Task Force Police

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Television series
German title Task Force Police
Original title Softly Softly Task Force
Country of production Great Britain
Year (s) 1969-1976
length 50 minutes
Episodes 149 (D: 66)
idea Troy Kennedy Martin
Elwyn Jones
First broadcast November 20, 1969 on BBC One
German-language
first broadcast		 September 28, 1971 on Southwest 3
occupation

Task Force Police is an English police series, which is a further development of the Softly Softly series , which in turn is an offshoot of the television series Z-Cars .

action

The police officers Barlow, Watt and Hawkins, who investigated in the series Softly, Softly in the fictional English region Wyvern, are now investigating in the also fictional Thamesford region together with other civilian and uniformed officers within a special task force, in the Barlow and Watt hold managerial positions.

background

When the British television channel BBC One late 1969 on color TV Ground surrounded, was for the established still in black and white police series Softly Softly by Elwyn Jones with Softly Softly Task Force developed a new, content-alone follow-up series, which was produced in color and its predecessor series in November Released in 1969 in the middle of its fifth season.

Softly Softly Task Force ran on BBC One from 1969 to 1976 in eight seasons with a total of 149 episodes. Between 1971 and 1985, 66 episodes from the first four seasons ran in German-speaking countries.

The first and second seasons ran (almost completely) initially between September 1971 and March 1975 in several third programs on ARD. From November 23, 1975 to June 6, 1976, these episodes were broadcast nationwide on Sunday afternoon on ARD. Due to the great public response, the ARD broadcast a further 26 selected episodes from the third and fourth seasons from September 25, 1977 to April 9, 1978. From 1983 to 1985 the series was shown again in several third programs on ARD.

occupation

Role name actor German dubbing voice
Detective Chief Superintendent Charles Barlow Stratford Johns Wolfgang Ammerbacher
Detective Superintendent John Watt Frank Windsor Holger Hagen
Detective Inspector Harry Hawkins Norman Bowler Klaus Kindler
Police Sergeant Richard Jackson David Allister NN
Police Sergeant Bob Evans David Lloyd Meredith Peter Thom
Police Constable Henry Snow Terence Rigby Kurt E. Ludwig
Detective Constable Betty Donald Susan Tebbs Emely Reuer
Chief Constable Arthur Cullen Walter Gotell Herbert Weicker
Police Constable Knowles Martin C Thurley NN

useful information

  • The company "Simply Media" released the first season of the BBC series (in the original: Softly Softly Task Force ) on DVD in the UK in 2013 and the second season in 2016 . In 2015/2016 the company "Pidax" released three German DVD boxes with all those episodes whose German synchronization is still preserved. There are 24 episodes from seasons 3 and 4.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series 1969–) In: imdb.com , accessed on February 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b episode guide at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ [1] About the BBC blog entry from November 12, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ Softly Softly (TV Series 1966–1969) In: imdb.com , accessed February 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ Transmission chronicle at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Free hand for Barlow at fernsehserien.de

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