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 characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur.

Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio.

The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.

Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values ​​worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion.

As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid.

伊根是个永不服老的惯偷。这次，刚从监狱出来，伊根就把以前的两个老伙计丹尼和凯德招集在一起，准备盗取哈里森用来向黑尔姆购买三万吨黄油的一千万美金。哈里森也是干这一行出身的，而且还是被国际刑警通缉的要犯。哈里森带着巨款一上岸就钻进了伊根精心设计的圈套，当哈里森驱车行至一家银行的门口时，伊根制造的一起银行遭抢劫案的假象引来了大批的警察。结果，在警察的眼皮底下，伊根从容地拿走了哈里森的钱箱。
得知伊根将钱箱保存在火车站的行李箱后，哈里森如法炮制，用同样的方法从伊根的车里拿走钱箱并伙同相关文件一起存入世界银行的金库。眼看到手的钱又得而复失，伊根并不甘心。他把凯德夫人的外孙乔治先生拉进自己的团伙，准备里应外合，从金库里将钱箱再偷出来。伊根带着两个伙计巧妙的混进了金库，在乔治的配合下，伊根拿到钱箱后顺利地逃了出来。没想到，哈里森此时已经等候在凯德家的附近，伊根刚回来就被哈里森打晕并劫持。
凯德发现伊根被劫持，将成捆的美钞放到洗衣店后带着夫人开车追了上来。在追赶中，哈里森和伊根两败俱伤，而且哈里森还被当作银行抢劫犯抓了起来。伊根从电视新闻中看到哈里森在警署自吹自擂的样子非常生气，他赶到警署承认了自己抢劫银行的事实。此时，凯德放在洗衣店的钱已被夫人洗成一个个小纸球，而伊根又回到了他应该呆下去的地方--监狱。

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.