Brødrene Dal

Brødrene Dal
The brothers, from left: Roms, Gaus and Brumund Dal
Created by	Lars Mjøen Knut Lystad Trond Kirkvaag Eivind Aaeng Kalle Fürst
Starring	Lars Mjøen Knut Lystad Trond Kirkvaag and Tom Mathisen
Country of origin	Norway
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	48 + 1 movie
Production
Running time	15-25 minutes(1979-1994) 30 minutes2005
Release
Original network	NRK
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original release	27 January 1979 – 16 March 2005 (series) 10 September 2010 (movie)

Brødrene Dal ('The Brothers Dal') is a Norwegian television series by Norwegian comedy trio KLM (Kirkvaag, Lystad, Mjøen), that originally aired as four series in 1979, 1982, 1994 and 2005. A fifth adventure, originally performed on stage in 1997, was edited and released as a movie in 2010.

The series bears many similarities to Monty Python's Flying Circus, as the three actors play nearly all the different roles in the series, often multiple roles in each episode. Usually, the series would have a main plot keeping the story and episodes together, but most of the content being semi-related or unrelated sketches. This is especially true for the first series Professor Drøvels Hemmelighet (1979), where the story frequently diverges from the main plot for entire episodes, only to jump back to the plot in the last minute. In the other series, the story is more centered on the actual plot.

Originally aired in 1979 with 13 episodes (15 minutes each, except the first and last episode, 25 minutes) The main plot of this adventure takes place on the fictional unexplored river Overfloden, where the brothers are searching for the long-lost professor Drøvel, who mysteriously disappeared while exploring the river 25 years earlier. However, the episodes frequently diverge from the main plot into unrelated sketches.

Originally aired in 1982 with 13 episodes (15 minutes each, except the first and last episode, which are 25 minutes long). In this adventure, the brothers (with the help of a blueprint delivered by an alien spaceship) build a machine that travels through time and space, powered by the mysterious spectral stones, the source of incredible power. At each destination (which includes the Viking Age, the Old West, ancient Egypt, 18th century France, and a desert island) the brothers must find a new spectral stone in order to eventually get back to their own time.

Originally aired in 1994, with 12 episodes (20 minutes each). this adventure focus on the brothers' search for the lost sacred Saami city of Atlant-Is (Atlant-Ice), whilst investigating strange activities nearby. This was the first series to feature main characters other than the three brothers and narrator, and was originally planned to be the final series about the brothers.

Originally aired in 2005 with ten 30 minute episodes. With the 100th anniversary of the union dissolution approaching, the brothers must travel back in time to find King Charles XII's long-lost spats that disappeared some 300 years ago. If they do not recover the spats before the anniversary, Norway will be forced to re-enter a union with Sweden. This is the last series about the brothers, following Kirkvaag's death in 2007.