Being Forty

{{Short description|Polish television series}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Czterdziestolatek.jpg

| caption =

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| genre = Sitcom
Comedy drama

| creator = Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz

| developer =

| writer =

| director = Jerzy Gruza

| starring = Andrzej Kopiczyński, Anna Seniuk, Irena Kwiatkowska

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| country = Poland

| language = Polish

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 21

| runtime = 50 minutes

| company = Telewizja Polska (TVP)

| first_aired = {{Start date|1975}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1978}}}}

Being Forty (Polish: Czterdziestolatek, alt. spelling: 40-latek, lit.: The Forty-Year-Old) is a Polish television comedy series originally broadcast in Poland between 1975 and 1978. The initial series enjoyed so much popularity that it was continued and led to the release of a feature film I'm a Butterfly, a 40-year-old's Love Affair and a New Year's Eve television program in 1975.

The series was written by Jerzy Gruza and Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz and was broadcast on Telewizja Polska. In total, 21 episodes were produced.{{cite book|author=Haltof, M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHufS1XmIk4C&dq=Czterdziestolatek&pg=PA148|title=Polish National Cinema|publisher=Berghahn Books|pages=148|isbn=978-1-57181-275-9|year=2002}}

The series followed the fate of a Warsaw family and explored topics related to midlife crisis, such as extra-marital affairs, attempts to quit smoking, obsession with hair loss, efforts to maintain physical fitness, pride in achievements and professional life, the desire to seek self-fulfillment through social activities, etc.

20 years later the series was remade in the mid-1990s with a cast that included Joanna Kurowska, Wojciech Mann and Wojciech Malajkat.