Match Ball (TV Series)
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Match point |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 1994 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
| genre | Drama , family series |
| Theme music | Win or lose from LB Horn |
| Director | Ralf Gregan |
| idea | Karlheinz Freynik |
| German-language first broadcast |
April 11, 1994 on RTL |
Matchball is a German television series that was broadcast on RTL in 1994 . The main character of the series, which first aired on April 11, 1994, was, in one of his few acting roles, the pop singer Howard Carpendale .
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Johnny Storm ( Howard Carpendale ) is an aging professional tennis player who has not yet come to terms with the end of his career. He is doggedly working on a comeback when Daniel turns up, his secret son, whom he did not know before, whose mother is in custody. Johnny wants to take responsibility as a father for the minor, while at the same time not giving up his ambitious comeback attempt in professional tennis.
occupation
- Howard Carpendale as Johnny Storm
- Joachim Kemmer as Archibald Bronski
- Friedrich Detering as Daniel List
- Eva Scheurer as Heidi List
- Mijou Kovacs as Jessica Favier
- Liesa Schober as Lisa Favier
- Karin Eickelbaum as Gloria Lundin
- Ralph Schicha as Frederic Lund
- Sascha Wohlatz as Francesco
- Jörg Pleva as Ludwig Kramer
publication
The series was first broadcast on RTL Television from April 11, 1994 to June 20, 1994. The following year, it was broadcast on its sister broadcaster SuperRTL . The last time the series was seen on television was in 2008 on the RTL Passion pay station . Since then, there has been no further broadcast on German television.
As early as 2005, all episodes of the series were released on DVD, with various individual boxes that only ever contained 2 to 3 episodes.
The television jewels company plans to release the series as a complete box on April 20, 2018.
Trivia
After Roy Black in Ein Schloss am Wörthersee and Chris Roberts in Almenrausch and powder snow , Howard Carpendale was the third pop singer that RTL was able to win for an acting role or the lead role in a television series with this series in the early 1990s.
Web links
- Match point in the Internet Movie Database (English)