Kim & Co.
| Television series | |
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| German title | Kim & Co |
| Original title | Kim & Co |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Germany , Austria , France |
| original language | English |
| year | 1974/75 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Children's and youth series |
| production |
Otto Boris Dworak Padhraic O'Dochartaigh |
| music | Ron Grainer |
| German-language first broadcast |
October 19, 1975 on ZDF |
| occupation | |
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Kim & Co. is a British-German-Austrian-French youth television series from 1974, which was first broadcast in Germany from October 1975. It is very loosely based on the " Detective Kim " novels by Bengt Janus Nielsen alias Jens K. Holm . Two seasons of 13 episodes were produced.
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Kim Anderson and his friends, the energetic Katja, the impulsive, somewhat inexperienced Erik and the photography-loving “intelligence stud” Brillo, are students from Copenhagen . On behalf of the publisher Karl Rasmussen, they travel across Europe to advertise Kim's autobiographical adventure books or to experience new adventures that can later be cannibalized in literary terms. In doing so, they repeatedly end up in dangerous situations in which they sometimes act as a detective. Places of action are, for example, Paris , Bordeaux , London , Edinburgh , Lübeck , Munich , Vienna or the caves of Les Eyzies . In the last episode, Rasmussen pursues the grandiose plan to turn the now famous Kim & Co into movie stars. The four take this as an opportunity to instead dissolve the team and take care of their respective future.
General information about the series
The internationally usable series name Kim & Co. goes back to the title of the very first "Detective Kim" novel from 1957. The first season was produced by Antrobus Film (UK), Iduna-Film (Munich) and Studio-Film (Vienna). For the production of the second season Antrobus Film was replaced by Antenne-2 (Paris), whereby there was still British participation behind the camera. The series was shot in English and then dubbed into German, with at least David Friedmann and Thomas Astan speaking themselves. The catchy, partly whistled theme tune was written by Ron Grainer , who also wrote the theme music for the Doctor Who series . David Maloney and Jan Darnley-Smith took turns directing for the first season, with CM Pennington-Richards replacing episode 12 . The director of all episodes of the second season was the Austrian Wolf Dietrich . Kim & Co only traveled to cities in the participating production countries in the series, popular European travel destinations such as Italy or Spain were thus left out.
actor
In the television series, three of the four young protagonists were played by British. Leading actor Simon Fisher Turner had already released a pop album in 1973 under the aegis of Jonathan King and is now a successful film and television composer. The actor of Brillo, David Friedman (n) , is German and had previously played Kasperl in The Robber Hotzenplotz . Today he works as a journalist at BR . With Thomas Astan (Rasmussen), another German actors participated regularly, which mainly by rolling in numerous crime shows like Derrick or The Commissioner memorizing. Other well-known German and Austrian actors who made guest appearances in the series were Ingrid van Bergen , Herbert Fux , Towje Kleiner (as a crook trio in episode 11), Dieter Schidor (episode 13), Ivan Desny (episode 22), Adrian Hoven (episode 24) and Kurt Jaggberg (episode 25).
Differences between the two seasons
In the first season, Kim & Co dealt with professional crooks more often than in the second. The palette of delinquents ranged from caricature-like idiots to ice-cold killers (episode 8). In two of the early episodes (episodes 7 and 8) Katja is absent for an unknown reason. While too much action was sometimes packed into the short episodes at the beginning, the second season was noticeably more leisurely. Kim & Co now moved around on mopeds, interpersonal relationships were more in the foreground, and the (sometimes not at all) bad guys looked more like "real life". The young Frenchman Jean-Luc joined the group as a new figure and became friends with the quartet. a. worked as a sailing instructor in a youth camp. For three episodes, the pretty Claire also put the relationship between Kim and Brillo and Kim and Katja to the test, which was implemented rather half-heartedly.
Differences from the Detective Kim books
The character Glasses from the books was renamed Brillo for the series. The name has already nothing to do with the visual aid, but rather something with a " brill distinctive head." In fact, Brillo is also pronounced in English in some cases in the German dubbing of the series (with retroflex R). Kim's Lübeck publisher, Karl Rasmussen, who is explicitly referred to as German in the series despite his name, is the TV counterpart to the fictional character Otto Rasmussen. He is a Dane and publisher of a book by Kim's uncle Carlo and visits the family. This is how they get to know each other. (Chapter "25 crowns are a lot of money" in the book "Detective Kim from Copenhagen" 3rd edition 1984, Pelikan AG, ISBN 3-8144-1204-4 ). Kim himself was given the family name Anderson for the television series (not Andersen, as you would expect from a Dane). The name is mentioned several times and can also be seen on a telegram in episode 18.
Charisma
The first season was first broadcast on ZDF from October 19, 1975 to January 11, 1976, the second from October 13, 1976 to January 12, 1977 . The episodes were repeated on ZDF and 3sat .
DVD release
The first season was released on December 8, 2017, the second on February 23, 2018 on PIDAX film. Each season includes two DVDs with a total playing time of 325 minutes.
Radio plays
Based on the television series, six radio plays were also created, which were released on three LPs and MCs by Ariola in the 1970s :
- The locker in Copenhagen / The fishing boat and the art thieves
- Always these pictures / adventures in the mountains
- The guy with the silver boots / kidnapped
For each of the 18-minute episodes (one on the A and one on the B side), original dialogues from the television series were combined with narrative texts. Two to three episodes of the television series were nested with one another in a chaotic manner per episode.
List of episodes of the television series
1st season
- Have you ever finished alone? (Location: Copenhagen)
- Have you ever hit the bull's eye? (Location: Copenhagen)
- Have you ever stumbled? (Location: Lübeck)
- Have you ever enjoyed art? (Location: Lübeck / Hamburg)
- Have you ever dug in the sand? (Setting: Danish coast)
- Have you ever played howling buoy? (Setting: London)
- Ever heard of Waterloo? (Setting: Edinburgh)
- Have you ever made a big catch? (Location: Mull)
- Have you ever been scared? (Setting: Blackpool)
- Ever tried to get rid of a bird? (Setting: London)
- Have you ever visited relatives? (Location: Munich /?)
- Have you ever fallen off your bike? (Place of action: State of Salzburg)
- Have you ever had to sing? (Location: Salzburg)
2nd season
- Have you ever been annoyed about a workshop? (Setting: Paris)
- Have you ever gone swimming? (Setting: Bordeaux)
- Have you ever followed girls? (Setting: Bordeaux)
- Have you ever made a find? (Location: Liorac-sur-Louyre / Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil)
- Have you ever been amazed at building blocks? (Location: Bordeaux / Liorac-sur-Louyre /?)
- Have you ever been broke? (Setting: Paris)
- Have you ever made up a horse? (Location: Bavaria)
- Have you ever been connected incorrectly? (Place of action: border area Germany / Austria)
- Have you ever missed football? (Location: Vienna and the surrounding area)
- Have you ever washed glasses? (Location: Vienna)
- Have you ever had a silver look? (Place of action: "Rauenstein Castle" = Finstergrün Castle in Ramingstein)
- Ever done a hot stove? (Location: Bavaria)
- Have you ever hunted green men? (Location: Munich)
Web links
- Kim & Co. at Fernsehserien.de
- Kim & Co. in the Internet Movie Database (English)