Chicago watchword

Television series
Original title	Chicago watchword
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1979
length	25 minutes
Episodes	13
First broadcast	September 24, 1979 on ARD, today Das Erste
occupation
Christoph Waltz : Ede Gottfried Vollmer : Harry Monika John : Ede's mother Susanne Herlet : Dorothee Tatjana Blacher : Selma Lisa Helwig : Grandma Joachim Wichmann : Ede's boss

Parole Chicago is the title of an early evening series on the First German Television , which was produced and broadcast in 1979 by Südwestfunk and directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky with 13 episodes. The literary model was provided by Henry Slesar with Ruby Martinson. 14 stories about the world's greatest unsuccessful criminal .

action

The focus of the series, which takes place in Berlin around 1930, is the two small crooks Harry and Ede. Harry, who actually works as an apprentice for a tax consultant, sees himself as the ingenious head of the gang, his cousin, the somewhat naive Ede, works as an errand boy for a clothing store. The two conspiratorial meeting point is a café, where they regularly consume chocolate Americans and raspberry lemonade. Entanglements are caused by Harry's misleading thug jargon - he always demands that Ede use the “Chicago parole” on the phone - and Edward's mostly unsuccessful approaches to the opposite sex. All planned raids fail because of the shortcomings of the two would-be crooks.

Episodes

1. The thing with the earring - EA September 24, 1979
2. A surefire trick - EA October 1, 1979
3. That thing at the dentist - EA October 8, 1979
4. Man's Best Friend - EA October 15, 1979
5. The Abduction - EA October 22, 1979
6. The Poisoned Letter - EA October 29, 1979
7. The bank robbery - EA November 5, 1979
8. Two irons in the fire - EA November 12, 1979
9. The Chef's Watch - EA November 19, 1979
10. The big art theft - EA November 26, 1979
11. The birthday present - EA December 3, 1979
12. The commission sale - EA December 10, 1979
13. A quick Reichsmark - EA December 17, 1979

literature

• Henry Slesar: Ruby Martinson. 14 stories about the world's greatest unsuccessful criminal, told by a friend ("Ruby Martinson"). Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-257-01535-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kabeleins.de/serien_shows/serienlexikon/verbindungen/index.php/serial/details/2511
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165590/
3. ↑ http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=510

Web links

• Parole Chicago in the Internet Movie Database (English)