Tooth for a Tooth (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Tooth for tooth
Country of production German Democratic Republic
original language German
Year (s) 1985-1988
Production
company		 Television of the GDR
length 55-60 minutes
Episodes 21 in 3 seasons
genre Drama , comedy film
Director Peter Hill
idea Gerhard Jackel
production Volker Holeček
music Rainer Oleak
First broadcast from May 17, 1985 on GDR 1 (Fridays, 8 p.m.)
occupation

Tooth for a tooth (also: Tooth for a tooth - The practices of Dr. Wittkugel ) is a successful German doctor series from the GDR .

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The linchpin of the stories is the dental practice of Dr. Alexander Wittkugel, who brings up his daughter Sabine alone. His team consists of the “Häppchen” consultation hours and the master dental technician Opitz. Dr. Wittkugel is very temperamental, which is why he often steps from one faux pas to the next and thus repeatedly leads to small arguments. "Nibbles" then tries diplomatically to rectify things that have gone wrong. Together they move to a polyclinic after giving up their independent practice . The doctor's best friend is the veterinarian Dr. Oswald Baumann, who helps Wittkugel out of one or the other embarrassment.

Episodes

The following episodes correspond to the originally cut version, as they were also seen on GDR television.

episode title content
1 The childhood friend In the state dental practice of Dr. Alexander Wittkugel, the doctor and his long-standing stomatological sister Victoria Happmeyer, known as "appetizers" for short, are waiting for the new master dental technician Opitz. Opitz, an experienced and excellently working master of his field, is only supposed to help out temporarily in the practice, since the young dental technician Prikoleit, who is also the partner of the doctor's daughter, has decided to give up his profession in favor of studying at an art college.
2 The gold piece
3 A special day
4th Own sorrow
5 Helper in need
6th vacation Instead of his daughter Sabine, Wittkugel took his helper with him on vacation to the Baltic Sea. The relationship between the two is put to the test outside of practice and Wittkugel often misbehaves. In the end, they leave early.
7th The return
8th The new start Wittkugel's peculiar manner promptly leads to problems with colleagues in the first days of work in the polyclinic. Also with Dr. Post, as expected, he clashes again. Nevertheless, Wittkugel knows about his nature and is not really happy with his situation. The argument with his daughter still gnaws at him. His friend Oswald advises him to have a little debut party for the new group of colleagues from the polyclinic. Bite agrees to host the party in her apartment. It will be a successful party until, at an advanced hour, Wittkugel accidentally blows up the party on the assumption that the food is poisoned.
9 birthday Wittkugel's birthday is coming up, but mainly because of his private problems with daughter Sabine he doesn't want to celebrate it this time. Sabine is also suffering from the tension. Therefore, she wants to avoid a possible birthday party and hands over the present for her father. At the request of the senior doctor, a female colleague is allowed to sit in at Wittkugel. After initial difficulties, the two of them get on very well in the end. In return, however, a patient who pretends to be a hobby dentist drives Wittkugel insane. The doctor also has to grapple with a young student who seems to be suffering from exam anxiety and makes a fatal mistake in the process. In the end everything is cleared up and nothing stands in the way of a surprise birthday party that has been secretly planned by appetizers ...
10 Escape
11 Visit for Alex
12 On a high horse
13 Try living
14th Dual practice
15th Back home?
16 A successful evening
17th Visit for canapes
18th Secrets
19th The surprise
20th Weather turning
21st final

Charisma

The series was initially only planned for seven episodes, which were shown from May to June 1985 on Fridays at 8 p.m. on the first program of GDR television . The popularity of the audience meant that immediately after the end of the first season, a second season with a further seven episodes was developed and produced. This was then shown fifteen months later, in August and September 1986, on the traditional broadcasting slot on Friday evening. Again around fifteen months later, in January / February 1988, the third season followed with the final seven episodes.

After the first broadcast on DDR-1 and the reruns on DDR-2, the private broadcaster RTLplus first showed the seven episodes of the first season from June 1988 and finally the complete three seasons on different days of the week from June to September 1989. In 1989 the first program of the East German television cut the 21 episodes of around one hour to 43 half-hour episodes and showed them from November on Saturdays at 7 p.m. in front of the current camera . This version was last shown in 1998 as a daily soap in the weekday afternoon program of the MDR. All subsequent repetitions reverted to the original one-hour format with 21 episodes. Most recently, the MDR showed the complete series in the original cut from May to September 2015 on its slot for GDR series on Saturday morning. Here the series has been broadcast again in the original cut since October 27, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernsehserien.de: Broadcast dates tooth for tooth from June 27, 1988 to June 13, 1988. Retrieved: November 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Fernsehserien.de: Sendechronik Accessed: November 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Fernsehserien.de: Broadcast dates tooth for tooth from June 28, 1988 to November 17, 2018 Retrieved: November 22, 2018.

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