The squids - underwater detectives intervene

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Television series
Original title The squids - underwater detectives intervene
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1965
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13 in 1 season
genre Crime series
Director Armin Dahlen
idea Manfred Otto Weninger
production Manfred Otto Weninger
music Gerhard Trede
First broadcast January 19, 1966 on ZDF
occupation

The octopuses - underwater detectives intervene is a West German television series that was broadcast in 1966 by ZDF in the evening program. It was the first German television series in which underwater recordings were used extensively .

action

Pit Brown and his assistant Tomy are The Squids . They work internationally as detectives for various national and regional police authorities and are always requested when their special skills as a diver are required. Their trademark are silver-colored wetsuits with a squid symbol on the front. You work with the latest underwater technology such as B. surveillance cameras with which you can observe submarine objects on board your boat. They often jump from a helicopter directly over their area of ​​operation. They also have an inkjet pistol , which they can use against enemies underwater when there is danger, and which works on the principle of the squid.

The octopuses deal with the most varied of cases and are also called in the event of an accident. In the episode Alarm auf dem See , they rescue two children in Bavaria who go on an unauthorized joyride in a small submarine and sink to the bottom of a lake. In wet tracks in Hamburg they track down a gang that breaks into ships as divers. They also hunt kidnappers and drug dealers , expose thieves of archaeological finds and catch smugglers and insurance fraudsters. In U 312 they examine a submarine of the Kriegsmarine that was sunk in Spain at the end of the Second World War and that had mysterious plans on board that aroused the interest of various secret services .

production

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backgrounds

The idea for the series came from Manfred Otto Weninger; The model was apparently the American television series Adventure Under Water and the resulting production The Aquanauts with Ron Ely in a leading role. Shortly before, director Armin Dahlen had turned off alarm in the mountains , like port police, a crime series that is set in a specific milieu. The cameraman Peter H. Krause was responsible for the underwater technology. The original film music and background music , especially for the underwater scenes, came from Gerhard Trede.

The series was filmed in West Germany, but also in France , Spain and apparently also in Italy , whereby small actors were recruited on site who had to be dubbed. It was discontinued after one season and, as far as known, never repeated. The background is unclear; possibly the underwater photography that made the series so appealing was too laborious. In addition, color television was introduced in West Germany in 1967 , which would have required even more elaborate color photography for a series that lived in exotic locations both above and under water in order to be competitive with other color television productions in the future.

Episodes

  1. Three miles from Marseille
  2. Wet tracks
  3. Drowning to order
  4. Alarm on the lake
  5. Hot goods
  6. The dead are not on board
  7. Lobsters à la carte
  8. Gold floats in the water
  9. U 312
  10. Racing car X 2000
  11. Industrial espionage
  12. Caesar's plate
  13. Drug hunting

Lore

The series was released in 2014 by Pidax film media Ltd. Edited on DVD as part of the Pidax series classics .

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