Alpha Alpha

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Television series
Original title Alpha Alpha
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1972
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13 in 1 season ( list )
genre Science fiction , fantasy
Director Wolfgang F. Henschel
script Wolfgang F. Henschel
music Erich Ferstl
First broadcast April 26, 1972 on ZDF
occupation

Alpha Alpha is a German science fiction series by Wolfgang F. Henschel (script and direction), which dealt with the supernatural and already contained elements of the later American success series The X-Files - The FBI's Weird Cases .

action

Michael Dahlen ( Karl-Michael Vogler ) is actually a teacher . He is trained to be an Alpha agent by a mysterious organization . Alpha agents are everywhere in the world, they fight for this worldwide organization against everything that could endanger human civilization and the continued existence of human life.

Agent Alpha and his colleagues Beta and Gamma investigate the most adventurous and mysterious cases and also have to deal with inexplicable phenomena and aliens. In one episode, Alpha Alpha even takes a trip back in time to the German Empire. Other episodes deal with computers trying to hypnotize the employees of a research facility, with people with telepathic powers and with those who are said to have dissolved.

Episode list

No. Original title First broadcast D
1 The organization 17th May 1972
2 thoughts are free May 10, 1972
3 Like rats May 24, 1972
4th The astronaut May 31, 1972
5 Omega is silent June 7, 1972
6th The world peace June 14, 1972
7th Images June 21, 1972
8th The ruse of Odysseus June 28, 1972
9 The night in the zoo 5th July 1972
10 A gifted child July 12, 1972
11 Today is then July 19, 1972
12 Off-duty June 26, 1972
13 immortality 2nd August 1972

background

Guest roles included Herbert Tiede , Herbert Fleischmann , Horst Sachtleben , Paul Edwin Roth , Ursula Dirichs and Dietrich Thoms .

Director Wolfgang F. Henschel , who is now Ottfried Fischer's regular director and who in the past also shot a case for two as well as five Edgar Wallace crime novels , wrote all 13 episodes himself. The music was composed by Erich Ferstl , who was also responsible for the sound effects.

How ahead of its time this series of agents can be seen from the fact that the last episodes of John Kling's adventures were not broadcast until 1970 . Agent John Kling's orders were based on a series of novels from the 1920s. After alpha alpha , Karl-Michael Vogler took on the leading role in a comparatively old-fashioned television series, which, like John Kling's adventure, was also named after an already known hero and was based on old novels: Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi . This series, which was broadcast in 1973/1975, also had two seasons, while alpha alpha was canceled after the first season.

The miniseries Das Blaue Palais , of which a total of five parts were broadcast in 1974 and 1976, followed a similar approach to alpha alpha . Here, however, the attempt was not again made to present complex theories in just 25 minutes, but instead devoted 90 minutes to each topic, which was more popular with the audience.

The ZDF repeated the television series in January 2012 on its digital channel ZDFkultur .

DVDs

The complete series Alpha Alpha was released on February 6, 2015 as a 2-DVD set (Studio Hamburg Enterprises) with a total running time of 325 minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alpha Alpha returns to the screen after 40 years

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