Men without nerves
Men without Nerves was a comedy series in 74 parts that presented silent short film comedies from the 1910s and 1920s with new German-language commentaries and dialogues. It was broadcast from March 7, 1975 to April 27, 1979 in the pre-evening program of ZDF .
Leading actors included Larry Semon , Charley Chase , Billy Bevan , Max Davidson , Snub Pollard , Billy West , Bobby Vernon , Jack Duffy , Jimmie Adams , Neal Burns , Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel (all in solo films). The comments were alternately spoken by Hans Jürgen Diedrich and Hanns Dieter Hüsch in the voice-over process .
Heinz Caloué and Gert Mechoff were responsible for the series . The theme music was composed by Quirin Amper Jr. and Fred Strittmatter . The musical preparation was done by Jiří Kanzelsberger .
Initially, "Men without Nerves" was shown together with Two Gentlemen fat and stupid , from 1976 also with short episodes of Fathers of Clothes and from 1979 with master scenes at 6:40 pm. From 1981 repetitions followed at 6:20 p.m. together with master scenes of the clothes . At the beginning of the 1980s, some short films were shown again in a new version within the series “Meisterszenen der Klamotte” and in the mid-1980s as new episodes of “Fathers of Clothes”.
The opening credits consisted of many slapstick scenes cut together , between which the text panels "Drama", "Love" and "Wahnsinn" were faded in. The scenes included shooting, a man fell into a full bathtub, a car broke through fences, Buster Keaton walked in the paddle wheel of a steamer and a motorcyclist drove through the wall of a house. The scenes were taken from the short films The Sky Pirate (1914), Racing Mad (1928), Horseshoes (1923), Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925), My Wife's Relations (1922), Convict 13 (1920), The Jolly Jilter (1927), The Waiters' Ball (1916), Daydreams (1922) and A Clever Dummy (1917). The credits were reserved for Al St. John , better known as "Fuzzy", who kissed the audience as a racing driver in an accident (also from Racing Mad ).