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TV shows you thought were from different countries

Started by George White, April 10, 2017, 08:41:08 PM

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jamiefairlie

Quote from: George White on February 11, 2018, 11:13:03 AM
James Bond Jr. - an Irish-Hungarian cartoon for an American station based on a British character.

Wasn't he in the Red Hand Gang?

George White


Quote from: George White on July 20, 2018, 09:12:54 PM
The Secret of the Black Dragon from 1986 - A Swiss-Dutch-Yugoslavian-German-Finnish-American Jadran miniseries, with Timm Thaler himself, Tommi Ohrner, Julian Glover as a name for American audiences, with Orion lending money - early Sky show about the Thirty Years War, a common sight in US syndication


This has piqued my interest but its really rather hard to find much about it.

jamiefairlie

Quote from: George White on October 25, 2019, 08:36:03 AM
No, that's his son.
James Bond III.

Yeah right enough, I guess they must be on to JB IV and possibly even V by now.

George White

Quote from: A Hat Like That on October 25, 2019, 10:14:30 AM
This has piqued my interest but its really rather hard to find much about it.
yes, I think there is a German DVD. It looks a bit like the sort of thing HTV were doing around that time, Jamaica Inn, Return to Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Master of Ballentrae...

cheers - found the DVD: no subtitles!

Quotestarring Brian Blessed as Long John Silver

Yes.

George White

Found a trade mag referencing the BBC's Strumpet City.

It wasn't even coproduced by a British company. Wholly RTÉ.

The Water Margin - why would the Japanese make a show about Chinese medieval history?

George White

This.
The Germans going as far to convince this was a British show. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120990/
Another Edgar Wallace series in the 90s had Leslie Philips.

studpuppet

In a slight Mandela Effect moment, I watched a series on LWT round at my Gran's house on Sunday mornings in the late seventies that no one else I knew seemed to have ever watched. To make things worse it was then shown in the Regions which meant I saw it again on Anglia, so it really seared itself into my memory. It was a sub-Space 1999 sci-fi series in which the aliens were ruled by women (I'm sure it was an inspiration for 'The Worm That Turned' on The Two Ronnies). Anyway, the only things I remembered about it were:

1. That although it was sci-fi there were a lot of scenes shot in the English countryside and new-looking towns, and
2. Blake from Blake's 7 was in it.

Thanks to a twenty-odd year wait and the internet, I finally found out it was called Star Maidens, and alongside Gareth Thomas and Judy Geeson were a bunch of well-known German actors like Pierre 'Winnetou' Brice, and Christiane Krüger. I'd always assumed it was English, but it turned out it was an Anglo-German co-production - unfortunately the British thought they were making Star Wars for the TV, while the Germans thought they were making and adult sex romp.

Lots of 'battle of the sexes' style hilarity ensued.


And in a slight reversaroo, my German wife & I were watching UK telly back in the nineties when Geoffrey Bayldon appeared on screen. "Oh look" she said, "it's Catweazle." When I quizzed her about why she knew who Catweazle was, it transpired the series had been shown in Germany in the seventies, but because it was dubbed, she had no idea it was English.


George White

The thing is there were a quite a lot of Anglo-German coproductions in the 70s.
The Famous Five was German-coproduced, by Star Maidens producers Portman who also specialised in Scottish-Australian-German coproductions like the Outsiders with Andrew Keir, Elephant Boy, Bailey's Bird, the Boy in the Bush featuring a young Ulsterman named Kenneth Branagh.
ITC made Jason King, simply because Germany wanted a spinoff.
Similarly, ITC did a ton of Italian coproductions, some remembered (Jesus of Nazareth, Space 1999, Moses the Lawgiver), others forgotten in the Anglosphere (Sandokan, Origins of the Mafia, Seagull Island, and of course Ski-Boy).
The Martian Chronicles was Anglo-American-German, hence German actors Vadim Glowna,Maria Schell and Wolfgang Reichmann.
A couple of CBBC shows i.e. the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris had German money, because of the popularity of Leon Garfield stories there, to the point the Germans made their own Garfield adaptation - Jack Holborn, itself a coproduction with TVS.

Paul Temple, with Francis Matthews - because like Wallace, there was a huge rival series of television adaptations of Francis Durbridge in Germany, featuring the likes of Hardy Kruger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Klaus Kinski, Anton Diffring, Horst Frank, Arthur Brauss, Albert Lieven, Eva Renzi, Herbert Fux, Klaus Lowitsch, Rene Deltgen (Grandpa in Heidi), Heinz Drache, Eckart Dux (the prince in Singing, Ringing Tree), Horst "Derrick" Tappert, Christine Kauffmann, Gila von weitershausen, Paul Hubschmid, Marianne Koch, most of the cast of Rampatrouille Orion, Sieghardt Rupp, Adrian Hoven, Wolfgang Preiss Eva Maria Meineke,Karl Michael Vogler, Wolfgang Reichmann, Harald Leipnitz, Uschi Glas, Wolfgang Kieling, Michael Hinz (Uncle Quentin the Famous Five), Gunnar Mollar, Jan Niklas,Pinkas Braun, Martin Benrath - basically every German actor of the era. And music by Can.
While a parallel Italian run featured various Italian film faces -  NinoCastelnuovo, Marilu Tolo, Ugo Pagliai,Renato Scarpa, Flavio Bucci, Teresa Ann Savoy, Sergio Fantoni, Alberto Lupo, Delia Boccardo, Marina Berti, Massimo Girotti, while French adaptations include Victor Lanoux (the thief in European Vacation) and Day of the Triffids' Nicole Maurey


George White

Turns out that Australian TV dynamo CRAWFORD'S coproduced Diff'rent Strokes spinff the Facts of Life for a four-episode run in Oz a la the New Avengers, reedited as a TV movie...

George White

For some reason, thought that Love, Death and Robots was British.

Fame from the third series onward was primarily an Italian production.

RetroRobot

The Muppet Show, while with a mostly American cast and writers, was made and funded in the UK as no American network would fund a puppet show that wasn't exclusively for kids.

George White

Two years late, but apparently Muppets Tonight had BBC money in it too, according to TVBrain.

RetroRobot

Quote from: George White on April 12, 2023, 05:20:06 PMTwo years late, but apparently Muppets Tonight had BBC money in it too, according to TVBrain.

The BBC airings had exclusive sketches thanks to having no ad breaks :)