Pronto Salvatore
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pronto Salvatore |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1988 to 1991 |
| length | 5 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Every day |
| genre | Game show |
| Moderation | Franco Campana |
| First broadcast | August 28, 1988 on RTL Plus |
Pronto Salvatore or Spiel mit Salvatore was a game show or a call-in competition on RTL Plus .
In the show, which was broadcast from 1988 to 1991, the actor Franco Campana appeared as the shady shell player Salvatore wearing sunglasses with a strong Italian accent. The program, which lasted only a few minutes, was always switched when not enough spots could be acquired for the advertising blocks announced in the program preview and the resulting breaks had to be filled with program. For an initial profit of 50 DM , a viewer put through to the studio via a normal telephone call (there were still no premium numbers ) had to recognize under which of three nutshells Salvatore had placed his ball. If the viewer was correct, they could either stop or play more rounds instead, in which they could double their winnings or lose everything. The end of the program was regularly announced by the siren of an Italian police car. In later broadcasts, instead of the shell game, Salvatore also played the trick games caraway leaves and chain laying with viewers.
Although originally intended as a break, the show quickly achieved cult status and Campana was invited to various television shows such as that of Margarethe Schreinemakers and that of Harald Schmidt . Pronto Salvatore was the first program in the history of RTL Plus to achieve a rating of over one million viewers.
Web links
- Broadcast recording on YouTube
- Pronto Salvatore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on IMDb.de, accessed on January 10, 2009.
- ↑ Information on the broadcast on wunschliste.de, accessed on January 10, 2009.