In no time at all
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | In no time at all |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1988–2000, 2004, 2005, 2016–2018 |
| Production company |
UFA Show & Factual (2016-2018) |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Every day |
| genre | Entertainment, game show |
| music | Ray Ellis, Marc Ellis |
| Moderation | |
| First broadcast | January 11, 1988 on Tele 5 |
Ruck Zuck is the name of one of the most famous and popular game shows on German television. From the beginning to 2005, more than 2,330 episodes were broadcast. After the wheel of fortune, Ruck Zuck is the second most broadcast game show in Germany, which was broadcast daily. The first broadcast of Ruck Zuck took place ten months before the start of the wheel of fortune.
Emergence
Ruck Zuck emerged from the similarly structured American format Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak , which comprised a total of 65 episodes and was broadcast from January 6, 1986 to April 4, 1986. The program was produced by Reg Grundy-Produktion (which was always mentioned separately at the end of every program in Tele-5 and RTL-2 times), today: Grundy Light Entertainment GmbH. The first broadcast under the name "Ruck Zuck" in Germany took place on January 11, 1988.
The game
Two teams with five players each - the champions and the challengers - competed at Ruck Zuck . After the voiceover had already briefly introduced both teams at the beginning of the program, they all introduced themselves again at the beginning of the game round. The individual players did this within the team in a uniform, often funny style. The moderator then explained the rules of the game and introduced the teams and spectators to Günther Neoral, whom Jochen Bendel liked to put down as a very strict referee. Now the moderator showed the first player of each team a term that had to be described (the first team per round could choose between two terms). Only the first player heard the moderator, the other team members stood with their backs to the first player and wore headphones that played music. When the moderator gave the command “Ruck Zuck!”, The game started and lasted 40 seconds. The first player patted the next on the shoulder or on the back, whereupon the latter turned around, was allowed to remove the headphones and tried to guess the term the teammate was describing.
When describing the searched word, it was important not to include the term itself, a so-called “important word” or part of a word (for example, “foot” and “ball” are not allowed for “football”), noises or gestures To take help. Repeating an important word when it was mentioned in a description by a previous team member was also not allowed. Otherwise, the referee intervened with a honking sound and stopped the round. However, the players won the points that had been achieved by then.
The main round extended over four rounds. In the first three rounds each answer was worth one point, in the fourth round three points. The team with the most points reached the final.
If there was a tie after the end of the main round, there was a play- off . The moderator showed the first two players a term. Now a player had to decide whether to play the term with the team or let the opponents compete. If the team played the term, all four players had to answer correctly in order to reach the final. In the event of a mistake, the opposing team reached the final.
In the final, three rounds were played with a slightly different concept: four members got headphones again, the fifth member defined four terms for a generic term, which the team had to guess within 20 seconds (five seconds per player). The terms had to be named literally (if, for example, a term was “bicycles”, “bicycles” had to be mentioned by the team, “bicycle” or “bike” were not sufficient). In the first round of the final, the team received 100 DM for each word they guessed, in the second round 200 DM. In the third round, the amount of money they had won was quadrupled - but only if all four words were guessed.
If a team reached the final six times and managed to name all the terms in the third round, it won the main prize of initially 25,000 DM, in later years 100,000 DM regardless of the amount of money earned up to that point.
history
1988 to 1992
Based on the American model, Tele 5 went on air in 1988. The studio, which was mainly kept in pink tones, was almost completely taken over. The presenter from the very beginning was Werner Schulze-Erdel , who later also presented the successful entertainment program Family Duel on RTL. At the beginning, the candidates were able to win a maximum prize of 25,000 DM. In 1988 a team from Tegernsee ("the Ruckschlucks") won the top prize for the first time. On November 1, 1989 this rose to DM 100,000. In the November 13, 1989 broadcast, the “ Rabulisten ” was the first team to win this highest prize that had ever been shown in a game show.
"Ruck Zuck" tried to give the impression of a live broadcast, even though it was a recording. This led to an embarrassing situation in October 1988: on October 3rd, 1988, the anniversary of Franz Josef Strauss's death, a program was broadcast in which one of the candidates tried to parody the deceased (not yet at the time of recording). Apparently this was only noticed in the course of the broadcast, because the broadcast was suddenly canceled. Since the candidate also appeared in the programs scheduled for the following days, these were canceled; the moderator of the previous news program justified this with "technical problems".
In the fall of 1991, Ruck Zuck was on the air for the 1000th time. This was followed by a new moderator named Jochen Bendel , who moderated the show from the 1032nd episode. Until then, viewers only knew him as the voice of the program. Tele 5 was discontinued on December 31, 1992 and converted into the sports channel DSF, which means that the slot for this entertainment program was also canceled for the time being. In addition to Jochen Bendel, Desireé Nosbusch was also active for Ruck Zuck. She moderated the program “Kinder Ruck Zuck” and played with children like Ruck Zuck. The children could win prizes.
1993 to 1995
Eight months later, Ruck Zuck went back on the air. This time on the Munich private broadcaster RTL II , which broadcast the show from September 6, 1993. Here Jochen Bendel began to play for big money with the candidates again. Visually, however, little changed. In addition to the same studio setup, a little more color came into the set. Due to program changes at the station, the station ended the broadcast of Ruck Zuck with the last broadcast on July 14, 1995.
1995 to 2000
After the decision by RTL 2, viewers had to wait a good six months until Ruck Zuck reappeared on the screen of the Munich-based broadcaster tm3 . At the beginning of 1996, the women's broadcaster took over the old episodes of RTL2 and broadcast them as a repeat. In January 1997 the channel produced an extra ten special editions. On the one hand, five episodes with Werner Schulze-Erdel from the former Tele 5 and, on the other hand, another five episodes with Jochen Bendel. On January 20, 1997, new episodes finally appeared. With an almost unchanged concept and again Jochen Bendel as moderator, the station is starting a new round, but with slightly modified rules. Because from now on the prize amount was only 50,000 DM for the main prize or 2,400 DM in the first five final rounds. In 1998 the entertainment show Ruck Zuck reached its 2000th episode. A year later, in 1999, the graphics were slightly revised and the studio was slightly renewed. At the end of the millennium, tm3 also stopped broadcasting.
2004 to 2005
From 2004 to 2005, the new Tele 5 and the Austrian ATV + broadcast new quick and easy episodes. There was a completely new (smaller) studio, but the opening sequence and the moderator stayed the same. Up to a million viewers saw the episodes each time. The moderators were Jochen Bendel and later Matthias Euler-Rolle (2005).
2007
There was a new edition in 2007 in two programs of the game show marathon on ProSieben , in which Jochen Bendel made a brief appearance.
2013
As part of the anniversary program “20 Years RTL II” there was a Ruck Zuck revival program on March 6th with Jochen Bendel as the presenter.
2016-2018
Since October 17, 2016 there has been a new edition of Ruck Zuck on RTLplus with Oliver Geissen . A total of 165 newly produced episodes had been broadcast on RTLplus by the end of 2017. Since then there have been repetitions at night every now and then.
Web links
- Ruck Zuck at RTLplus
- Ruck Zuck at RTL
- Ruck Zuck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breakdowns at TELE 5 ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Episode guide from 2016. In: Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
