''Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut'' (English: ''The Marvellous Adventures of a TV Man'') is a 1969 Finnish comedy by

Spede Pasanen Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen (10 April 1930 – 7 September 2001) was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor. During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 film, movies and participated in numerou ...

. It features one of the most famous appearances by

Vesa-Matti Loiri Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. According to Yle Ne ...

outside his

Uuno Turhapuro Uuno Turhapuro is a Finnish comedy character created by Spede Pasanen and played by Vesa-Matti Loiri. Originally appeared in ''Spede Show'' during 1971–1973, the character gained popularity through the Uuno Turhapuro films. Dramatis personae ...

persona also created by Pasanen. The film also features a famous cameo of the Finnish pop-star

Danny Danny is a masculine given name. It is related to the male name Daniel. It may refer to: People *Danny Altmann, British immunologist *Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer *Danny Baker (born 1957), English journalis ...

. The film is often considered one of Spede's greatest, due to its human-story. It also features plenty of his zany comedy most of which takes place in Pasanen's character's fantasies (reflected off the sets at which he is working).

Plot

The plot concerns the character of Mikko Syvärivi (Pasanen) who works as a night-watchman and also becomes an assistant at a Finnish Television Company. His first day at work starts out quite humorously as he is mistaken as a minister in the Finnish parliament by an urging reporter Antti Vasa (Loiri) who takes him to a live TV-interview. Unfortunately due to the incident Vasa is demoted in to reporting on indifferent news-items with a minimal news-crew and often allowed to ask one question. Mikko on the other hand is also an urging writer who tries his luck comprising a comedy-show and even a police-drama. After catching Vasa breaking into a store in the middle of the night (in the hopes of covering the actions of the local police) he decides to help Vasa with his reports eventually getting him back on the show where started out. Mikko also tries to impress a girl at the cafeteria and is even offered to stay at her (all girl) dormitory. At the latter half of the movie Vasa turns Mikko's bumbling in to a hit comedy-act which comprises him of injuring himself on various types of doors. The fame naturally gets to him in the end and ruins his relationship with the cafeteria girl. He also sabotages his own success by going on stage with a new gag which is met with a chilling silence as the audience leaves. Mikko then goes back to being just an assistant but seems content with the outcome by the end of the film.

Production

Simo Salminen plays himself in the role of a popular TV-comedian, parodying Spede. In the film, he has his own comedy-show called ''Simovisio'', a reference to Spede's own show ''Spedevisio''.

Ilkka Lipsanen Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen (born 24 September 1942), commonly known by his stage name Danny, is a Finnish singer and guitarist. Still active, Danny's singing career is one of the longest in Finland, spanning over more than 50 years. He has recorde ...

, credited by his stage-name ''Danny'', appears in the film. He performed the role of the singing and narrating bard in Spede's

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. Jukka Virtanen wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack. He also appears in the film's fictional live-broadcast play ''Rohkea Roomalainen'' (The Brave Roman - actually, a fragment of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) as

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. Director Ere Kokkonen also cameos as a TV director in the film. Correctly translated the film's title is ''The Amazing Hesitations of the TV-man''. ''Näköradio'' (vision radio) is an outdated expression for television. ''Siekailut'' comes from ''siekailla'', an old word meaning ''to hesitate'' and which sounds a lot like ''seikkailu'', meaning ''adventure''.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakoradiomiehen Ihmeelliset Siekailut Spede Pasanen 1969 films 1969 comedy films 1960s Finnish-language films Finnish comedy films