Automan

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Television series
German title Automan
Automan - The super detective
Original title Automan
Automan.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
year 1983
length 45 minutes
Episodes 13
genre Action series , science fiction
production Glen A. Larson
music Stu Phillips
First broadcast December 15, 1983 (USA) on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 December 27, 1987 on Sat.1
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Automan (also: Automan - The Super Detective ) is an American series that was produced by Glen A. Larson . Thirteen episodes were recorded but only 12 were broadcast. The series was first broadcast on December 15, 1983 on the American broadcaster ABC .

The idea for the superhero Automan can be traced back to the movie Tron , but apart from visual similarities it has almost nothing in common. Apart from the science fiction background, it is a not quite as serious crime series typical of the 1980s with elements of humor and action.

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The series tells the adventures of Automan and his inventor, the police officer and computer programmer Walter Nebicher.

Walter would like to take an active part in the fight against crime, but his boss, Captain Boyd, keeps whistling him off. The other police officers don't take Walter too seriously either. That's why he's creating a crime-fighting program with artificial intelligence , including a hologram . This one - called by Walter Automan (from Automatic Man ) - even has the ability to leave the computer and interact in the real world while fighting crime. Then he looks like a normal man with a human head and a glowing body with circuits .

Nobody except Walter and his colleague Roxanne knows of Automan's true nature, because everyone else thinks he's a government agent named Otto J. Mann.

Walter can merge with Automan so that they become a being who has the abilities of both, such as: B. Automan's invulnerability to projectiles and explosions .

Always at Automan's side is Cursor , a free-flying, glowing ball that can draw and create all sorts of things that Automan needs. When he creates clothes, they always have luminous collars or cuffs . The cars, airplanes and helicopters that Cursor generates do not always obey the laws of space and time, for example the Lamborghini Countach may be . B. Drive 90 ° (corner) curves. Cursor is also the first that is created from the computer when the program is started and then generates Automan.

Trivia

  • Automan refers to the film Tron in some approaches and in the design of the effects .
  • According to the cover of the DVD box, Automan was made by the makers / producers of Tron (“FROM THE PRODUCERS OF TRON” is from the cover of the UK import version).
  • The motorcycle scene from "Arizona's Worst Sheriff" was taken from the series " A Colt for All Cases " and was shown in the same way.
  • The series was filmed in parallel with the NBC series Ein Fall für Professor Chase , so the same sets were partially used for both series. In a scene from “Professor Chase”, Walter can even be seen in the background.
  • Walter is dubbed by Nicolas Böll .
  • Automan is dubbed by Knut Reschke
  • Automan was one of the most expensive TV series at the time, costing around $ 1,000,000 per episode

Episode list

  1. Liberation from Paradise ( Automan ) (long episode)
  2. Play with the fall ( The biggest game in town )
  3. Two Battle of Giants ( The great pretender )
  4. The judge and the mafia ( Staying Alive while running a high Flashdance fever )
  5. Journey of no return ( Ships in the night )
  6. Murder on the music channel ( Murder MTV )
  7. Madame Russos Medium ( Flashes and ashes )
  8. Crash with consequences ( Unreasonable facsmile )
  9. Diamonds and Piranhas ( Club ten ) (not broadcast)
  10. Arizona's Worst Sheriff ( Renegade run )
  11. Murder, the first flap ( Murder, take one )
  12. The ring of the crown witnesses ( Zippers )
  13. The Mysterious Avenger ( Death by design )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous files
  2. ↑ Chuck Wagner: AUTOMAN_Documentary 2012. Accessed January 30, 2019 .

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