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Trompie en die Boksombende

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The original 1975 feature film about the mischievous young Trompie and the misadventures he and his gang of friends embark upon, based on the books by Topsy Smith.

Apr 29, 19801 seasons11 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Rina Nienaber

Anna Toerien

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Francois Stemmet

Thief

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Seasons

Season 1

11 episodes

Premiered Apr 29, 1980

Episodes

1–6 of 11

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Ep 1

Bobbejaanstreke

Apr 29, 1980

When Dominee brings home a baboo, Trompie and his friends decide to get a bit closer acquainted. They steal the baboon from the reverend’s yard, but the baboon, with a pack of hounds on his tail, gets loose and runs into church. Meanwhile, Trompie’s sister Anna gets quite a bit of attention from a fop with a shiny car. Trompie doesn’t like the fellow, Dirk, and comes up with a plan.

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Ep 2

Drie Plus Een

Jun 10, 1980

Trompie, Blikkies and Dawie all have brand new bicycles. Rooie, whose dad is too poor to buy him a bike, feels very left out and decides to leave the Boksombende. His three friends decide to come up with a plan to help him.

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Ep 3

Boesman

May 6, 1980

Sefanja, a friend of the Toeriens’ gardener Jafta, has a dog called Boesman. Trompie and his friends try their best to convince Sefanja to give the dog to them – from bribing him with tobacco to scaring him with the Tokkelosh. Eventually Sefanja decides to let Boesman decide for himself.

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Ep 4

Lympi se Sirkus

May 20, 1980

The circus comes to Kwaggaberg. Even though they’re flat broke, the Boksombende are determined to go – after all, it’s not every day that strongman Dirk Staal visits their town. When their plans to make enough money for the entrance ticket fail, they manage to slip into the circus tent, where they very nearly ruin Dirk Staal’s act.

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Ep 5

Trompie en die Tier

May 13, 1980

Trompie brags that he could get any role he wanted in the school concert. When his friends won’t believe him, he decides to prove it. He bribes Gerrit Moerdyk to lend him his tiger costume for the opening night. The plan is to make a quick appearance on stage as the tiger, but then to hand the costume back to Gerrit for the tiger’s dialogue scenes. Of course everything doesn’t go as plan and Trompie has to do some quick thinking on stage.

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Ep 6

Goeie Dade

Jun 3, 1980

Trompie gets caught getting his friends to do his homework for him. The teacher explains that as the other boys in the school look up to Trompie, he should be a good role model and perform good deeds. But no matter how Trompie tries, his good deeds never work out well.

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