The Gallery of the Great Detectives

A quaint, talky museum piece of live early television, where literary sleuths politely reason their way through tidy mysteries.

Created by

Peter A. Horn

Genres

Crime, Mystery, Drama

Starring

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Harald Mannl, Wolfgang Jarnach

Overview

This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great detectives of crime literature solve various cases. Sherlock Holmes (Ernst Fritz Fürbringer) and Dr. Watson (Harald Mannl) start things off, followed by Auguste Dupin, David Wilson, Father Brown, Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff and Hercule Poirot. Every episode of this early crime series in the early days of television was still broadcast live. It could hardly have been more irregular: it was broadcast in loose succession on different days at different start times in prime time, and the length of the broadcast varied between 25 and 50 minutes.

How it feels

Earnest, tense, melancholic and campy. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Mystery, justice, deception, guilt

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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