Homicide Squad (TV series, 1973)
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Homicide squad |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1973-1975 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 26 in two seasons |
| genre | Crime series |
| Director | Kurt Wilhelm (season 1) Wolfgang Schleif (season 2) |
| script | Carl Darrow |
| music | Raimund Rosenberger |
| First broadcast | 17th October 1973 |
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Mordkommission was a 26-part ZDF pre-evening series that was produced in two seasons of 13 episodes in 1973/74 and broadcast in 1975.
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The Munich criminal police under Chief Inspector Georg Wieker are investigating various homicides in the Bavarian capital. Wieker's criminalistic abilities earned him the nickname "The Magician" among his colleagues . In the first season he heads the homicide squad, in the second he is promoted to "coordinator" and solves most of the cases from his desk.
Others
Since Wieker can clarify the majority of the cases in the presidium, the series comes up with a few exterior shots. The interior shots were shot in the studios of the television studio Munich Atelierbetriebs-GmbH in Unterföhring. There were special studio cameras for this purpose under the direction of Alois Nitsche. The camera work for the exterior shots was in the hands of Bernhard Stebich (season 1) and Wolfgang Schallon (season 2).
Both squadrons have in common the large number of investigating officers and other continuous role figures.
Fritz Strassner , seen in the second season as KHK Rosskamp, already had a guest role in the episode Confession in season 1. In episode 25 of the second season ( Capers of Society ) Carola Regnier , the eldest daughter of Charles Regnier and Pamela Wedekind , took part. The most frequent guest actor was Götz Olaf Rausch with four appearances in both seasons.
This series has nothing to do with the ZDF series of the same name , which was created in the late 1990s and was broadcast from 1998 to 2000.
Episode list
season 1
season 2
| No. (total) | No. (season) | First broadcast | title | Guest actors (selection) |
| 14th | 1 | March 19, 1975 | Professional on a trip | Jan Groth , Mathias Hell , Thomas Reiner |
| 15th | 2 | March 26, 1975 | Pin in a haystack | Günther Clemens , Ursula Erber , Felicitas Peters , Max Grießer |
| 16 | 3 | April 2nd, 1975 | Climbing Sunday | Uschi Blauth , Oliver Domnick , Bernd Helfrich |
| 17th | 4th | April 9, 1975 | payday | Werner Abrolat , Imo Heite , Harry Raymon |
| 18th | 5 | April 16, 1975 | The hot cell | Michael Hoffmann, Götz Olaf Rausch , Herbert Tiede |
| 19th | 6th | April 23, 1975 | Frau Dannheisser's fault | Horst Jüssen , Klaus Krüger , Lilith Ungerer |
| 20th | 7th | April 30, 1975 | End of a career | Michael Stippe , Hans Zander |
| 21st | 8th | May 7th 1975 | doppelganger | Gernot Duda , Gundy Grand , Stefan Miller |
| 22nd | 9 | May 14, 1975 | Expert in murder | Anita Höfer , Helmut Schneider , Wolf Ackva |
| 23 | 10 | May 21, 1975 | Pasha's last show | Astrid Fournell , Walter Hoor , Götz Olaf Rausch , Herbert Tiede |
| 24 | 11 | May 28, 1975 | Bomb alibi | Elma Karlowa , Frank Nossack , Edwige Pierre |
| 25th | 12 | 4th June 1975 | Society's capers | Inge Langen , Carola Regnier , Gerhart Lippert |
| 26th | 13 | June 11th 1975 | amok | Marius Aicher , Ingrid Fröhlich , Wilfried Klaus |
Reviews
The crime thriller website judges this series as unflattering : On the one hand, the "studio flair" is criticized, on the other hand props, such as B. a rubber hand clearly recognizable as such, which protrudes from the earth in one episode. At the end of a career , it is the obvious head of a mannequin "with a wig from the special offer" that gives rise to involuntary comedy. The conviction expressed by director Kurt Wilhelm in an interview with a TV magazine that he has produced a "decent competitor product " for the series Der Kommissar is almost "grotesque" . Literal conclusion of the crime thriller homepage : "Absolute trash, only suitable for fans of studio flair and die- hard Charles Regnier fans!"
The television lexicon cuts into a similar notch: "Wieker lets the suspects dance one after the other in his office and predominantly combines them from his desk. This is the fastest way (and the cheapest in the production of the series), because actually all that matters is that the files can disappear in the closet. "
Web links
- Homicide in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The crime thriller homepage (a lot of background information, information on cast and staff, episode list and guide for all 26 episodes with brief synopsis)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The crime thriller homepage
- ↑ tvprogramme.net identifies this episode as broadcast on November 14, 1973
- ↑ Michael Reufsteck / Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon, 2005