Disco (TV show)

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Television series
Original title disco
Disco broadcast logo.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1971-1982
length 45 minutes
Episodes 133
Broadcasting
cycle		 Saturdays (1971–1977),
Mondays (1978–1982);
irregular
genre music show
Moderation Ilya Richter
First broadcast February 13, 1971 on ZDF

Disco own spelling disco was a music program of the ZDF , which produces and 1971-1982 of Ilja Richter moderated. The presentation took place every year with a corresponding annual addition, e.g. B. "Disco '77".

prehistory

The immediate predecessor of Disco was the music show 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet , which was produced from 1966 to the end of 1970 and moderated from 1969 by Ilja Richter and Suzanne Doucet . After the end of 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet , the seamless transition to disco took place, which started in early 1971.

Components of the broadcast

The music show Disco, the first episode of which was shown on February 13, 1971, consisted of live and playback performances by the then current interpreters, sketches by the presenter Ilja Richter and other actors, as well as videos by bands who did not want to or could not come. Similar to the ZDF hit parade , the presentation in the studio was very close to the audience, with the interpreters sometimes mingling with the audience before the beginning or after the end of their songs. The artist's autograph addresses were also displayed towards the end of the respective performance.

Richter's welcome after the first appearance achieved cult status. To his “A wonderful good evening, ladies and gentlemen, hello friends!” The audience replied loudly “Hello Ilja!”. But at the beginning of the last year of broadcasting in 1982 he distanced himself musically from this cherished ceremony in a song sketch.

The disco offered a very wide range of musical styles - for example Schlager , disco , pop , rock , country , comedy and NDW songs. But Ilja Richter had no influence on the guest list or songs. The skits that he and his mother thought up and produced were all the more important to him. His sister Janina Richter was a regular sketch partner .

There was also the disco quiz in every program , in which an artist or group was to be recognized in an excerpt from a disco in the past (or at the beginning 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet ) and the audience through it Postcard shipment ("No letters, please!") In addition to numerous signed records by the performers of the respective broadcast, the following three main prizes could be won: a portable radio (3rd prize), a record player (2nd prize) or an invitation to the next edition (1st prize) , in which the winner also received a present personally from the moderator. To introduce this winner, the studio lighting was completely switched off and only a single white spotlight - the spot - was aimed at him, so that only the winner could be seen in the shining spotlight. For this action, Richter's legendary appropriate saying was heard later: “Lights out - Womm! Spot on - Yeah! " . The same saying was also the trademark of the Dutch show master Mies Bouwman , who thus initiated the final round of her show Eén van de eight (1969-1973).

Recognition music

The signature tunes recorded at the beginning and / or at the end of the program included Drums à gogo by Sandy Nelson , Tric Trac by André Popp (1924-2014) and Disco Stomp by Hamilton Bohannon .

Follow-up broadcast

The last edition of Disco aired on November 22, 1982, two days before Richter's 30th birthday. From the end of 1982 Disco's successor was the show Caution, Music , hosted by Frank Zander .

Duration and original broadcast

Between 1971 and 1982 a total of 133 episodes of the 45-minute disco were broadcast on ZDF. It was recorded in Hamburg by Studio Hamburg and Berlin by the Berliner Union Film , and from 1976 in the ZDF regional studio Bavaria in Unterföhring near Munich. The show ran on Saturdays in 1971, initially in the afternoon around 3:50 p.m. and from 1972 onwards at 6:45 p.m. For IFA 1973 , as part of a program reform, from October 1, 1973, the Today news was brought forward by three quarters of an hour to 7 p.m. As a result, Disco moved up to 6 p.m. and ran parallel to the sports show on ARD, while the hit parade was moved back to 7:30 p.m. In 1975 disco also got this place in the evening program. A program reform then made Mondays 7:30 pm from the beginning of 1978 to the end of 1982 a permanent fixture for “Music on ZDF”. As a result, in addition to the ZDF hit parade , disco was also broadcast on this date until the end.

Repetitions

From May to August 2011, three episodes per week were repeated exclusively on ZDFkultur . Since July 2013, ZDFkultur has broadcast a weekly disco edition from episode 1 on Fridays at 7.30 p.m., from October 2013 daily, initially in the afternoon program, and later until the station is closed on September 30, 2016 at 7.30 p.m.

From December 1984 to November 2009 the programs were repeated for 25 years on 3sat (back then in the afternoon as a ZDF music channel ) and since 2004 on the ZDFtheaterkanal . On 3sat, the repetitions of Disco were initially broadcast in the daily program and from 2004 onwards at irregular intervals in the night program. The ZDFtheaterkanal showed an issue several times a month on a morning and afternoon on different days of the week. In addition, from April 1, 2008, 61 episodes ran in loose succession on the former music broadcaster hit24, which belonged to the then pay-TV broadcaster Premiere, and were repeated there several times until the station was closed.

40th anniversary

For the 40th anniversary of the first program, Ilja Richter went on a tour from May 2011. The Weltbild Verlag published the DVD Ilyas disco lights off - spot on (The DVD Collection) and the CD 40 years ZDF Disco - The best .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nothing about marriage, nothing about church, nothing about sex. ( Memento from February 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Broadcast dates on fernsehserien.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ Robert Piffer: Ilja Richter celebrates his comeback with “Disco”. In: Image from July 14, 2010, accessed August 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ List of titles. on the Weltbild homepage, accessed on August 27, 2014.