The rescue pilots / Squadron 2
| Season 2 of Die Rettungsflieger | |||
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| Original title | The Rescue Pilots - Season 2 | ||
| Episodes | 8th | ||
| Country of production |
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| First broadcast | January 20, 1999 - March 10, 1999 on ZDF | ||
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The second season of the German emergency and rescue series Die Rettungsflieger celebrated its premiere on January 20, 1999 on ZDF . The final was broadcast on March 10, 1999.
The eight episodes of the second season were first broadcast on the Wednesday evening before the 7:25 pm slot and have been repeated regularly in the afternoon programs of ZDF and afternoon and evening programs by ZDFneo since the television series was discontinued in 2007 .
actor
| Role name | Rank | job | actor |
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| Alexander Karuhn | Captain | pilot | Matthias Leja |
| Max Westphal | Sergeant Major | On-board technician | Frank Bulls |
| Maren Maibach | Medical officer | Emergency doctor | Gerit Kling |
| Thomas Asmus | Captain | Paramedic | Ulrich Bähnk |
| Jan Wollcke | Sergeant Major | On-board technician | Oliver Horns |
Episodes
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director |
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| 7th | 1 | In panic | January 20, 1999 | Klaus Gietinger |
| The rescue team is called to a car accident on a country road: There a girl ran in front of a car, but the rescue pilots only meet the driver, the girl has disappeared. When the team meets little Julia after a search flight, her things are smeared with blood, but she has no wounds and claims to have stabbed her father. When the rescuers arrive at the girl's parents' house, they find the dead father and the case seems to be clear to the police who have been called, but the emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach doubts. The next mission takes the crew to the airport, distracts paramedic Thomas Asmus from his anger with the tax office and on-board technician Max Westphal from his lovesickness.
Guest actors: Werner Eichhorn as Herr Meier, Jörg Bräuer as a detective officer, Cosima Alessa Grimm as Julia Guttschick, Edda Leesch as Frau Guttschick, Rolf Becker as Schulz, Günter Bothur as Riedel, Vijak Bayani as a stewardess, Katja Hoffmann as a nurse in the intensive care unit, Bojana Golenac as Amelie |
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| 8th | 2 | Flight blind | January 27, 1999 | Klaus Gietinger |
| The rescue pilots have to fly a baby with a heart valve defect to a special clinic, but a storm prevents pilot Alexander Karuhn from being responsible for the flight. Emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach is appalled that her pilot is putting the newborn's life at risk, but on-board technician Max Westphal finds a way to bypass the weather front. The next mission will also be dramatic: Emergency doctor Dr. Maibach and paramedic Thomas Asmus get stuck in the elevator with an asthma patient and have to be rescued by their teammates. Just as the team returned to the rescue center, 14-year-old Benny showed up and claimed to be Alexander Karuhn's son.
Guest actors: Bojana Golenac as Amelie, Judith Engel as Ms. Süss, Patrik Fichte as Dr. Weiland, Pierre Britz as Benny, Henry König as Dr. Böhmer, Karl Knaup as Kalkowski, Emilio De Marchi as Andresen, Jockel Tschiersch as caretaker, Monika Guthmann as Pia Marquardt, Karla Aringhoff as Laura Marquardt |
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| 9 | 3 | The shock | February 3, 1999 | Wilhelm Engelhardt |
| The rescue pilot's crew is called to the port of Hamburg: A worker was stung by a scorpion. Pilot Alexander Karuhn and on-board technician Max Westphal are looking for the animal to hand it over to the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine for treatment of the injured person and Max Westphal actually succeeds in catching the scorpion, but when the on-board technician wants to save a little girl on the next mission he was hit by an impatient driver at the scene of the accident and suffered a lumbar spine fracture. The team is shocked, has to drive their on-board technician to the clinic and pilot Alexander Karuhn has to order a replacement from the squadron in Hohn : Sergeant Jan Wollcke takes over and is initially viewed very critically.
Guest actors: Pierre Britz as Benny, Bojana Golenac as Amelie, David Keitsch as Tim, Dirk Lüdemann as dockworker, Gudrun Gundelach as a specialist in tropical medicine , Karl-Heinz Haberland as Dickmann, Beate Kiupel as a blonde, Claudio Maniscalco as an impatient driver, Boris Freytag as Policeman, Petra Schoettler as a policewoman, Frank Reidock as a specialist in surgery , Angela Stresemann as a well-groomed lady, Jerry Marwig as Captain Müller |
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| 10 | 4th | With one's back to the wall | February 10, 1999 | Wilhelm Engelhardt |
| A young man raids a supermarket and shoots the cashier with a shotgun and is himself gunned down by the special task force. The ambulance team has to bring the seriously injured woman to the clinic quickly and take care of the young man a little later, but in doing so they attract the displeasure of onlookers and have to assert themselves against them. Meanwhile, pilot Alexander Karuhn is certain that he has a 14-year-old son.
Guest actors: Pierre Britz as Benny, Daniela Ziegler as Katja Talheim, Henning Baum as an emergency doctor |
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| 11 | 5 | For better or for worse | February 17, 1999 | Rolf Liccini |
| Little Daniel falls out of the third floor window, but as an emergency doctor, Dr. Maren Maibach would like to initiate the necessary first aid for the boy, it is held by his devout parents. Pilot Alexander Karuhn clarifies the legal situation of such a case over the radio, but his emergency doctor does not have time to wait and this has consequences: Now she is harassed by the sect leaders, but Anton Wollcke, Jan Wollcke's brother, can quickly change her mind. Meanwhile, Alexander Karuhn has to say goodbye to his son, because he accompanies his mother on tour.
Guest actors: Pierre Britz as Benny, Daniela Ziegler as Katja Talheim, Michael Trischan as Gerhard Röhring, Angela Hobrig as Sophia Röhring, Wolfgang Kaven as Dr. Fresenius, Henry König as judge |
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| 12 | 6th | Without warning | February 24, 1999 | Rolf Liccini |
| Surprise for emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach: Your family is in the rescue center in the morning and wants to visit them, but an operation prevents a long conversation. There is a lot to do for the rescue pilot team on this day: a riding accident, a barbecue accident and a smoldering fire that puts the emergency doctor and her paramedic themselves in mortal danger. When the crew arrives at the rescue center in the evening, Maren Maibach faces the next problems, because she has to help her sister Kerstin and introduce her new partner to her family.
Guest actors: Brigitte Janner as Birgit Schmitzke, Andrea Lüdke as Kerstin, Norbert Braun as Winfried Worms, Thea Frank as Anna Haller, Daniela Hoffmann as Frau Gärtner, Sophie Steiner as Gesa Haller, Mika Walter as Schmidt |
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| 13 | 7th | The fear in the neck | March 3, 1999 | Rolf Liccini |
| The rescue pilots have to transport a young tuberculosis patient from Heligoland to Hamburg, but the young woman starts to bleed internally during the flight over the North Sea . The case seems hopeless, the emergency doctor Dr. Maren Maibach cannot handle in the air and a landing is not possible, but then paramedic Thomas Asmus discovers a frigate of the German Bundeswehr, which is cruising in the North Sea. While pilot Alexander Karuhn asks for permission to land and can land on the frigate, the young woman is treated by the frigate's medical officer and Maren Maibach and can be flown to the clinic. The next mission takes the crew to a restaurant where a guest simulates a seizure in order to hit the bill, but also two junkies who want to carry out a withdrawal on their own , put themselves in great danger.
Guest actors: Katharina Eckerfeld as Bibi, Tilmar Kuhn as Chris, Udo Swann as Dr. Falck |
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| 14th | 8th | Hot and cold | March 10, 1999 | Rolf Liccini |
| The rescue pilots are called to a seriously injured boy who has been electrocuted on a railway system. The team just manages to save the boy, but the next mission will also be difficult, because the crew has to rescue a boy from a trout pond. Meanwhile, some team members actually have other things to do: Maren Maibach has to recognize Anton Wollcke's quirks, Thomas Asmus has private problems and Alexander Karuhn has fallen in love with the voice of an air traffic controller. The next day begins as spectacularly as the last one ended: “Accident in the sewer system - risk of poisoning from digester gases” is the dispatch from Florian Hamburg .
Guest actors: Klausjürgen Steinmann as Teichwirt Köhnke, Karin Heine as Wera Köhnke |
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DVD release
The DVD with the episodes of the second season was released on February 22, 2008.
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 .
