Kojak - deployment in Manhattan
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Deployment in Manhattan (ARD 1975–1978) Kojak - deployment in Manhattan (from 1991) |
| Original title | Kojak |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1973-1978 |
| length | 48 minutes |
| Episodes | 118 in 5 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Thriller |
| idea | Abby man |
| music | Billy Goldenberg |
| First broadcast | October 24, 1973 on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 3, 1974 on German television |
| occupation | |
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Kojak - Einsatz in Manhattan (original title Kojak ) is a successful American television series , of which a total of 118 episodes of 48 minutes each were created between 1973 and 1978. The series was preceded by the 137-minute pilot film The Marcus Nelson Murder Case .
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The New York police officer Theodoros Kojak does his cases as he sees fit. With cynical humor, the bald Greek tracks down the hiding places of dark elements even at high society parties. Kojak's team includes his two assistants, Crocker and Stavros. To clarify a case, Kojak likes to use his people as decoys - but he knows exactly when the time is right to intervene.
Episodes
Television films
In 1985 the series was revived with the television movie Murder in Exile . Six more films followed: Kojak's Return (video title: Every Murder Has Its Price ; 1987), Ariana , Dark Relationships (both 1989), Death of a Policeman , Dangerous Greed, and The Conspiracy (all 1990).
In the films, Kojak got new colleagues; Dan Frazer, George Savalas and Vince Conti can only be seen briefly in the first film. Starting with the film Ariana , Andre Braugher (voiceover: Charles Rettinghaus ) appears regularly as Kojak's employee Winston Blake. From Dark Relationships Charles Cioffi took over the role of Chief George Morris (spokesman: Friedrich G. Beckhaus ).
synchronization
Interopa Film in Berlin did the dubbing . The books came from Thomas Keck , who also directed the dialogue. Initially, between 1974 and 1978, 62 episodes were dubbed and broadcast around 9 p.m. on ARD. These episodes had been shortened to about 43 minutes. In 1991 another 37 episodes followed, which were also broadcast on ARD the previous evening, but were now mostly unabridged. As in the 1970s, Edgar Ott spoke Kojak again. At the same time, RTL had the Kojak television films synchronized. In 1998, RTL II commissioned the 20 episodes that had not been taken into account by ARD until then and broadcast them unabridged. In these episodes Christian Rode took on the role of Kojak, as Edgar Ott had died four years earlier (in the same year as Savalas).
| character | actor | German voice | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lt. Theo Kojak | Telly Savalas |
Edgar Ott (98 ep. + Films, 70s and 1991) Christian Rode (20 ep., 1998) |
Pilot, 1973 117 episodes, 1973–1978 films 1–7, 1985–1990 |
| Capt. Frank McNeil | Dan Frazer | Heinz Giese | 117 episodes, 1973–1978 Film 1, 1985 |
| Det. Bobby Crocker | Kevin Dobson | Hans-Werner Bussinger | 117 episodes, 1973-1978 |
| Det. Stavros | George Savalas |
Manfred Grote (95 ep., 70s and 1991) Andreas Mannkopff (20 ep., 1998) |
115 episodes, 1973-1978 |
| Det. Rizzo | Vince Conti |
Joachim Röcker (1970s and 1991) individual assignments: Hans Nitschke , Friedrich Georg Beckhaus , Michael Chevalier (1970s) Raimund Krone (1998) |
92 episodes, 1974–1978 Film 1, 1985 |
| Det. Saperstein | Mark Russell |
Lothar Hinze , Gerd Holtenau (70s) Andreas Hosang (1991) Raimund Krone (1998) |
105 episodes, 1973-1978 |
In the opening credits, Savalas' brother George was sometimes only given his middle name Demosthenes, as he also acted as a producer for the series.
successes
The series has won several awards in the USA, including two Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. Several actors who played supporting roles in Kojak later became stars, including Harvey Keitel , James Woods , Richard Gere , Hector Elizondo , Morgan Fairchild , William Hurt , Christopher Walken and Sylvester Stallone . Maria Schell was also seen in one episode .
Due to Kojak's sympathetic nature, the series was also very popular in Germany and its trademarks, the permanent lollipop and typical sayings such as “Entzückend, Baby!” ( English “ Who loves ya, baby? ”), “Is it true?” Or “ I'm your fan! ”Were soon on everyone's lips.
The jazz and pop singer Wolfgang Sauer from Wuppertal dedicated a song to Kojak in 1976 with the title Einsatz in Manhattan .
Offshoot
In 1980 the black and white film Kojak Budapesten (Kojak in Budapest) was produced for Hungarian television. László Inke took over the role of Theo Kojak. This film is only available in English and Hungarian.
The television station USA Network started a new edition of the series in 2005 with Ving Rhames in the role of Theo Kojak , which was discontinued after ten episodes.
Others
- The German opening credits of the early ARD episodes (1974–1978) are very different from the US original. Instead of the animation, which reveal strips of pictures of New York (with pictures of Savalas), pictures were used that show cityscapes of New York and Kojak in his car. Only the font was used for the German title. While the US logo switched from the Gill Sans font to Machine BT after the first season , the German version stayed with Gill Sans . The series ran under the title Operation in Manhattan at the time, and all staff details and the credits were Germanized.
The late ARD episodes (1991) and RTL II (1998) took over the original opening credits and broadcast the series as a Kojak mission in Manhattan . The original overlays and the US credits were used.
When it was broadcast in 2013 on RTL Nitro and FOX Channel , the original opening credits were used, which, however, were completely provided with German text. The font from the first season was used throughout, so that at the end of the German title Kojak - Einsatz in Manhattan could be in the original font. The heavily changed opening credits of the fifth season were also Germanized with a suitable font. - Theo Kojak was originally supposed to be played by Marlon Brando .
- Kojak's name is misspelled in the credits of the pilot ( Kojack ).
- Kojak drives a civil Buick Century Regal 455 in brown (built in 1974) and later the successor model in copper color (built in 1975).
- Kojak's trademark, the lollipops , is said to have been a replacement for his cigarillos, which Kojak still smoked frequently at the beginning of the series, but which the producers did not like. Other sources report that Telly Savalas quit smoking privately and that development was carried over to the series. In addition, Savalas' mutilated left index finger should no longer be so obviously presented. From episode eight you can see Kojak with a lollipop in his mouth and often with normal cigarettes, which have gradually been replaced by cigarillos. In later episodes (e.g .: 5.13, 5.15) he still smokes them. According to Crocker actor Kevin Dobson, the lollipops were introduced rather accidentally during filming. In the later television films, Kojak had to do without his trademark completely after an intervention by American dentists.
- Since the series was broadcast on German television, the term “Kojak siren” has established itself in daily usage as a characteristic of the typical frequency-modulated signal of American police sirens as opposed to the European follow-up horn . Since then, “Kojak light” has stood for a teardrop-shaped rotating beacon that was still unknown on German roads in the 1970s and that can be temporarily attached to otherwise civilian vehicles using a magnet. Both were widely used as dramaturgical stylistic devices in the series.
Web links
- Kojak - Use in Manhattan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kojak - used in Manhattan at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Episode guide on fernsehserie.de
- ^ Imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Kojak (1973): Broadcast dates. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Kojak - use in Manhattan on steffi-line.de
- ↑ Telly Savalas is Kojak - Everything about the series on tellysavalas.de
- ↑ biography on movieactors.com
- ↑ biography on IMdB
- ↑ Celebs missing fingers on who2.com
- ↑ Kojak. Retrieved April 25, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Episode 109: The Temptation , Episode 111: Double Game with Big Animals
- ↑ Kevin Dobson (June 17, 2011): "We were in Kojaks' office and Telly said," hey Kevin, I need somethin here> George habded Telly an apple and I said "NO" and a stagehand was standing off to the side (half asleep) with a lollypop was jammed into his shirt packet along with cigs, pens, toothbrush etc. and I said "yo, the lollypop" as I motioned with my fingers (gimme the tootsie pop) and then said ("Telly, here yah go!) Thus the beginning of the "lollypop cop". " the lollipop only appears in the 8th and not the 5th episode, published by Kevin Dobson
- ↑ Kojak and the mission in Manhattan on welt.de on May 28, 2008
- ↑ Cult series: "Operation in Manhattan" ("Kojak") on https://unterboden.wordpress.com/