The Finder
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Finder |
| Original title | The Finder |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2012 |
| Production company |
Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions, 20th Century Fox Television |
| length | 43 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
| genre | Crime , drama |
| Theme music | Swamp Water by John Fogerty |
| idea | Hart Hanson |
| production | Hart Hanson , Daniel Sackheim , Barry Josephson |
| First broadcast | January 12, 2012 (USA) on Fox |
| German-language first broadcast |
February 8, 2013 on kabel eins |
| occupation | |
The Finder is an American crime series by Hart Hanson and was started by a backdoor pilot as an offshoot of the series Bones, which was also broadcast on Fox . The plot is loosely based on the book series The Locator by Richard Greener .
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan , who played Leo Knox, a former lawyer and best friend of the main character Walter Sherman, made his last television appearance on the series before he died of a heart attack on September 3, 2012 . The series was discontinued after only one season with 13 episodes. It was first broadcast in the USA on January 12, 2012. From February to May 2013, the series was shown on the German broadcaster kabel eins .
action
After severe head injuries from a bomb explosion, the Iraq war veteran Walter Sherman is honored from his military service. The damage to the brain causes changes in consciousness that make him paranoid , but also get the ability to recognize complex relationships and thus "find" things.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization of the first seven episodes created for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Rainer Gerlach that the remaining six episodes of Stefan Ludwig , respectively through the synchronous company Rainer Brandt Film Productions GmbH in Berlin .
| Role name | Actress | Episodes | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Sherman | Geoff Stults | 1-13 | Jaron Lowenberg |
| Leo Knox | Michael Clarke Duncan | 1-13 | Tilo Schmitz |
| Willa Monday | Maddie Hasson | 1-13 | Kathrin Neusser |
| Isabel Zambada | Mercedes Masöhn | 1-13 | Victoria Storm |
| Timo Proud | Toby Hemingway | 1-13 | Julius Jellinek |
Production and broadcast
- United States
In the course of the sixth season of the series Bones - The Bone Hunter the idea came up to develop a spin-off series for Bones . So a backdoor episode was devised for the sixth season in which a new character was to be introduced, around whom the new series would revolve. So began filming the Bones episode The Finder (season 6, episode 19) in January 2011. It was broadcast in April 2011, while Fox gave the series the green light a month later and ordered thirteen episodes for the first season. It premiered on January 12, 2012, following a new Bones episode on Fox . Another six episodes were broadcast from January 19 to March 8, 2012, each after the American Idol talent show. In early March 2012, the series was then postponed to Friday, where the remaining six episodes were broadcast until May 11, 2012. Fox discontinued the series two days earlier.
- Germany
ProSiebenSat.1 Media has secured the broadcasting rights for Germany and decided to broadcast the series on Kabel eins . There the broadcast began on February 8th and ended on May 10th, 2013.
The series has also been available on the VoD provider Netflix since January 2017 .
Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At the end of the world | An Orphan Walks Into A Bar | Jan. 12, 2012 | Feb 8, 2013 | Daniel Sackheim | Hart Hanson |
| 2 | Bullets | Bullets | Jan. 19, 2012 | Feb 15, 2013 | Terrence O'Hara | Matt MacLeod |
| 3 | There's blood on the shoe | A Cinderella story | Jan. 26, 2012 | Feb 22, 2013 | Adam Arkin | Sanford Golden & Karen Wyscarver |
| 4th | The baseball star | Swing And A Miss | Feb 2, 2012 | 1st Mar 2013 | Kevin Hooks | Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre |
| 5 | The fire trick | The Great Escape | Feb 9, 2012 | March 8 2013 | Since man | Emilia Serrano |
| 6th | Little green men | Little Green Men | 23 Feb 2012 | 15th Mar 2013 | Dwight Little | Will Pascoe |
| 7th | In the eye of the hurricane | Eye of the Storm | March 8 2012 | 22 Mar 2013 | Alex Chapple | Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre |
| 8th | life after death | Life after death | Apr 6, 2012 | Apr 5, 2013 | David Boreanaz | Nkechi Okoro Carroll |
| 9 | The last meal | The last meal | Apr 13, 2012 | Apr 12, 2013 | Milan Cheylov | Josh Friedman |
| 10 | A hot lead | The conversation | Apr 20, 2012 | April 19, 2013 | Jim Hayman | Patrick Massett & John Zinman |
| 11 | Bet on the wrong horse | The inheritance | Apr 27, 2012 | Apr 26, 2013 | David Straiton | Sanford Golden & Karen Wyscarver |
| 12 | Voodoo to me, so I to you | Voodoo Undo | May 4, 2012 | May 3, 2013 | Daniel Sackheim | Matt MacLeod & Emilia Serrano |
| 13 | The boy with the bucket | The Boy with the Bucket | May 11, 2012 | May 10, 2013 | Vahan Moosekian | Hart Hanson & Patrick Massett & John Zinman |
Web links
- The Finder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Finder in the online film database
- The Finder at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Finder. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on February 9, 2013 .
- ↑ James Hibberd: 'The Finder' moving to Fridays . In: Entertainment Weekly . March 2, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
- ↑ Lacey Rose & Lesley Goldberg: Fox Renews 'Touch,' Cancels 'Alcatraz' and 'The Finder' . In: The Hollywood Reporter . May 9, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
- ^ The Finder 2011. In: unogs.com. unofficial Netflix online Global Search, accessed February 1, 2017 .