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Derrick

  • TV Series
  • 1974–19981974–1998
  • 1h
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Horst Tappert in Derrick (1974)
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Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.
IMDb RATING
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1.6K
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  • Stars
    • Horst Tappert
    • Fritz Wepper
    • Willy Schäfer
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    • Horst Tappert
    • Fritz Wepper
    • Willy Schäfer
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    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 2 nominations

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    Horst Tappert
    Horst Tappert
    • Stephan Derrickas Stephan Derrick
    281 episodes281 eps • 1974–1998
    Fritz Wepper
    Fritz Wepper
    • Harry Kleinas Harry Klein
    281 episodes281 eps • 1974–1998
    Willy Schäfer
    Willy Schäfer
    • Willi Bergeras Willi Berger…
    208 episodes208 eps • 1975–1998
    Holger Petzold
    • Drogenfahnderas Drogenfahnder…
    23 episodes23 eps • 1978–1997
    Dirk Galuba
    Dirk Galuba
    • Alfons Schwarzeras Alfons Schwarzer…
    22 episodes22 eps • 1976–1998
    Gerhard Bormann
    • Kriminalbeamter Echterdingas Kriminalbeamter Echterding
    20 episodes20 eps • 1975–1977
    Günther Stoll
    Günther Stoll
    • Schröderas Schröder…
    19 episodes19 eps • 1975–1977
    Peter Bertram
    • Adrianas Adrian…
    18 episodes18 eps • 1981–1997
    Philipp Moog
    Philipp Moog
    • Adrian Schollas Adrian Scholl…
    16 episodes16 eps • 1987–1997
    Bruno W. Pantel
    • Hausmeisteras Hausmeister…
    16 episodes16 eps • 1977–1993
    Michael Gahr
    • Dr. Kuesas Dr. Kues…
    15 episodes15 eps • 1975–1996
    Günter Clemens
    • Arztas Arzt…
    15 episodes15 eps • 1984–1996
    Pierre Franckh
    Pierre Franckh
    • Bennoas Benno…
    14 episodes14 eps • 1975–1998
    Sky du Mont
    Sky du Mont
    • Adrian Bossneras Adrian Bossner…
    14 episodes14 eps • 1976–1996
    Jutta Kammann
    • Frau Dr. Lissneras Frau Dr. Lissner…
    14 episodes14 eps • 1975–1998
    Robert Jarczyk
    Robert Jarczyk
    • Bankangestellter #1as Bankangestellter #1…
    14 episodes14 eps • 1985–1994
    Wolf Roth
    Wolf Roth
    • Achim Huberas Achim Huber…
    13 episodes13 eps • 1983–1998
    Klaus Herm
    Klaus Herm
    • Alfons Koppelas Alfons Koppel…
    13 episodes13 eps • 1978–1997
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    Storyline

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    Stephan Derrick is a chief inspector with the Munich police who must solve murder cases with his assistant, Harry Klein. This show is based more on psychological methods to find out who the murderer was than on action scenes or car chases. Derrick prefers to talk to people and learn more about their personalities, so he considers the phone a vital instrument. —Peter W. Simeon <simeon@imdb.com>
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    • Trivia
      The phrase "Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen" (Harry, bring the car around) was attributed to Derrick and became part of pop culture at least in Germany and China, although it was never spoken in any of the show's 281 episodes.
    • Connections
      Edited into Derrick contre Superman (1992)

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    10/10
    Derrick, the salon-detective
    It is a well-known fact that police-investigators, in movies, never have to use the restroom. However, if one compares the episodes of the last then years of "Tatort" with the first ones, almost forty years ago, the newer films have become closer to real life. Nevertheless, Oberinspektor (Superintendent) Stephan Derrick (whose name was only broadcast after a winner in Wim Thoelke's famous Quiz did not know it and lost the most gigantic sum of money anybody ever had gathered by steadily correct guessing)is free from any "virtual" attitudes that would prove him to be a member of humankind. He is pure functionality: His hair is always oiled perfectly, he always wears the same coat, his glasses never change, even certain of his sentences have become stereotypical (and often quoted). Derrick does not have the aura of the fatherly Marek, nor the brilliance of the university professor and pathologist Von Boerne, but he is also neither the ruffian Schimansky nor his colleague, the persnickety Thanner. Unlike Veigl or his early Bavarian colleague Wanninger, he is not the type people thrust, so sneaking into a restaurant and pricking up his ears, that is not him. He looks what he is, and that makes things clear, but not always easy. Derrick is not a moralist either, and this renders him finally sympathetic. When we see him clothed tastefully and expensively going to theater, in company of a flagship-lady like Johanna Von Koczian, we start to doubt how much Derrick would understand of crimes committed out of need. Derrick is a chess-player who has a whole scenario in his mind before he indubitably torments a suspect until this one admits that he is the murderer whom Derrick had assumed already long before his assistant or his superintendent even had a ghost of an idea. So, best we can consider Derrick a salon-detective, and it is not by mere chance that most of the hundreds of episodes are settled in the "better society" of industrials, academics, doctors, large landowners, but seldomly in what is called in German the "milieu". However, when this should happen, the neat Derrick appears as dislocated as the grubby Colombo is when entering one of the splendid Californian villas.
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    • Release date
      • October 20, 1974 (Austria)
    • Country of origin
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Інспектор Деррік
    • Filming locations
      • Bavaria Studios, Bavariafilmplatz 7, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Telenova Film und Fernsehgesellschaft
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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