If the neighbors only knew
| Television series | |
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| Original title | If the neighbors only knew |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1990 - 1991 |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 |
| genre | Family series |
| music | Claus Oliver Riedl |
| First broadcast | March 6, 1990 (first season) on ORF and BR |
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If the neighbors only knew it is a TV series that Austrian Broadcasting Corporation produced together with ARD . A total of 12 episodes of 50 minutes each were created between 1990 and 1991 . Directed by Peter Hajek , the book is also by Hajek and Peter Moser .
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The travel agent Chris Wächter, the window dresser Lilo Flohr and the prompter Susi Hollein and her granddaughter Billy are mistakenly mistaken for a family in a department store and win a dream home as the “ten millionth customer family”. In order to be able to keep the winnings, the four main actors arrange themselves and subsequently play an ideal family for the department store, while the department store uses the “family” for advertising purposes. Eventually Lilo and Chris fall in love and the "Wächers" become a real family. The game of confusion is completed by the curious neighbors, the advertising manager Kaminski and the real wife of Chris.
The episodes
- 1st episode: House seeks family
- 2nd episode: You always live next to whom
- 3rd episode: What, where, how?
- 4th episode: Rien ne va plus
- Episode 5: Father with Limited Liability
- 6th episode: Almost a family
- 7th episode: Marriage Guard, please
- 8th episode: A horse named Kaminski
- 9th episode: Thank you, thank you, thank you
- 10th episode: fire on the roof
- 11th episode: In good and bad days
- 12th episode: Fugu for Kobayashi-san
Locations
The film was mainly shot in and around Vienna, which is why the series features a number of striking points from Vienna. But there are also “excursions” to the Hotel Panhans on the Semmering in episode 4, on a balloon ride in Styria in episode 10 and in the last episode to a Fugu restaurant in Tokyo.
The former Herzmansky department store on Vienna's Mariahilfer Straße / Stiftgasse before the opening of the U3 line with crossing trams in the foreground is clearly recognizable as a department store in the series . Klosterneuburg Schubertstrasse , which actually exists, is mentioned as the address of the dream house . You can also see Schwarzenbergplatz , where Chris Wächter's travel agency is located, the Burgtheater , where “Omi” Gusti Wolf works as a prompter, and the Academic Gymnasium , where Billy's friend goes to school. In addition, the Danube Canal and the Prater amusement park appear.