Trazan & Banarne
Trazan & Banarne was a Swedish children's television series which was broadcast first in late 1970s/early 1980s, 1st time was as "Jullovsmorgon" 1976/1977, in Sveriges Television. The title characters are played by Lasse Åberg (Trazan Apansson) and Klasse Möllberg (Banarne). The title characters have recorded many songs together with the band Electric Banana Band.
The TV series did also broadcast TV series as Lucky Luke.
In early 2000s Trazan & Banarne released the CD-ROM game Speltajm.
Plot
The friends Trazan Apansson and Banarne live in a tree house in the jungle with a trampoline. Trazan is a person based on Tarzan and Banarne is a monkey. Generally they have bananas as food. They often tell stories to each other and discuss figures such as the Phantom. They also sing songs by Povel Ramel, Lennart Hellsing and Hans Alfredson. Trazan plays banjo and Banarne plays guitar.
They are also visited a few times by the stunt man Johan Thorén.
They also go for picnics to Leksaksmuseet.
Olyckan
In 1980 the TV series was produced together with Trafiksäkerhetsverket ("Traffic Security Administration"). Then the character Olyckan ("The Accident") (played by Ted Åström) appeared. He was a character who liked when Banarne made mistakes while driving, but Trazan told Banarne how to drive carefully without accidents.
Pulver & Nicko[1]
Pulver (Klasse Möllberg) and Nicko (Lasse Åberg) were the title characters of the sketch series Pulver & Nicko in the TV series. The sketches take place in the countryside where two dirty and hoarse farmers ask each other riddles and when they hear the answers they fall backwards, laughing. For the New Year's Eve program in 1982 they went to London, Paris and New York.
Rocktajm
Besides the music by Trazan and Banarne, there was a musical segment called Rocktajm where the rock music band Electric Banana Band appeared. Their songs are based on jungles, bananas, wild animals and Tarzan.