The rescue pilots / Season 7
| Season 7 of The Rescue Pilot | |||
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| Original title | The Rescue Pilots - Season 7 | ||
| Episodes | 12 | ||
| Country of production |
 Germany
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| First broadcast | February 12, 2003 - May 7, 2003 on ZDF | ||
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The seventh season of the German emergency and rescue series Die Rettungsflieger celebrated its premiere on February 12, 2003 on ZDF . The final was broadcast on May 7, 2003.
The twelve episodes of the seventh season were first broadcast 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Karuhn | major | pilot | Matthias Leja |
| Jan Wollcke | Sergeant Major | On-board technician | Oliver Horns |
| Thomas Asmus | Captain | Paramedic | Ulrich Bähnk |
| Sabine Petersen | Chief Medical Officer | Emergency doctor | Marlene Marlow |
| Paul Reinders | Sergeant Major | Paramedic | Rainer Sellien |
| Jens Blank | Captain | pilot | Nicolas King |
Episodes
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director |
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| 50 | 1 | The time bomb | February 12, 2003 | Thomas Jacob |
| Paramedic Oberbootsmann Thomas Asmus has an appointment with Oberstarzt Dr. Kettwig: His term of service expires in four weeks and he has to decide whether he would like to extend it and stay on the SAR 71 as a chief boatman , join the administration of the Bundeswehr as a chief boatman , or leave the Bundeswehr and thus also the rescue pilot. Thomas Asmus is at a loss, but a mission distracts him: In the port of Hamburg, there was an accident while an aerial bomb from the Second World War was being defused. Demolition specialist Volz, a single mother of three children, was seriously injured. While pilot Alexander Karuhn takes care of the demolition master's son, who had to watch the accident, Thomas Asmus and Dr. Sabine Petersen looks after and on-board technician Jan Wollcke finds the woman's organ donor card. The woman is taken to the Eppendorf University Medical Center, but when a little later the crew also has to fly a man who is supposed to receive a donor kidney to the “UKE”, they suspect something bad; In the end, everything turns out differently than expected: The rescuers get a visit from Mrs. Volz's children at the rescue center , who want to thank their mother for the treatment, who is now better after her operation . | ||||
| 51 | 2 | Welcome on board! | February 19, 2003 | Thomas Jacob |
| Pilot Alexander Karuhn has not yet managed to break the ice between himself and Jasmin, the daughter of his friend Astrid Shariatzadeh. When she finally has an accident in a park and the rescue pilot finds her and flies to the clinic with the SAR, she finally takes courage and starts to use "her Alex" on her terms. Meanwhile, Jan Wollcke is preparing to visit the youth welfare office, as his ex-wife Iris is trying to file a custody suit, and cleaning his apartment. He receives support from Dr. Sabine Petersen, who wants to distract herself because she caught her friend Karsten red-handed. Ultimately, the on-board technician and the emergency doctor get closer and finally there is a kiss, which an overturned water bucket prevents at the last second. The situation will now also be decided for paramedic Thomas Asmus, as the end of his service life is getting closer and closer. He would very much like to stay with his rescue pilots, but the prospect of not being promoted to chief boatman ultimately leads him to the decision to apply as a home manager for a “home for assisted living”. Far from private matters, the team has to take care of the prostitute Jola, who was abused by a client, and the street worker Bob, who confronts the client and is beaten down. | ||||
| 52 | 3 | Hopeful | February 26, 2003 | Thomas Jacob |
| The rescue pilots are called to a dramatic mission: Little Klaus, whose single mother Amelie just got a birthday surprise for her son, fell out of the window of the apartment and is now seriously injured. Emergency doctor senior staff doctor Dr. Sabine Petersen tries everything to save the little boy, but when the team arrives at the clinic in the rescue helicopter, it is too late: Klaus is dead and his mother blames herself. Since the rescue pilots have to go to their next mission, Dr. Petersen the ward doctor to take care of the mother, but he too has a new patient and the mother is leaving the clinic. When the SAR 71 team noticed this, the emergency doctor did everything possible to save the mother from suicide . The mother's neighbor is informed and the rescue pilots manage to save Amelie at the last moment. Meanwhile, a solution seems to have been found for the question of the future of paramedic Thomas Asmus: Private Homann reports that there will be a promotion by Oberstarzt Dr. Kettwig takes place in the rescue center, but it turns out differently than expected. Non Chief Petty Officer Asmus is to hauptbootsmann but Corporal Homann is to corporal promoted.
Guest actor: Christine Neubauer as Amelie |
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| 53 | 4th | Painful experiences | March 5, 2003 | Thomas Jacob |
| The Rettungsflieger become a patient with a heart attack on a barge called. The captain needs medical help and a helmet, his colleague manages to steer the launch to the St. Pauli jetties . The team is impressed by the young woman, but when she comes home a little later and sees her husband molesting their daughter, she goes nuts. Working for the rescue pilots, whereby Dr. Sabine Petersen also has to assert against a criminal investigation officer who wants to arrest the young woman. When the rescue pilots were called a little later by Iris Wollcke's girlfriend at the riding stables, Jan Wollcke was in a state of excitement because his ex-wife and son were at the riding stables. Iris Wollcke is actually injured, but the team can save her and then celebrates the farewell to paramedic Thomas Asmus, who will soon be the head of a home for assisted living. | ||||
| 54 | 5 | Rumor mill | March 12, 2003 | Guido Pieters |
| The new paramedic, Oberfeldwebel Paul Reinders, starts his service with the rescue pilots. But even before he even got to the rescue center, Corporal Homann was telling rumors about the newcomer to the team, which in the end all turned out to be wrong and caused some misunderstandings and resentments among the crew. Meanwhile, an operation leads the crew of the SAR 71 to a widower who was robbed with the help of the grandchild's trick. A test for Paul Reinders, who knows the old man well. Meanwhile, on-board technician Jan Wollcke gets to know a woman, but he has no idea that it is the wife of his new colleague and thus gets into a lot of trouble. The next assignment, an accident, also presents the team with a difficult task, because they have to decide whether the accident driver or the injured construction worker has to be flown and their decision causes a lot of trouble. But when the new paramedic showed diplomacy , he finally made it to the team of rescue pilots. | ||||
| 55 | 6th | Lots of disasters | March 19, 2003 | Guido Pieters |
| Charlie Petersen, brother of Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sabine Petersen, shows moral courage and protects a young girl from an aggressive dog. When the rescue team arrives there, the emergency doctor is surprised by her brother's mission, because he really only does stupid things. The doctor is surprised when her brother asks her to keep quiet about his whereabouts, but she promises. However, when the police appear a little later at the rescue center and look for the emergency doctor's brother, the situation gets completely out of control. During the next mission, a man is injured by a letter bomb installed by a group of boys. When Jan Wollcke recognized one of the boys in the hospital and followed him, he confessed to the attack. While the on-board technician wants to forgive him, Dr. Sabine Petersen tough and prevails. In the evening of the day, the team members celebrate Alexander Karuhn's move in with his girlfriend and he proposes to Astrid. | ||||
| 56 | 7th | The decision | March 26, 2003 | Guido Pieters |
| Pilot Alexander Karuhn has the offer to become a flight instructor for the Bell UH-1D , but would have to leave the ambulance and Hamburg to move to America. He refuses, but Colonel Bodewig asks him to reconsider the offer. Alexander Karuhn is determined to stay for his family, and Captain Jens Blank, who wants to be Major Karuhn's successor with the rescue pilots, does not change his mind. Meanwhile, the team has to rescue a young woman who has announced a suicide via internet chat and fly a construction worker who has fallen from the roof to the clinic. When the crew urges their pilot to tell his Astrid about the offer, she reacts differently than expected and the two make a decision. | ||||
| 57 | 8th | Pilot wedding | April 2, 2003 | Guido Pieters |
| The last day of pilot Alexander Karuhn is coming up. The major will leave the rescue aviators and become an instructor for the Bell UH-1D in Alabama, but before that they will get married the next day. The crew actually wanted to celebrate together, but Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig has to cancel the team's day off. However, when the next morning Alexander Karuhn's successor, Captain Blank, is unfit for duty due to food poisoning, the crew is now without a pilot and a replacement has to be found because the next mission is already waiting. When the alarm bell rings, the three other rescuers are amazed when suddenly Alexander Karuhn in wedding gear sits behind the control stick. He has to step in and, together with his rescue pilots, rescue Viola, who fell victim to a prank by Else Fürbringer. The old lady had poured salad oil on the stairs in her apartment building because she didn't want to leave her apartment. When the crew comes back to the rescue center, a surprise awaits them, because next to Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig and Colonel Bodewig also the bride and the registrar for the wedding of Alexander Karuhn. Just recently wed, the next mission is calling again. | ||||
| 58 | 9 | Restart | April 16, 2003 | Guido Pieters |
| The new pilot of the rescue squadron, Captain Jens Blank, takes up his duties, but when dealing with the team he quickly becomes an outsider. Even when he was taking care of the daughter of a seriously injured woman on the first mission, he ran into on-board technician Jan Wollcke. The pilot no longer understands the world, does not feel well and wants to go back to his old unit. When the team then heard from Homann about a written transfer request from their pilot, they were shocked. While the next mission suppresses her shock, Captain Blank shows so much empathy towards an injured girl with severe vertebral injuries that the team can persuade his pilot to stay. Meanwhile, there is good news for Paul Reinders: His wife Evi is pregnant for the third time. | ||||
| 59 | 10 | Rivals in the cockpit | April 23, 2003 | Bodo black |
| While pilot Jens Blank and on-board technician Jan Wollcke befriend each other, the two rescue pilots fight for the favor of Madeleine Descartes, the woman Blank had taken care of after her mother's car accident. But Blank, who is shy about love affairs, asks his colleague Wollcke to help him ask Madeleine out on a date. Meanwhile, the team has to take care of the bicycle courier Eddy, who has had a serious accident, to the clinic and save a little boy who is in danger of drowning in a moor from certain death. When a barbecue party takes place in Paul Reinder's garden that evening, Captain Blank hopes that Jan Wollcke has complied with his request and invited Madeleine Descartes, but the pilot has no idea of Wollcke's feelings. | ||||
| 60 | 11 | That darn day | April 30, 2003 | Bodo black |
| The relationship between Dr. Sabine Petersen and her partner Karsten are facing the end: Karsten got violent towards the emergency doctor and locked her up. While the SAR 71 doctor tries to keep her concentration high during the rescue operations and doesn't want to show anything, there seems to be a problem with "Anneliese", the helicopter. The team has to watch their work equipment being transported away on a low-loader. Meanwhile, a fight develops between Jan Wollcke and Jens Blank for the favor of Madeleine Descartes, who is currently more concerned about her mother, who is in a coma, who has since been transferred to the Bundeswehr hospital. When Evi Reinders, wife of Paul Reinders and best friend of Dr. Sabine Petersen arrives at the rescue center and tries to comfort her best friend. A little later she collapses with severe abdominal pain and is immediately taken to the Bundeswehr hospital. There Dr. Petersen had an ectopic pregnancy . Evi Reinders has to be taken to a special clinic, but since the rescue helicopter is currently still defective and is being repaired, the rescue pilots have to find a way. Suddenly the relieving news comes that the SAR 71 is ready for use again. After Evi Reinders was relocated by helicopter, the fight for Madeleine Descartes between Jan Wollcke and Jens Blank begins again, but the latter acknowledges his defeat. While the pilot and his on-board technician are reconciled, they witness a violent argument between their emergency doctor and Karsten, which threatens to get out of hand. Blank and Wollcke rush into the ambulance room and put Karsten in his place. | ||||
| 61 | 12 | Separation hurts | May 7, 2003 | Bodo black |
| While the rescue pilots have to react quickly to an explosion in a metal workshop and take care of several injured people, Corporal Homann rushes to pilot Captain Jens Blank, on-board technician Sergeant Jan Wollcke and paramedic Oberfeldwebel Paul Reinders and informs them about the intentions of the emergency doctor, Senior Staff Doctor Dr. Sabine Petersen to leave Hamburg to go to Africa. The three crew members are horrified and decide not to just let their colleague go. The team develops different strategies, but neither a "chance" encounter that Jan Wollcke arranges with her old student colleague Dr. Jonas Denner, Ulrike Descartes' attending physician, any other attempts work. The team is at a loss and asks Evi Reinders for help. While Dr. Sabine Petersen would like to retire after work on her 33rd birthday, she doesn't let her colleagues go so easily and she manages to convince her to a spontaneous birthday party. The emergency doctor makes a decision among her family and friends: She stays in Hamburg and with her rescue pilots. | ||||
DVD release
The DVD with the episodes of the seventh season was released on May 15, 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 .
