The rescue pilots / Squadron 5
| Season 5 of The Rescue Pilot | |||
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| Original title | The Rescue Pilots - Season 5 | ||
| Episodes | 10 | ||
| Country of production |
 Germany
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| First broadcast | September 19, 2001 - December 5, 2001 on ZDF | ||
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The fifth season of the German emergency and rescue series Die Rettungsflieger celebrated its premiere on September 19, 2001 on ZDF . The finale was broadcast on December 5th, 2001.
The ten episodes of the fifth season were broadcast for the first time on Wednesday evening before the 7:25 pm slot and have been repeated regularly in the afternoon program of ZDF and in the afternoon and evening programs of ZDFneo since the television series was discontinued in 2007 .
actor
| Role name | Rank | job | actor |
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| Alexander Karuhn | Captain / Major | pilot | Matthias Leja |
| Jan Wollcke | Sergeant Major | On-board technician | Oliver Horns |
| Maren Maibach | Medical officer | Emergency doctor | Gerit Kling |
| Torsten Biedenstedt | sergeant | Paramedic | Tom Wlaschiha |
| Ilona Müller | Medical officer | Emergency doctor | Julia Heinemann |
| Thomas Asmus | Captain | Paramedic | Ulrich Bähnk |
| Michael Grober | Boatswain | Paramedic | Volker Metzger |
Episodes
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No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director |
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| 30th | 1 | Children's paradise | September 19, 2001 | Rolf Liccini |
| The SAR 71 team takes part in a rescue demonstration in Heidepark Soltau and while pilot Alexander Karuhn, emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach and paramedic Torsten Biedenstedt have no objection to a day in the amusement park, on-board technician Jan Wollcke would rather spend time with his family. When Alexander Karuhn and Maren Maibach, who are now a couple, are testing the wild water course, a misfortune happens: A boy falls out of one of the wagons and is seriously injured. The first real mission of the day begins for the rescue pilots and this leads them to the University Clinic Eppendorf where Torsten Biedenstedt responds to his father, Prof. Dr. Bernd Biedenstedt, meets and is strangely dismissive. The first mission should be followed by more, because during a hiking excursion a little boy seriously injured himself with a knife and has to be flown to the clinic in Hamburg. Ultimately, the Heidepark Soltau itself will once again be the scene of the last mission of the day: there, the rescue pilots must prevent an extended suicide. Meanwhile, Jan Wollcke and his wife have an argument: Iris Wollcke would like her husband to take parental leave, but he is afraid of losing his position on the team and refuses. In the end, it is pilot Alexander Karuhn who can give the couple a helpful tip: an au pair . | ||||
| 31 | 2 | Death ride | September 26, 2000 | Rolf Liccini |
| Alexander Karuhn and Maren Maibach enjoy their time together as a couple and plan their future, but initially they hide their relationship from their colleagues, but are seen by Jan Wollcke when they buy beds together. Colonel Dr. By chance, Kettwig also learns about the relationship and is initially surprised, but tolerates the two of them continuing to fly rescue missions, even though this contradicts the regulations. During the next mission, the rescuers are confronted with a young couple who suffered an electric shock while moving, and a carriage ride on Father's Day leads to an accident with consequences. While the SAR 71 team can hardly keep up with the care of the injured, a second rescue helicopter has to be called in. Back at the rescue center, emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach received shocking news that changed her life: her sister Kerstin had a car accident and passed away.
Guest actors: Stefanie Burkart as Petra, Frank Jordan as Sebastian, Jana Kozewa as Sabine, Christiane Lemm as mother Biedenstedt |
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| 32 | 3 | The team in need | October 10, 2001 | Rolf Liccini |
| The day takes the rescue pilot team to a park several times: First, a little girl was attacked by a dealer and injured with a knife while trying to save her dog. Then a bicycle accident makes the crew necessary and ultimately they meet the dealer who attacked the girl's dog and provide administrative assistance to the police. A mission the next day leads the rescuers to an abandoned farm where a person is said to have suffered a heart attack, but there is only one criminal waiting for the team who hijacked the helicopter to get his brother, who was surrounded by the SEK during a hostage situation, to free. A dangerous flight starts for the crew of SAR 71 because the brother of their kidnapper is shot by the police when he is freed and has to be looked after. Meanwhile, Dr. Maren Maibach and Alexander Karuhn propose to adopt the child of Maren Maibach's dead sister, but everything should turn out differently than expected and paramedic Torsten Biedenstedt has to deal with his dominant mother, which is hard on him.
Guest actors: Julia Frankenberger as Marion Gabor, Stefan Franz as SEK boss, Wolfgang Hartmann as Heinrich Gabor, Frank Jacobsen as Heiko, Rainer Laupichler as Joscha, Christiane Lemm as mother Biedenstedt, Klaus A. Müller as grandpa |
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| 33 | 4th | Farewell to Maren | October 17, 2001 | Rolf Liccini |
| It is the last day of emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach and the team organized a farewell party. For pilot Alexander Karuhn this day is particularly disappointing, because it means the separation from his great love and the team has an uncertain future because they do not know who will succeed Maren Maibachs. The surprise is all the greater the next morning, because Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig presents an old friend: Medical officer Dr. Ilona Müller. While on-board technician Jan Wollcke and pilot Alexander Karuhn already know the emergency doctor, it is Torsten Biedenstedt's first encounter with his new supervisor and Ilona Müller is immediately fascinated. Meanwhile, the team is called to an accident with an agricultural machine, but a helicopter present in the field hinders the crew as soon as they approach the scene and crashes a little later. The rescue pilots try everything, but it is too late and they can no longer help the man. The next assignment takes the team to a motorway service station and there, surprisingly, they meet Dr. Maren Maibach, who helps them take care of the injured.
Guest actors: Niels Dreiser as Dieter, Josef Heynert as Klaus, Olga Kolb as Jeanette, Vivien Schnepel as Conny, Nele Woydt as Sylvia |
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| 34 | 5 | Torsten's decision | October 24, 2001 | Georg Schiemann |
| A storm is raging in Hamburg and the SAR 71 team has to stay on the ground with its rescue helicopter, but a lattice mast falls on a building in an office barrack and the team has to move out despite adverse weather conditions. During the mission, Dr. Ilona Müller know Ben, the boss of the company, who will visit her again and again in the future. When the next mission leads the rescuers from SAR 71 to Jan Wollcke's au pair on the Elbe, the latter suspects nothing good, but things turn out differently for him than expected. Back at the rescue center, Private Homann collapses in the toilet and has to be operated on. Dr. She blames Ilona Müller for not examining him and for not recognizing his appendicitis , which is why she is now assisting with the operation. Meanwhile, paramedic Torsten Biedenstedt makes the decision to participate in an aid operation by the German Armed Forces in Africa, but a replacement is missing and Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig cannot approve him, but the visit from Captain Thomas Asmus from Ulm is just the right time.
Guest actor: Christoph Grunert as Ben |
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| 35 | 6th | The offer | October 31, 2001 | Georg Schiemann |
| The rescue pilots are called to see a patient with a “poor general condition”, but what they don't suspect is that the woman is dying. Dr. Ilona Müller has to mediate. The next mission takes the crew to the Buddy Holly musical tent, where the intern fell off the ladder while changing a spotlight. While Dr. Ilona Müller and Torsten Biedenstedt are busy taking care of the injured, pilot Alexander Karuhn has to save a little boy from falling off the quay wall. Just as the crew is on their way back to the rescue center, they notice a light aircraft whose pilot is behaving strangely. The rescue pilots follow and discover an unbelievable action. Meanwhile, changes are pending in the rescue pilot team: Sergeant Torsten Biedenstedt is leaving Hamburg to take part in a rescue mission and Captain Alexander Karuhn receives an offer from Ben, the new friend of medical officer Dr. Ilona Müller.
Guest actors: Christoph Grunert as Ben, Fabian Harloff as Buddy |
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| 36 | 7th | In the line of fire | November 7, 2001 | Georg Schiemann |
| A sex murderer escaped from psychiatric hospital and raped a young woman. The team has to be on site quickly and help, but just as they return from the mission, the next one is waiting for the rescue pilot. A bricklayer is hanging from a lighthouse and has to be rescued by means of the winch : A job for the captain Thomas Asmus, who has to prove himself in his second assignment after his return from Ulm. Meanwhile, there are also some innovations in the private lives of the crew members: While Jan Wollcke's wife had herself photographed for Playboy , pilot Alexander Karuhn is thinking about the offer from Ben, Dr. Ilona Müller's friend, little by little, she learns that her boyfriend is married, which ruins her ideal world. When the team had to return to work on Sunday, the rescuers from SAR 71 had no idea that the next mission would change some things: The sex murderer took a hostage and holed her up in a house. While the police are planning access, Alexander Karuhn storms off to save a seriously injured man from the field of fire of the sex murderer, but the captain is shot himself. The subsequent flight to the clinic is almost a disaster for the pilot.
Guest actors: Christoph Grunert as Ben, Karina Marmann as Katja, Gertrud Nothhorn as Margot, Jochen Regelien as Hannes, Atto Suttarp as the sex killer Bracke |
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| 37 | 8th | African fever | November 21, 2001 | Thomas Jacob |
| The first mission of the day turns out to be a false alarm for the rescue pilots, because two boys have allowed themselves a bad joke. The crew is horrified, but the next mission demands full concentration: the suspicion of meningitis turns out to be false and the team is confronted with a tropical disease, which they will also pursue in their next mission. Since the crew had contact with two infected people, they also have to be quarantined at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine . This extreme situation changes the team members' view of their own problems: Dr. Ilona decides to forgive her boyfriend, Jan Wollcke wants to give his wife more freedom and Thomas Asmus realizes that he is not irreplaceable. Alexander Karuhn, who after separating from Dr. Maren Maibach and the now initiated disciplinary proceedings with investigations against him by the Bundeswehr, who has meanwhile lost all courage to live, rejects the offer to leave the Bundeswehr and become a pilot of a private jet.
Guest actors: Kerstin Draeger as Anne, Werner Eichhorn as Balthasar, Giulia Follina as Baum |
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| 38 | 9 | Explosive | November 28, 2001 | Thomas Jacob |
| The rescue pilots are called to a school chemistry laboratory. If the whole thing looks like an accident at first, the rescuers from SAR 71 soon believe in a dangerous attack by a student on his teacher and have to prevent the boy from committing suicide. Meanwhile, the next mission leads them to a young man who was betrayed by a shell player and then beaten up. The crew members are touched by the story of the man and his heavily pregnant girlfriend and quickly decide to help them.
Guest actors: Theo Gostischa as Klaus, Christoph Grunert as Ben, Natalie Spinell as Andrea, Werner Tietze as Schmidtke |
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| 39 | 10 | Fatality | December 5, 2001 | Thomas Jacob |
| Alexander Karuhn and Dr. Ilona Müller go jogging together, they discover a person who has fallen off a ladder and help immediately. The first mission of the next day leads the rescue pilots back to the location of the accident yesterday: A young woman fell badly during dance training. When the rescuers arrive at the scene of the accident, it is already too late and the woman is dead. As the pilot Alexander Karuhn and the emergency doctor Dr. Ilona Müller talking again about this mission, they have doubts about the accident version and they start to investigate independently. In their research they discover the incomprehensible: it was murder. When the next day every newspaper reads about the nightly action of the two crew members, Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig the happy atmosphere in the team. The Bundeswehr's investigations into the disciplinary proceedings against Alexander Karuhn have been concluded and the general will personally lead the execution at noon. While the pilot is expecting the worst and preparing for his discharge from the armed forces, the team has to concentrate on the next mission. While Ilona Müller has sent her paramedic Oberbootsmann Thomas Asmus to the dentist because of his persistent toothache and substitute for boatswain Michael Gröbers has stepped in, they meet their colleague again on site. Returning from this mission, the surprise awaits in the rescue center: Major General Müller, the father of Dr. Ilona Müller, gives Captain Alexander Karuhn the Cross of Honor and then promotes him to Major.
Guest actors: Gerd Baltus as a detective man, Dirk Ossig as a dentist |
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DVD release
The DVD with the episodes of the fifth season was released on February 20, 2009.
A DVD box with all eleven squadrons of the rescue pilots and the pilot film Four Friends in Action was released on August 24, 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : Das Fernsehlexikon. All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 .
