TV thriller
A television thriller is a crime film designed to be broadcast on television . It's a genre of film art . The special conception of the television thriller concerns the script, direction and camera work. Crime novels produced for the cinema and shown in the cinema, which are often later shown on television, are i. e. S. no TV thrillers.
Well-known crime TV series are z. B. Stahlnetz , Der Alte , Derrick , Detective Rockford - just give us a call , Adelheid and her murderers , Tatort , Bella Block and Police Call 110 .
The most successful crime thrillers with the German television audience came from the British writer Francis Durbridge , who initially wrote the very successful radio plays about the London private detective Paul Temple . From 1959 his multi-part street sweepers began to appear on the screens , beginning with The Other and It's That Far. TV history was made primarily by Das Halstuch (1962), Tim Frazer (1963), The Keys (1965) and Melissa (1966), which triggered an unprecedented euphoria among viewers.