Faqaqie - Season 1

First aired: 2/26/1963 14 episodes

The series discusses a variety of social issues within a framework of separate episodes, and through a series of comedic events that simulate society, such as hypocrisy, science, and other issues

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Episodes

1. Mother's Day

Aired: 2/26/1963

Salwa and Dalal try to arrange money to buy a gift for their mother, while their brother Gawwar neglects them. Gawwar's friends discover that his mother works as a domestic servant, and Gawwar buys Mother's Day gifts in an attempt to fix things with his family

2. Happy Dreams Hospital

Aired: 3/5/1963

Patients at the Happy Dreams Hospital suffer from medical corruption under the management of Gawwar and Hosni, and Gawwar causes a patient to fall ill due to his incorrect prescription of treatment.

3. Engineer Ashy

Aired: 3/12/1963

Ghowar dreams of marrying Ezdehar and getting a decent job, but his attempts to get a job fail because he cannot read or write

4. Winning deal

Aired: 3/19/1963

Because Gwar's mother refuses to have Hosni live in their house, Hosni and Gwar resort to robbing a house to get money to provide housing, and Gwar is forced to disguise himself in women's clothing to escape from the house's owners

5. Marital Facilitation Office

Aired: 3/26/1963

Hosni and Ghawar run an office to facilitate marriage. Hosni goes to propose to Lina, accompanied by Ghawar. Lina falls in love with Ghawar, and the marriage becomes complicated

6. Sharp Scissors

Aired: 4/2/1963

Ghowar works in Hosni's sewing workshop. Ghowar cheats his customers to provide fabrics for his wife to design a dress before the holiday season.

7. Hypocrisy of Society

Aired: 4/9/1963

After he proposes to his manager's daughter, Ghoar discovers that he has resigned from his position, so he sends him a letter asking him to end his engagement to his daughter, Salwa. Ghoar discovers that his manager has withdrawn his resignation, so he goes home before the latter reads the letter and fixes the matter.

8. Active Employee

Aired: 4/16/1963

Ghoar devotes himself to his work in the hope that Faiza will agree to marry him, but she rejects him because of his poverty. As soon as Ghoar begins to neglect his work, his manager notices him and decides to raise his salary.

9. Knowledge is Light

Aired: 4/23/1963

Ghoar tries to save money from selling watermelons to help with his sister's education. Ghoar goes to Hosni to get the money, but it fails when Ghoar mocks his past

10. Luck that Splits the Rock

Aired: 4/30/1963

Ghoar takes written tests at Hosni's company in the hope of getting a job. Ghoar tricks one of the applicants and replaces his paper, and eventually discovers that his competitor has won the job

11. Tooth extraction

Aired: 5/7/1963

Ghowar goes to the psychiatrist Hosni's clinic by mistake to have his tooth extracted, and ends up being chased by one of the patients who is trying to kill him

12. The Dear Deceased

Aired: 5/14/1963

John fakes his death to test his relatives, Hosni and Ghawar, and discovers that they have been greedy for his wealth all along and do not care about him.

13. Misunderstanding

Aired: 5/21/1963

Umm Marai threatens to evict Gawwar from the apartment because he doesn't pay the rent, so he goes to Hosni's company looking for a job. A misunderstanding occurs and Hosni thinks that Gawwar is the tax inspector, so Gawwar takes advantage of the situation before his secret is exposed

14. The Barber

Aired: 5/28/1963

Hosni convinces Ghoar to return to work at his barbershop, but Ghoar soon causes many disasters for the customers