John Kling's adventure
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | John Kling's adventure |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1965-1970 |
| Production company |
TV Union Berlin |
| length | 25 minutes each |
| Episodes | 26 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Agent series |
| Director |
Hans-Georg Thiemt Kurt Ullrich Franz Marischka |
| idea | Heinz Krafft u. a. |
| script | CM Sharland |
| music | Gerhard Narholz |
| camera |
Michael Marszalek Josef Pavek |
| First broadcast | October 13, 1965 on ZDF |
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John Klings Abenteuer is the title of a German television series based on a series of novels. The half-hour episodes ran in 1965/66 (1st season, 13 episodes) and 1969/70 (2nd season, 13 further episodes) on Wednesdays in the ZDF evening program. They were produced in the Hamburg-Bendestorf and CCC-Studios Berlin studios . The film was shot in black and white .
action
John Kling and Jones Burthe, played by Hellmut Lange and Uwe Friedrichsen , formed a pair of agents who also took on the most dangerous jobs around the globe. The deed happened at the beginning of each episode, then the opening credits with series title and follow-up title ran out. Then the two protagonists sat in the office of some police or intelligence chief who turned to them with the words: " I have an assignment for you, John Kling ... ".
The two had to solve exciting and dangerous cases worldwide. For example, in (communist) Hungary to solve the mysterious death of a functionary ( episode 3: The Pünköschky case ), arrest a bank robber in Italy ( episode 4: the perpetrator is known ) or protect an Arab monarch from an assassination attempt in Germany ( episode 8 : The assassination ). Some places where the events occurred were not even mentioned or were fictitious, e.g. B. the Arab country Sabria .
John Kling's adventures were based on the longstanding novel series , the first edition of which was published in 1926. The authors were Heinz Krafft, Paul Pitt, Max Wing, Hermann Falk. She combined the basis of a series of novels with the similarly structured series Percy Stuart , with which she also alternately shared the transmission slot .
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Night express | Oct 13, 1965 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 2 | 2 | The man in the suitcase | Oct. 20, 1965 | Kurt Ulrich | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 3 | 3 | The Pünköschky case | Oct 27, 1965 | Franz Marischka | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 4th | 4th | The perpetrator is known | Nov 3, 1965 | Franz Marischka | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 5 | 5 | Twenty-four hours deadline | Nov 10, 1965 | Franz Marischka | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 6th | 6th | Snow from France | Nov 24, 1965 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 7th | 7th | Dangerous souvenir | Dec. 1, 1965 | Kurt Ulrich | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 8th | 8th | The assassination | Dec 8, 1965 | Kurt Ulrich | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 9 | 9 | Hunt the gang of cats | Dec 15, 1965 | Kurt Ulrich | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 10 | 10 | In secret mission | Dec 22, 1965 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 11 | 11 | blossoms | December 29, 1965 | Franz Marischka | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 12 | 12 | The art collectors | Jan. 5, 1966 | Franz Marischka | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 13 | 13 | goldfish | Jan. 12, 1966 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th | 1 | Business friends | Jan. 17, 1969 | - | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 15th | 2 | Greetings from the beyond | Dec. 31, 1969 | - | Karl Heinz Zeitler |
| 16 | 3 | The partisan | Jan. 7, 1970 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Rolf Honold |
| 17th | 4th | The death row inmate | Jan. 14, 1970 | - | - |
| 18th | 5 | the second Life | Jan. 21, 1970 | - | - |
| 19th | 6th | Reluctant order | Jan. 28, 1970 | - | - |
| 20th | 7th | Death in the wrong hands | Feb. 4, 1970 | - | - |
| 21st | 8th | Alpha four | Feb 11, 1970 | Hans-Georg Thiemt | Rolf Honold |
| 22nd | 9 | The Seton story | Feb. 18, 1970 | - | - |
| 23 | 10 | The vacation with Renate | Feb 25, 1970 | - | - |
| 24 | 11 | Puppet shows | 4th Mar 1970 | ||
| 25th | 12 | The blind shark | 11th Mar 1970 | - | - |
| 26th | 13 | A bride for Mr. Burthe | 18 Mar 1970 | - | - |
Guest appearances
A large number of film and television actors could be seen in the individual episodes, including Karl-Ulrich Meves , Claus Wilcke , Lothar Grützner , Marianne Wischmann , Franz Rudnick , Hans W. Hamacher , Ilse Pagé , Otto Sander , Gytta Schubert , Rolf Marnitz , Robert Dietl or Horst Poenichen .
Reviews
"The series, which was probably created in the wake of the German crime fever in the cinema ( Wallace ) and television ( Durbridge ), remains in terms of tension and quality, however, behind ARD -competing productions such as" Kommissar Freytag "with Konrad Georg or" The strange methods of Franz Josef Wanninger " with Beppo Brem . In guest roles you hardly ever see familiar faces. "
literature
- Marcus Payk: The fear of the agents. The Cold War in the West German TV series "John Klings Abenteuer" (1965–1970) . In: Bernd Greiner , Christian Th. Müller, Dierk Walter (eds.): Fear in the Cold War . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2009, pp. 375–396.