The rescue pilots / 8th squadron
| Season 8 of The Rescue Pilots | |||
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| Original title | The Rescue Pilots - Season 8 | ||
| Episodes | 15th | ||
| Country of production |
 Germany
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| First broadcast | September 15, 2004 - December 29, 2004 on ZDF | ||
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The eighth season of the German emergency and rescue series Die Rettungsflieger celebrated its premiere on September 15, 2004 on ZDF . The finale was broadcast on December 29, 2004.
The 15 episodes of the eighth season were first broadcast on the 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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| Jan Wollcke | Sergeant Major | On-board technician | Oliver Horns |
| Sabine Petersen | Chief Medical Officer | Emergency doctor | Marlene Marlow |
| Jens Blank | Captain | pilot | Nicolas King |
| Torsten Biedenstedt | sergeant | Paramedic | Tom Wlaschiha |
| Paul Reinders | Sergeant Major | Paramedic | Rainer Sellien |
| Johannes Storkow | Sergeant Major | Paramedic | Patrick Wolff |
| Alexander Karuhn | major | On-board technician (guest appearance) | Matthias Leja |
| Norbert Kettwig | Chief physician | Emergency doctor | Christian bag |
Episodes
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director |
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| 62 | 1 | Lovesickness | September 15, 2004 | Michael Knof |
| The SAR 71 team, which is currently on the road with Sergeant Torsten Biedenstedt as a paramedic, as Paul Reinders has to look after his wife Evi, who has suffered a miscarriage, is called to the port for a mission: Ralf Wannstedt has the rescue alarmed because the worker Alfons Fischer has suffered a heart attack. The team has to use the winch to fetch the patient from the crane in the port and fly them to the Bundeswehr hospital . While the next mission leads the crew to a traffic accident at the fish market, the rescuers are called back to the port a little later: Katja Wannstedt, Ralf Wannstedt's daughter, was after a visit with her father, whom she wanted to ask for money for the cinema , hit by a truck and injured. When the crew of the rescue helicopter are called to the Wannstedt house a little later, they are surprised, because now Ingrid Wannstedt, who fell on the stairs, has to be flown to the Bundeswehr hospital. During the missions, Dr. Sabine Petersen takes care of the professional and attentive work of her new paramedic and tries to persuade him to use his talent and study medicine, but Torsten Biedenstedt refuses because he has his father, Prof. Biedenstedt, in the back of his head as a bad role model. | ||||
| 63 | 2 | Royal children | September 22, 2004 | Michael Knof |
| The rescue pilots are called to a car accident, where the mother of the gifted children playing Mia has evaded and strayed from the street. While twelve-year-old Mia tries to contact her friend Thomas Bruck, Torsten Biedenstedt diagnoses her mother's liver . Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sabine Petersen is impressed by the sergeant's performance and please her colleague, senior medical officer Dr. Baldin tries to get the young paramedic to study medicine for help, but the next mission is already waiting for the rescuers: The businessman Peter Bruck, father of Mia's friend Thomas, tries to take his own life after a failed attempt to set up a company. A critical situation in which the team has to react quickly. When they met the skateboarder Bernd a little later on the next assignment, who broke his leg in a car park in a fall, and thought Torsten Biedenstedt was the emergency doctor, this led to an unfamiliar situation for the paramedic. A little later, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Baldin in the rescue center and informs the team that he will be working as a professor of medicine at the University of Hamburg from the following semester and the sergeant makes a decision: He will try to get a place at the senior medical officer. | ||||
| 64 | 3 | Fresh wind in the rescue center | September 29, 2004 | Guido Pieters |
| After Dr. After separating from her long-time friend Karsten, Sabine Petersen initially moved to her mother's home. She is now accepting pilot Jens Blank's offer and moving into the rescue center. But due to several misunderstandings, there are always disputes between the two rescue pilots. Ultimately, Jens Blank has had enough and gives his colleague his opinion, which leads to a frosty mood. Meanwhile, the crew of SAR 71, which is now flying again with paramedic Sergeant Paul Reinders, has to rescue a young man from the submarine who wanted to impress his Internet acquaintance and who wanted to get the captain's hat from a submarine, because he had slipped and injured himself. The next mission takes the crew to a little boy who has suffered an electric shock from his father's razor in a bathtub and is now in mortal danger. It is possible to save the child, but the personal problems of the crew back to the fore again: While Paul Reinders looking for a way his depressed wife Evi to give pleasure to her miscarriage and pilot Jens Blank the tip gives him a quick trip to Venice to organize, there is still a thick air between the captain and the senior staff doctor, which can only be cleared after a nightly conversation between the two of them. | ||||
| 65 | 4th | The proof of love | October 6, 2004 | Guido Pieters |
| While Jens Blank and Dr. Understanding Sabine Petersen better and better privately and professionally, on-board technician Jan Wollcke feels left out and separates himself. When pilot Jens Blank realizes that his colleague is staying at the Bundeswehr hospital more and more often, he suspects that Jan Wollcke might be having an affair with the nurse Cora, but in the end everything is different than initially thought. Meanwhile, the team is called to the pensioner Jürgen, who has suffered a heart attack and whose carer has an accident in his apartment. The crew has to react quickly and bring both people to the Bundeswehr hospital. When the team arrives at the rescue center a little later, Jens Blank wants to talk to Jan Wollcke, but the misunderstanding clears up faster than expected in the neighboring Bundeswehr hospital. | ||||
| 66 | 5 | Fifth wheel on the car | October 13, 2004 | Guido Pieters |
| A ship is on fire in the port of Hamburg, while it looks as if the fire brigade has the fire under control, a gas cylinder suddenly explodes and injures a firefighter who is seriously injured. The rescue pilots are called and have to react quickly, but Florian Hamburg reports that there are currently no cremation beds available. The patient is taken to the Bundeswehr hospital without further ado. When a free cremation bed was reported a little later in the Lübeck Municipal Clinic, the SAR 71 crew took over the transport, but serious complications occurred that forced the team to make an emergency landing. Arriving in Lübeck, pilot Jens Blank decides to refuel at Lübeck Airport , but before this plan can be implemented, the rescue helicopter is called to the Hansa-Park by the Lübeck rescue control center . Meanwhile, Jan Wollcke feels more and more excluded from the team, as Jens Blank and Dr. Understand Sabine Petersen better and better, and the pilot also seems to have his eye on the doctor. | ||||
| 67 | 6th | The hero of the day | October 20, 2004 | Guido Pieters |
| The SAR 71 team is called to a young man with typical heart attack symptoms. While the doctors, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sabine Petersen and Senior Field Physician Dr. Stefan Rieckhoff, who already know each other from earlier, whether the inconspicuous findings are at a loss, nobody suspects that the entire symptomatology is just a pretense. When the rescue helicopter crew is on their way to a new mission a little later, they discover a burning house on the way to the scene, in which there is apparently a woman. The crew decides to take over there and they manage to save the woman and her child from the flames, with pilot Jens Blank, who catches the woman's baby that she threw out of the window, as the hero of the day. However, an intrusive cameraman keeps disturbing the work of the crew. In the evening, Dr. Sabine Petersen and Dr. Stefan Rieckhoff on a romantic date in the rescue center, but are disturbed by pilot Jens Blank, who yells at Corporal Homann because he apparently wanted to spy on him. Completely exasperated, the captain finally tells his colleague about his “Thursday secret”: He's taking care of a sick girl. When the entire crew suddenly knew of his secret the next day, the pilot became clear to the corporal and forbade him to interfere in his private life. Meanwhile, however, he has uncovered a scandal about the nerve-wracking mission of the last day. | ||||
| 68 | 7th | In the trap | October 27, 2004 | Guido Pieters |
| The team has to board a man who wanted to beat up his girlfriend and who now has to be flown to the Eppendorf University Hospital because of a gas spray with injuries to his eyes . Dr. Sabine Petersen, who confiscated the gas spray, forgets this rescue helicopter. Meanwhile, Homann, who wants to visit his girlfriend Cora, a nurse at the Bundeswehr hospital in the evening, has discovered the young heart attack patient Simon: He is the thief of the Bundeswehr hospital. Together with Paul Reinders and Jan Wollcke, he wants to convict the boy, but then it comes to a catastrophe. The felon Dankof, who was shot in the neighborhood, is able to grab a police officer's weapon and goes completely crazy. While the armed forces and the police joined forces to free the hostages, Dr. Sabine Petersen and Pit Reinders, son of Paul Reinders, prepare, the young Simon befriends the felon. When the emergency doctor comes up with the idea of using the rescue helicopter, in which the gas spray is still in place, as a means of escape, the situation there almost gets out of control. But to everyone's surprise, the young heart attack patient, who is actually just a petty thief, shows courage and incapacitates the felon Dankof. | ||||
| 69 | 8th | The little hero | November 10, 2004 | Klaus Wirbitzky |
| Madeleine Descartes and Jan Wollcke have to part with pieces of furniture because there is hardly any freedom of movement in the shared apartment. But this leads to a conflict: who should discard what? Meanwhile, the team is called to a search and rescue operation : Jakob Grassmann, a boy who often sits in front of the computer and does not feel like moving in nature, and his father have disappeared in a forest. The team goes on a search and, with the help of the son, manages to fly the hypoglycemic father to the army hospital. Meanwhile, Madeleine has cleared Descartes, but Jan Wollcke's beloved TV chair is also to be removed. | ||||
| 70 | 9 | Wrong suspicion | November 17, 2004 | Klaus Wirbitzky |
| After the team flew a young athlete with a spinal injury to Eppendorf University Hospital, they are called to the next assignment: Marianne Förster, a woman in need of care, has suffered a heart attack. While the woman was initially able to stabilize, she died a little later in the ambulance. The team is shocked, but when a little later, Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig told the crew about a complaint by their daughter Gesine against senior medical officer Dr. Sabine Petersen informed about passive euthanasia , they are even more surprised. Dr. Petersen, who has already blamed herself, now throws this ad completely off track. Of all things, it is pilot captain Jens Blank who manages to cheer up the emergency doctor again and uncover the true background of the criminal complaint. | ||||
| 71 | 10 | Fear of death | November 24, 2004 | Klaus Wirbitzky |
| In the morning, father-in-law Hinnerk informs paramedic Paul Reinders and his wife Evi that their house has been transferred, but the joy does not last long. While Paul Reinders, who is involved in a serious car accident on the way to work, collapses on the return flight from a transfer after he is still off duty because there is no time for an investigation, Jens Blank has to deal with allegations and suspicions mess around. Someone wants the good relationship of Dr. Petersen and the pilot torpedo and Colonel Doctor Dr. Kettwig already instrumentalized. The team fears for the life of its paramedic. While Jens Blank and Jan Wollcke are flying specialist Prof. Dechamp to the Bundeswehr hospital, Colonel Doctor Prof. Koencke, the chief doctor of the BWK, is already starting the operation, but it's too late. Paul Reinders dies a little later. The team is stunned and devastated, so it no longer bothered pilot Captain Jens Blank that he and his on-board technician have convicted the intriguer: It is chief medical officer Dr. Stefan Rieckhoff, who asks for his transfer a little later. | ||||
| 72 | 11 | The substitute | December 1, 2004 | Klaus Wirbitzky |
| The team is saddened because her colleague's death was only a few days ago. The new paramedic Oberfeldwebel Johannes von Storkow has a difficult time in the team, because he is only supposed to stay for four weeks until the end of his term of service, and with his research and thoughtless nature is a completely different type than his predecessor. When the team flies the pregnant Insa Sartorius to the army hospital with a stomach bleeding and she refuses a blood transfusion due to her belief, the paramedic again exceeds his competence, but Sabine Petersen decides to support him this time. Meanwhile, Evi Reinders is getting worse and worse, but here, too, the SAR 71 emergency doctor tries to help and quickly moves in with the Reinders family. When the team wanted to remember their deceased colleague the next day, Jan Wollcke and Johannes von Storkow also get closer and the paramedic surprises the team with a happy message: He has extended his period of service. | ||||
| 73 | 12 | Fathers and sons | December 8, 2004 | Klaus Wirbitzky |
| While the team flies the homosexual dialysis patient Matthias Bach to the Bundeswehr hospital, Sergeant Jan Wollcke collapses. Dr. Sabine Petersen, who is now reminded of Paul Reinders, has her colleague at the BWK thoroughly examined. Meanwhile, the crew receives a visit from Major Alexander Karuhn, who is on vacation in Hamburg. When it theoretically succeeds in finding a donor for Matthias Bach, the crew members want to help him, but his father rejects his son because of his homosexuality and since the SAR 71 does not have an on-board technician, a flight to the father is also excluded. However, it is Jens Blank who came up with the decisive idea and so the crew in the crew flies Captain Jens Blank as the pilot, Major Alexander Karuhn as the on-board technician, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sabine Petersen as an emergency doctor and Oberfeldwebel Johannes von Storkow as a paramedic. At Matthias Bach's father's place of residence, it is Alexander Karuhn who finally succeeds in convincing the father.
Guest actors: Paul Faßnacht as Roland Bach, Claus Wilcke as Herr von Storkow, Hinnerk Schönemann as Matthias Bach, Jens Schäfer as Fred, Carolin Spieß as Mara Lenk |
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| 74 | 13 | The mysterious patient | December 15, 2004 | Michael Knof |
| An old man collapses in Elbpark, whose identity is unclear. Dr. Sabine Petersen is shocked by the general condition of the man who seems to be reaching for her hand in the rescue helicopter. After the team arrives back at the Bundeswehr hospital after another mission, the emergency doctor asks about the old man and receives information that he has leukemia . When a little later the donor card for stem cells contacted the doctor and reported about a patient in the BWK whom Dr. Petersen is initially surprised, but a suspicion quickly grows in her: Her father, who had gone abroad years ago and abandoned the family, is the ominous patient. Captain Blank encourages his colleague to talk to the mysterious patient. Meanwhile, Madeleine Descartes made an appointment for Jan Wollcke with the urologist, as the longed-for desire for children remains unsuccessful.
Guest actors: Holger Mahlich as Manfred Müller, Lucia Gailová as Reni, Fanny Staffa as Anna |
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| 75 | 14th | Life without lies | December 22, 2004 | Michael Knof |
| During a mission, pilot captain Jens Blank meets two old friends: flight instructor Tim and his wife Karin, who had a car accident. The captain had doubts when describing Tim, because his old acquaintance, who was addicted to drugs, claims his wife had driven. The pilot of the SAR 71 believes that it was more likely the flight instructor who drove. While the crew flies the injured Karin to the Bundeswehr hospital, senior staff doctor Dr. Eva-Maria Pohlitz informed the emergency doctor of the rescue flight squad that she registered for spinal cord donation the next morning and is now released from duty. The rest of the team is puzzling over who will represent the emergency doctor, but Captain Jens Blank has other worries: He is trying to find out what happened to his friends' accident. Meanwhile, Johannes von Storkow has a date. When the next morning, Dr. Kettwig appears in a flight suit when the crew is all wounded. The day's operations then lead the crew to a boy who has fallen from a horse and a pregnant woman who is about to give birth. When the rescue pilots arrive at the rescue center in the afternoon, Senior Staff Doctor Dr. Sabine Petersen: Your father died and now the doctor is devastated. | ||||
| 76 | 15th | Raven Fathers | December 29, 2004 | Thomas Nikel |
| On-board technician Sergeant Jan Wollcke, who was diagnosed with latent fertility, arranged a paternity test with his son Richie, who he has with his ex-wife Iris. This leads to unexpected consequences: resentment between him, his ex-wife and Madeleine Descartes, his current partner. She is appalled by the behavior of her significant other, because she believes that he could also distrust her. Meanwhile, the crew of the SAR 71 rescue helicopter has to fly a seriously injured motorcyclist to the army hospital, care for the injured in a gas explosion on a ship, rescue a little girl from the Elbe , bring an injured rollerblader from a graduation ceremony to the hospital and become little Felix which in a playground laburnum flowers has eaten recalled. Chief medical officer Dr. Sabine Petersen and Sergeant Johannes von Storkow react quickly and revive the little boy. When this succeeds, there is also good news for Jan Wollcke: He is Richie's father. | ||||
DVD release
The DVD with the episodes of the eighth season was released on August 28, 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 .
