Inspector Fowler - Tougher than the police allow

Television series
German title	Inspector Fowler - Tougher than the police allow
Original title	The Thin Blue Line
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Year (s)	1995-1996
Production company	Tiger Aspect Productions
length	29 minutes
Episodes	14 in 2 seasons
genre	Sitcom , Britcom
Director	John Birkin
idea	Ben Elton
script	Ben Elton
production	Geoffrey Perkins , Ben Elton
music	Howard Goodall
First broadcast	November 13, 1995 on BBC One
German-language first broadcast	September 18, 1996 on ProSieben
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synchronization

Inspector Fowler - Harder Than the Police Allowed (English: The Thin Blue Line ) is a sitcom produced in 1995 and 1996 by Tiger Aspect Productions in the UK , starring Rowan Atkinson .

action

Police Inspector (in Germany roughly a police superintendent) Raymond Fowler is the head of the police station in the fictional English town of Gasforth. He is a very conscientious police officer who loves his job. Fowler always interprets laws and regulations extremely meticulously, just as important to him are an impeccable appearance, good manners and a well-chosen language. Since his employees and colleagues have a rather lax attitude in these matters, Fowler is constantly forced to admonish and teach. Sometimes he talks himself so furiously that he makes a fool of himself towards his colleagues. Fowler isn't too popular with them because of his nitpicking. Fowler's private life also suffers from his pedantic manner and from the fact that he puts his job above everything and overlooks or ignores the (sexual) wishes of his partner and colleague Police Sergeant Patricia Dawkins. Fowler also has a son from a previous (failed) marriage.

Fowler's closest collaborators are the three Police Constables Goody, Habib and Gladstone. Constable Kevin Goody is a young, very incompetent cop. With his childish, clumsy manner, he often gets on the nerves of his colleagues, above all Constable Habib, with whom Goody is in love and who keeps pissing them off with his awkward advances. Constable Maggie Habib is a young, attractive and intelligent police officer. She's got used to blocking Goody's advances, but she also feels a little sorry for him. Third in the league is the older and very experienced Constable Gladstone. He comes from Trinidad and can already look back on a long police career. Since he thinks he has already seen everything in his job, hardly anything disturbs him. In investigative work, he usually excels with irrelevant, strange, or sexist comments, much to the irritation of his superior Fowler.

There is a certain rivalry between the uniformed police officers and the criminal police. Especially with Detective Inspector (detective inspector) Derek Grim, the head of the Criminal Police (CID) of Gasforth, there are often friction. He is choleric and often gets bogged down in incoherent tirades of ranting outbursts. Grim thinks police officers are superior to their uniformed colleagues, which often leads to arguments with Inspector Fowler. His wish to be promoted to Scotland Yard and leave Gasforth is never fulfilled for Grim, as he is a rather inept criminalist. Detective Constable Kray is Inspector Grim's closest collaborator in episodes 1 through 7. From episode 8 he is replaced by Detective Constable Boyle.

Cast and dubbing

The synchronization of Inspector Fowler took place at Rainer Brandt Filmproduktions GmbH in Berlin.

Role name	Actress	Episodes	Voice actor
Inspector Raymond Fowler, QPM	Rowan Atkinson	1-14	Wilfried Herbst
Constable Kevin Goody	James Dreyfus	1-14	Oliver Field
Constable Maggie Habib	Mina Anwar	1-14	Andrea Aust
Constable Frank Gladstone	Rudolph Walker	1-14	Roland Hemmo
Police Sergeant Patricia Dawkins	Serena Evans	1-14	Philine Peters-Arnolds
Detective Inspector Derek Grim	David Haig	1-14	Klaus Dieter Klebsch
Detective Constable Robert Kray	Kevin Allen	1-7	Charles Rettinghaus
Detective Constable Gary Boyle	Mark Addy	8-14	Tobias Master
Detective Constable Crockett	Joy Brook	1-14
Dame Cristabelle Wickham	Lucy Robinson	1-14

Guest stars

Many well-known British actors have made guest appearances on the series. Ben Elton , Stephen Fry , Stephen Moore , Melvyn Hayes , Trevor Peacock , Colin McFarlane , Alan Cox , Alexander Armstrong , Nicola Stapleton , Perry Fenwick and Rupert Vansittart, among others .

Charisma

In Great Britain, the series was first broadcast on November 13, 1995 and ended on December 23, 1996 on BBC One . The first season of the Christmas episode premiered on December 26, 1995.

In Germany, it was first broadcast on September 18, 1996 on ProSieben . The series was repeated on Premiere Comedy , Super RTL , ORF 2 (in Austria) and SF Zwei (in Switzerland).

Episode list

publication

Great Britain

Published in Great Britain by Vision Video Ltd. both seasons on DVD. Season 1 episodes are in a different order on disc than they are on television.

Germany

For the German-speaking market, three VHS cassettes with episodes of the series were released by PolyGram Video. Polyband released a DVD on April 25, 2014. The DVD box contains all episodes of the series in the original and in German; There are no subtitles. These are also available in Switzerland and Austria.

Worldwide

In the USA the series was released on DVD by BBC Warner.

Web links

• Inspector Fowler in the British Comedy Guide
• Inspector Fowler - Tougher than the police allow theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Inspector Fowler at TV.com
• Inspector Fowler - Harder than the police allow at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Inspector Fowler. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 21, 2015 .