Series synopsis
The Winter Melon Tale, also known as 大冬瓜 is a drama television series that premiered on TVB Jade on September 7, 2009. It ended on October 2, 2009. It stars Liu Kai-Chi, Sunny Chan Kam-Hung, Louisa So Yuk-Wah and Rain Lau Yuk-Chui.
Fan Tung (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West of being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance Tin Dai Kwai (Sunny Chan) and his wife Chung Bik Yuk (Louisa So) free him from constraint. Tung gets flattened by Kwai's older brother Tin Tai Fu (also played by Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters Fu's body inexplicably while losing all his instincts.
Tung starts living in Kwai's house ...
Premise
Fan Tung (Liu Kai Chi) is one of the four deities under the Stove God. He has offended the Queen Mother of the West of being ravenous and gets imprisoned for 500 years in the winter melon. By chance Tin Dai Kwai (Sunny Chan) and his wife Chung Bik Yuk (Louisa So) free him from constraint. Tung gets flattened by Kwai's older brother Tin Tai Fu (also played by Liu Kai Chi) accidentally and his spirit enters Fu's body inexplicably while losing all his instincts.
Tung starts living in Kwai's house and getting closer to the family. Yuk finds Tung suspicious and she tries to unmask him by all means. Having failed in his attempt to return to Heaven, Tung becomes reliant on the help of six little deities who assimilated his instincts released from the melon, and since then Tung is aware of the fickleness of human nature.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Liu Kai-Chi
- Sunny Chan Kam-Hung
- Louisa So Yuk-Wah
- Rain Lau Yuk-Chui
- Nancy Wu Ting-Yan
- LuLu Kai
- Kong Hon
- Vivian Tsang
Supporting cast
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 20 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 20 | September 7, 2009 | October 2, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 FAN TUNG is a deity. He pleases WUN SA with a necklace for being late, so she asks TUNG to go and eat in the Celestial Kitchen. TUNG has taken some winter melon soup which is supposed to be the birthday present for QUEEN MOTHER. As to make him reflect on his mistake, TUNG is locked inside a winter melon for five hundred years. Five hundred years later in Moody Town, the villagers try to take advantage of TIN TAI-KWAI while his wife CHUNG PIK-YUK is not around. His elder brother TIN TAI-FU is a gambler, he uses up his son’s red packet money and the trousseau of his wife is in pawn to pay his debt. LING FUNG fights with him and elopes with her lover. It makes HONG very upset with his father and KWAI tries to comfort him. FU has offended FOK SZ-SZ who was once a fox and turned into a prostitute. With her magic she makes FU lose his grocery shop. YUK and KWAI are left stranded inside a cave and find a big winter melon. |
September 7, 2009 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 TUNG is freed again with the help from YUK and KWAI but he scares them away instead. YUK wants to redeem the shop but the creditor YAU-FOOK raises the price and wants to have fun with her while drinking. YAU has to agree for the sake of the TIN family. KWAI picks up two small winter melons from the cave and plants them at home. KWAI wants to offer a job to an old man CHOI whom he meet with KWAI in the street. FU wants to make soup with the winter melons, yet he is fastened tight by the magic melons. FU finds a gold lock in KWAI’s room. With the luck that it brings, FU gambles again in the hope of getting back the shop. Due to his greediness, he uses up all the power from the gold lock and loses all his money. He wants to sell his own son HONG as to pay his debts; KWAI and YUK try to stop him. |
September 8, 2009 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 TUNG falls from a cliff and crashes with FU, accidentally his spirit flings into FU’s body. When TUNG awakes, everybody finds him speaking incoherently that he must be under some mental aberration. TUNG tries to play his magic in front of everybody but then he has lost his valuable bag and all magic power. When knowing from KWAI that FU used to be a bad and nasty guy, with his identity TUNG decides to help FU turn over a new leaf. FOOK wants to gamble with FU, with his magic power he wins tremendously. FU gives YUK all the money and reveals that he owns a pair of perspective eyes. YUK wants to make use of his special power and get the grocery shop back but KWAI objects. YUK wants KWAI to collect all the loans that the villagers once owed him. Yet YUK is mad to see what KWAI has collected from KWAN YAN is only a piece of uncultivated land. |
September 9, 2009 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TVB Jade |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 7, 2009 |
| Last aired | October 2, 2009 |
| Status | Ended |