On behalf of Madame

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Television series
Original title On behalf of Madame
On behalf of Madame.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1972-1975
length 25 minutes
Episodes 39 in 3 seasons
genre Crime series
Director Paul May , Peter Meincke
idea Karl Heinz Zeitler ( under the pseudonym CM Sharland )
music Siegfried Franz
First broadcast December 6, 1972
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On behalf of Madame was an early evening series of the ZDF . It ran in three seasons of 13 episodes in the years 1972-1975. It was made in the Hamburg studio , directed by Paul May in the first two seasons , and alternated with Peter Meincke in the third season. Each episode was 25 minutes long and ran on Wednesdays at 7:10 p.m. (season 1), 6:25 p.m. (season 2) and 6:20 p.m. (season 3).

action

Homer Halfpenny, who holds a chair for Tibetan dialects, works as an agent for a "madame" who always gives her instructions by phone and remains invisible to the viewer in all seasons. He is supported by playboy Peter Proud, a car dealer by profession. The tasks of this unequal team are diverse, they have in common that Halfpenny and Proud have to travel abroad in almost all cases in order to be able to complete an assignment successfully.

The beginning of each episode is identical: while in the first season the two protagonists each receive a telegram (Halfpenny from a boy, with whose bike he goes to a phone booth, Proud from his servant Archibald) and Halfpenny the instructions from the cell accepts, in the other two seasons you only see Halfpenny picking up the phone. New here is a policeman who attaches the professor's bicycle with a rope and then pulls it up into a tree, from where Halfpenny takes it down again after the work is done.

Others

Many of the outdoor shots were shot abroad, but not always in the country it was referred to as. So were z. For example, scenes were filmed in Spain, which then also took place in Italy or in what was then Yugoslavia, whereby one often did not even bother to adapt the labels to the language of the respective country, for example. The accumulation of fantasy states in which Halfpenny and Proud operated was also striking.

Herta Kravina , Horst Keitel's wife, played guest roles in two episodes ( Der Verschollene , Season 2, Episode 5 and The Testament , Season 3, Episode 6) . Jochen Köppel, who played Proud's servant Archibald in the first season, was seen again in the episode The Spotlight (Season 3, Episode 11), but in a different role.

In three episodes ( The Football President , Season 2, Episode 10, as well as in Come to Seville and The Bottle Spirit , Season 3, Episodes 2 and 8) there is - apart from the protagonists - no other German actor on the cast list.

Episode list

season 1

No.
(total)
No.
(season)
First broadcast title Guest actors (selection)
1 1 December 6, 1972 Talk to Moung Benno Hoffmann , Isabel Stumpf , Susanne Beck , Michael von Rospatt , Klaus Dittmann
2 2 December 13, 1972 The dream attack Kurt Jaggberg , Werner Abrolat , Karl-Heinz Lemken , Marion Marlon , Annelies Schmiedel
3 3 December 20, 1972 Flowers from back then Gerhard Hartig , Gerdamaria Juergens , Gerhard Frickhöffer , Joachim Richert
4th 4th December 27, 1972 Waltz to the left Karl Merkatz , Hansi Waldherr , Ernst von Klipstein , Hans Kahlert , Irmgard Riessen
5 5 3rd January 1973 Bomb atmosphere Fabian Conde , Patricia Nigel , Walter Crane
6th 6th January 10, 1973 The missing state visit Dorothea Fleming , Günther Kaufmann , Heidi Schaffrath
7th 7th 17th January 1973 Miss Lido Heike Koehn , Edgar Bessen
8th 8th January 24, 1973 One sheikh too many Karl-Heinz von Hassel , Franz-Josef Steffens , Franz-Otto Krüger , Astrid Meyer-Gossler
9 9 January 31, 1973 Export - import Ingeburg Kanstein , Fabian Wander , Manfred Schermutzki , Narziss Sokatscheff
10 10 7th February 1973 Purple sun Barbara Capell , Jürgen Lier , Karl-Heinz Gerdesmann , Paola Schöne
11 11 February 14, 1973 Perucci unpacks Wolf von Gersum , Frank Meyer-Eckert , Hannelore Borns
12 12 February 21, 1973 The abduction Christiane Maybach , Herbert Tennigkeit , Walter Tschernich , Monika John , Herma Koehn
13 13 February 28, 1973 English pound Heinz Trixner , Hanni Vanhaiden , Peter Frank, Erich Uhland , Manfred Reddemann

season 2

No.
(total)
No.
(season)
First broadcast title Guest actors (selection)
14th 1 May 29, 1974 The necklace Jutta Kammann
15th 2 5th June 1974 Password Elisabeth Doris Gallart , Karl-Heinz Gerdesmann , Günther Flesch , Ingeburg Kanstein
16 3 June 12, 1974 Hotel marten Christina Betzner
17th 4th June 19, 1974 Ghost for sale Kurt Zips , Heide Grübl , Achim Sauter , Günter Lüdke , Charlie Rinn
18th 5 June 26, 1974 The missing one Herta Kravina , Dan van Husen
19th 6th 3rd July 1974 Two leading gentlemen Christiane Rücker , Hans Elwenspoek , Werner Schumacher , Gerhard Olschewski
20th 7th July 10, 1974 Young talent Gert Haucke , Erna Nitter , Leopold Hainisch , Günter Lüdke , Hans Irle
21st 8th 17th July 1974 Bodyguard Walter Roderer , Ingeborg Schöner
22nd 9 July 24, 1974 Tip from the underworld Walter Tschernich , Alexander Welbat , Rolf Jahncke , Jürgen Wulf , Horst Hesslein
23 10 July 31, 1974 The football president Charo López , Pepe Morenó
24 11 7th August 1974 The missing doll José Canalejas , Monika Rasky
25th 12 August 14, 1974 Crime fans Barbara Capell , Rainer Goernemann , Lothar Grützner , Hans Kahlert , Kurt Klopsch , Karin Rasenack , Achim Sauter
26th 13 August 21, 1974 Loose contact Andrea Grosske , Erica Schramm , Kurt A. Jung , Hans Timmermann , Wolfgang Rau , Charlotte Bremer-Wolff , Ferdinand Dux , Werner Cartano , Günter Spörrle

season 3

No.
(total)
No.
(season)
First broadcast title Guest actors (selection)
27 1 4th December 1974 Happy Travel Dirk Galuba , Herbert Steinmetz , Wolf von Gersum , Edgar Hoppe
28 2 December 11, 1974 Come with me to Seville José Canalejas , Lina Canalejas
29 3 18th December 1974 Trees, axes, brown bears Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann , Ulrich Beiger , Dagmar von Kurmin , Hubert Suschka , Günter Lüdke
30th 4th January 8, 1975 It seems Spanish to me Alfredo Calles Hoyas , Marcia Sharif
31 5 15th January 1975 The miracle beam Rudolf Schündler , Hermann Lenschau , Ivan Desny , Manfred Spies
32 6th 22nd January 1975 The testament Paul Edwin Roth , Lieselotte Arnold , Friedrich Hartau , Herta Kravina , Peter Parten , Curt Timm , Michael von Rospatt
33 7th January 29, 1975 The stumbling block Kathrin Ackermann , Joachim Rake , Hans Irle , Uwe Hacker , Rudolf Möller , Harald Eggers
34 8th 5th February 1975 The genie José Caffarel , Antonio Pica
35 9 February 12, 1975 The rumor Friedrich Georg Beckhaus , Herbert Weissbach , Monika Rasky , Hubert Mittendorf , Rolf Mamero
36 10 19th February 1975 Knockout Reinhard Kolldehoff , Wolfgang Zerlett , Horst Beck , Franz-Josef Steffens , Renate Schubert , Narziss Sokatscheff , Dan van Husen
37 11 February 26, 1975 The headlight Jochen Köppel
38 12 March 5th 1975 Dirhams Ursela Monn , Paul Burian , Christa Siems , Thomas Kylau , Marianne Hachfeld
39 13 March 12, 1975 The message in a bottle Herbert Steinmetz , Edgar Maschmann , Dirk Galuba , Erich Uhland , Manfred Reddemann

DVD release

The three seasons were published in full (13 episodes each) on January 26, March 23 and June 15, 2018 by Pidax.

Reviews

Commissioned by Madame, it was conceived as a follow-up series by Percy Stuart , but according to critics it did not live up to its claims. The crime website, for example, puzzles "how this series managed to make it to 39 episodes" , because "the stories are abstruse and hair-raising, and there is at best as much tension as watching a goldfish aquarium." , while the television lexicon at least admits that "clever (...) tricky tasks" were solved.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e The crime thriller homepage
  2. Fernsehserien.de
  3. 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 .