Emergency Call (TV Series)
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Emergency call |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1992-2006 |
| Production company |
Endemol |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly (Sundays 7:10 p.m.) |
| genre | Documentary soap |
| Moderation | Hans Meiser |
| First broadcast | February 6, 1992 on RTL |
Notruf was a German reality show series broadcast over 14.5 years by the private television broadcaster RTL , which dealt with aid organizations in the rescue operation.
content
Each week four new stories were presented that had actually happened. The accidents were re-enacted with those involved at the original locations. The emergency call also contained comments from those involved in the rescue operation, and the moderator and his camera team often watched the fire brigade, the Technical Relief Organization (THW), the German Air Rescue Service (now DRF Luftrettung) and other rescuers.
“Don't look the other way, but help” or “Everyone can help” was the motto of the show, which was moderated by Hans Meiser and produced by Endemol . The moderation took place from a wide variety of locations, such as rescue control centers and warehouses, but also on the motorway, from the mountains and underground. Notruf was broadcast at regular intervals from February 6, 1992 to August 27, 2006, after which production was completely stopped.
Meiser's company creatv produced the emergency call daily branch in 1998 .
Under the title Help me! the broadcast format was briefly revived with ten episodes on RTL in August 2009.
criticism
Like similar formats, the program was often criticized, on the one hand because rescue services and the police were used to serve commercial purposes, and on the other hand because the portrayal of the injuries was often drastic and seemed suitable to frighten young TV viewers.
Trivia
- The model for emergency calls was the US program Rescue 911 (1989–1996). In the beginning, in addition to the self-produced contributions, contributions from the US series dubbed in German were also broadcast. In the UK, the broadcast format was called 999 and aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2003 .
- In 1992, the television station Sat.1 also tried a reality show series with Retter , which dealt with aid organizations in the rescue operation. In contrast to the emergency call , the cases were not re-enacted for television, but instead they were filmed directly from the accident or accident site. The program, which was moderated by Sat.1 chief reporter Christoph Scheule, could not build on the success of Notruf and was taken off the program in 1994.
franchise
Various fan articles were marketed for the broadcast, such as a first aid book, model vehicles from Herpa , a CD with the music for the TV series and a video cassette with the “most spectacular and unbelievable cases”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help me! - RTL digs out emergency calls
- ↑ Günther Bähr: “Perverse Framework Program”. In: Focus Online . February 15, 1993, accessed April 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Helga Theunert, Bernd Schorb: Mordbilder: Children and television information. (Excerpt) ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 553 kB), accessed on April 17, 2020
- ^ Christian Richter: The TV cemetery: "Emergency call" in real and without Hans Meiser. In: quotenmeter.de. March 14, 2013, accessed April 17, 2020 .