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.

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.

很早很早以前，这里是漂白大量衣服的沼泽地，现在则是一座巨大的医院，氤氲的水汽像幽魂一般盘旋在各个角落，这里提供医学教学、治病、和医学实验。一个老太太装病入院，她儿子在这家医院打杂，某天她搭乘电梯时听见一个小女孩的哭声，追查之下发现有一个小女孩的亡灵在这里游荡，于是这位自认通灵的老太太决定要找出历史的真相；医院方面则是有一群医生彼此勾心斗角，其中一个素有权威的医生在对一个小女孩动脑手术时，由于疏忽使小女孩变成植物人，小女孩的家属决议控告他，他极力想隐瞒事实；而与这位权威医生素来不合的年轻医生极力想要找出证据，另外他又不断走私医院的药物以黑货赚，他的女友怀了陌生人的孩子，却被通灵老太太认为是怀着魔胎；医学院在此实习的年轻学生则是偷割死人头企图骗取护士芳心，并自愿作睡眠实验从此恶梦不断；通灵老太太发现小女孩原来是被她恶毒的父亲、一个医生也是建院的重要人士之一害死，并被制成标本放在医院中，老太太于是决定举行驱魔仪式，孰料此时却是官方前来视察之时，医院上下各种问题齐发令主事者哭笑不得之际，怀孕的女医师亦生下一个邪恶的异形，这个恶灵的诞生并非结束，一切都还正开始而已。