Cliff Dexter

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Television series
Original title Cliff Dexter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1966-1968
length 25 minutes
Episodes 26 in 2 seasons
genre Thriller
Theme music Cliff Dexter Melody
(Orchestra Siegfried Franz)
idea Rolf Kalmuczak
production Horst Lockau
music Siegfried Franz
First broadcast October 19, 1966
occupation

Cliff Dexter was a crime series that was broadcast on ZDF from 1966 to 1968 on Wednesdays in the evening program.

The Hamburgische film and television production produced two seasons each with 13 episodes of 25 minutes each for ZDF. The main actor was Hans von Borsody . Other actors included Hans Schellbach as Commissioner Meinert, Sabine Bethmann and Andrea Dahmen . Directors were Helmut Herrmann , Hans-Georg Thiemt and Klaus Dudenhöfer . The list of guest actors includes Rolf Schimpf , Günter Strack , Jan Hendriks , Dieter Borsche , Friedrich Schoenfelder and Vera Chechowa . The catchy title melody with the distinctive whistled sequence comes from Siegfried Franz and was performed by his orchestra.

content

Cliff Dexter is a former FBI agent who has settled in a major German city as a private detective. Parts of the series were filmed in Hamburg, including the opening sequence of the first season, in which Cliff Dexter drives his silver-gray Mercedes-Benz 300 SE Automatic with the Stuttgart registration number S-VC 1 to his office at Ost-West-Straße 22.

While the first season, in which Sabine Bethmann mimed Cliff Dexter's secretary Jacqueline, played in Germany, the locations of the second season, in which Andrea Dahmen replaced Bethmann as Carrol, were abroad - from London to Australia. But these episodes were also filmed in Germany; the studio recordings were made in the Bendestorf film studios .

history

The series, although popular with the audience, was discontinued after 26 episodes - partly also because the critics had left little good in the "Westentaschen- Bond ". The successor on the slot was the series Percy Stuart with Claus Wilcke in the title role.

Episodes

1st season
  1. Hit and run at midnight - EA October 19, 1966
  2. Poison in hard fists - EA October 26, 1966
  3. Diversion into perdition - EA November 2, 1966
  4. The abandoned mastiff - EA November 9, 1966
  5. Alibi for a Coincidence - EA November 23, 1966
  6. Low Strike - EA November 30, 1966
  7. A bottle of whiskey - EA December 7th, 1966
  8. First hand baggage receipt - EA December 14, 1966
  9. The Haunted - EA December 21, 1966
  10. The Bait - EA December 28, 1966
  11. The House on the Island - EA January 4, 1967
  12. A chain of gray pearls - EA January 11, 1967
  13. Hot freight to Scandinavia - EA January 18, 1967
2nd season
  1. Guests at midnight - EA November 8, 1967
  2. Millions from Green Depths - EA November 15, 1967
  3. One risks his head - EA November 29, 1967
  4. A medal for Cliff - EA December 6, 1967
  5. It doesn't work out - EA December 13, 1967
  6. Double Premium - EA December 20, 1967
  7. Ransom: Murder - EA December 27, 1967
  8. Death on the Golf Course - EA January 3, 1968
  9. Cat and Mouse - EA January 10, 1968
  10. Friendship Service - EA January 17, 1968
  11. Pinky's Fund - EA January 24, 1968
  12. The death row inmate - EA January 24, 1968
  13. The last heir - EA February 7, 1968

expenditure

In the street sweeper series (36th vol.). The ARD published this television series for the first time on DVD (4 DVD) in October 2011.

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