The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday |
| Original title | The Adventures of Hiram Holliday |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1956-1957 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26th |
| genre | Comedy , crime film |
| idea | Paul Gallico |
| music |
Michael Goldsen , Raoul Kraushaar , Eddie Sauter |
| First broadcast | October 3rd, 1956 on NBC |
| German-language first broadcast |
1961? on German television |
| occupation | |
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The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday is an American television series that was produced in black and white for NBC , based on the short stories of the same name by bestselling author Paul Gallico . Of the total of 26 episodes, the last three have not yet been broadcast because the series was withdrawn from the program early.
A German version of the series was broadcast on ARD's regional program in the early 1960s . The title appears in the program magazines of that time as The Adventures of Hiram Holliday or The Adventures of Hiram Holiday with a different spelling of the name - Holiday instead of Holliday . On July 14 and 15, 2018, the private broadcaster Family TV broadcast the first 11 episodes in Germany.
A DVD released in 2013 in the Pidax Series Classics series uses the title The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday .
Series concept
Hiram Holliday ( Wally Cox ) is a rather inconspicuous editor of a large New York newspaper who is characterized by humility and good nature. He is small, wears glasses and rather old-fashioned suits and an umbrella. What his colleagues do not know is that he has secretly trained to be a true top athlete who could easily take on a James Bond . He knows how to use his umbrella like a fencing weapon.
As a thank you for a small courtesy (he had inserted a missing comma in an article and thus saved the publisher from a large claim for damages), his publisher Harrison Prescott ( Thurston Hall ) sent him on a big trip around the world with reporter Joel Smith ( Ainslie Pryor ) . On his journey Hiram experiences breathtaking adventures, during which he often faces the villain Monsieur Cerveaux as well as spies and murderers, about whom he then reports for his newspaper.
literature
- Paul Gallico : Adventures of Hiram Holliday . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1967, 220 pp.
Web links
- The Adventures of Hiram Holliday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The strange adventures of Hiram Holliday at Fernsehserien.de
- Episode Guide (English)
- Literature page (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Program of Thursday, November 2, 1961 . In: tvprogramme.net . Accessed September 12, 2013. Earlier first broadcast is possible because the collection of programs on the website serving as evidence is incomplete.
- ↑ Program for Saturday, November 11, 1961 . In: tvprogramme.net . Retrieved September 12, 2013.
- ↑ The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday . Pidax. Retrieved September 12, 2013.