What is what TV

Television broadcast
German title	What is what TV
Original title	What is what TV
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	1983–1984 / 2001–2003 / 2009
length	30 minutes
Episodes	52 in 2 seasons
genre	Type of series: Children's program; Information broadcast;
First broadcast	1983 on German television ; 2001 on Super RTL
occupation
	blue question mark Theo (voice actor: Jakob Riedl ); red exclamation mark Tess (voice actor: Anna Carlsson ); yellow dot Quentin (voice actor : Crock Krumbiegel );

Was ist was TV (own spelling: WAS IST WAS TV ) was a TV show based on the children's and youth non-fiction series Was ist was. As early as 1983 to 1984 there was a television program for the book series on First German Television with the title “Was ist Was”.

General

The program, which was broadcast in the first program from 1983 to 1984, was 20 minutes long and was moderated by Heinz Haber .

The 52 episodes produced from 2001 to 2009 dealt with a factual topic in a simple, child-friendly form in 30 minutes. The information was explained together with images and then commented on by the three “ moderators ”, the computer-animated characters Theo , the blue question mark , Tess , the red exclamation mark , and Quentin , the yellow dot . The audience could ask questions from the fields of nature , animals , science and technology , for example about airplanes , cars or house building . The questions were then investigated. Questions could be sent in by post , fax , SMS or email . The films were spoken by Crock Krumbiegel .

The first season was broadcast on Super RTL from 2001 to 2003 . From April 2009 the series was broadcast on the children's channel Nicktoons and from 2010 on Junior .

DVD deals

Each of the 52 individual episodes is available on DVD. A collection box with 26 DVDs has been released for the entire first season.

There are also thematic DVD boxes with 4 episodes each:

History (knights and castles, pirates, Vikings, Indians)
Nature 1 (dinosaurs, earth, weather, volcanoes)
Nature 2 (body and brain, nutrition, farm, exploring nature)
Technology (cars, fire brigade, railways, police)
Animals (dogs, cats, horses, pets)

Episode list

season 1

episode	Follow the season	title	First broadcast (DE)
1	1	Planets and space travel	October 6, 2001
2	2	Whales and dolphins	October 13, 2001
3	3	cars	October 20, 2001
4th	4th	The ancient Rome	October 27, 2001
5	5	Volcanoes	November 3, 2001
6th	6th	Railways	November 10, 2001
7th	7th	Moon and cosmos	November 17, 2001
8th	8th	Aviation	November 24, 2001
9	9	Sharks	December 1, 2001
10	10	Weather	December 8, 2001
11	11	Knights and castles	December 15, 2001
12	12	Criminology	December 22, 2001
13	13	Cats	December 29, 2001
14th	14th	Mummies	January 5, 2002
15th	15th	Reptiles and amphibians	January 12, 2002
16	16	Horses	January 19, 2002
17th	17th	Our earth	January 26, 2002
18th	18th	Indians and Wild West	February 2, 2002
19th	19th	Ships	February 9, 2002
20th	20th	Trees	February 16, 2002
21st	21st	be crazy	February 23, 2002
22nd	22nd	Pirates	March 2, 2002
23	23	Computers and robots	March 9, 2002
24	24	Our body and brain	March 16, 2002
25th	25th	dinosaur	March 23, 2002
26th	26th	Movie and TV	April 6, 2002

season 2

episode	Follow the season	title	First broadcast (DE)
27	1	Animals in the zoo	April 11, 2009
28	2	Pets	April 11, 2009
29	3	dogs	April 12, 2009
30th	4th	Inventions and Bionics	April 19, 2009
31	5	climate	April 26, 2009
32	6th	Stars	May 17, 2009
33	7th	energy	May 24, 2009
34	8th	Sun	May 31, 2009
35	9	fire Department	November 15, 2009
36	10	police	January 17, 2010
37	11	Explore and protect nature	December 5, 2009
38	12	Sports	December 19, 2009
39	13	Phenomena	December 26, 2009
40	14th	money	January 2, 2010
41	15th	Germany	January 9, 2010
42	16	Treasures of the earth	January 10, 2010
43	17th	Gladiators	June 17, 2010
44	18th	Bears	June 18, 2010
45	19th	farm	June 19, 2010
46	20th	Polar regions	June 20, 2010
47	21st	Deserts	July 30, 2010
48	22nd	Pyramids	June 22, 2010
49	23	The Vikings	June 23, 2010
50	24	nutrition	June 24, 2010
51	25th	Treasure hunt	June 25, 2010
52	26th	Oceanography	June 26, 2010

Web links

What is what TV in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Was ist was TV In: Fernsehserien.de
Was ist was (1983/84) In: Fernsehserien.de