''Gula Hund'' (English title: ''Yellow Dog'') is a

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that had its première the 5 June 1964 on

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in Stockholm. It was written by

Hans Alfredsson Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (28 June 1931 – 10 September 2017) was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their ...

and

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and directed by Tage. Both of the writers starred in various roles. It was the second of "three dog-revues" (so called because they all have "dog" in their name). The first one being '' Gröna Hund'' (Green Dog) and the third and last one was '' Svea hund''.

Overview

The show also starred

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Birgitta Andersson Ulla Birgitta Helena Andersson (born ''Andersson''; 20 April 1933) is a Swedish actress and comedian. Career Andersson made her breakthrough by acting in various variety shows with Povel Ramel and Karl Gerhard. She was part of the group around H ...

Lissi Alandh Lissi Alandh (1930–2008) was a Swedish film, stage and television actress.Steene p.260 Selected filmography * '' Loffe the Tramp'' (1948) * ''The Street'' (1949) * '' Big Lasse of Delsbo'' (1949) * '' The Realm of the Rye'' (1950) * ''Miss Ju ...

Sonya Hedenbratt Sonya Elisabet Hedenbratt Bolin (4 March 1931 – 5 April 2001) was a Swedish singer and actress. She was considered one of the foremost female jazz singers in Sweden. Hedenbratt's breakthrough as a jazz singer came when she performed at the Nal ...

Gösta Ekman Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman (; 28 July 1939 – 1 April 2017) was a Swedish actor, comedian, and director. Career Ekman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was the son of the director Hasse Ekman and Agneta (née Wrangel). Ekman represented ...

, Mille Schmidt, Stefan Böhm, Arild Eriksen,

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and

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s kvartett. The show was built up by sketches and songs, often with satirical humour. Among the more famous sketches are ''Flykten från Ålderdomshemmet'' (The escape from the Old Folks Home) in which Hans Alfredsson played a

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old man, the "''Pitt''" number, where Birgitta Andersson took her husband, played by Gösta Ekman, to the doctor because he couldn't stop saying the word pitt (Swedish

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for penis) and the ''Mahatma Ekman'' number, in which Gösta Ekman portrayed a kind of

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who claimed that we "have to be friends with the things" only to have every object on stage work against him in a slapstick number. The show also contained a number between Tage Danielsson and Lissi Alandh called ''I Friska Naturn'' (In The Healthy Nature) also known as Nature Morte. Dressed in 18th-century style clothing they sing a song about a picnic they have in the nature who has been destroyed by

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and different kinds of

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, among them a

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plant. Later in his life, Tage would become a spokesperson against pollution in general and Nuclear Power in particular. It was filmed for

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in 1966 and has since then been released on

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and it is considered a Hasseåtage

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. A shortened, English version called "''Yellow Dog''" was shown as Sweden's contribution to

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in 1965. {{Tage Danielsson Swedish humour