The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.
Air Date: 1970-09-13
Although it has its full share of the excitement and suspense that one tends to associate with Dumas, this is a story...
Air Date: 1970-09-20
Cornelius has grown the bulb of a black tulip. De Witt , in prison for treason, has given him important papers for sa...
Air Date: 1970-09-27
Through Boxtel 's treachery, Cornelius has been arrested for being in possession of treasonous letters and taken unde...
Air Date: 1970-10-04
Cornelius has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the grim fortress of Loevenstein. Rosa has taken charge of the p...
Air Date: 1970-10-11
Rosa has frustrated the attempts of Boxtel, alias ' mynheer Jacob,' to steal the bulb of the black tulip, and secretl...
Air Date: 1970-10-18
In Dort, Rosa , has met Van Systens , President of the Tulip Society, and failed to prove to him that she, not Boxtel...