Police radio calling

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Television series
Original title Police radio calling
Country of production Germany ,
Japan and France (only 2nd season)
original language German
Year (s) 1966-1970
length 25 minutes
Episodes 52 in 4 seasons
genre Crime series
production Gyula Trebitsch
music Heinz Funk (1st and 4th season),
Manfred Hübler (2nd season),
Gérard Calvi (French episodes),
Isao Tomita (Japanese episodes)
First broadcast December 5, 1966 on German television
occupation

Polizeifunk ruft is a 52-part crime series and was the continuation of the Hafenpolizei series . It was broadcast on German television ( Norddeutsche Werbefernsehen und Werbefunk GmbH ) in the second half of the 1960s in the early evening program of ARD .

action

The focus of the action is Walter Hartmann, who over the course of the 52 episodes works his way up from a motorized patrolman (known as the " White Mouse ") to a criminal investigator and is confronted with a wide variety of cases in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg . His teacher is the senior inspector Koldehoff, who heads the district's criminal investigation department. Together with him and his colleagues from Kripo Schlüter or Bollmann and the district chief Kröger, Hartmann solves every serious case. In the 4th season, Commissioner Koldehoff is transferred, he becomes head of the robbery department. Commissioner Castorp will succeed him.

In the second season, Hartmann is allowed to take part in two police exchange programs and so he and his foreign colleagues solve five cases in France and two cases even in Japan .

useful information

The series had four seasons of 13 episodes each. The first 13 episodes were shot in black and white. When the film was also shot abroad from the second season onwards, color production was switched to, which was still very expensive at the time. From the end of 2013, Anixe broadcast a few episodes.

Guest and episode roles

In episode roles and guest appearances, Vivi Bach , Eva Maria Bauer , Jan Fedder , Uwe Friedrichsen , Evelyn Hamann , Jan Hendriks , Walter Jokisch , Harald Juhnke , Volkert Kraeft , Doris Kunstmann , Klaus Löwitsch , Otto Lüthje , Evelyn Meyka , Erna Raupach- Petersen , Rolf Schimpf , Peer Schmidt , Dietmar Schönherr , Eleonore Schroth , Ellen Schwiers , Gisela Uhlen , Günther Ungeheuer , Henry Vahl , Judy Winter and Rolf Zacher .

Production team

The Austrian director Hermann Leitner staged all 52 episodes. He oversaw the production of the seven episodes that were shot abroad, with a French director (Paul Paviot) and a Japanese director (Toshihiro Jijima) at his side. The scriptwriters were Gustav Kampendonk , Günter Dönges, René Wheeler, Mamoru Sasaki, Bruno Hampel and Inge Dorsky. The producer was Gyula Trebitsch with his Studio Hamburg production.

Successor series

The characters Hartmann, Schlüter and Castorp were taken over into the 52-part series Hamburg Transit , which was also produced by Studio Hamburg from 1970 to 1974 , but they no longer appeared in all episodes.

Others

The two actors Günter Lüdke and Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum as well as other actors in episode roles (see guest roles) were known as members of the ensemble from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .

DVD release

The complete series was released in 2009 as a seven-part DVD edition by Studio Hamburg Enterprises .

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