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Three episodes.
1) « Circus ». The clown’s dream is to be an acrobat. He will try to imitate them…
2) « Ring around the Rosy ». A bracelet offered as an anniversary gift gets passed from man to woman to man to woman and so on, making its way full circle back to the husband in the end. What he decides to do with it will rule the fate of his marriage.
3) « Sinbad the Sailor ». Sinbad shows high mental as well as physical agility…

An artist falls in love with a girl but soon he must leave her because his parents are opposed to their union. His son will go looking for that woman, and thus will meet her daughter… An ongoing love story from one generation to the next.

After his clash with the Borman brothers, Hank Whirling sets up his own circus. But because of the rainfall, his first disastrous season requires him to get a huge bank loan – but he has to take along a publicist and press agent to help the circus turn a profit. When the Whirling circus train derails en route to Niagara Falls, star tightrope walker Mama Colino is killed in the accident. Then others incidents occur, too many of them to be merely fortuitous. Are the Borman brothers attempting to eliminate a competitor?

As he attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine, Didier is rescued by Pascal who just happened to be there. The two men soon become friends but while Didier is regaining his zest for life, Pascal gets involved in a murder case… because of Didier.

Hollywood producer Willie Bauche is so obsessed with turning his wife and actress Ann Garantier into the sexiest Hollywood star that he neglects her real needs. Ann gets frustrated, feeling that he cares more for her as a vehicle for his writing and directing than as a flesh-and-blood French woman. As they go to the French Riviera to prepare their next movie, Ann is charmed by good-looking pilot Marco Ranieri she met during the Nice Carnival celebrations.

Having been injured after a fall in the stairs, Hurvinek cannot go to the circus : he then sees himself performing various outstanding achievements in a dream…

Huge gorilla Goliath is the main attraction of a carnival. Then a man is found dead with a broken neck. Was it Goliath or a man wearing a gorilla suit?...

In 1950s Brooklyn, Lennie’s mother leaves his young brother Joey, 7 years old, in his care because she goes away visiting her own sick mother. But Lennie who had plans with his friends that week-end decides to play a joke on him. He stages a incident using catsup and a toy gun, so that Joey thinks he has shot and killed his brother… and flees to Coney Island, a huge New York beach dedicated to attractions and fun. He will spend a wandering day and night among the crowd and the fairground amusements…

Orphaned young Lili Daurier meets Marc. She decides to follow him and then meets the whole carny troupe he lives with. She decides to stay with them all and befriends the puppets.

Greedy family members engage in bitter infighting over the ownership of a circus. It all begins as a ruthless, corrupt father gets in trouble with the law leaving all but his youngest sons to begin a vicious battle over the business. This is the third variation of Jerome Weidman' novel I'll Never Go There Any More. The other two are Broken Lance, a western version, and House of Strangers, set in the big city.