77 Sunset Strip
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | 77 Sunset Strip |
| Original title | 77 Sunset Strip |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1958-1964 |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 206 in 6 seasons |
| genre | Detective film |
| idea | Roy Huggins |
| production | William T. Orr |
| music |
Jerry Livingston Mack David |
| First broadcast | October 10, 1958 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 11, 1960 on German television |
| occupation | |
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77 Sunset Strip is an American classic series around the same name, in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard is moved, detective agency .
action
Former secret agents Stuart Bailey and Jeff Spencer run a detective agency in Los Angeles. Later, the parking lot attendant Kookie joins the detectives' guard and is given his own office in the detective agency. They are supported by Roscoe , a passionate horse racing beater, and by the operator Suzanne Fabray , who is responsible for the exotic in the series with her French accent. In the third season (1960/1961) Rex Randolph is also one of the investigators. On the police side, the detectives get support from Lt. Gilmore .
background
The cool demeanor of the protagonists hit the zeitgeist of the younger generation and Edward Byrnes became a teenage idol. In 1959, accompanied by Connie Stevens , he landed a chart hit with Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb . This hit contributed to the fact that at the end of this year the series was able to work its way up to sixth place in the Nielsen rating . The song referred to the fact that Kookie kept combing his hair with a pocket comb on the show. He was dubbed in the German version by Hans Clarin , who made his breakthrough as a voice actor with this role . In 1962, Gitta Lind sang the title Kookie to the music of Martin Böttcher and a text by Hans Hee , to which Clarin contributed various text interjections in the "Kookie sound" with his distinctive voice.
Byrnes therefore asked for a higher fee and a more significant role in the series for the second season. Before that, apart from occasional ancillary activities (e.g. shading, surveillance, personal protection), snapping fingers and making cool sayings, he hadn't done too much to solve the cases. He was then temporarily removed from the cast list by the production company Warner Bros. Television during the second season, but had to be reoccupied due to stormy audience protests.
In the original version, Kookie doesn't peek, but expresses himself in a special hipster slang, so he usually addresses the "sedate" detectives as "Dad" (Eng. "Daddy" or "Father"). Another characteristic of Kookie's image is his original vehicle: a hot rod with lots of chrome and flame paint (which in real life belonged to its builder Norm Grabowski and was rented for the series).
In many episodes only one of the two detectives (Bailey or Spencer) can be seen as the main character, the other only appears in a short scene. This made it possible to shoot two episodes at the same time with two film crews, whereby the secondary characters (Kookie, Suzanne, Roscoe) could assist both detectives.
The series was created by Roy Huggins , known for other series creations such as On the Run , Detective Rockford - Just give us a call and Maverick . A special feature is the episode A Case Without Words . Not a single word is spoken in the exciting episode. What the pictures alone cannot explain can be replaced by a few short notes that appear at the appropriate point. The investigating detective is Jeff Spencer, the script was written by Jeff Spencer actor Roger Smith. The episode Reserved for Mr. Bailey : Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is also unusual . gives a solo performance here, during the entire episode no one appears in the picture except Bailey.
77 Sunset Strip was one of a series of crime series produced simultaneously by Warner Bros. The characters from 77 Sunset Strip also appeared in Surfside 6 and Hawaiian Eye by means of plot overlaps . The character of Rex Randolph was introduced in the series New Orleans, Bourbon Street .
The address of the detective agency is fictitious. The building in which the detective agency is located in the series really existed. The real address of the entrance to the detective agency shown in the series was 8532 Sunset Boulevard - the office of the Mary Webb Davis Model Agency was located there at the time of the series. The neighboring restaurant Dino's Lodge - which was owned by Dean Martin at the time and employed as a parking lot attendant in the series Kookie - really existed, its address was 8524 Sunset Boulevard. Both houses have meanwhile given way to new buildings. Only an inscription in the sidewalk near the former restaurant reminds of the television series. The facades were recreated in the Warner Brothers studio, where most of the filming took place.
Of the 206 episodes produced between 1958 and 1964, 61 were dubbed on German television.
media
The CD 77 Sunset Strip , WB 936 247 762-2, contains 13 instrumental tracks in stereo from the series from 1959.
Web links
- 77 Sunset Strip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- TV nostalgia: 77 Sunset Strip
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Billboard Hot 100 Chart from April 20, 1959. The song stayed in the charts for 13 weeks and reached its highest ranking on May 11 and 18, 1959 with number 4.
- ↑ SWR report
- ^ [2] Grabowski obituary. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- ↑ [3] Column in the LA Times by Matt Weinstock on February 6, 1959. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
- ↑ [4] Report by Alison Martino for Los Angeles Magazine, November 15, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2018.