In the last year of the 60s, history gets the chance to breathe a little after the turbulent 1968. Pippi Longstocking rides into the television sets and the writers demonstrate for more compensation. There is also a space race - where both the Soviet Union and the USA send up their rockets. Towards the end of the year, Sweden finally gets its second TV channel, TV2.
"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.
Gangster chick Zara steals jewels together with the criminal Slim, who hides the loot in the hearse 'Hulda', which lazy trash man Sven has been assigned to drive to a priest in Paris. A wild hunt for the diamonds starts. The journey goes through Europe, where the hunted Sven is accompanied by a kind scout and a skinny dipping female Salvationist.
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him.
Nordic people living in Ibiza meet at a party organized by artist Nitta.