen she meets Herbert Schmidt, who now lives with the Larsens. Hans Christian Varnæs learns that his mistress Ms. Jacobsen is pregnant from their affair. She wants an abortion, which he pays for in betrayal of his own morals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jens Louis Petersen

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  6. Matador Season 2 Episode 6 - For better and for worse
    9.0/10(88 votes)

    #6 - For better and for worse

    S2:E6

    Herbert Schmidt and Lauritz "Red" Jensen embark for Spain to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, but Red changes his mind en route, while Herbert continues on. Elisabeth relays an offer from Hans Christian Varnæs to Kristen Skjern of a position at a bank in Jutland, but Kristen see it as a plot to separate him from his brother, Mads, who is still being hammered by Skjold Hansen's investigations.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Birthday" is the best rated episode of "Matador" season 2. It scored 8.9/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/17/1979. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The stranger in town".