Psych

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Television series
German title Psych
Original title Psych
Psych.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2006-2014
Production
company		 Universal Cable Productions ,
Pacific Mountain Films
Tagline Television
length 42 minutes
Episodes 121 in 8 seasons ( List )
genre Crime , comedy
Theme music I Know, You Know - The Friendly Indians
idea Steve Franks
music Adam Cohen
John Robert Wood
First broadcast July 7, 2006 (USA) on USA Network
German-language
first broadcast		 October 25, 2007 on 3+
main actor
supporting cast
synchronization

Psych is an American crime series about the investigations of detective and alleged psychic Shawn Spencer and his partner Burton Guster. It consists of eight squadrons with a total of 121 episodes, including the approximately 90-minute musical - TV movie Psych: The Musical and a subsequent film Psych: The Movie end of 2017 .

It was first broadcast from July 7, 2006 to March 26, 2014 on the USA Network cable channel . In Switzerland, 3+ showed the series from October 25, 2007; the broadcast on German television began on October 30, 2007 on RTL .

action

Shawn Spencer is a young man living in Santa Barbara doing odd jobs. Equipped with an exceptional power of observation, he first recognizes important clues in television reports of crime scenes and communicates them to the police over the phone. One day he is targeted by the investigators himself and is arrested as a suspect. To get out of the situation, he claims to be a medium . He received the information through supernatural perceptions.

Although the officials remain skeptical, Shawn is hired as a spiritual advisor for the case and is able to solve it with the help of his friend Burton "Gus" Guster. The two then found the Psych agency , in which Shawn poses as a clairvoyant detective. In the course of time, the police station repeatedly passed cases to the two of them.

Most of the episodes do not feature violence, the focus is on Shawn's observations at the crime scene and other key locations. The moments before the act are reconstructed from flashbacks, comments and pieces of evidence in the course of the plot.

characters

Shawn Spencer

Shawn Spencer is the son of former Police Superintendent Henry Spencer and police psychologist Madeleine Spencer, who has a photographic memory for her hearing. Henry has been preparing Shawn for a career as a police officer since he was eight and specifically trained the boy's extraordinary comprehension, mostly through tasks from everyday life. At the age of 15, Shawn scored the highest score of 100 on the Detectives exam.

Madeleine divorced Henry for elsewhere in the job after Shawn graduated from Leland Bosseigh High School in Santa Barbara in 1995. However, Henry tells Shawn he tried to get a divorce to protect Madeleine's interests. Shawn opposes his father's plans, turns his back on the police and keeps himself afloat with odd jobs.

Psych is the first job he can keep permanently. Instead of interrogations, testimony and bureaucracy, Shawn relies on ingenuity, his powers of observation and Burton Guster's expertise. In the absence of “real” fortune-telling skills, Shawn makes use of simple observations that he can call up at any time and skillfully link.

Burton Guster

Burton "Gus" Guster has known Shawn since he was a child. He's actually a pharmaceutical salesman, but at the beginning of the series, Shawn often interrupts his work to help with a case. Burton is considered very reliable and fears that Shawn's visits will result in losing his job. He later becomes Shawn's business partner and officially helps with the cases, always trying to make Psych appear serious. Gus contributes to the solution of many cases mainly through his broad general knowledge and his keen sense of smell. A running gag of the series are the "aliases" Gusters, which Shawn usually gives him when interviewing people.

Carlton Lassiter

Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter is a senior detective in the Santa Barbara Police Department. He doesn't like Shawn and doesn't take his role as a medium away from him. Lassiter has to fall back on Shawn's services twice (episodes 19 and 29) in the second season, which he regards as a personal defeat. He is considered a gun fanatic and connoisseur who makes extensive use of his firearms. Also, he went through a divorce.

Juliet O'Hara

Juliet "Jules" O'Hara is a young police officer. In the second episode, she is transferred from Miami Beach to Santa Barbara and named Detective Lassiter's new colleague after Shawn uncovered his relationship with his previous partner. She admires Shawn and is open to his unconventional investigative methods. She suspects that he is not a medium, but cannot shake off the last doubts. Although O'Hara is professionally equal to Lassiter over the course of the second season, he does not like to hand over cases to her and often keeps her busy with tedious research.

Chief Karen Vick

Karen C. Vick (nee Dunlap) is the head of the Santa Barbara Police Department. She is considered strict but fair, and she is reluctant to hire Shawn and Burton at the start of a new case. But Shawn usually manages to convince them that he is useful.

Henry W. Spencer

Henry William Spencer Jr. is the father of Shawn, a former police officer (sergeant) and trained his son to become a police officer himself since he was a child. He was tough on him and hardly praised him, which eventually led to his son moving out. He was the cop who arrested Shawn as a teenager after he stole a car for a girl, although he knows that the resulting criminal record will never make Shawn a cop. At the beginning of the series, Shawn and Henry have no contact with each other. But over time, Shawn keeps asking his father for help.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was created under the dialogue book and under the dialogue direction of Michael Nowka by the dubbing company Hermes Synchron GmbH in Potsdam .

main actor
role actor Voice actor 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th Episodes
Shawn Spencer James Roday Robin Kahnmeyer 1.01-8.10 121
Burton "Gus" Guster Dulé Hill Tobias Nath 1.01-8.10 121
Carlton Lassiter Timothy Omundson Peter Flechtner 1.01-8.10 121
Henry Spencer Corbin Bernsen Joachim Siebenschuh 1.01-8.10 121
Juliet O'Hara Maggie Lawson Dascha Lehmann 1.02-8.04; 8.06; 8.10 116
Karen Vick Kirsten Nelson Katrin Zimmermann 1.01-4.05; 4.10-5.01; 5.04-5.08; 5.13-6.04; 6.07;
6.13-7.03; 7.07-7.11; 7.14-8.03; 8.06; 8.10 		79

supporting cast
role actor Voice actor 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th Episodes
Officer Buzz McNab Sage Brocklebank Vanya Gerick 1.01-1.07; 1.12; 2.01-2.13; 2.16; 3.03; 3.05; 3.08; 3.11; 3.14-4.02; 4.05-4.09;
4.12-5.06; 5.10; 5.13-5.16; 6.02-6.04; 6.11-7.02; 7.07; 7.09; 7.14-7.16; 8.07–8.10 		59
Shawn Spencer (as a child) Josh Hayden Oscar Rauker 1.01 1
Kyle Pejpar 1.02 1
Liam James 1.03-2.16; 3.03-3.04; 3.06-3.07; 3.09-4.11; 4.13-5.03; 5.05 60
Skyler Gisondo 5.07-5.08; 5.11; 5.14; 5.16-6.01; 6-04-6.06; 6.10; 6.16 11
Burton "Gus" Guster

(Child)

Julien Hill Leonard Walenta 1.02 1
Isaah Brown 1.06; 1.09-1.10; 1.13; 1.15 5
Carlos McCullers II 2.01-2.02; 2.04-2.06; 2.09-2.11; 2.14; 3.06-3.07; 3.10; 3.15;
4.04; 4.08; 4.11; 5.01-5.03; 5.05; 5.07-5.08; 5.11; 6.04 		24
Woody the coroner Kurt Fuller Frank-Otto Schenk 4.07; 4.11; 4.15; 5.03-5.04; 5.08; 5.15; 6.01-6.03; 6.05; 6.11; 6.13-6.14;
6.16-7.01; 7.03; 7.06-7.11; 7.13; 7.15-7.16; 8.03-8.06; 8.08-8.10 		34

Guest actor
role actor Voice actor 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th Episodes
Winnifred Guster Phylicia Rashād Marianne Gross 2.10; 3.09; 8.09 3
William "Bill" Guster Ernie Hudson Jörg Hengstler 2.10 1
Keith David 3.09 1
Madeleine Spencer Cybill Shepherd Monica Bielenstein 3.01-3.02; 3.15; 5.16; 7.02 5
Abigail Lytar Rachael Leigh Cook Giuliana Jakobeit 3.02; 3.16; 4.02; 4.06; 4.10; 4.16 6th
Mary Lightly Jimmi Simpson Marcel Collé 3.16; 4.16; 5.16; 7.15-7.16 5
Mr. Yang Ally Sheedy Arianne Borbach 3.16; 4.16; 5.16; 7.15-7.16 5
Pierre Despereaux Cary Elwes Axel Malzacher 4.01; 5.10; 6.10; 8.01 4th
Ken Wong Jerry Shea Dirk Petrick 5.01; 5.11 2
Curt Smith Curt Smith 5.08; 7.05; 8.09 3
Declan edge Nestor Carbonell Oliver Field 5.08-5.09 2
Marlowe Viccellio Kristy Swanson Maud Ackermann 6.03; 6.13; 7.06-7.07; 8.02; 8.07 6th
Frank O'Hara William Shatner Klaus Sunshine 6.07; 6.11 2
Rachael Parminder Nagra Rubina Kuraoka 7.02; 7.04; 7.06; 7.12 4th
Lloyd French Jeffrey Tambor Eberhard Haar 7.04; 7.08 2
Harris Trout Anthony Michael Hall Tobias Kluckert 7.14; 8.02; 8.04 3
Betsy Brannigan Mira Sorvino Sabine Falkenberg 8.08-8.10 3

Episode list

Charisma

Overview

Season Episodes First broadcast in USA
(USA Network) 		First broadcast in DE
RTL (until 6.05) / Super RTL (from 6.06) 		First broadcast in CH
3+ (up to 2.16) / SRF two (from 3.01)
season 1 15th July 7, 2006 - March 2, 2007 October 30, 2007 - March 4, 2008 October 25, 2007 - January 31, 2008
season 2 16 July 13, 2007 - February 15, 2008 October 21, 2008 - February 17, 2009 March 3, 2010 - May 5, 2010
season 3 16 July 18, 2008 - February 20, 2009 November 30, 2010 - March 29, 2011 April 2, 2013 - April 30, 2013
Season 4 16 August 7, 2009 - March 10, 2010 April 5, 2011 - July 10, 2012 May 1, 2013 - June 3, 2013
Season 5 16 July 14, 2010 - December 22, 2010 July 17, 2012 - July 11, 2013
Season 6 16 October 12, 2011 - April 11, 2012 July 18, 2013 - October 6, 2014
Season 7 14th February 27, 2013 - May 29, 2013 October 6, 2014 - December 1, 2014
Psych: The Musical 2 December 15, 2013 November 24, 2014
Season 8 10 January 8, 2014 - March 26, 2014 December 1, 2014 - January 5, 2015
Psych: The Movie 7th December 2017 January 7, 2019 ( Sky Cinema )

United States

USA Network aired the 15-episode first season from July 7, 2006 to March 2, 2007. The second season with 16 episodes followed from July 2007 to February 2008. The third season, also comprising 16 episodes, ran between July 2008 and February 2009. Between August 7, 2009 and March 10, 2010, the fourth season was broadcast again with 16 episodes . With 16 episodes, the fifth season was broadcast from July 14, 2010 to December 22, 2010. The sixth season with again 16 episodes was announced on September 28, 2010, the broadcast of the first nine episodes of this season began on October 12, 2011.

In January 2012, USA Network Psych extended to a seventh season, which aired from February 27 to May 29, 2013. On December 15, 2013, the musical - TV movie Psych: The Musical was broadcast. Even before the seventh season began broadcasting in the USA, the production of an eighth season was announced in December 2012. The eighth season is the last, the series finale was shown on March 26, 2014.

In the US, Psych was the 2006 most successful reboot series of the year on a cable network. To fill the "hole" caused by the US writers' strike in 2008, NBC , the parent company of USA Network , broadcast reruns of the series.

German-speaking area

The Swiss broadcaster 3+ broadcast the first season from October 25, 2007. The broadcast on RTL began on October 30, 2007 with a good start, but the values ​​then fell steadily later. The average of all 15 episodes was 1.93 million 14 to 49 year old viewers (19.8 percent market share). Overall, the station was able to win 2.8 million people (12.7 percent market share) for the broadcast.

The broadcast of the second season started on RTL on October 21, 2008 as a German-language first broadcast, 3+ began broadcasting on March 3, 2010. The first broadcast on RTL reached an average of 16 episodes of 2.48 million viewers (11.2 percent market share) . A solid result was achieved in the advertising-relevant target group with 1.75 million viewers and 18.2 percent market share.

From November 30, 2010, RTL broadcast the third season of the series, also comprising 16 episodes. In the course of the broadcast, the ninth episode, It Happened at the Time ... Far Too Much! (Christmas Joy) preferred by RTL and, since it is a Christmas episode, broadcast on December 28, 2010 as the fifth episode of the RTL broadcast. The odds of the third season continued the downward trend observed in the first two seasons. With an average market share of 10.3 percent with 2.39 million viewers of the total audience and 1.58 million viewers (15.9 percent market share) of the advertising-relevant target group, the broadcast was below the RTL channel average.

Directly after the broadcast of the third season, RTL started the German-language first broadcast of the fourth season on April 5, 2011, which comprises a total of 16 episodes. The plan was to broadcast the first eight episodes of the fourth season, but only the first six episodes were broadcast until May 10, 2011, with ratings well above those of the third season. The remaining ten episodes of the fourth season were shown from May 8, 2012 on RTL.

In Switzerland, the third and fourth seasons were broadcast on SRF Zwei from April 2 to June 3, 2013.

Afterwards, the first seven episodes of the fifth season were also shown on RTL until August 28, 2012. The remaining episodes of the fifth season were broadcast by RTL from May 16 to July 11, 2013. A week later, the station began broadcasting the first five episodes of the sixth season, which it ended on August 15, 2013. The remaining episodes of the sixth season broadcast the RTL sister channel Super RTL from September 1, 2014 in double episodes . The seventh season started immediately after the sixth season on October 6, 2014 on Super RTL. The last season was also broadcast immediately afterwards on Super RTL from December 1, 2014. The series finale was broadcast on Monday, January 5th, 2015 at 10:10 p.m.

In German pay TV, the series was broadcast on TNT Serie from 2009 to 2013 and has been broadcast on Universal Channel since 2014 . Today the series is broadcast in chronological order, 2 episodes per weekday (Monday to Friday), on the free TV channel ZDFneo .

International

Psych is broadcast in more than 32 countries worldwide, including Star World in Asia and Showtime Arabia in Arabia.

DVD publications

United States
  • Season 1 was released on June 27, 2007
  • Season 2 was released on July 8, 2008
  • Season 3 was released on July 21, 2009
  • Season 4 was released on July 13, 2010
  • Season 5 was released on May 31, 2011
  • Season 6 was released on October 16, 2012
  • Season 7 was released on October 8, 2013
  • Psych: The Musical was released on December 17, 2013
  • Season 8 was released on April 1, 2014
Great Britain
  • Season 1 was released on September 1, 2008
  • Season 2 was released on June 7, 2010
  • Season 3 was released on February 21, 2011
  • Season 4 was released on July 18, 2011
  • Season 5 was released on May 21, 2012
  • Season 6 was released on July 26, 2013
Germany
  • Season 1 was released on April 24, 2008
  • Season 2 was released on April 9, 2009
  • Season 3 was released on May 5, 2011
  • Season 4 was released on August 2, 2012
  • Season 5 was released on July 11, 2013
  • Season 6 was released on May 16, 2014
  • Season 7 was released on March 5, 2015
  • Season 8 was released on November 12, 2015

Others

  • The theme song is played by the band of series creator Steve Franks (The Friendly Indians). In some episodes, the opening credits are changed depending on the topic of the episode.
  • James Roday wrote large parts of the script for Psych himself and directed some of it himself from 2009.
  • James Roday was nominated for Best Actor in a Series in 2006 for the Satellite Award and in 2008 for the ALMA Award . Dulé Hill was nominated for the Image Award in 2008 and Calum Worthy for the Young Artist Award .
  • In a lot of episodes one of the actors, mostly Shawn, uses a word or phrase incorrectly or in the wrong context and then always says, "I've heard both of them" whenever he is pointed out.
  • Another running gag is confusing technical terms or names with similar-sounding terms or names. Most of the time Shawn uses the wrong term or gives a wrong definition when someone else uses a term. Thereupon he is corrected by Gus.
  • In many episodes that refer to articles in the newspaper, the performers always quote the advertisements first. After reading the advertisement, the newspaper is turned over.
  • Most of the time Shawn uses a wrong name for Gus when introducing himself and Gus.
  • When talking, Shawn and Gus often get involved in long discussions, which can usually only be interrupted by a third party.
  • As a rule, each episode begins with an event from the childhood of Shawn and Gus that is important for the respective episode.
  • Another running gag is that when Shawn and Gus are at home with suspects, witnesses etc. and are asked whether they want something to eat or drink, Shawn usually asks about very elaborate things, which he ultimately gets.
  • Shawn and Gus very often include other TV series in their discussions, as well as films, actors and other well-known people from pop culture .
  • In most of the episodes a pineapple appears in some form - often difficult to see. During the first few seasons, USA Network even held a small raffle where you could win prizes for discovering the pineapples from all episodes.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  20. ^ About the Pineapple . psychpineapple.com, accessed November 2, 2016 .